
How to Prepare for Ayahuasca: Beginner's Guide
09/11/23 • 32 min
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This is my personal guide for preparing for your first Ayahuasca trip.
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What is Ayahuasca?
Ayahuasca is a plant-based psychedelic. It is made by prolonged heating or boiling of the Banisteriopsis caapi vine with the leaves of the Psychotria viridis shrub, although there can be a variety of other plants included in the decoction for different traditional purposes. The active chemical in ayahuasca is DMT (dimethyltryptamine). It also contains monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs).
Ayahuasca has been used for centuries by First Nations peoples from contemporary Peru, Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador for religious ritual and therapeutic purposes.
Resources for your psychedelic trip:
• YouTube channel
• 4 Essential Touchstones for Your Mushroom Trip • The Mushroom Trip Guide: A Psychedelic Checklist
• 1:1 Cosmic Guidance Call with James
Psychedelic Resources:
• Top 20 Myths About Mushrooms & Psychedelics
• Lessons from a Deep Mushroom Trip
• How Psilocybin Opens the Door to Synchronicity
• The Dark Tunnel of Mushrooms – How to Have a Smooth Trip
• What Is the Right Dose for a Mushroom Trip (Safety Guide)
• The Power of Surrender - What the Mushrooms Taught Me
• 8 Things You Must Do Before a Mushroom Trip
• 5 Life-Changing Benefits of Doing Mushrooms
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1 Billion Humans mission - Let's get 1 billion humans to take shrooms on the same day.
“Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.” – Terence McKenna
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• Book a 1:1 Psychedelic Guidance Call
• Join the Unlock God Mode Experience
YOUTUBE:
Follow my new podcast here: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | All platforms
This month, come join me each morning in a daily morning prayer & activation, designed to align your soul, mind, and body with the Infinite Spirit. 🤍✨🙏
-------------------------------------
★ Get my free mushroom trip checklist at mushroomchecklist.com ★
This is my personal guide for preparing for your first Ayahuasca trip.
[Watch this episode on YouTube]
What is Ayahuasca?
Ayahuasca is a plant-based psychedelic. It is made by prolonged heating or boiling of the Banisteriopsis caapi vine with the leaves of the Psychotria viridis shrub, although there can be a variety of other plants included in the decoction for different traditional purposes. The active chemical in ayahuasca is DMT (dimethyltryptamine). It also contains monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs).
Ayahuasca has been used for centuries by First Nations peoples from contemporary Peru, Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador for religious ritual and therapeutic purposes.
Resources for your psychedelic trip:
• YouTube channel
• 4 Essential Touchstones for Your Mushroom Trip • The Mushroom Trip Guide: A Psychedelic Checklist
• 1:1 Cosmic Guidance Call with James
Psychedelic Resources:
• Top 20 Myths About Mushrooms & Psychedelics
• Lessons from a Deep Mushroom Trip
• How Psilocybin Opens the Door to Synchronicity
• The Dark Tunnel of Mushrooms – How to Have a Smooth Trip
• What Is the Right Dose for a Mushroom Trip (Safety Guide)
• The Power of Surrender - What the Mushrooms Taught Me
• 8 Things You Must Do Before a Mushroom Trip
• 5 Life-Changing Benefits of Doing Mushrooms
Join the Tribe - jamesxander.com ❤️
Please subscribe to my YouTube channel for more episodes!
Listen to my in-depth psychedelic podcast: The James Xander Trip 🎧
1 Billion Humans mission - Let's get 1 billion humans to take shrooms on the same day.
“Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.” – Terence McKenna
Connect with James Xander
• Newsletter
• YouTube
• Instagram
• Twitter
• Discord
• Patreon
Feedback or questions? Reach out to me at jamesxander.com
LINKS
• Listen to The James Xander Trip podcast
• Join my free Telegram channel
• Book a 1:1 Psychedelic Guidance Call
• Join the Unlock God Mode Experience
YOUTUBE:
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4 Essential Touchstones to Guide Your Psychedelic Trip (Ayahuasca, Psilocybin, LSD)
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This month, come join me each morning in a daily morning prayer & activation, designed to align your soul, mind, and body with the Infinite Spirit. 🤍✨🙏
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★ Get my free mushroom trip checklist at mushroomchecklist.com ★
Here are my four touchstones for having a great psychedelic trip — be it mushrooms, Ayahuasca, LSD, or another psychedelic journey. This episode is focused on mushrooms, but these 4 touchstones equally apply to Ayahuasca.
