A Psychedelic Christianity

"According to a johnathon ott talk, Chocolate a drug potentiator, he sais that reversable maois like in aya have no contraindications like the many irriversable maois have."

You have to be really careful when walking here!

Over the years I've communicated and spoken with hundreds of people who have drank the tea. I would say that, in general and for most people, there are no real concerns with dietary tyramine and the beta carbolines found in ayahuasca.

But for some people, there are.

This is a very important point. Myself, I've never had any untoward reactions, even when I've eaten contraindicated foods. But I know some people -- a small but non-zero percentage -- who have. There are different phenotypes when it comes to digestion, and before one knows what group one lies in, caution is warranted.

Caffeine is another problematical substance. For most people it creates no problem (and in fact, I've been served highly caffeinated wayusa during ceremony in SA), but in some small percentage of people it creates a bad (but probably not life-threatening) reaction.

Also note that these comments apply to food interactions: drug interactions are a different thing entirely. Even Ott would say that drug interactions need to be strictly avoided, even with reversible MAOI-A's.

According to a johnathon ott talk, Chocolate a drug potentiator, he sais that reversable maois like in aya have no contraindications like the many irriversable maois have.

still im really cautious.

I used ayahuasca for a year, every friday and saturday, but i attended the "Uniao do Vegetal". It's another religion, more spiritualist oriented, more laid back, you can be a female and help with the ritual singing the chants. You don't need to dance and wear skirts like "Santo Daime" , a way more conservative sect. This one you must dance and the girls wear white pleated skirts and a crown, guys wear suits and they are the only ones who can lead the ritual and be the "master". And you can't sit, you gotta dance and chant and chant...
I was off depression for the whole year I was part of the sect, wrote the best music ever (I'm a musician) and lived well and in peace with my family and life was pretty good for a while. Unfortunately I had to quit due work and moving overseas... I didn't find any ayahuasca in europe and my depression came back with a vengeance, so I had to get medicated with sertraline; anyway i'm on sertraline since 1999 and now I'm back to Brazil but I can't drink ayahuasca because i've read online that you can't mix ayahuasca while on ssri medication. My friends invited me for a reunion because I know all the chants and I could guide the ayahuasca sessions... well I had to decline because I'm so scared of side-effects. Anyway, ayahuasca is legal in Brazil but it is a substance for religion purposes and rituals. You won't get addicted and a lot of people dislike the bitter taste of the ayahuasca tea and some get a bad trip and purge or get awful diarrhea and see demons, snakes and other things and this will scare off a lot of people who is looking to get stoned only. It's pretty serious business, I had a lot of enlightening visions and travels back time and in the future, like foreseeing things, past life visions... really crazy stuff. I'm pretty logical and skeptical but once you drink the ayahuasca tea everything looks real and magic and it's wonderful. There is a lot of rituals from Santo Daime religious sect on youtube, even how to prepare the drink; To bad Amazonas is getting completely destroyed each day goes by so pretty soon we won't have trees and leaves in order to prepare the daime brew, oh well ... Take care everyone

I enjoyed that article. I would like to hear hymnals more, I saw a documentary a few years ago and the scenes with them where intriguing.