Ayahuasca - Variations in Rules for Plant Dietas

There is definitely value in certain diets and other restrictions, but I think everybody is so unique that we each need different influences to function at our highest levels. So I think the "proper" dieta will vary from person to person. Some people will need lots of interaction with others, several delicious foods, music, physical exertion, etc. While others will thrive on more isolation, reflection, limited or more "cleansing" diets, and a light body load. Neither is more right than the other, in my opinion.

Ayahuasca does very specific physical things, but I think the real key to having success with it is creating a special relationship with the spirit of this magical botanical brew. For some, certain diets and behaviors will help remind their bodies and minds to remain happy, healthy, open, and respectful to our sacred plant teachers. But for others, restrictions can be distracting and possibly stressful or draining. It's good to push yourself out of your comfort zone a little, but you don't want to lose touch with your natural rhythms of being.

I personally have created my own sort of rituals and preparations that help me put my best foot forward and get the biggest helping hand out, and my journeys never cease to amaze me. I'm sure going through every aspect of the experience with a group, led by a masterful ayahuascero can be a super powerful thing, but that's not exactly available to everybody, so we have to make due with what we've got. And sometimes I feel like these structured methods can cause people to take themselves and their journeys too seriously, making it harder to lighten up and enjoy the loving playfulness of it all. That being said, a high enough dose will crush even the strongest ego and force anybody to surrender to the beautiful, strange, and miraculous wonders that is ayahuasca.;)
(Sorry for the long-winded reply)
Happy journeying :)

As one ponders upon such things one just may come to realize that such "entrainment" is required to gain "revelation" from any person, place or thing.

In other words it is only a question of degree of focus / intensity between entraining with all food, medicines, entheogens .. even ones relatiionship with other people ... to the degree one takes the time and energy to regulate their attention / activity is to that degree one gains actual revelation beyond all of the more inertial, default consciousness of general mingling.

As all is sacred and has potential to enlighten. Of course since the entheogenic experience has unigue potential of such magnitude to have such "before and afterwards" preparation and integration considerations will likely not only always be found to some degree but will also naturally vary according to the individual tiime and circumstance "in-the-moment" conscious entrainment.

Two points ... one being that such potent substances can "fully" enlighten anyone no matter what they do or don't do ... so, so many of us have had such moments of clarity without any associable ritual whatsoever ... as there is not one tradtion that did not "selectively evolve" gradually in relation to the entheogenic state itself ... and not the other way around.

The other point being that there will always naturally be virtually infinite variations on the living themes of organic-to cosmic interaction, as every time circumstance and individual will have unique input that effects the actual conscious state at hand.

Of course the further removed from a more "garden-of-eden" back yard / jungle {indigenous} existence of ongoing lifestyle, the further removed one becomes from their own "entrainment skills" ... as entrainment requires conscious recirprocation to complete any communication cycle.

Surrounded by concrete, plastic, metal and electricity so much of our inherent abilities for such conscious entrainment become greatly curtailed, but remains dormant nonetheless.

Also our more modern mechanistic and reductionistic mentalities and associative lifestyles have greatly removed us from our own innate abilities for such more conscious participation in all aspects of our environmental exchanges that in reality touch upon all that we do, not only sacred plant medicines.

The reason behind the variety of approaches is likely as much based on the unique subjective entrainment, as any objective scientific facts ... not only among individual plants, but the whole general locales as well. {similar to the many, many variations on the permacultural themes, as each area is truly unique}

There is a Sanskrit word "Loka" {similar to locale} which loosely translates as "abode" ... however such designations are actually "conscious places" in the sense that each loka manifests unique properties effecting all in the given "area" .. smaller and greater lokas / locales ... like the difference between where a state or country line is and where the actual accents and mentalities of the people change.

In other words all who live in certain area {lokas} will develop the same language accents or generalized mode of behaviors .. above and beyond any humanistic imposed designations of barriers ... as life itself as a total evolves it's own conscious areas of selective transformation potential.

In pre-hindhu India all locales were designated by where the consciousness itself changed and not based on some political ideal. Also there could be smaller variations within larger versions ... like a grove within a forest .. having unigue features of consideration.

So conscious participation is actually required to know where one is at and who one is entrained with. So even a few villages away there can be variations however slight or great on the overall environment associated with the actual consciousness, possibly above and beyond various suggestive universal principles associated with individual plants.

Virtually all of our social quarelling among differences is based on lack of actual conscious entrainment with the overall consciousness of different loka's as well as all that which lies within such conscious abodes of varigatedness .. above and beyond the fantasy of objective reality absolute.

In the pre-hindhu Vedic culture all lokas were named only in relation to where modes of actual conscious change were detected ... we all have some sense of this but most of this art form has become diluted or lost due to our lack of connectedness to "all that is" in the very name of each and every.

"Wonder is what Mystery would do if it was conscious" ...
"Wandering is for every other possibility"
Pippalayana Muni