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seeing distant persons and what they are
doing. Normally these are people and
places that the shaman knows, but he
frequently has the experience of travelling
to distant and unfamiliar villages, towns
and cities of the whites which he cannot
identify but whose reality can readily be
ascertained. These experiences can best
be compared to clairvoyance and remote
viewing.
Divination is, however, the most
important aspect of the rite among those
who use Ayahuasca for healing — or
murder. To 'see' the shaman who has
bewitched the patient the Ayahuasca drink
is used, since it is considered to allow one
better vision while curing and to allow for
better diagnosis. It is also used to identify
personal enemies and to locate the resting
place of stolen or lost articles. Shamans
also drink Ayahuasca:
when called upon to adjudicate in a
dispute or quarrel; to give the proper
answer to an embassy; to discover plans
of an enemy; to tell if strangers are
coming; to ascertain if wives are faithful;
in the case of a sick man to tell who has
bewitched him. 8
Possibly the most revealing evidence
comes from a footnote in an article
concerning the Cashinahua by the
anthropologist K. M. Kensinger:
Hallucinations generally involve scenes
which are a part of the Cashinahuas' daily
experience. However, informants have
described hallucinations far removed,
both geographically and from their own
experience.
Several informants who have never been
to, or seen pictures of, Pucallpa ... have
described their visits, under the influence
of Ayahuasca, to the town with sufficient
detail for me to be able to recognise
specific shops and sights. On the day
following one Ayahuasca party, six of
nine men informed me of seeing the death
of my chai, 'my mother's father'. This
occurred two days before I was informed
by radio of his death. 9
[More generally] the Cashinahua
drink Ayahuasca in order to learn about
things, persons and events removed from
them by time and/or space which would
affect either the society as a whole or its
individual members ... Although in most
cases little can be done to alter events
foreseen in visions, some precautions can
be taken ... Rarely, however, would
decisions based on information gained
through Ayahuasca affect an entire
village, and never the whole society ... In
conclusion, the Cashinahua use
Banisteriopsis as a means of gaining
information not available through the
normal channels of communication,
which, in addition to other information,
forms the basis for personal action. 10
Of course, this anthropological
evidence needs testing within controlled
laboratory conditions before we can judge
the extent, if any, of the psi-conducive
properties of the harmala alkaloids
present in Banisteriopsis, with or without
the DMT normally present in the drink.
So let us now look at the pineal gland, or
'third eye,' which produces a chemical
that is almost identical in structure to the
harmala alkaloids present in Ayahuasca.
The Neurochemistry of Psi
The pineal gland
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