Was the universe revealed via the world's loveliest psychedelic, Ayahuasca?
One month ago, Kelly Slater revealed his date with the profound via a testimonial on Facebook and which we reported here.
Kelly was a guest of the Rythmia resort, “the ultimate spiritual vacation located in Costa Rica, in an all-inclusive luxury resort” where “93.26% of our guests report a life-changing miracle during their stay.”
“I got a miracle of information,” reported Kelly. “It opened up some sort of doorway in my future. It was otherworldly.”
Among the usual eco-resort activities, yoga, massage, hose-in-the-ass-enemas (hydrocolonic cleanses), Rythmia offers Ayahuasca ceremonies.
Now, a few of you in the comments picked it up, but being a psychedelics novice (fiddling with the chemistry of my brain scares the daylights out of me) I totally missed it.
Ayahuasca, as my research later revealed, might be the loveliest drug in the world. A ghastly tasting brew but potentially a gateway to the deepest spiritual enlightenment.
Now, let’s be frank.
Do you think it was the colonics, the yoga, the massage, the metaphysics classes, the farm-to-table organic food, the transformative breathing exercises or the Ayahuasca – famous for revealing spiritual secrets to its users – that opened the doorway to the cosmos for Kelly?
In this podcast (click here), listen to an interview with Dr Jeff McNairy, Rythmia’s head doctor as he takes you through the whole Ayahuasca game.
And click here for a blow-by-blow account of Ayahuasca ceremonies at Rythmia. Actual time travel and so on.
Here, relive Kelly’s testimonial for Rythmia.
Have you drunk the brew?
Did you travel back, or forward, in time?
Did God reach out to you?
Is the cosmos one fantastic aphrodisiacal frenzy?
Please say yes!
(Note: It ain’t completely clear, but framed off the World Anti-Doping Agency’s guidelines, it can be presume d thatAyahuasca is on the WSL’s banned substance list.)
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1/4 tab or 2 small shrooms and pumping waves. You won’t regret it.
Yes!
This complicated send up of Ayahuasca in the context of vapid American celebri-spiritualism pretty much sums up all my thoughts on Slater’s dabbling. In music video form no less:
https://g.co/kgs/25ZKxL
‘I went to Central America, did some yoga, stuck a hose up my arse and took hallucinogens and then found god.’
How mainstream cliche can you get? So as GOAT passes through middle age has he decided to live his mid 20s again? So after living out his backpacker fantasy will he join #vanlife? Buy a longboard? Maybe, dare I say it, grow a beard? Maybe possibly drink a beer and chill the fuck out for once in his life?
Get on the DMT Dell.
Smoke it. Best half hour of your life.
Why not eat and go for 12!
too hard for the working man.
I retreat to the bush at specific times of the year to source the ingredient for my yearly supply of dmt.
It is a sacred molecule.
aye
I used to smoke daily, but I am also very scared of hallucinogens and have never done them, my opinion of them is that I liken it to opening a book to the last page and never enjoying the journey.
You have an opinion on something you have never tried and are scared of? Please tell me more of your wisdoms!
You only have yourself to be afraid of in this case, nothing else.
I would always go in scared of my own mind and would most definitely have a bad time. On the other hand my abilities in the water have come an incredible way. I accidentally against my will got voted sports captain in high school and could not be truant like my friends on sports day, not only would I be last in every race, second last would be out grabbing his towel when I touched the wall.
I an also scared of waves over waist high , and swells over 12 seconds, so should I never try or maybe push the personal boundaries , in search of new altered states?
I did a bunch of LSD in the late 80s and that shit can open up things that you could not previously comprehend. It’s important to have a “guide” and be in a safe place for the duration of the trip. I honestly think that acid changed me for the better.
possibly the greatest performance enhancing drug ever , LSD was used for contest surfing , paddling out to outside reefs tripping , and the surfing for 8 hrs….ah the self discovery and pushing limits of the mind body and soul , or was it just our collective imaginations?
Meth too, Santa Cruz big-wavers and so on.
I also have used LSD on a number of occasions and while it has provided a few good stories over the years, I don’t think it provided any kind of self improvement benefits whatsoever. Indeed the same has held true for me with every drug I’ve ever used, hallucinogenic or otherwise. Not detracting from your experience Active, but drugs seem to me to be fun, but fake. There’s no short cuts to skill development, emotional and psychological growth, or to an understanding of the world.
I’m not condoning a bunch of drug use but LSD definitely took away a bunch of anger that I was carrying. I have heard of people with alcoholism and depression having good results as well. I have also met a few people that lost their shit and never fully came back so it is a very risky thing to do.
Wait, so Slater isn’t God?
No just sent by God.
you suggesting God would believe in chemtrails? Pfft.
I was under the impression LAIRD was..
all correct. It’s the mystery of faith mate..the Father, the Son & the Holy Hamilton
I hope that Kelly walks through that doorway in his future and it hits him on the arse as he steps through…
Kelly was finally awarded his Max Well Smart Decoder Ring, affectionately known as the Agent 86’d Ring of ah-why-ya-ask-a.
The doorway to the otherworldly. Kelly being, well, ya know, Kelly, realized both who he is and who he will become. Kelly got information that momentarily crushed his self-identity. Kelly is not an alien. No. Kelly found out he will become Earth’s Spokesperson as our first interstellar alien. He quietly thought said to his self, I Shall Troll……..THE UNIVERSE!
Kelly’s discovery of God…
Rythmia: hey, Kelly, come down to our resort. You will have access to some good shit that can make you believe you’re having a transcendental experience…
KS: can you prove Chemtrails?
Rythmia: what? no…
KS: I’m skeptical. No way I’ll meet God…
Laird: you called?
Rythmia: go away, Laird… listen, we’re willing to pay you fo…
KS: I got a miracle of information.
The WSL has a banned substance list? How are there this many competitors?
Kelly would rather be fired than quit? We should have seen the writing on the walls of OuterKnown. He schroff’d it and doubled down!
I’m pretty skeptical of any WSL controlled substance policy since I have never heard of any enforcement or treatment. The WSL is a public relations firm that uses surfing for marketing, the well being of the surfers is not on the top of the list.
The sole purpose of the WSL is maximising tube tim …. ah profit?
Should the WSL be concerned with a surfer’s behaviour or well-being?
Ha! Since when have WSL Judges been concerned about scores?!?!
Ask Andy Irons.
Yes. The surfers are contracted employees of the organisation. The WSL has both a legal and ethical duty of care.
Wait, how cool do you think the guys on tour are? Spoiler alert: NOT THAT COOL
Who said drugs were cool?
Keith Richards
Kelly’s got all the answers – just ask him.