But what draws people to ayahuasca again and again
To brace themselves for this experience
And you do have to brace yourself
Is it's extraordinary effect at the level of consciousness
And one of those effects has to do with creativity
And we can see the creative cosmogenic impulse of ayahuasca in the paintings of ayahuasca shamans
As these paintings show another universal experience of ayahuasca
The encounter with seemingly intelligent entities which communicate with us telepathically
I'm making no claim one way or another as to the reality state of these entities we encounter
Simply that phenomenologically in the ayahuasca experience they are encountered by people all over the world and most frequently of all
The spirit of ayahuasca herself
To brace themselves for this experience
And you do have to brace yourself
Is it's extraordinary effect at the level of consciousness
And one of those effects has to do with creativity
And we can see the creative cosmogenic impulse of ayahuasca in the paintings of ayahuasca shamans
As these paintings show another universal experience of ayahuasca
The encounter with seemingly intelligent entities which communicate with us telepathically
I'm making no claim one way or another as to the reality state of these entities we encounter
Simply that phenomenologically in the ayahuasca experience they are encountered by people all over the world and most frequently of all
The spirit of ayahuasca herself
When I got interested in this mystery I went down to the Amazon where there are still surviving shamanistic cultures today
And where they drink the powerful visionary brew
[Chorus]
Ayahuasca
This is the one
Ayahuasca
We're not doing this for fun
Ayahuasca
This is the one
Ayahuasca
We're not doing this for fun
And where they drink the powerful visionary brew
[Chorus]
Ayahuasca
This is the one
Ayahuasca
We're not doing this for fun
Ayahuasca
This is the one
Ayahuasca
We're not doing this for fun
After 6 million years of boredom
The evolutionary ascent of our species from the last common ancestor with the chimpanzee
Something extraordinary happened to us
Less than a 100,000 years ago which by the way is long after we'd become anatomically modern
It was a kind of emergence into consciousness
[Chorus]
We became fully symbolic creatures
Fully symbolic creatures
And we became fully symbolic creatures
Fully symbolic creatures
The evolutionary ascent of our species from the last common ancestor with the chimpanzee
Something extraordinary happened to us
Less than a 100,000 years ago which by the way is long after we'd become anatomically modern
It was a kind of emergence into consciousness
[Chorus]
We became fully symbolic creatures
Fully symbolic creatures
And we became fully symbolic creatures
Fully symbolic creatures