You know, first ayahuasca is never been heard off, and the next thing you know everybody wants it because it is all anybody is talking about. It goes from this mystery to being a kind of … or rage, and then it becomes an income source.
The people who are doing the making and the taking and the shaking may not really understand what they’re getting into. A drug like synthetic ayahuasca, pharmahuasca, do people realize this is the same thing as has been taken for thousands of years down there? Do they realize its role in shamanic healing and all this? It’s just one more example of how everything is desacralized and corrupted. Because, you know, first ayahuasca has never been heard of, and the next thing you know, everybody wants it because it’s all anybody’s talking about. So it goes from this mystery to being a kind of a fad or a rage. And then it becomes an income source. And once it becomes an income source, it’s a commodity, like journalism, sex, aluminum, whatever is being peddled on the open market. I would prefer to see ayahuasca remain at (the status, let’s say, of peyote, where) the native peoples who are into it sort of keep the faith, understand how to make it and talk about it. And when there’s a question as to what it all means, then you go back to those native people and listen to their myth and all that.
