AYAHUASCA AND ITS PHENOMENOLOGY
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Given the appropriate conditions, psychedelic agents, by channeling creativity, are capable of amplifying any aspect of human performance: intellectual, artistic, ethical or emotional.
Triumphant feeling of joy and freedom
Ecstatic experiences correspond to triumphant and radiant feelings of joy and freedom. Maslow's pioneering reports demonstrate that the occurrence of an ecstatic, mystical or 'oceanic' experience is a fundamental event in the life histories of his subjects. Maslow declares that there is unanimous recognition, among the participants, of profound therapeutic secondary effects, capable of removing neurotic symptoms forever, of releasing greater creativity, spontaneity and expressiveness; of producing a healthier, freer and triumphant vision and expression of oneself, an impulse toward excellence.
Corporeity
Being a psychosomatic phenomenon, the expansion of cognitive consciousness corresponds to an increase in awareness of the body and its functions. The awareness that we are biological beings and organisms, that we should care for the well-being of our bodies, seems to manifest in the experience with Ayahuasca. Stopping smoking, consuming alcoholic beverages and harmful foods, a concern with healthier diets, psychophysical practices such as Yoga, Tai-Chi, among others; the search for greater contact and relationship with nature, are common in the population of Ayahuasca users.
Subjective light
There is a great intensification of yellow-golden light in the Ayahuasca experience; this intensification is experienced both with eyes closed and open. A greater luminosity intensifies the colors and brightness of objects, both in the external world and in the inner world. The experience of fantastic images of extraordinary plasticity ('kaleidoscope', 'screen saver', 'Indian cinema') is frequent in the Ayahuasca experience.
All-encompassing 'es'
Es: term proposed by Nietzsche (cf. Nietzschean) to designate a metaphysical entity situated more deeply in human nature than the Freudian subconscious.
All-encompassing: that is in all modes; that encompasses all modes of being; that encompasses everything; without restrictions; unlimited.
A common aspect of the experience with Ayahuasca, and by extension with other psychedelics, is a mutation of the habitual affinities concerning the perception of oneself, of the context and of relationships. A fluidity of identity manifests in some way (union, disunion, aggregation, disaggregation, combination, association, dissociation); feelings of levitation and distance from the body occur frequently. These phenomena are, ultimately, partial and incomplete manifestations of the undifferentiated state typical of mystical union.