My Personal Review of Adam Elenbaas' book, "Fishers of Men: The Gospel of an Ayahuasca Vision Quest"

I just finished reading Adam Elenbaas' brilliantly moving book, "Fishers of Men: The Gospel of an Ayahuasca Vision Quest." I highly highly recommend this beautifully written memoir, if it's correct to call it a memoir. I have never drank Ayahuasca. But I wanted to share here part of my experience reading the book...
As I probably anticipated, reading this book did encourage me toward wanting to participate in sacred ceremony. But it did more than just that. It also encouraged me toward my own further healing, even without the use of 'vine of the soul'. I realized while reading his accounts of his ayahuasca experiences, that I could make parallels between his condensed, intensified healing processes using ayahuasca, and my own gentler-to-navigate ones, arising naturally every moment of the day, in everyday life.
I would practice doing such as my own emotions many times were triggered during the two-day reading/healing spree on my sofa. Each time I would cry, or even just notice my feelings change, and their counterpart thought forms birthing them...I would put the book down and put pen to paper, investigating the underpinnings of the sudden waves come over me. I could hear the wisdom of Adam, Ethan, Carlos, and perhaps even the plant teachers themselves, supporting me. The main characteristic of this wisdom...of my healing experiences these past two days...is of remembering that it is all mine. The source of my discomfort is belonging to me and that the emotions arising in my mind and memory have nothing to do with other people. Only with my own heart and its level of awareness and openness, or lackthereof. And that I am entirely responsible for my own awakening, and have it in me to do so. That, in fact, is the key. That is the main lesson I derived from "Fishers of Men"...that my heart is strong enough to breakthrough the illusion of fear and remember who I really am and that who I am is a blessed, loved, loving being. And that in the absence of fear, is the absence of need. And in the absence of need there is utter peace, joy, and fulfillment. And since fear is the primary illusion of our 3-dimensional plane, it can help to break through to our multidimensional reality with the aid of plant medicine. But even without it, we have it in our capacity to realize our multidimensionality, and to practice it. To practice remembering that fear is illusory. That fears are projections from our own mind. And they are to teach us to look back at the projector that is our self, and purge the false gods from the One God that is our very own heart. 

"Increasingly, my ayahuasca experiences were teaching me to heal myself instead of relying on anybody else to do it for me."
                 Adam Elenbaas
                "Fishers of Men"