I`m not sure if you all understand what i ment so i`ll try to explain it exactly .
"Important to me would be a big sense of freedom aka being able to do whatever i want. If I need me-time i want to be able to get some. If i need to take a walk I want to be able to take a walk, if you see what I mean."
Thats exactly what i mean , i`m not talking about regimentation or a prison . Either we have a ritual or not , but we cant have both . To do something with things like Ayahuasca a minimal ritual is better than everyone starting at diferent times for example = there has to be a minimum of concensus . We all have to meet , decide we are going on a bus ride , go to the bus together , get in together , start to drive.......and then when the bus is moving decide where we each want to go and everyone can decide if they want to get off and on again anywhere . I dont want to be handcuffed to anyone and always like to be able to go for a walk....... and maybe hug some trees or something if i want to . When people meet and take psychedelics and there is absolutly no disiplin ( sorry maybe thats not the right word , maybe self control is better ) then people start talking loud and running round playing mind games , walking in and out when people need to concentrate/meditate while comming up and it gets like taking a trip in a shopping center packed full of plastic people at the summer sales = a pain in the arse and dangerous . Just imagine we all went to see a very important event and someone had head fones on and started humming and singing like someone in the train with a walkman on . Then another one joins in with diferent music at a diferent speed . Then someone starts eating sweets out of a loud plastic bag . The ritual part is a loose thing after people come up , then everyone does what they want , like listening to music with headphones on , if it doesnt hurt other people or themselves .
The first time i went to a ritual was with Ayahuasca and i was a bit woried that i was expected to take part in some sort of orgamised church service where i had no personal freedom . It wasnt like that . it was about the same as what i talked about before , and afterwards i understood why it was done like that amd took it up and always did it like that . I dont want to take part in something like a Daime ceremony again , There if i remember right i had to wear a uniform = a white shirt and blue tie with blue trousers and proper shoes . We washed first , i had to clean my shoes till they shined , comb my hair and have a shave . Then the women sat on one side and the men on the other and we took the Daime . We had to sing songs in spanish from a hymn book . It was in my opinion fashistoid so i left the room put my own clothes on and had a doss on the balkony triping , listening to the silence and looking at the sky .
Maybe it would be good if the people who have never been to a ritual would read a little bit about them to understand the how and why . A ritual is like a road map and if people go to places that they have never been before they need one . People throughout the ages and all over the world have learned that it is better to use a ritual setting at psychedelic gatherings . An anarchic , every man for himself , free for all often expands to be a dangerous chaos .
But i dont realy give a fuck how we decide to do it , i want everybody to be happy , i have legs so i can take a hike if i want to .
I`d like to hear everyones thoughts on everything .
