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AYAHUASCA expansion of the consciousness

The idea was always to show the history of the Ayahuasca tea.

From its origin in the Amazon forest to its arrival in cities like São Paulo.

But then I thought...

Why not experience the real cure?

They say that when you drink the tea you must to have a goal in mind

Among many things that I need to heal I've chosen one, my relationship with my father

A relationship that has always been distance That I haven't had the courage to face.

It is not easy for a person like you

to make a documentary like this.

You have to feel it; you have to live your spiritual process as well, your cure.

You have to learn what you do for it all to make sense..

You can never talk about a cure if you have never healed

You can never say: You have been through it when you haven't.

Mainly because you have not come to make a documentary of...

You have come to talk about the medicine, the most sacred.

It is your responsibility to take

what people will also see and feel it as well.

So what you are doing is truly embracing this reality

but in order to do so, you must experience this reality.

There is nothing untrue here, what you see is life

and everything you are living, I am not making it up.

This is the life of my people, our everyday lives.

Village Nova Esperança Yawanawás people

Putanny and I became more than a marriage.

By the way, my marriage with her was one of the most difficult among the Masters

Because I come from a family of arranged marriages

and Putanny is not my promised one

So we entered into another part of this civilization

Which was the wanting and liking

and the choice of being a husband and a wife.

We chose to be just the two of us.

Yawá Yawanawá Shaman, dead at 2018

We are from the wind, magic

We are from the chant; That's how our marriages are.

We do not have many material objects to symbolize marriage.

Mainly a paper that has to be signed.

The greatest pain and regret of your father had Was that he walked by himself to our wedding

He wanted his mother present

my father-in-law said he was going to take her

But he didn't because I was pregnant.

So your father walked into church crying because he didn't have his mother by his side.

Your mother and I almost split up several times.

Your upbringing at home was very bad

I am sure of that And I blame myself for that

I believe that you would have a much better condition

if we could have gotten along better and lived a more normal life.

I am the feminine leader.

I am my mother's leadership. And I honor that with great love.

Putanny's life represents that to me

She adds to this moment.

I always think of my people's spirituality

as a very sacred ground.

So it is kind of a spiritual rebirth.

It's having the privilege to say:

“If I were to be reborn I would take this or this away, I would like to be this person”.

Actually, Putanny wanted to be the first female shaman of our history

Because a shaman is the one who prays for the spiritual guides

it comes from magic

I had never heard of a Yawanawa woman

with the role of a shaman, with real spiritual leadership.

In the year of 2005

My sister and I received a spiritual calling to come and challenge this ground.

Until that moment, it was only done by men

Because a woman had never challenged spirituality and our tradition

It is so true that we had never known in our civilization

that a woman was a spiritual leader

or that a woman participated in a cure work in an Ayahuasca ceremony.

It was very difficult because

we were breaking a tradition inside our tradition.

"What do you want to do? This is not for women"

"this is for men, it cannot be accepted!"

We were questioned by many people

Some said no, we couldn't break our tradition Like it was the rule

It was as if somebody wrote this and it has to be this way

We can't break this.

When we start the preparation, when we are going to make Feitío do Uni

We prepare 2 or 3 days in a week.

If you are married, you can't sleep with your wife.

If you really want to do something, like have a drink to make you feel good

you can't eat sweets until you finished that Feitío de Uni

because there you will put your thought and your dedication.

The word Ayahuasca refers to a vine

It is a Quechua word

Which is commonly translated to the soul vine or the vine of the dead.

Ayahuasca is used by about 70 Amazon peoples

which speak at least twenty different languages.

The Ayahuasca plant is usually cooked

And transformed into a drink with the same name.

So Ayahuasca is a word, which refers to both the vine,

as well as the drink, that is the tea.

We make it a request

we speak in our minds and in our hearts.

Look, I have planted you, you've enjoyed

And know I will harvest you

so I can drink you, to find my goals

The search for peace through you

because you are a great spirit.

To make the Ayahuasca you have to cook it for a long time in water.

Two plants, a vine with the scientific name Banisteriopsis Caapi

and a bush, called Chacrona, Psychotria Viridis and it can be called Rainha (Queen).

If you take this quality of leaf the “mirage” fails, they don't work

The visions caused by Ayahuasca happen with eyes closed

this has a name in the religious traditions of Ayahuasca and the name is “mirage”.