Join the the Psychedelic Tribe - jamesxander.com ❤️
Resources for your psychedelic trip:
• YouTube channel
• 4 Essential Touchstones for Your Mushroom Trip• The Mushroom Trip Guide: A Psychedelic Checklist
• 1:1 Cosmic Guidance Call with James
[Watch this episode on YouTube]
Psychedelic Resources:
• Top 20 Myths About Mushrooms & Psychedelics
• Lessons from a Deep Mushroom Trip
• How Psilocybin Opens the Door to Synchronicity
• The Dark Tunnel of Mushrooms – How to Have a Smooth Trip
• What Is the Right Dose for a Mushroom Trip (Safety Guide)
• The Power of Surrender - What the Mushrooms Taught Me
• 8 Things You Must Do Before a Mushroom Trip
• 5 Life-Changing Benefits of Doing Mushrooms
Join the Tribe - jamesxander.com ❤️
Please subscribe to my YouTube channel for more episodes!
Listen to my in-depth psychedelic podcast: The James Xander Trip 🎧
1 Billion Humans mission - Let's get 1 billion humans to take shrooms on the same day.
Terence McKenna quote:
“Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.”
Connect with James Xander
• Newsletter
• YouTube
• Instagram
• Twitter
• Discord
Feedback or questions? Reach out to me at jamesxander.com
LINKS
• Listen to The James Xander Trip podcast
• Join my free Telegram channel
• Book a 1:1 Psychedelic Guidance Call
• Join the Unlock God Mode Experience
YOUTUBE:
• YouTube channel @emperorjames
• YouTube channel @jamesxandertrip
COURSES & OFFERS:
• 1:1 Guidance & Integration Call
• Unlock God Mode: A Transformational Course
RESOURCES:
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What I Learned on My Recent Mushroom Trip (9 Lessons Psilocybin Taught Me)
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This month, come join me each morning in a daily morning prayer & activation, designed to align your soul, mind, and body with the Infinite Spirit. 🤍✨🙏
-------------------------------------
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Nine lessons I learned from a recent mushroom trip.
Subscribe to my YouTube channel for more psychedelic episodes!
Resources for your psychedelic trip:
• YouTube channel
• 4 Essential Touchstones for Your Trip • The Mushroom Trip Checklist
• 1:1 Cosmic Guidance Call with James
• My list of mushroom music playlists
Join the Psychedelic Tribe - jamesxander.com ❤️
Please subscribe to my YouTube channel for more psychedelic episodes!
Chapters:
(0:00) - Introduction
(0:22) - What to do when a trip starts slow
(3:31) - Always look for the blessing
(5:26) - Best way to begin a trip
(9:16) — Tripping on the beach
(11:45) - Tapping into awe
(16:13) — Concentration
(18:35) — Allowing yourself time to THINK
(24:43) - Life is for YOU
(28:57) - Final lesson: You GET to do this
"Culture replaces authentic feeling with words. As an example of this, imagine an infant lying in its cradle, and the window is open, and into the room comes something, marvelous, mysterious, glittering, shedding light of many colors, movement, sound, a transformative hierophany of integrated perception and the child is enthralled and then the mother comes into the room and she says to the child, “that’s a bird, baby, that’s a bird,” instantly the complex wave of the angel peacock iridescent trans-formative mystery is collapsed, into the word. All mystery is gone, the child learns this is a bird, this is a bird, and by the time we’re five or six years old all the mystery of reality has been carefully tiled over with words. This is a bird, this is a house, this is the sky, and we seal ourselves in within a linguistic shell of dis-empowered perception."
Listen to my in-depth psychedelic podcast: The James Xander Trip 🎧
The Mission - Let's get 1 billion humans to take shrooms on the same day.
Connect with James Xander
• Newsletter
• YouTube
• Instagram
• Twitter
• Patreon
Feedback or questions? Reach out to me at jamesxander.com
LINKS
• Listen to The James Xander Trip podcast
• Join my free Telegram channel
• Book a 1:1 Psychedelic Guidance Call
• Join the Unlock God Mode Experience
YOUTUBE:
• YouTube channel @emperorjames
• YouTube channel @jamesxandertrip
COURSES & OFFERS:
• 1:1 Guidance & Integration Call
• Unlock God Mode: A Transformational Course
RESOURCES:
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