Although there is some advice I’d still give to everyone:

Ayahuasca showed me very clearly that I did NOT know what was best for anyone else, because everyone is on a different path in life, and has different lessons to learn, so what maybe good advice for me, maybe bad advice for you.

I don’t know what is best for me Ayahuasca told me repeatedly: “You are not asking the right questions, nor do you know the right questions to ask” “You do not know what you need to learn, experience, or do” “You do not know what is best for you” “You just think you do” This surprised me at first, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized it was true. I’ve never known what was best for me. I didn’t know what was best for me when I was a child. I didn’t know what was best for me when I was a teenager. I didn’t know what was best for me in my twenties. Yet at each stage of my life I was absolutely certain that I did. And this has led to me passionately pursuing one path, only to neglect even better paths that would have yielded infinitely greater results. e.g. if I knew what was best for me I would have started learning critical thinking and programming as a teenager, and invested in Apple, Google, and Amazon in my early twenties (early 2000s). The solution: Ayahuasca told me that I needed to find a mentor, someone I admired that had achieved what I wanted to achieve, and I needed to ask their advice for the best next steps. I was also told to come in without too many of my own preconceived ideas, because the answers I would be given probably wouldn’t be what I was expecting.

Non-resistance

Prior to Ayahuasca my personality was quite aggressive and intense.

When something didn’t go my way, instead of accepting it and letting it go, I would argue and fight 10X harder to get what I wanted.

But Ayahuasca showed me very clearly that non-resistance is the way.

Resisting “what is” is a complete waste of time and energy. It doesn’t change anything. It doesn’t improve anything. It doesn’t make anything better. It doesn’t get you what you want either, it just makes you angry, frustrated, and tired.

“What you resist not only persists, but will grow in size.” – Carl Jung

If there is something you don’t like, instead of getting angry and complaining and resisting it, just take action and do whatever you can to change it.

“Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.” – Eckhart Tolle

Pay attention to how things affect you energetically

Before Ayahuasca, I was completely ignorant of energy.

Yes I’d heard of Reiki, Tai Chi, Qigong etc. but I didn’t know anything about them, nor did I really care.

But Ayahuasca allowed me to experience energetic healing. Again, this is something which cannot be explained or imagined. You need to experience it for yourself. I’ll simply say that it’s incredible and it feels awesome.

Ayahuasca also got me to start thinking about how different colors, foods, music etc. affected me energetically, and this is an important lesson because whether you’re conscious of it or not, everything has an energetic effect on you.

If you’re ignorant of energy like I was, I suggest you start paying attention to how different things make you feel emotionally.

How do you feel when you eat healthy vs when you eat unhealthy?

How do you feel when you listen to love songs vs when you listen to hip hop or rock?

How do you feel when you wear white vs when you wear blue? Or red? Or black?

It’s not just colors, foods, and music either. Different cities, environments, and people affect you energetically too. Some places and people just “feel” good. Sadhguru’s ashram for example. Others “feel” bad, or dirty, or dangerous.

Watch what you wear

I want to go into this in a little more detail…

Before Ayahuasca I was completely ignorant of the power of colors and how they affected me, except that I was more attracted to women who wore red or pink. Beyond that however, I had no clue, and didn’t care.

My favorite color however has always been black. I loved black ever since I was a kid, and I wore it almost exclusively throughout my teenage years and early twenties. Black T-Shirts, black jeans, black shoes, black suits, I even had a black yoga mat. It’s no surprise that I loved black either: Black is the most popular color in my home country of New Zealand as it’s the color worn by our national rugby team the “All Blacks”. Kiwis wear black with pride.

When I started drinking Ayahuasca in Peru however, one of the first instructions I got from the Shamans was NOT to wear black during ceremonies because it attracts negative energy. I didn’t believe it at first, but after wearing a black T-shirt when I had nothing else to wear, and seeing a couple few other people wearing black in a couple of ceremonies and every one of us having a bad trip and experiencing negative/demonic entities, I can confirm it and want no part of it. Black is now my LEAST favorite colour. I hate it. It represents evil to me and I believe that wearing black attracts bad things. I no longer wear black and I’m surprised that Catholics Priests wear black, and most Christians have black Bibles.

I’m now very conscious of the colors I wear and I try to wear as many lighter and brighter colors (white, blue, green, light gray especially) as possible, whilst avoiding darker and heavier colors (black, brown, red). I suggest you become conscious of the colors you wear too, because they play a major role in how you feel emotionally and how others feel about you when they’re around you.

Summary of lessons