We hear a lot of talking in the news about the tea saying that it is hallucinogenic

I don't really like this term when we are talking about Ayahuasca.

First, the term hallucinogenic is quite inappropriate even when

It is applied to the substance that has the most evident visual effect with eyes open.

Why am I talking about this? Because...when you are talking about a hallucination

you are talking about something that is seen with your eyes open.

Even the hallucinogen, they do not cause hallucinations, they cause visual distortions.

Ayahuasca has also a characteristic which is well reinforced in some indigenous traditions

as well and very reinforced in Brazilian religious traditions too

because it brings perceptions on the conduct of the person who took it.

About yourself

As if the person could be looking at the things they are doing

With an easiness of realizing that the things they are doing are not okay

and that maybe it is time to change.

A very interesting thing is

that if you make a separate tea from both of the plants

they will not have the same effect.

The tea made from Psychotria of the Queen Charona, has no effect

And the tea made from the vine seems to have a sedative effect

it gives a certain drowsiness, some physical effects

but it does not bring the expansion of the consciousness

and the psychedelic effect that only happens when both plants are combined.

And it is here, beating and mentalizing

talking with medicine: I am making this to take it you

to feel good, to be more open in our thoughts and at our work.

And we always do it like that

There is no rush because all this force goes into work.

DMT is Dimethyltryptamine

a simple molecule very similar to a neurotransmitter

which we have in our bodies, called serotonin.

The DMT is present in the metabolism of hundreds of plants

including the Psychotria viridis, or the queen, that is used in Ayahuasca.

DMT is so simple

that if we ingest a tea or leaves that contains DMT

we will not feel any effect because we digest it

and before it hits our blood, it is no longer DMT.

It was digested in the stomach, intestine as well as in the liver

and that is done through an enzyme, which is monoamine oxidase

And the Ayahuasca vine inhibits this enzyme

and the capacity of the body to digest DMT

That's why when you combine the plant that contains DMT and the Ayahuasca vine

the effects of the DMT will appear in the brain and in the mind of the person

because it can go through the digestion.

When we are outside, in São Paulo, in many places in Brazil

I go with an Indian tribe, talk about our peoples, talk about going to an Indian tribe.

You never know how it is going to be

I know that, I have already been to public schools, studying before

I saw how the people there are studying, how they see the Brazilian Indian.

I have never opened up my heart to say who I am, or what I think.

I chose this path, the same path of my ancestors

my predecessors, my grandparents

2.700 different species of healing medicines catalogued

We are waiting with our arms opened when it concerns the Brazil that recognizes us

When the humanity that recognizes us as a nation, as people capable of joining another science

When we are treated as Indians, as incompetents

as the original people of the forest who do not have feelings

And that has scientific knowledge that can help humanity, we will remain in silence.

The first time I took the medicine

My father asked Tata to prepare the medicine.

He prepared it and at night in a large shohu (very large and open hut)

with my father sitting in a hammock, rocking back and forth

Tatá Yawanawá Shaman, dead at 2016

I was thinking, what is going to happen?

Then I saw that huge cup I took it and swallowed at once

and a thought came to give back.

I took it all, and as I was drinking that cup

I felt a shiver going through my body

I was thinking something was going to happen

And always that thought telling to give back

After 5 minutes I felt it...

I started feeling a reaction in my body

What is going on? The first thing was an impulse inside my heart.

Something said: Look up, look at me

- Who is talking to me? - Look up, look here at me

I looked up and I saw the moon, very low, very beautiful.

When I looked at the moon

I felt like saying to the moon: - You are so beautiful

I want to be your daughter, I want to meet you

I want to be like you so bright, your light radiates the world

I want to shine, you are so shinny

But I look at me and I don't even know who I am.

I look at myself and see a void

I wish I could know myself.

I want to know who I am. I want to know where I came from.

How did I come? What am I doing here? What am I doing?

Many define as an experience relative to a year’s therapy done in one afternoon, and one night

The person is in contact with so much repressed psychological material.

It is from the beginning of childhood and it comes with such a strong emotional power

with impactful images and complex symbolism

Not everything is always clear and rational a s it would be in a verbal psychotherapy.

It is a shock and at that moment support and context is fundamental.

