(Part 2) Top products from r/Ayahuasca

The Four Faced God is Brahma, the Creator God.

(Not to be confused with Bhraman)

Brahma is the Monad, the One before the Two. Brahma creates the manifest reality that we experience. Brahma creates the Universe through the Law of Karma (cause and effect) which means delivering the lessons we need in order to turn us inward to our Heart so that we can remember who we Truly are. From an egoic perspective the Creator God can seem fearful because we often don't like the life lessons Brahma creates for us, but once you come to understand the nature of Brahma's Creation, then you see that Life is being created full of lessons to help us deepen our connection to Source and find our Way back Home.

The Upanishads are a really beautiful text that speaks a lot about the nature of Brahma. (I really like the Juan Cole translation.)

The Creator God is represented in all Ancient Spiritualities. In Egypt, Thoth is the Creator God.. In Greece it was Hermes. In the old testament it is Enoch and Archangel Metatron. The Lord of the Old Testament is also the Creator God. The Holy Spirit is the Creator God. Also Apollo, Mercury, and the Dove that preceded Jesus when he was baptized.

The Emerald Tablets of Thoth would be a really beautiful text for this stage of your Journey as it is a really powerful and concise teaching about the nature of the Creator God.

Being gifted a vision of the Creator God means that you are moving beyond duality to the substrate of Creation. Investigation into Sacred Geometry can be helpful for this phase. Consider drawing Metatron's Cube and learning how the Platonic Solids emerge from within the Shape. The Torus would be a really powerful shape to ponder as well.

Wishing you peace and love on your Journey 💜

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Here is an Alex Grey visionary art painting of the Four Faced God.

And here is a Temple to the Four Faced God in the ancient ruins near Angkor Wat in Cambodia

I would recommend reading as many books on Law of Attraction as you can. There's a mentality shift there that you will experience in doing so and start reprogramming your thoughts/perceptions to change the reality of your physical health. There's of course the popular movie on netflix called "The Secret" that you could watch now too. I believe there's a full version of it for free on YouTube. I really like this book: https://www.amazon.com/Money-Law-Attraction-Learning-Happiness/dp/1401918816

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I have seen no real examples myself that weed conflicts with ayahuasca. I was off of weed for a while and did a 2 day ceremony at the end of may and a few days after I started using cannabis again. It actually helped me further develop and tap into my ayahuasca experience. I quit again now as I'm doing another 2 day ceremony in august and would like to be as clean as possible. But if you can go 2 weeks without before hand it's still recommended. If you can't then I'm sure you would still receive a lot from the ceremonies.

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The place I've gone to so far does retreats in the US. They just did 2 retreats in New York last month. I don't know when they will be back there, but there's a possibility they could be back this year, and if not, most likely next year. Website is here: https://origensagrada.com so you can contact them and ask them.

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If I was able I'd still pick to go down to columbia/peru, but that hasn't been an option for me yet. I live an hour away from where origen sagrada do the ceremonies in colorado and they do a split payment for the retreat. So you pay like 300-400 online, then you bring 200ish in cash to the retreat. For me last time it was $350 online and $200 cash when i went. I did the same thing for their retreat in august. I paid the chunk of it online last month in June, and then that has given me a month and a half before I have to bring the $200. So I'm very grateful for that.
The main thing is just to get in contact with whatever place you feel drawn to do the ceremonies and share what you shared here with them. Ask them if it will be alright and just make sure they have a heads up. Then see what they say.

I think it can help if it's taken regularly. Regular drinkers of ayahuasca have an upregulated amount of serotonin receptors in their brains, which would allow someone to feel more pleasure from less.

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What is your exercise regime like? Are you lifting weights? Lifting weights is one of the best natural anti-depressants I have ever found. Look up the Body by Science workouts, they are intense weight workouts that are done in 15 minutes, I love them and they have changed my life and body.

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Also, if you need a jumpstart, one known secret is to meagdose vitamin D for a period of time. I assume you're getting enough sun down there, but high doses can completely remove inflammation from the body which allows it to heal itself - https://www.amazon.com/Miraculous-Results-Extremely-Sunshine-Experiment/dp/1491243821/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=vitamin+d+miraculous&qid=1555006036&s=gateway&sr=8-3

Just read the reviews there.

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The other thing I can recommend is cold showers and the Wim hof method, which can and will boost dopamine by a not shy 300%+. Most depression comes from low dopamine. But you must do the breathing exercises first then the cold shower for it to work properly.

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Additionally, Look into heart-brain coherence breathing and practice that for a week or two. Gregg Braden has a bunch of good stuff on that.

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Also if you can get into the work of Dr. Joe Dispenza, he actually gives you the formula backed up by neuroscience, eipigentics, quantum physics and the placebo effect, for how to heal yourself from anything, including depression - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ereahWKwNV8

Since you have time, try watching one video of his per day.

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To me, all these things together combined with meditation which it sounds like you're already doing, are even more effective than ayahuasca because one can actually sustain these practices and they are nearly free.

