Adventures and fascinations of Matt Pāz
After the second ceremony we had a much needed day off. We had group share, followed by lunch, then I spent the next couple hours journaling the previous nights events.
I find it is difficult to form enduring memories of such fantastical and rapid moving events that take place in the midst of an ayahuasca journey. … Read more
After lunch, we had a short expedition to a nearby village to see some sloths.
After the expedition, the group did another floral bath, then most of us hung out on the walkway at the front of the lodge overlooking the Amazon until dark. … Read more
***FYI: Shit is about to get FAR OUT (man). Ayahuasca Diaries posts will be personal in nature. The parts about my actual ceremonies are basically transcribed from stream of consciousness journals I wrote the day after each ceremony, and therefore ramble. … Read more
At 6am, running on limited sleep after the first night attempting to sleep in the jungle heat, I found my way to the maloca for our next jungle medicine ceremony. Johnny and his helpers were running this ceremony as well. Kambo is frog venom extracted from the Giant Monkey Frog native to the Amazon jungle. … Read more
After dinner at 7:30, the group met in the Maloca for the Nu-Nu (pronounced ‘new-new’) ceremony. The shaman for this ceremony, Johnny, translated by Tamara, walked us through the process. Nu-nu is a finely ground snuff of five jungle plants: mapacho (jungle tobacco), cacao, cocoa, a certain tree bark, and another Amazonian plant which I didn’t write down. … Read more