When we talk about psychoactive effects

and evidently, Ayahuasca is psychoactive

A question that comes to mind is: - Is it a drug?

Are we talking about a drug?

I think we can answer this question by thinking what do we mean with the word drug?

If drug means a substance that causes an alteration in our organism

So it is a drug just like any other drug, like alcohol, Novalgina, penicillin...

All of these will cause alteration in our organism.

So in the pharmaceutical and medical point of view

it induces alterations so we can call it a drug.

But in this case we are talking about the pharmaceutical drug

rather than the crack house drug.

When my children were younger

I always told them this one thing.

You can do anything you want, but don't do drugs.

On that fateful day, we knew.

We had no idea why he took this path of using cocaine.

And he immediately said goodbye and left.

I particularly didn't understand that need and what the origin of that was.

That night he told his father

I tried many times to be close to you.

I always wanted to talk to you. then everything goes down the drain.

Jaime is not the father who goes up to his children and says, how are you?

He was always very quiet. He wouldn't even ask about their occupation.

The consciousness theme is a theme that requires a lot of humility.

The consciousness might be the most difficult scientific issue of all.

Because the consciousness is the subjective aspect, it is our experience of the world

It is my feeling of seeing the ocean's blue

Science has had success in looking outside In eliminating the subjective

and objectively studying the physical phenomenon that compose matter and energy.

Santo Daime is a religious syncretism, the foundation of the Brazilian culture

Which is the black, the Indian, and the White, the colonizer.

Santo Daime adds to the African culture And we can see that in the Indians, Barum...

Signs of the Indian community, the maracá .

And also the Christian part white people's culture, a pure Christianity.

This syncretism is very important because it is the authentic cultural manifestation of our country.

Most of the interviewers don't want to listen to what you have to say.

They want you to answer what they want to research and not in a wider sense.

They come in the focus they want.

So people come in the search of the “getting high” moment

sometimes they would take a brother at a given moment

just to show “look how weird it is” isn't it true?

Just completely out of context.

It doesn't have interest for the interviewers...

Have you seen any interviews which proposed to show

Who in fact is healing? How are they healing?

So where are the cures?

No one has ever come to do a interview with us like that

and you end up not knowing if people were cured or not.

They come to know about getting high

about why you have to drink a tea to be connected with the Divine?

What is happening with people's lives?

Master Irineu is from the Northeast

he came with other northeastern people who went to cut rubber trees

with the promise of a new Eldorado.

On the border of Peru and Bolivia he got to know the Ayahuasca tea

and there were two friends who already knew about the tea

It was André Costa and Antonio Costa.

When he took the drink, he saw a cruise in the sky.

And this cruise there was a lady sitting on the moon

Our Holy Lady of Conceição. From this view

He starts receiving lessons from this lady

And she said: “Now you are going to sing, sing these lessons”.

He went through all the initiation process of the shaman.

He was isolated in the forest, no women, sex abstinence, and alcoholic abstinence, a diet

That was when Master Irineu started receiving his spiritual lessons in the forest.

When he goes back to Rio Branco, approximately in the 50's

He puts together a small group, because he received from Our Holy Lady of Conceição

The drink with the name of Daime for him to give. He was supposed to give to whoever asked

(Daime) Give me strength, give me light, give me peace

give whatever the person needed. It is the verb to give.

Already with the name of Daime, he returns to Rio Branco and creates a center.

And it was a Daime center initially only with black people.

That center started receiving people and healing them

and as time went by, that small group expanded

and started receiving people of all social and economic levels.

The politicians also, the politicians from Acre went there

because the one Master Irineu supported would always win the election.

They said Master Irineu never left his chair.

He would just sit there and with his thoughts he helped to calm the person down.

A black man almost 7 foot tall, wearing 11,5 a size shoe

who possibly came from those tall, giant black tribes. So he brings this African culture.

Making Ayahuasca takes time and dedication

And in the context of the Brazilian Ayahuasca religions they are very noble moments.

Many scholars had already talked about The expansion of what they called green churches.

That we could see that go beyond the Santo Daime there is União do Vegetal

and the Barquinha and other institutions

which use the Ayahuasca as a sacrament of their spiritual works.

It is not any person who can prepare a drink like this, there is a ritual

A harvest, the right moon, there is a diet that people have to follow

There is the clean and pure thought there cannot be a fight or any confusion.

