Four of Nine Cups

ChimX · 10-15-09, 20:59

10/10/09
21:30 - 04:30
Cuiaba, Brazil

I never wanted to eat again but we're only mortal. La Purga drained rivers between dusk and dawn and I was clean & light. I turned down a banana from a smiling ‘fiscal’, and shoved ashes into the remains of the bonfire with my heel. Earlier, they’d been reflecting off liquid bodies, mostly jewel studded amphibians, swaying in unison to pounding drums. Now, quiet and still, blanket covered mounds filtered the dreams of 43 collapsed newts and toads.

The night had begun in a 50ml bamboo chalice. Lemon faces and giggles infect the ring as the cup runs its orbit. Filled twice then passed to the left, the thick sleeping syrup awakens in my mouth and tunnels down the back of my throat. Alive and searching, it races through me full of purpose and intent. His words make no sense, but the old brown man in feathers smiles and I smile back. He pours, speaks and smiles…moves to the left and starts again.

I throw a towel over my head, kneel down and breathe. Full of life, the jungle breathes too. Symphonies of night birds and insects I’ll never know surround our clearing and begin to sing. The giggling has stopped and the fire is lit. The old brown man pours for himself, speaks to himself and smiles to himself. He produces a drum and begins to hum. I fall asleep trying to remember where I know the song from.

I come to on the crest of a wave with a twig girl on my left laughing backwards. I want to join in but backward scares me. To my right a shirtless man in glasses heaves black hordes of skittering beetles onto the jungle floor. Between gasps he speaks of sex and death. “Oh fuck, we’re all gonna’ die!” His heaves turn dry and the beetles cease. In exasperation and exhaustion he leans back and sighs,”We’re dead.” I find this terribly funny and join twig girl laughing backwards.

I close my eyes to another realm and try hard to catch my breath. It’s raining jewels and flower petals, millions, billions, trillions. Figures dance behind clouds of falling gems, flashes of porcelain smiles and faces swoop in and dash away at impossible speeds. Liquid ivory and ceramic angels reel as infinite bells deafen me. Beauty unbearable, I turn my head and moan. I force my eyes open and try to shake away the visions but every blink swallows me for another year. I’m covered in tears and dripping in sweat. I hold my eyes open with fingers and thumbs.

I stare intently into the bonfire and rock back and forth. My hearing gradually returns and I can almost hear twig girl again. Back on the ground safe and sound, the wave subsides. The dead man on my right stares up at the stars. All is calm. The old brown man in feathers stands before me and I look up. He’s pushing the bamboo chalice into my hands. I want to wave it away but he speaks. His voice is the silver deafening bells of the ceramic angels. “Come back to me.” She beckons. “You need to see this.”

I drink deep. I ask for another and drink again. Twig girl laughs and the old man smiles. I close my eyes and wait.

Shroomette · 10-15-09, 21:13

What a beautiful trip report and journey you experienced. Thank you so much for sharing such an inspiritional trip with us.

mydarling · 10-15-09, 21:18

were you drinking ayahuasca?

"It’s raining jewels and flower petals, millions, billions, trillions"... that sounds lovely

Shroomette · 10-15-09, 21:24

Quote:

Originally Posted by mydarling

were you drinking ayahuasca?

"It’s raining jewels and flower petals, millions, billions, trillions"... that sounds lovely

Yes La Purga is Ayahuasca.

mydarling · 10-15-09, 21:36

thanks 'ette, didn't know that term. i could just tell by the trip report... some day i will grow the balls to drink some aya....

thanks for sharing chimx, and nice first post! welcome to topia!

Dr.Hallucination. · 10-15-09, 23:57

Hello ChimX and Welcome to Mycotopia.That was a very nice read,I really enjoyed reading that,Thank You for sharing it.

Om shanti · 10-16-09, 05:02

Very poetic and graphic report!!

And welcome.

ChimX · 10-16-09, 10:36

Thanx for all the nice comments. Spiritual Journeys are always extremely intense and intimate and deciding whether or not to post this was a really tough decision. My mouse must have hovered over the submit button for half an hour. I ended the report on the 4th cup of nine in case it was incomprehensible or simply boring anyone to tears. I'm still trying to digest a lot of it myself.

