she planned the whole darn thing.

*snicker*

I'm sure many will speak here to their belief in Mother Ayahuasca taking action towards this physical world and its biosphere. I also feel that this is possible, but I wish to be careful and not think naively.

Like many here, I've had an intense personal encounter with Mother, and I'm sure we will hear many excellent testimonials to Her power in this regard, but I'm a philosopher and a happy questioner about things. Some of my musings about this are probably too conservative for some here, but I follow the shamanic warrior path - I believe in everything and believe in nothing. I'm interested in the question "What is Real?" and how we actually determine it. That's why I went to the Amazon to see for myself.

Personally, based on my own experience, I believe that Mother Ayahuasca is a real, non-human spirit entity who is not only interested in us as beings, but supportive, prone to teach, quick to correct us, and far beyond all else, She actually and truly loves us. This is why we name her Mother. I say this because that is what I received from her - a personal testimony, not measurable in any reductionist or empirical way. Shamanic.

If She appears to the world at large and affects the world in a non-subjective manner, then new levels of assessment come into play.
So, besides just stating, "Yes, I believe it is happening," I wonder how the mundane world will see such a thing and at what point they would realize something non-ordinary and astonishing is responsible for it. I wonder at what point and by what measure will we be able to point out to someone who is unaware of Mother Ayahuasca, that this is what is happening and why, and at what point will I myself be able to assign certain things to her beyond my own hopes and general impressions?

How, exactly, will She act? Directly like a mighty god warrior, or indirectly, perhaps through us? If indirectly, will it be measurable? If indirectly, will we be able to ascribe what is Her action and what is our own? Does it matter if we can measure or ascribe it to Her? If a huge cataclysm or earth change happened now, there would be more people claiming it to be the work of God, Mohammed, Satan, "Gaia" or some other force or spirit than would claim it to be the direct effect of the spirit we name Mother Ayahuasca, for She is not as well known. Is She only one face or facet of the Greater Being that contains all?

All could be right, of course! But that begs the question of who or what this Spirit is and what are it's intentions for us here in the mundane world. If you say you know, I say that is fine, but it is subjective and it is knowable only in a shamanic manner (personal direct experience). I'm afraid that anything beyond that right now is speculation or projection, well meaning or no.

BTW, I personally believe She is an independent Spirit being, but I'm not certain if She intends to work outside the Ayahuasca interface.

Blessings and Light!

Personally, I think many of the prophesied changes won't happen with or without Aya.
But we are in for a lot of changes.
Aya's role? To wake people up. Maybe to wake us up enough to start a chain reaction of awakenings and get the hairless monkeys to turn into humans and stop destroying ours and her kingdom's home.

That would be enough for me.

What I saw in a dream and pray will become reality.

A reconnecting to the spirit for mankind.
A realisation that we have great potential and great responsibility.
New forms of communication in the long run.
A speeding of evolution.
A new magic era.
A celebration of diversity.
A new freedom of expression.
A renaissance for Africa.
New diseases, new cures.
New wisdom,. new sages and wizards.
Ancient wisdom, ancient sages and wizards.

Peace

GEert

Mmmm, I too tend towards cynicism at times. I have great hope in my heart, and understand that critical mass can occur with a large enough minority. However, with the overwhelming impact we anthropocentric humans are having on our planet with rampant consumption and waste, exponential population growth, and devastating loss of habitat and biodiversity, I wonder if we humans are just arrogant enough to think it is all about us. I believe the elemental and spirit masters of plants, place and force are guiding ALL of us, that is, all of our plant, fungi, animal, human, mineral, elemental and spirit brothers and sisters, if we are receptive.

I do believe there is great human potential to generate amazing results through intention, concentrated thought/imagination, and a conducive emotional feeling tone. We have the capacity for great results in human evolvement. With the worldwide multi-cultural/multi-discipline connection we humans have now so readily provided by the internet and other media, there is a phenomenal connectivity for sharing of ideas, insights, and patterns for change. That being said, there is also a tremendous overload of information, much of it trite, that bog so many people down to the point of overwhelm and resigned complacency.

So what is my point? I don't know, I am just rambling. For me personally, I can easily focus on the impact we humans are having on our Mama Earth and her children, and feel distraught over the loss of so many species and the terrible pollution we have caused, or I can focus on where my visions, guides and heart shine on, which, when I hold my light there, is a multi-dimensional place of shining beauty and spiritual growth. Don't get me wrong, I do continue to strive to walk gently on our Mama, and be the change I see us evolving to.

I feel Mama Aya pulling me to her, perhaps to teach me to embrace myself and the world, with all our frailties, darkness and grief, from a place of greater understanding and compassion so that I may hold the light of my vision stronger from that place of shining beauty.

- Molicita

Side note - the sacred vine is part of the plant family Fabaceae, the pea family which has demonstrated a fantastic ability to adapt. Many in the Fabaceae are nitrogen fixing plants, that is they live in partnership with fungi to fix nitrogen in the soil. Fabaceae has adapted to grow in the water, to live as a vine, a tree, and myriad other forms. This family has species which can also be highly invasive. My point here is that here is a family of species that will survive on this planet in all likelihood much longer than we humans will. The fact that the Master Spirit of Aya is willing to teach and guide us humans, is, to me, a display of tremendous compassion, since really, I don't think Fabaceae needs us for their survival.

During my journey with Mamacita, I witnessed something similar to.. well, similar to this:

www.youtube.com/watch