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Please let me know your thoughts.

what you re saying is interesting and is aligned with the school of toughs of CBT: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Fundamentally, this method teaches you to challenge your negative thoughts, rationalize them and replacing them by new thoughts that are not distorted and are closer to reality. What you re doing is identifying you negative thought patterns (internal dialogue), rip them from your brain and create new and more rational brain paths. This requires consistent and persistent work. The good news is: if you work hard at it, you can rewire your brain thanks to neuroplasticity. Here's a book that can help you guys a lot: Mind over Mood. https://www.amazon.ca/Mind-Over-Mood-Second-Changing/dp/1462520421

The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge

A MUST read for anyone who has ever partaken :)

I scanned a bunch & have then here if you click the tab healthy vegan recipes

https://twobirdschurch.com/la-dieta/

Alot of then are scans from this book Cooking with la madre

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cooking-Madre-Fiona-Johnson/dp/1542751403

That's why I said something about it, so you would be aware that some people use the term differently. A book of the same name was published by McKenna in the late 80s.

https://www.amazon.de/Living-Himalayan-Masters-Swami-Rama/dp/0893891568

https://www.amazon.com/Sacred-Mushroom-Cross-Christianity-fertility/dp/0982556276

Nihue Rao + https://www.amazon.com/Fellowship-River-Exploration-Traditional-Amazonian/dp/0998609501

> Sure, but animals have a consciousness that enables them to suffer. Plants, by and large, have evolved to spread their seeds by being eaten, and as far as we are aware do not suffer at all.

Plants suffer, and feel pain. They're also sentient. Mentally, they're not so far away from animals, it seems, as they recognize kin, make friends, can sense when they're in danger, etc. Physically, their body language is a real mystery for us.

http://forums.ayahuasca.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=13575

https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Life-Plants-Fascinating-Emotional/dp/0060915870

https://www.amazon.com/Primary-Perception-Biocommunication-Plants-Living/dp/0966435435

> Unfortunately your gratitude means nothing to the animals who die for you.

Which is why tribal cultures honour the souls of the animals who die for them, so that the tribe may survive. Tribes can't be choosy with their food. Westerners can. But that doesn't mean a plant-only diet is healthy.

> The good news is that you can be grateful without causing suffering by avoiding eating animals.

Now you just sound like a brigading Vegan. Seen a few too many of you around Reddit. "The good news" ~ just like a religious person telling someone they've sinned, and can absolve their sins by doing a bunch of bullshit.

> While this may be true while they are alive, we know it is no longer true when they are being slaughtered. An apple, on the other hand, for all we know may rejoice when it has been eaten and had its seeds replanted.

This logic makes no sense. A dead animal is an animal that no longer feels pain, as their soul is at peace and is thus happy. Whether they died painlessly by a humane farmer wishing them no suffering, or died at the claws of predators looking for a meal, caring not about their well-being.

Why would there be a beginning to it? Nature's natural state, as opposed to our artificial separation today (although we are not really separate), is not nice. Nature is indifferent and brutal. "Trauma" could be construed as protective generational/cultural memory. I do not think that explanation is adequate, but it is an useful consideration to begin with:

In a prehistoric environment, you can imagine a member of your tribe beating you half-to-death for daring to encroach on a space deemed impassable. It doesn't make sense to you, but before you were born, perhaps a human who traveled in that area was stalked by a warring tribe who used to live there. They followed that human back and nearly wiped out your tribe. There is no time (and possibly no clear way, pre-advanced-linguistics) to explain to you why that transgression is so bad. Your attacker may not even know why. It may not even be relevant today; perhaps the warring tribe is long gone. But the individual is not the primary concern, the species is.

Humans do not need to be traumatized to commit horrific acts. Every one of us is a monster. Watch some footage of soldiers talking about their combat experiences. As often as someone comes home with PTSD from something that happened to them, they come home with PTSD from something they did. They cannot grapple with the horrors they watched themselves commit, not only for immediate survival, but in unnecessarily vengeful brutality. Rise Against has a beautiful and haunting song about this.

Similarly, concentration camp guards, spanish conquistadors, jihadists, conquerers of other sorts - they are not psychopaths. They are not (all) damaged individuals. They're regular people just like you and I. There is literally nothing separating you from being one of them, at least without the integration of that knowledge (the integration of the shadow). I think this is part of why people who believe so strongly in the "love and light" theory of the universe and seek "healing" from psychedelics commonly encounter traumatic hellish experiences instead of getting what they were looking for. The healing experience actually comes from acknowledging and marrying your darkness, not from banishing it. Objectively, love and light does not cut it. Welcome to Earth; it's a hostile alien planet in a completely indifferent universe. Compassion, love, and trust are miraculous and should be supported and protected. Focusing only on them, however, is a path to destruction and powerlessness. It can pave the way for evil. There are left and right paths to totalitarianism.

We are sheltered and naive in our culture. Problems that have been temporarily solved are quickly forgotten, collectively. For this reason only is it easy to protest and criticize the restrictive laws of our society; we are more-or-less completely ignorant of the chaos they protect us from. You would break to see the things you would do to preserve your own life. "Civilization" is a very thin veneer atop our natural proclivity for violence. This is the major problem with frustration with democratic capitalism, patriarchy, technological primacy, the widespread influence of Christian values, and the other "oppressive structures" which organize modern life.

They didn't come from nowhere, suddenly. They evolved. We will only see what they have saved us from when they are destroyed, and by then it will be too late. Some of those problems, like the warring human tribe from my example, no longer exist. But the majority of them do still exist, as they concern precisely this problem (the human proclivity for evil), and only have fallen from view. Education is the alternative, but not too many of us are interested in considering the fact that we are all capable of practically unspeakable monstrosities. Few want to actively confront their biases. The dialogue between conservatism and progressivism is increasingly polarized as a resultant function of our ignorance. We need effective dialogue to continue to adapt without ripping the floor up from under our feet. This is why history repeats itself, despite the widespread dissemination of information.

In Jungian psychology, this aspect of ourselves which we usually ignore is called the shadow. It's Freudian counterpart is component to the id, but the concept of the id is more general than the concept of the shadow.

As for your personal experience with trauma, I highly recommend the book It Didn't Start With You: How Inhereted Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle. It's available as an audiobook too. Helped me with forgiveness.