On leaving the space during ayahuasca ceremony
Someone on FB posted recently that during an ayahuasca session they decided to leave the space and return to their room. The people running ceremony did not permit that and the poster saw that as a sort of imprisonment--if a temporary one. I disagree. This is what I wrote:
On
my trips we make an arcana outside of ceremony space that people can
use. They an look at the stars, lie on the clay, just get out of the
intensity of the ceremony space. But they cannot go beyond that arcana
until the circle is opened. Beyond that space, which is beyond where you
can hear the curandero singing, are thousands of spirits who wanted to
come to the ceremony but were not invited. If someone rents a tear in
that invisible wall those spirits enter and though each only has a tiny
bit of energy that we can feel, tens off thousands at one time will
knock everybody flat on their backs and cause hell to break loose. So I
make it clear before ceremony: If you are here for ceremony, whether you
are drinking or not, you are staying put. You can go to sleep, you can
sing to the trees, you just can't put the rest of us at risk by leaving.
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