After three years of silent madness … here it is: a raw post-ceremony dialogue between Hannes Schumacher and the Colombian shaman Juliet Goméz published with Kosmos: Thorns and Candy.
“Ayahuasca is the Liana of the Resurrected. It is the thread that catches us from all the dark and deep lakes where we have been for ages and ages.
Human beings cannot imagine where they have been, life after life.
There are thousands of jails, in different states of consciousness, where we have sown evil. We will never find it outside ourselves.”
“You have already seen and understood that medicine is not for the curious, but for all those who want to enter the university of higher spiritual studies, where nothing is written. Everything has to be felt on the skin.” …
“Yagé medicine is liquid God. Once it enters our body, it never leaves. It stays in the form of consciousness, in your blood, your thought, your energy, your heart, your word.”