What to Expect When Drinking Ayahuasca and How to Handle it.

Gavin Wren
5 min readMar 7, 2019
Image composited by Gavin Wren. Source photos from Sandro Katalina, Paweł Czerwiński, Karim MANJRA, Ran Berkovich, and Elias Andres-Jose on Unsplash

Drinking Ayahuasca can be a profound, life-changing experience which will open your mind to the limitless possibilities of consciousness.

It may also propel vomit from the depths of your soul and precipitate bowel movements which begin at the top of your head and surge through your entire body, cleansing every last inch of your intestinal tract into the pan.

This guide will help you deal with the best and worst parts of the experience, if you’re drinking this foul, thick brown liquid for the first time.

“At a lower dose, I stepped outside of myself to watch my ego dissolve and the concept of ‘I’ disappeared. A bath of nebulous light emanated from indistinguishable ethereal sources, regardless of whether my eyes were open or closed. I met Mother Ayahuasca, saw a baby angel being cradled by spirits and was offered mysterious gifts of love by various unidentifiable angelic entities.“

— February 2019

Ayahuasca is a purgative psychedelic plant medicine used by indigenous people of the…

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