• What is the experience of being in an ayahuasca ceremony really like?

• What does a shaman really do?

• Is ayahuasca shamanism what you need for your own healing process?

These questions and many more will be answered in a forthcoming documentary film called
Destination: Ayahuasca: A Travel Guide to the Spirit World.

Destination: Ayahuasca seeks to pick up where other ayahuasca documentaries leave off. This film is for the benefit of people seriously considering traveling to the Amazon to engage in earnest inner development and healing with a shaman. It will be an instructional film that explains in-depth what “working with the medicine” is really all about. Shamans and their apprentices will elucidate the most useful strategies and warn us of common pitfalls to avoid. There will be lots of animation to show us the contents of some people’s most transforming ceremonial visions.

What is Ayahuasca Shamanism?

In the Amazon rainforest, there survives an ancient tradition of healing with plants. The most powerful of these is a vine called ayahuasca, or the “vine of souls”. When brewed together with other helper plants, ayahuasca tea has intense physical and mental effects, clearing the body of disease while cleansing the mind of mental illness, addictions, and unhealthy belief systems. Shamans are the experts in how to use this psychedelic concoction to create lasting changes in their patients during special ceremonies conducted only at night in total darkness. They believe that this medicinal brew contains the spirits of the plants, and most of the people who have consumed ayahuasca say they have met and communicated with these spirits while in the midst of their ayahuasca-induced visionary state. This ancient approach to health and spiritual growth has attracted many people from around the world who now flock to new centers that have been built for the purpose of introducing international travelers to shamanic ayahuasca ceremonies.

This documentary film will interview shamans at 6 of these healing centers to get their advice on how to prepare for and get the most out of this holistic healing plant medicine. There will be many animated scenes depicting the most dramatic and personally transformative visions that ayahuasca drinkers have recounted.

Many centers in the Amazon are geared toward international travelers coming for a spiritual retreat. Consider it as a vacation package for adventure travel as well as a spiritual journey. A shaman is a type of psychic healer. Ayahuasca sends the ceremony participant on a hallucinogenic DMT trip (called a shamanic journey) during which they may experience telepathy, clairvoyance, chakra balancing, and healing light. Even more important than the psychedelic visions, is the purging. Purging rids the body of parasites, toxins, and it is a spiritual cleansing as well, for a deep-down soul healing. It's a reconnective healing that better integrates the person into the flow of life. There is some overlap with aspects of kundalini yoga, with chakra healing, chakra clearing, and chakra cleansing.

Shamanism in the Amazon is not a spiritual path that's right for everyone, but those who dare will experience emotional healing on a level they never thought possible as well as development of their mind power. Far beyond any metaphysical New Age meditation, the ayahuasca trance can bring about a spiritual transformation. You will learn about icaros, the healing music of the ayahuasca shaman. A shaman may employ crystal healing stones in the process of shamanic healing. They can even conduct distance healing on people who are far away.

This movie will teach us about the way of the shaman. A shaman is an expert in natural healing remedies, and Ayahuasca is the most treasured of the healing plants of the Amazon. A shaman is an energy healer with great spiritual power and an expert in earth spirituality. Shamans are psychics who use their mind power to effect their holistic healing as one part of a greater holistic therapy in which the patient has to work too.

While too serious and difficult to call it a fun vacation, it has its fun moments, and is definitely an overseas adventure into uncharted areas of the psyche. For anyone wanting to develop their spirituality, this is best vacation ever. You'll never forget your Peru adventure of spiritual enlightenment.

While a shaman is a spiritual teacher who can provide some spiritual guidance, coaching, and counseling, this spiritual therapy places a lot of emphasis on self healing. One's spiritual growth depends on putting effort into developing greater spiritual awareness through an ongoing process of spiritual living in daily life in addition to the shamanic journeying in ceremony.

Typically, people travel to these centers alone, but on occasion these centers can be a destination for a family vacation. If your family is unusual in its taste in vacation packages, one of these centers could offer you the family vacation package you've been looking for, a family adventure like no other. Some centers incorporate adventure tours into the jungle, and to meet local indigenous tribes, so this could be the tour package of your dreams, your big chance to tour Peru on an adventure cruise into your own subconscious mind.

The mission of this film is to demystify ayahuasca shamanism as much as possible, and present it as a normal method of healing and personal growth. This movie will help to raise awareness of ayahuasca’s power to heal and transform lives for the better when used responsibly in a shamanic context.

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