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Hi,

New here,

Thought I would share a bloom from on of our larger friends out back.

Hi!

I am new here and wanted to start off by saying I like the site. I also wanted to get some opinions on what you all think about taking one of these tours to Iquitos in Peru.

I have a long history of use of entheogenic plants. The one that has taken me the furthest is San Pedro. I firmly believe that you do not need to travel great distances to get lessons from the teachers, but I also have always wondered how valuable such experiences would be. I have looked around the Internet and have talked to a couple of guides. I have always been quite interested in the cultures down there and have always thought that an experience with one of the shamans would be very valuable.

It seems to me that the plants are the best guide, sometimes serving as the shamans themselves, but I am particularly interested in Ayahuasca which I have never communed with and am considering being guided through it.

I have talked to the Blue Morpho tours and they were actually very pleasent. I also talked to Jaya Bear, but got a rather bad vibe from here. This was about 4 years ago. I told her that I used cannabis for a back pain problem. She was very anti-cannabis. I realize that Ayahuasca and cannabis do not mix and was not intending to mix the two, but she seemed to think all cannabis users were "recreational and irresponsible". I felt her tone was somewhat hateful towards cannabis which I think is a rather harsh attitude. Cannabis may not mix with ayahuasca, but it does have good medicinal qualities.

I am starting to get turned off by the whole thing. There is a guy named Martin Ball who was advertising a tour he is giving the summer in Peru using Ayayhusaca and San Pedro, but he admits to never having been to Peru. He is also, well, rather egotistical:

Here are some links to Martin Ball: http://www.entheogenic.podomatic.com/
http://www.martinball.net/

I would never pay this guy to do this kind of thing. He seems to think he is somehow the voice of God and only his reality is true,yet I am wondering how many of these American guides are crackpots like Martin Ball? How does one differentiate from the honest people and the rather delusional ones? Are the delusional people like this common

Thanks :tea: