1/8 Ayahuasca Documentary

See Santo Daime - Brasil

Its not uncommon in the meso-american or African traditions to offer a blood or animal sacrifice in the shamanic tradition.

Considering the infinite complexity of Ayahuasca, why all the full about a dead javelina? If hunted in the forest, it would have been brought down with arrows, or a gun, just as it was in the film. Further, Ayahuasca isn't DMT, which is only one of many components. The whole is much greater than the sum of the parts. It's Ayahuasca. You can't say much more than that, really, unless you really know it, in which case normally you wouldn't do so in this forum.

lol that bow was a long nine...

That is pretty cruel.. poor baby pig

Why can't they contact the spiritual world without killing an animal?

Shouldn't the shamman respect LIFE in the first place?

The Shaman respects life, and death. Both are an integral part of the experience of existence. For a person who has experienced his own death, and has conversed with death itself, killing a pig probably means something very different to the Shaman than it does to you.

i think the pig killing was unnessesary unless you plan on contacting false demon gods. maby not tho i never tried dmt but am planing on it soon

Be as it may, one should still respect life. Otherwise this brings bad karma. If you are going to kill another creature(in this case that little piggy) at least do it fast, and don't make him suffer by turtoring it with lances and spears until he dies in pain..
Don't get me wrong, I respect the Shamans and I like the DMT documentary, just don't agree with the animal sacrifice.

I don't agree with the animal sacrifice. It's just cruel.