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n. 1 A giant vine native to South America (especially (taxlink Banisteriopsis caapi species noshow=1)), noted for its psychotropic properties. 2 Any of various psychoactive infusions or decoctions prepared from this vine.
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Ayahuasca (; ), also commonly called yagé ( or ), is an entheogenic brew made out of Banisteriopsis caapi vine and the Psychotria viridis leaf. The brew is used as a traditional spiritual medicine in ceremonies among the Indigenous peoples of Amazonia.
It can be mixed with the leaves of chacruna or chagropanga, dimethyltryptamine (DMT)-containing plant species. It has been reported that some effects can be felt from consuming the caapi vine alone, but that DMT-containing plants (such as Psychotria viridis) remain inactive when drunk as a brew without a source of monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) such as B. caapi. The resulting brew is known by a number of different names (see below).
Ayahuasca is the sixth album by drone rock band Pelt. It was released on June 12, 2001 through VHF Records.
Ayahuasca is a brew of various psychoactive plants. Ayahuasca may also refer to:
- Ayahuasca (Pelt album), 2001
- Ayahuasca: Welcome to the Work, a 2013 album by Ben Lee
- Banisteriopsis caapi, one of the main ingredients in ayahuasca
Ayahuasca is a full length studio album by Chinese-American artist Baiyu released on December 1, 2013. This is the artist's second full length project and is inspired by her psychedelic and soul exploratory experiences in the Amazon regions of Pucallpa, Peru. This is her first effort to not only take full rein on songwriting for the entire project, but also a first for producing the instrumentals for two of the fourteen tracks.
Baiyu's website explains, "Ayahuasca is my second full length, independently released project, and its creation has been a journey with many unforeseeable twists and turns. Each song peels away the delicate layers until you strip down to the core of who I am—who Baiyu really is.
Here is where I am most vulnerable yet strong, and here is where I am most afraid yet beautiful.
I couldn't make an album about something and not actually experience it for myself, so off I went. If trekking down to the jungles of Peru to work with this plant medicine sans companion wasn't enough of a daredevil move, what frightened me even more was the prospect of having to face my true self as a result. Thankfully what I saw was what I had always felt deep down—that although it took a lot of soul searching and there's infinite room for growth and learning—I, as I am today, am a proudly loving and passionate human being.
One thing that the Ayahuasca has taught me is that we are all capable of living out our wildest dreams if we just dare to surrender to the experience. I will carry that with me always.
Through this album, I hope to share with you my deepest secrets, and my purest of hopes and dreams. Love me for who I am or leave me for what could have been but either way, my story is open to you."
"Ayahuasca" is a single by Swedish singer Veronica Maggio. It was released in Sweden as a digital download on 28 April 2016 as the second single from her fifth studio album Den första är alltid gratis (2016). The song peaked at number 35 on the Swedish Singles Chart.
Usage examples of "ayahuasca".
Fred Alan Wolf's drug-induced mystical experience led him to this startling realization: "I was on this quest [using the psychedelic vine ayahuasca] trying to understand shamanism from the point of view of physics.
In Lima, Peru, before his ayahuasca experience, he is shown a movie, The Winds of ayahuasca, with what most people would probably find to be a rather typical and unimaginative plot of an American academic trying the drug, getting his paradigm blown, and, of course, falling in love with a beautiful native girl at the same time (take my paradigm, please).
They were urging me to experiment with my voice and I discovered years later, taking Ayahuasca in the Amazon jungles, tribes of Indians that have actually mastered this art, and that saturate their bodies with DMT and harmaline, and then sing.
Well, what I discovered -- and I certainly wasn't the first to discover it -- in the Amazon in the early '70s, was the people in these tribal groups get together and they take Ayahuasca and their habit is to sing to make music, vocal music.
At one point I asked him what advice he had for someone about to down 100 ml of potent ayahuasca alone in a rainforest.
The gi-i-wa puffball of the Mixtecs, the sacred mushroom known as teonancatl (divine flesh) by the Aztecs, the tree fungus of the Yurimagua of Peru, the hex potion ayahuasca distilled by the Zaparo from the banisteriopsis vine as described by Villavicencio (1858) - all can be said to produce alkaloid exudates similar, chemically, to that obtained from Atropa belladonna.