Huachuma - The Mother of All Plant Medicines

What’s Huachuma? And where exactly is Chavin in Peru??

Those were my questions when my friend invited me to sit with the medicine called Huachuma, the Quechua word (language spoken in the Andes, also pronounced ‘wachuma’) for the Cactus San Pedro from which psychoactive compound ‘mescaline’ based (incredibly bitter) medicine is brewed?

This is where things get interesting, you see when my friend left me a long ass voice mail inviting me to Chavin, It was on the same of January this year when I was about to embark on a life changing medicine trip on mushrooms?

You can read about how transformative and illuminating it was here?

Naturally, I was disinclined to take up his offer at that time because I was intending to come back from my mushroom trip and build my 6 figure a month coaching business enabling? ‘calm’ leaders who make ‘making effective decisions’

But the medicinal mushrooms had different plans for me and consumed the ‘calm leadership’ in its? flames (more on things going up in the flames in this article, this time sponsored by Huachuma)?

With my bowl of ashes, I replied to my friend ‘I’ll be there’?

A little bit about Chavin De Huantar in Peru: It’s a small (like small, tiny, small) town in the Andes 10-12 hours north of Lima by road?

There is really nothing there, but for a temple carved on to a rock cliff by a pre - Incan civilization around 900 - 1000 BC or older than that. The purpose of the temple was ceremonial - to serve Huachuma, you can see detailed inscriptions in Granite (imagine carving that in 1000 BC) of high priests holding the San Pedro cactus

Wikipedia has some really good information on Chavin?

In the midst of nowhere in Peru, a? mid -western American guy , atypical of any spiritual/medicine types you have encountered, serves his incredibly strong Huachuma medicine which he sources from the mountains apart from growing his own. How he got here and started serving medicine more than 2 decades ago is a story for later times?

In medicine circles these teachers are called Huachumeros?

I’ve had plenty of psychedelic/ medicine experience including sitting with Ayahuasca multiple times in the Peruvian jungles and many self-led intentional ceremonies with LSD, MDMA and Psilocybin

So, in my limited mind, I was trying to peg my experience with Huachuma before taking it and thought I was ‘ready’ for it, all the while thinking I’m getting back to America after this and creating my dream company?

But my first dose of Huachuma was beyond anything I had ever encountered in my journeys of self-discovery & it was setting up the stage for some radical shifts to come -?

We take the medicine at my teacher’s ranch right across the temple and in acouple of hours after dosing head to the temple grounds?

The Medicine is like the cosmos itself, so expansive, multi - dimensional , transcends time - I saw the conception of mankind , the Victorian times, worlds wars to the present times, felt every muscle and cell in my body?

And this was just the beginning. On my second journey , putting my hands on the steps of the snake staircase of the temple, I felt such a great deal of information being downloaded into my brain and body that I felt like I was having a seizure?

This is when one of my other teachers - Dr Joe Dispenza’s words started ringing in my ears and I tuned into gratitude, and lo and behold I was able to take in more information that I possibly could imagine. This was like alien code, beyond any GPU, AI, any technology that has even been invented that? was coming into me. Perhaps, the most advanced form of technology I have seen. It seemed like the medicine was the software and the temple stones were the hardware

As if this download was not enough, I entered the main gallery of the temple with an offering of coca leaves, it is a very narrow passage. Before I knew it. I was falling on the back of the head in what seemed a? bottomless pit, I was holding onto the walls to not fall, but a voice said ‘Let Go’, I did , and like what seemed forever, fell more, till the back of my head hit a glass case holding the main stone carving

I did not know how long I was laying there, but I felt like a bunch of black hip-hop artists were performing surgery on my head and then my friend came with a flash light and helped me up?

How I walked out of that passage without a single scratch on my head or any pain/damage is miraculous?

As if this was not enough, I went to another gallery after this , with the medicine still strong me, held on to the stone walls inside in pitch darkness, the stones swallowed me, and asked me to ‘surrender’ and focus on my breath, I traveled multiple dimensions and universes after which I was released back to the galleries?

Back at ranch , where a big fire is built in the evening of ceremonies (a Huachuma journey can last anywhere from 8 - 16 hours depending on the strength of the medicine and how much of it you take), I found myself causing the fire to burn with rage because I didn’t have some coca leaves

Controlling the elements is something I promised never to do again?

If none of this makes sense, it is not supposed to for our rational minds. Heck, I’m still awestruck even though I experienced it all first hand?

Quite simply put , our brains (including mine) lack the full capacity to process all the information, knowledge & wisdom provided by the medicine. Only through continued letting go and connecting with pure consciousness that you can increase the downloads available to you?

Even with that,I don’t? the thought and language? available to us has the capability to fully detail my experiences coherently??

I realized that as humans taking this medicine, it is our limited selves that comes out of it trying to make sense of it. But the magic is that even in the current self we have, that is limited by our bio-chemical brain and flesh bodies, the medicine shows you its limitless capacity?

It was also in this second ceremony that calmcorporate went up in flames. My love child for the last 3 years and everything I had built was gone, as the medicine had other plans for me….

The third ceremony was fully held in my teacher’s ranch and not in the temple as it was closed?

Having experienced? the incredible astral power of the medicine, I should say, I felt pretty super human and somewhat cocky. And that was going to change immediately?

The first few hours of taking the medicine, I felt extremely nauseous and queasy, as the sun came down and the fire went up, I was pretty much in a fetal position and unbeknownst to me starting saying ‘Nina Niwah, Niwah Nina’?

Nina is fire in Quechua and Niwah is just a word that came to me for ‘nothing’. I was bowing to the fire in what seemed multiple hours ‘Oh fire, I’m No one, I’m Nothing’?

The medicine made me humble (didn’t humiliate me) by helping me realize that - So you think you can control elements and have all these super powers, in reality, you know nothing and are a nobody.?

Which remains the truth I remind myself of everyday and as often as I can?

The beauty of this surrender is again something I can’t explain in mere words

In my 4th Ceremony at the temple , I witnessed another group sitting in ceremony too. Before I knew what was happening, I felt almost instantly paralyzed and felt a terrible amount of darkness , an extraordinary amount of evil?

I crawled to by my teacher’s wife and laid on very wet ground (it was raining heavily) and she beat the ceremonial drum around me after which I could feel my body and stand?

I realized that I was attacked by the leader of the other group with black magic, why? I think I have shared enough weird stories here and we will recount this another time

I did however take them drums and started beating it loudly communicating that ‘I love you and I ‘m not afraid’ and saw the group disperse when I did that?

There was reason behind feeling this amount of immeasurable evil which was revealed to me in the 5th & final ceremony I sat in Chavin?

In this ceremony, sitting in the grounds of the temple I felt an amount of love and compassion which was greater than anything I have ever experienced before in my life. When I tried to dig more to check if this was finite or quantifiable , there was more of it with absolutely no way to measure it. This love was as expansive as the universe itself , all pervasive, being the highest vibration & frequency that is?

Paying my respects in the gallery where I fell on my head , I asked the spirits if the reason this place was built & the message of the medicine was Love? And came the answer? -? All this is for to experience unconditional Love?

Communicating with higher beings etc is all done through the universal frequency of love, which usurps all other lower frequencies like evil and hate?

Back at the ranch, I asked Nina (the fire), now that you have consumed calmcorporate, what’s next for me?

Nina & the medicine had the answer ready for me - Serve the message of the medicine which is this unlimited love & compassion and help others heal themselves?

In the last 2 ceremonies along with feeling this great love, I also was gifted the ability to hold infinite grief?

Being able to hold this grief and helping people find this omnipresent love that there is, is how the medicine has instructed me to be a Healing Guide for people?

And thus in the coming week I will be wrapping up calmcoporate and creating a healing focused personalized brand with one and one & group coaching with an online community?

I look forward to serving you all in manner that was unimaginable to me before as guided by the medicine?

PS: Integrating from this experience a week after Chavin, I called my teacher in not the best of spirits. The real world was hard. He had a simple solution for me - come back to Chavin, we have everything.?

I was so tempted, and almost jumped on it. Then I remembered what the medicine told me -?

Do this work in the real world?

I will be definitely going back to Chavin multiple times to sit with the medicine and my teacher in ceremonies

For now, I will do as the medicine instructed me and help others heal through my guidance?

I answer the calling and serve with great humility & honor knowing that - I didn’t choose the medicine, the medicine chose me!?

Nina Niwah, Niwah Nina - ‘Oh fire, I’m No one, I’m Nothing’