In some of my experiences with Ayahuasca, I’ve discovered that this is, for me, one of the most beautiful and re-weaving aspects of it. It’s that once the physical healing is done and the emotional components are sorted, there’s a very tangible sort of astral melting into this field of being, which is the closest thing I can call it, it’s the web of life.
None of the indigenous medicine people around the world call themselves “shamans” as the Westerners do, because Westerners have had a void or a disconnect from the mythic archetype of the medicine person and the healer has been reduced to doctor in some levels. We split it up just like we have this distance between the mind-body-spirit or this denial of spirit in essence itself, this dichotomy that’s developed in the West over the last few hundred years.