NeoHuasca Taking The Red Pill

NeoHuasca - A Mimosa hostillis extract with a dark red coloring that can be gel capped and taking in conjunction with an MAOI such as syrian rue. Such a combination results in a powerful entheogenic experience. I call it NeoHuasca both as a nod to the Matrix films and the Red Pill that Neo swallows to make his escape, and to differentiate it from traditional Ayahuasca or Yaje. Having tryed traditional formulations of Yaje I can tell you that the effects are markedly different. NeoHuasca is just as powerful of a hallucinagen but without the purging and crapping that goes along with the traditional methods. Having experienced both I find I prefer NeoHuasca for convenience sake. There is something to be said however for the traditional method of brewing and consumption. The purging that comes with it can have a powerful healing effect but there is a definate recovery period, at least for me, and the Red Pills are far better suited to the magickal operations with which I am currently involved. The following is a short discription of how to prepare NeoHuasca:

How to Create Red Pills
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Ingredients and Equipment
Mimosa Hostilis

Syrian Rue

Lemon juice concentrate
A pyrex baking dish
A Crockpot and/or 2 large pots (dutch oven style work best)
Blender or coffee grinder
Coffee filters and/or pantyhoes (filter and strain)

Using scissors or shears cut the M. Hostilis bark into pieces small enough to fit in your blender or grinder and then pulverize it. Dump your now pulverized root bark into a crockpot or large dutch oven style pot, I don't have a working crockpot so I use a pot. Pour in just enough water to cover your root bark, then turn on the heat and bring to a boil. Now begin adding your lemon juice about a tablespoon at a time, until the water starts forming a frothy bubbles this is a sign that we have acidified the water in the right amount. Now, cover the pot and simmer at a low boil for about 3 hours. Pour the mixture through your filter into another pot and put aside, take the pulp that you strained out and return it to your boiling pot and again cover it with water and add lemon juice, boiling for another 3 hours. Repeat the filtering process adding this liquid to the first batch, discarding the pulp. Boil until there is about an inch of liquid left in the pot. Pour this now dark red liquid into your Pyrex baking dish and put it over low heat. It will start to bubble, when these bubbles start to grow bigger instead of popping and/or the liquid starts getting thick and viscous turn off the heat and cover the pan and put it aside to cure. The resulting residue will by a sticky tarlike substance that is a dark red to maroon color that you will have to scrape off the dish. You can gel cap it and take it along with gel capped ground Rue. The tar is very sticky and can be a bit fustrating to cap, If you leave the tar out in the air it will eventually (after many days) turn into a hard resin like compound. This resin can be powdered and used in the gel caps as well. I am not sure if there is a loss of potency when you let it dry out that much, I only discovered this after I only had a little left of the substance and the effect seemed a bit weaker but that could have been because I had to make due with a smaller dose. Here is some guidelines on dosage:
6-10 grams of the M. Hostilis extract
3-4 grams Syrian Rue

I have found that taking the gel caps in 3 doses every 20 min. eliminates nausea and makes for a smooth trip.

Have fun exploring and as always be careful!

A Review of Yaje - The New Purgatory

A Review of Yaje: The New Purgatory By Jimmy Weiskopf

In the past few years there has been many books written by western authors on the subject of the use of Ayahuasca or Yaje by native shamans of South America and although such books have served a vital role in reporting on the phenomenon of Yaje, few have captured the distinct experience of Yaje use in the context of a rapidly changing Latin America. In Yaje: The New Purgatory, Jimmy Weiskopf has successfully captured the mood that reflects the ancient practices of the amazon shamans against the backdrop of Columbia, a country that is a portrait of contrasts. In the book Jimmy recounts his repeated visits to Columbia to take Yaje and learn about its spiritual and physical healing power.

When reading any book on modern accounts of shamanism and psychedelics one cannot avoid comparisons with the works of Carlos Castenada and the enigmatic Don Juan Matus. In Yaje, Mr. Weiskopf has drawn a compelling picture of a modern shaman every bit as wise and wierd as Don Juan. In the personage of Taita Pacho Peaguaje we find such a character, with the added bonus of actual pictures which leave little doubt of his existance. The story details the authors stay with Pacho and his family as well as his experiences drinking Yaje repeatedly over the course of his stay.

Yaje is more than just a personal account of one mans experience with the sacred brew. Yaje also details the principals of the indigenous traditions of Columbia as well as the latest anthropological and botanical research. Yaje - The new Purgatory is first and foremost a literary work and as such it is both an entertaining and engrossing read. The author however has gone above and beyond the call by including the results of painstaking research on every aspect of Yaje use. At over 600 pages, including a glossery of terms, Yaje - The new Purgatory is not a light read but if you want to get some deep insight into the use of vision plants by indigenous cultures there are few books that can compare.