This is my personal guide for preparing for your first Ayahuasca trip. [Watch this episode on YouTube] What is Ayahuasca? Ayahuasca is a plant-based psychedelic. It is made by prolonged heating or boiling of the Banisteriopsis caapi vine with the leaves of the Psychotria viridis shrub, although there can be a variety of other plants included in the decoction for different traditional purposes. The active chemical in ayahuasca is DMT (dimethyltryptamine). It also contains monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs).  Ayahuasca has been used for centuries by First Nations peoples from contemporary Peru, Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador for religious ritual and therapeutic purposes.  Resources for your psychedelic trip: • YouTube channel • 4 Essential Touchstones for Your Mushroom Trip • The Mushroom Trip Guide: A Psychedelic Checklist • 1:1 Cosmic Guidance Call with James Psychedelic Resources: • Top 20 Myths About Mushrooms & Psychedelics  • Lessons from a Deep Mushroom Trip  • How Psilocybin Opens the Door to Synchronicity • The Dark Tunnel of Mushrooms – How to Have a Smooth Trip • What Is the Right Dose for a Mushroom Trip (Safety Guide) • The Power of Surrender - What the Mushrooms Taught Me  • 8 Things You Must Do Before a Mushroom Trip  • 5 Life-Changing Benefits of Doing Mushrooms  Join the Tribe - jamesxander.com ❤️   Please subscribe to my YouTube channel for more episodes!  Listen to my in-depth psychedelic podcast: The James Xander Trip 🎧  1 Billion Humans mission - Let's get 1 billion humans to take shrooms on the same day.   “Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.” – Terence McKenna   Connect with James Xander  • Newsletter • YouTube • Instagram • Twitter • Discord • Patreon Feedback or questions? Reach out to me at jamesxander.com  Thanks to our monthly supporters Brent Knight Johan Benjaminsson ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★