The active ingredient in Ayahuasca is DMT, otherwise known as businessman's lunch (due to the quick high and comedown and relatively unnoticeable after effects). If you had the proper ayahausca then you should have basically had your whole world fall down around you and you would have been visited by alien beings and creatures made up of colours and letters and sounds who communicated to you in a language that you could not repeat and were lucky and surprised to understand.
DMT is the most powerfull hallucinogen known to man. The problem is that when taken orally - it doesn't work. Proper Ayahuasca brews contain not only the DMT active plants, but also another plant which contains a type of drug known as a Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitor, which allows the DMT to become active when ingested orally. This is the drug that causes the vomiting. MAOI's as they are called are also used in western medicine as anti depressents, but are used as a last resort due to their potentially dangerous diet interactions - hence the vomiting, and also the reason why most tribes who use ayahausca will fast before ingesting it. So in relation to this you should find out if you were sent just the dmt vine, cause it wont work without the MAO inhibitor plants as well.
Rick Strassman developed the theory that DMT is the drug that is released into the brain at the moment of death, and is responsible for the "near death experience", but this is still unproven and remains a theoretical hypothesis.
DMT is an interdimensional capsule, and it is impossible to undertake any kind of systematic magickal work while enjoying the effects of a full dose. You enter a level of reality that you have absolutely no control over, beyond your reaction to it (which from my experience is important), and most of the experiences myself and many others have had are centred around "question time" with various beings who either just lecture you without time to respond, or will incorporate as i mentioned the opportunity to ask questions.
Many people report meeting similar beings and situations, the "grey place" and the mechanical elves, the bee/butterfly, the stick men, and the information creatures (made up of letters numbers colours and sounds) being some of the more common.
Be careful, once you become apart of the world of ayahausca, it can be very difficult to maintain a normal existence of 9 to 5. When you have been examined and had the meaning of life reveled to you by a 100 foot high butterfly, it kind of makes conversations about whats on tv tonight seem a little superfluous!!!
Have fun!!!
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