San Pedro Ceremony full day

 Introduction

The Peyote (Lophophora wiliamsii) is “the plant that makes your eyes marvel”, according to a French author´s description of it. The Toltec people and Chichimecas knew the peyote, at least two thousand years before the Europeans´ arrival to the American Continent. The ethnologist Carl Lumholtz estimates that, in reality, its use dates back to more than three thousand years, as a symbol used by the Tarahumaras in the peyote ceremony, appears in ritual carvings preserved in volcanic rocks dating from that time period.

The peyote´s most common name comes from the word náhuatl or peyotl. The Tarahumaras call it ciguri; the Tepehuanis, kamaba; the Huicholes, hikuri; the Coras, Hualari and Comanche people call it wokow. The dry peyote is also known as peyote button.

The peyote is plant that is rich in alkaloids. Up to now, 50 of them have been isolated and among them: Peyotine, anhaline, anhaloidine, anhalinine, anhalonine, lofoforine and the most important of them all, which is mescaline.

Before the ceremony:

The people interested in the SAN PEDRO ceremony will have fill in a medical form for a personal evaluation of their physical condition and will have to sign it, in order to give veracity to the information given to TOP EXPEDITIONS.
The people interested in the SAN PEDRO ceremony, will have a preliminary conversation with the Shaman or Healer who will perform the ceremony, in order to allow the latter to diagnose their physical and emotional condition and know about the interest they might have regarding the use of the MASTER MEDICINAL PLANT and so that a mutual trust relationship might establish itself between the participants and the person who will perform the ceremony.

On the day of the ceremony:

The ceremony will start around 7:00 a.m., going to nature, as this kind of ceremony is normally performed in the light of day, in order to get better results, due respect to the effects that might occur in the organism. Therefore, that ceremony has to take place during a walk that will last all day, passing by a variety of places, so as to better feel or enjoy the plant´s effects.

After having ingested the medicine, you will have a different perception of your body and will feel lighter and sensitive to what you perceive in your surroundings.

Possible vomiting or expulsion of the ingested plant, like a purifying purge of your organism, as what is expulsed is only what was ingested or simply, you won´t have any of these sensations and this will depend a lot on your general physical and emotional state and whether or not you followed correctly the indications given in the agency and by the Shaman.

You will go through moments of visions throughout the day, during which you will have a chance to appreciate nature with more interest and sensitivity than in normal conditions.
At the moment that you will be under the SAN PEDRO´s effect, you will feel more sensitive to anything that might occur around you.

At the end of the ceremony, you will feel tired and still with the effects present in your mind and will feel like resting due to the mental work undergone during the whole day.

After the ceremony:

After the San Pedro ceremony, each participant will have an analysis and conclusion conversation with the Shaman about everything that happened during the ceremony and especially, on his/her general state, as well as on the interpretation of visions if he/she had any, in order to offer him/her a complete service and eliminate doubts regarding all of what he/she had the chance to experience during the process of the ceremony. This conversation will take place on the same day, after the ceremony.

IMPORTANT:

*Strict diets to participate in an Ayahuasca Ceremony. One to three days before the ceremony:

• Do not eat meat, fish or seafood of any kind
• No citrus fruit (lemon, grapefruit, orange, tangerine, pineapple, kiwi, passion fruit)
• No pills nor chemical medicine of any kind
• No smoking of any kind of tobacco
• No ingestion of any kind of alcohol
• No ingestion of any kind of drugs, being legal or not
• No sexual activity of any kind
• Women who have their periods, are pregnant or breast feeding SHOULD REFRAIN
• People with heart problems SHOULD REFRAIN.

The day of the ceremony:

• drink water and nothing else during the whole day, until the time of the SAN PEDRO CEREMONY

After the day of the ceremony:

• Do not consume any alcoholic beverages, at least one whole day after the ceremony
• Rest to regain energies lost during the previous night
• As far as food is concerned, you will be able to go back to your normal diet.

* In the case of a healing ceremony with the Master Medicinal Plant (More than two intakes), the diet will start 15 days before the ceremony.

What is included:

• Transportation if need be
• Ceremony Shaman
• Translator if need be

What is not included:

• Tips
• Water for the ceremony
• Other unmentioned expenses.

What you need to bring/carry:

• Warm jacket
• Rain poncho or waterproof jacket
• Some fruit such as bananas or apples for the afternoon, after the ceremony
• Trekking sneakers or shoes
• Flashlight

Do not bring cameras or valuable objects.

WARNING:

An overdose provokes dangerous arrythmia. Therefore, such a case must be considered as a medical emergency. The effects of a bad experience can be reduced with 20 mg of diacepam (Valium®) or be suspended with 50 mg of clorpromazina (Largactil®) or haloperidol (Haldol®).
 

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