Master Irineu is like a river that made several tributaries

One of them was Godfather Sebastião

who founded what today is the Céu do Mapiá.

It is a Daimist community and an important destination for the followers of the religion.

With the master's work growing

and when it came to the 70's, the history of Godfather Sebastião begins.

I am the brightness of the sun, I am the brightness of the moon,

I am the brightness of the stars because all accompany me

I am the brightness of the stars because all accompany me

He already had a spiritual work, he already received the medium surgeon Bezerra de menezes

and performed the surgeries.

And he receives people distant from the rubber plantations, even from Cruzeiro do Sul

3 days in a boat, and they would go there to heal themselves with Godfather Sebastião

Just a reminder that Godfather Sebastião was the main expander of the Doctrine

outside the borders of the Amazon and of Brazil.

Master Irineu was the founder and Godfather Sebastião was its expander

Before Godfather Sebastião, Santo Daime was very limited to Rio Branco and the neighbor areas

Godfather Sebastião received many foreigners So the people who arrived there were amazed

Because they were young people in search of some meaning to life,

something different from that society.

And they saw that there was a society that did not have the problems of a capitalist society

Daime began to spread, more and more people came

They were telling each other. The Godfather gave this trust vow

so the Daime could reach the entire world.

Brazil has a somewhat restricted positioning regarding Ayahuasca therapeutic medical use.

There is a resolution from the Federal Government

That was drawn and went through a wide process of consultancy and studies

involving anthropologists and psychiatrists, Church leaders and other members of society

They concluded that the religious use of Ayahuasca was not harmful

That Ayahuasca does not cause chemical dependency so it was authorized.

The same resolution says that the therapeutic use of Ayahuasca

will only be authorized if scientific research proves

the therapeutic potential that people say Ayahuasca has.

Practically all forbidden drugs have an undesirable social group

Right after alcohol was legalized in the USA

there was a whole police force who where in charge of the prohibition of alcohol that became unemployed.

They quickly decided that marijuana would be the focus

Because it was this weird drug smoked by Mexicans or by black people.

In Brazil, it was smoked by black people and by people from the northeast

So there was an undesirable social group

where it was easy to establish a social control process.

The hippies from the 60's were anti-warfare and against the Vietnam war

It was easier controlling the drugs they used than controlling someone against war.

In the case of the Ayahuasca, there is no undesirable social group

and that was mainly the process in which it was regulated.

A democratic process of social inclusion that included Ayahuasca drinkers.

All this process was inclusive.

Social factors are important to us to understand why Ayahuasca is legal in Brazil

and legal for ritual use.

Religion does not depend on Science to exist

We don't have to justify each of the effects of the Ayahuasca scientifically

for people to have transforming experiences in their lives.

This is an essentially personal element for each individual.

I think there is a personal path

For those who are going to die and have this in their minds.

They are looking for answers in order to survive the awareness of this fact.

And why part of this discovery process cannot be as well a discovery of how the world works?

How do molecules interact? How do animals behave?

How is it that we are such complex animals and behave so well?

For me, one thing does not exclude the other. There has to be the precision of science in science.

But we don't need science to prove religion or science to disapprove it.

I have always imagined God as a figure of a man

A figure of a father

A very punishing father

I think that was the reason I was never really able to speak to my father.

I really wanted for Ayahuasca to solve all the issues I have with my father

The entire cowardliness I have of not being able to speak to my father

of not feeling comfortable in his presence.

But Ayahuasca made it clear that it wouldn't do that for me.

I didn't know how to give you the love you needed

I feel that when you get close to me, there is a fear that I also have.

It is a fear we have of one another I don't know why.

It was the way you were raised and how I was raised

and we unfortunately couldn't make it right in time

But I never had my father's support

I don't want to crucify him, But he was always a step back,

he wanted us to study at any cost

But without to spending money on our education.

After all the difficulties I went through with graduation, my marriage,

after all that, I wanted perfection with you guys. I wanted you to be perfect

But I didn't have my father's support. He didn't even go to my wedding.

Why did he not go to your wedding?

He didn't want to.

– Is this a weight? – It meant a lot.

He didn't let my mother go

I feel so sorry about that

It meant a lot to me

So, I was alone in that period

Greice was born and right after we went on with life.

We worked a lot and then you came.

I remember that when you were little I was able to hug you

and kiss you.

When you grew up I couldn't anymore

That was a huge weight in my life.

Ah, but it's okay

It's life. Life is not only joy.

The Shamanism is not only indigenous people.

It goes through them as well, but I am talking about the time men were nomads.

It is important to say that Shamanism is not a religion.

But it is a set of religious practices

Not an institutionalized religion

like Christianity, which has a master, Christ.

Buddhism has Buddha Taoism has Lao-Tse.

Shamanism has the sun, the moon, stars, wind, earth, fire, water and air.

It is common in all these people that made these earth medicines

The mastery of fire, the flight of the soul,

the altered states of consciousness and the lucid dreams.

This is all part of the Shamanism world

there is no point in limiting something that is extremely broad.

We are talking maybe about the cell matter of medicine.

There a very important theme in psychiatry.

Psychiatry still views mental disorder almost exclusively as concerning the patient as individual.

In Shamanism, the native american cultures

Their conceptions of a mental disorder is a problem of the collective that affects the community.

They conceive all of this as evil spirits, spirits that bring illnesses and that affect everything

If we stop to think carefully

when a person has depression, the family is affected

marriage is affected, children are affected, the community is affected.

It affects the person's life in their company, the company can suffer

Because the patient is not being productive, is not handling it.

So it is in fact a collective issue.

The great truth is that...

I am sorry by whoever is touched by these words, but the system...

we have today and which we live in, is not made for people to be happy.

The system was made for some people to be happy, not for all.

Few people can say I am thoroughly happy.

Aristotle said: the authentic happiness comes from an individual

who can put into practice and express the totality of your gifts and talents

or in other words, the person does what she wants.

And likes to do.

Ayahuasca at this table

Add all fragrances

And the ancestral chants

Going on showing the wonders

But it also shows the shadows

It is the power to transform

We have a very cool relationship

It is a father-son relationship, you know?

But I have this problem of holding him and giving him love and everything.

I have already studied a lot and searched a lot to understand these issues with you and your son.

he must be feeling this difficult you know?

And you have seen that it goes from generation to generation.

Do you think your father didn't want to live with affection Fausto?

Don't continue what we have already seen in the past

If you have seen a mistake in the relationship you had with your father.

Make the difference, change, make your history.

Everyone has a guiding voice.

In the strength of Ayahuasca it becomes clear.

It asked me if I was really ready for this new consciousness

It told me I would have problems, maybe even bigger ones than before.

So it told me I had become a master of my experiences.

And that I would have to choose between continuing to be a master of everything I saw

or an apprentice of what is yet to come.

I think it's important that my father is more loving.

Because then I will be more loving and we can go on our journey.

New stuff like that. Leave the shallowness.

The expansion of the consciousness is something that...

Frightens a lot the society and the way it is established.

thats why they banned psychedelics in the 70's they were not illegal

they were substances that were there

set out to be worked by humanity in the best possible before the prohibition.

They were not banned for no reason.

In a society that is still much focused in who is better than the other is.

The one who wins is good, not the one who cooperates.

There is still too much focus on this idea.

It brought us to a place where we are now We are living an existential crossroad

Our conflicts, at home, with our relatives as well as between nations.

They are connected to our mental models.

So these are the signs that his mental model is exhausted

I went to Acre, I am from Rio

Because I thought I was going to participate in the armed revolution.

I was going to work with communities and when I first got to know the Daime

I realized that the great revolution is your own evolution.

Do you know who you are? What you are doing here? What is your mission?

Of everything I live, everything I see.

I would like to be like the sun, I would like to be like the moon

I would like to be like this wish I have made to the moon, I want to shine

I want to be eternal as the moon

I want to shine, and I want to be great.

Great in a good sense, great in the sense of light, great in love

There goes the rich guy there: I want love, how much can I take from love?

You do not take from love, you have to live love, you have to deserve love.

And in this path, spirituality gives you people, feelings, charm

it gives life, the world to you.

There are people who have material assets.

I have this, I have that, but the person is afraid of lightning, afraid of the dark.

Weren't you great? Weren't you powerful? Weren't you handsome?

Where is your courage?

It is amazing how we can feel the love passing

when you have your channels opened it

is a lot of peace, it is a lot of love.

Script and Direction - Fausto Noro