Shroomettte, Mydarling, Dr.H, & Om Shanti,
Beijos & Abracos from Brazil

Calaquendi · 10-16-09, 10:52

Very Very impressive...fantastic report!

raveneye · 10-16-09, 14:35

Dynamite! Love to hear more.
I can see the stuff you are describing.
Very textural.
Absolutely beautiful.
Thanks for hitting the submit button..

Achtwan · 10-16-09, 18:05

OH WORD!
YES SIR!
VIVA LAPURGA!!!!

nice one bro,ill rep you for that if i can.
the vine was my first proper plant teacher that i developed a relationship
with.

yes!!

weeeeeee · 10-16-09, 18:12

very very nice report and read thank you

bbd2 · 10-16-09, 21:11

wow, props
thanks for posting

9 cups, thats many
most i ever did was three rounds
i was wiped clean

copelandiaKidd · 10-16-09, 23:57

I second that, Thank you so much for submitting that! I could see it through your eyes it was described so very beautifully!!!! I will always look fore ward to hearing what you have to say after that report!!!!!

Peace Brother and may you enjoy your stay at the Topia!!!!!!!!!

Frequency · 10-17-09, 02:42

Breathtaking post!

Thank you very much for sharing. I can not imagine 9 cups! Quite a valiant effort.

Please continue the journey...

mystic · 10-29-09, 18:45

WOW I just found this jewel while reading and have to admit I instantly thought wow a tarot card experience in the storming the gates section. Very nice report ChimX. I hope there is more to come. Being in a ceremony like the one you describe sounds beautiful unto its self. The jungle around you I am sure was magical.

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10-15-09, 20:59	#1 (permalink)
ChimX Spiritual Forager Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 34	Four of Nine Cups 10/10/09 21:30 - 04:30 Cuiaba, Brazil I never wanted to eat again but we're only mortal. La Purga drained rivers between dusk and dawn and I was clean & light. I turned down a banana from a smiling ‘fiscal’, and shoved ashes into the remains of the bonfire with my heel. Earlier, they’d been reflecting off liquid bodies, mostly jewel studded amphibians, swaying in unison to pounding drums. Now, quiet and still, blanket covered mounds filtered the dreams of 43 collapsed newts and toads. The night had begun in a 50ml bamboo chalice. Lemon faces and giggles infect the ring as the cup runs its orbit. Filled twice then passed to the left, the thick sleeping syrup awakens in my mouth and tunnels down the back of my throat. Alive and searching, it races through me full of purpose and intent. His words make no sense, but the old brown man in feathers smiles and I smile back. He pours, speaks and smiles…moves to the left and starts again. I throw a towel over my head, kneel down and breathe. Full of life, the jungle breathes too. Symphonies of night birds and insects I’ll never know surround our clearing and begin to sing. The giggling has stopped and the fire is lit. The old brown man pours for himself, speaks to himself and smiles to himself. He produces a drum and begins to hum. I fall asleep trying to remember where I know the song from. I come to on the crest of a wave with a twig girl on my left laughing backwards. I want to join in but backward scares me. To my right a shirtless man in glasses heaves black hordes of skittering beetles onto the jungle floor. Between gasps he speaks of sex and death. “Oh fuck, we’re all gonna’ die!” His heaves turn dry and the beetles cease. In exasperation and exhaustion he leans back and sighs,”We’re dead.” I find this terribly funny and join twig girl laughing backwards. I close my eyes to another realm and try hard to catch my breath. It’s raining jewels and flower petals, millions, billions, trillions. Figures dance behind clouds of falling gems, flashes of porcelain smiles and faces swoop in and dash away at impossible speeds. Liquid ivory and ceramic angels reel as infinite bells deafen me. Beauty unbearable, I turn my head and moan. I force my eyes open and try to shake away the visions but every blink swallows me for another year. I’m covered in tears and dripping in sweat. I hold my eyes open with fingers and thumbs. I stare intently into the bonfire and rock back and forth. My hearing gradually returns and I can almost hear twig girl again. Back on the ground safe and sound, the wave subsides. The dead man on my right stares up at the stars. All is calm. The old brown man in feathers stands before me and I look up. He’s pushing the bamboo chalice into my hands. I want to wave it away but he speaks. His voice is the silver deafening bells of the ceramic angels. “Come back to me.” She beckons. “You need to see this.” I drink deep. I ask for another and drink again. Twig girl laughs and the old man smiles. I close my eyes and wait. __________________ At last you know what the ineffable is and what ecstasy means. - R. Gordon Wasson

10-15-09, 21:13	#2 (permalink)
Shroomette Fairy Princess Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 2,939	What a beautiful trip report and journey you experienced. Thank you so much for sharing such an inspiritional trip with us. __________________ "If I'm not seen in this world.I'm lost in my own lil world"!!!

