My Co-Creative Journey with Psychedelics

  • 1st Ayahuasca Ceremony (2020)

    1st Ayahuasca Ceremony (2020)

    I was mighty nervous this day, and the fact that the ceremony kept getting postponed didn’t help, it kept extending the nervousness. The original plan was to start the ceremony at 6pm, (it was meant to be a night ceremony, under the almost full moon, in fact 2 nights before the Full Moon of March Read more

  • The 21 Days before Ayahuasca

    The 21 Days before Ayahuasca

    Prep, expectations, experiences and the ultimate surrender 23 days before I was to travel to get to the Ayahuasca ceremonies venue, I was undergoing a sound healing session at The Lotus, Mumbai (the 2020-21 pandemic forced the Mumbai centre to close shop but the original Bangalore centre still stands tall). For the hour-long session, all Read more

  • Ayahuasca Calling – Part 4

    Ayahuasca Calling – Part 4

    A Maloca is usually, from what I gather, a shaded roofed hut sort of space, under which sacred ceremonies are often held. Usually, people gather in near-darkness, the group led by an experienced curandero/ facilitator, drinking the tea one by one. And then, there is not even a candle’s worth of light in the space. Read more

  • Ayahuasca Calling – Part 3

    Ayahuasca Calling – Part 3

    Googling Ayahuasca – anxious thoughts before heading to the ceremonies Before I go any further, I would like to write a bit about what Ayahuasca is, as I discovered and understand it, because I get asked that a lot when it comes up in conversation. I enjoy talking about the medicine, maybe even to a Read more

  • Ayahuasca Calling – Part 2

    Ayahuasca Calling – Part 2

    Key lessons and themes in the run-up to the ceremonies: On Brother T’s advice, I would spend most of my morning walks at Juhu beach, running a wish-list/ ‘intentions list’ in my mind, wish-list for Grandmother Ayahuasca to fulfil/ heed. Initially it seemed endless. All sorts of wishes. Most of them categorically ‘not frivolous’, but Read more

  • Ayahuasca Calling – Part 1

    Ayahuasca Calling – Part 1

    I happened to be one of the few incredibly fortunate Indian people who got to sit in Ayahuasca ceremonies just before Covid-19 lockdowns began in India (March 2020). I signed up for the ceremonies (without knowing anything at all about the medicine and her process) in Jan’2020, after saying a nonchallant ‘No’ a few times.… Read more