10-15-09, 21:18	#3 (permalink)
mydarling Modtastic Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 2,034	were you drinking ayahuasca? "It’s raining jewels and flower petals, millions, billions, trillions"... that sounds lovely __________________ tonight your ghost will ask my ghost, who put these bodies between us?

10-15-09, 21:36	#5 (permalink)
mydarling Modtastic Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 2,034	thanks 'ette, didn't know that term. i could just tell by the trip report... some day i will grow the balls to drink some aya.... thanks for sharing chimx, and nice first post! welcome to topia! __________________ tonight your ghost will ask my ghost, who put these bodies between us?

10-15-09, 23:57	#6 (permalink)
Dr.Hallucination. Chasing the Rabbit. Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 1,826	Hello ChimX and Welcome to Mycotopia.That was a very nice read,I really enjoyed reading that,Thank You for sharing it. __________________ The man who walk's through the door on the wall,Will never be quite the same,As the man who went out.

10-16-09, 05:02	#7 (permalink)
Om shanti S.W.I.M. in H.POO Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 1,300	Very poetic and graphic report!! And welcome. __________________ The most important thing is to find out what is the most important thing.-S. Suzuki

10-16-09, 10:36	#8 (permalink)
ChimX Spiritual Forager Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 34	Thanx for all the nice comments. Spiritual Journeys are always extremely intense and intimate and deciding whether or not to post this was a really tough decision. My mouse must have hovered over the submit button for half an hour. I ended the report on the 4th cup of nine in case it was incomprehensible or simply boring anyone to tears. I'm still trying to digest a lot of it myself. Shroomettte, Mydarling, Dr.H, & Om Shanti, Beijos & Abracos from Brazil __________________ At last you know what the ineffable is and what ecstasy means. - R. Gordon Wasson

10-16-09, 10:52	#9 (permalink)
Calaquendi Firstborn Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 407	Very Very impressive...fantastic report! __________________ " I am You and what I see is Me..."

10-16-09, 14:35	#10 (permalink)
raveneye Mycophage Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 156	Dynamite! Love to hear more. I can see the stuff you are describing. Very textural. Absolutely beautiful. Thanks for hitting the submit button..

10-16-09, 18:05	#11 (permalink)
Achtwan Sovereign Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 39	VIVA LA PURGA!!! OH WORD! YES SIR! VIVA LAPURGA!!!! nice one bro,ill rep you for that if i can. the vine was my first proper plant teacher that i developed a relationship with. yes!! __________________ " Raise your fears and cast them all away "

10-16-09, 18:12	#12 (permalink)
weeeeeee humanoid Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 1,851	very very nice report and read thank you __________________ -p.l.u.r

10-16-09, 21:11	#13 (permalink)
bbd2 Mycotopiate Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 513	wow, props thanks for posting 9 cups, thats many most i ever did was three rounds i was wiped clean

10-16-09, 23:57	#14 (permalink)
copelandiaKidd Void Of Boundaries Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 579	WELCOME I second that, Thank you so much for submitting that! I could see it through your eyes it was described so very beautifully!!!! I will always look fore ward to hearing what you have to say after that report!!!!! Peace Brother and may you enjoy your stay at the Topia!!!!!!!!! __________________ "LEARN THE RULES SO YOU CAN BREAK THEM PROPERLY" -The Dali lama "i don't care if it eats my cat, as long as the damn thing fruits"~ prism

10-17-09, 02:42	#15 (permalink)
Frequency Code Demon Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 728	Breathtaking post! Thank you very much for sharing. I can not imagine 9 cups! Quite a valiant effort. Please continue the journey... __________________ Programmer + Psychonaut = Frequency

10-29-09, 18:45	#16 (permalink)
mystic ~Mystical Mama~ Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 1,484	WOW I just found this jewel while reading and have to admit I instantly thought wow a tarot card experience in the storming the gates section. Very nice report ChimX. I hope there is more to come. Being in a ceremony like the one you describe sounds beautiful unto its self. The jungle around you I am sure was magical. __________________ The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.

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