In the spiritual world, you hear it again and again: Ayahuasca and other psychoactive substances are the key to profound insights, energetic cleansing, and spiritual growth. The narrative often goes like this: You take the plant, embark on an inner journey, experience light and shadow, receive visions – and return “awakened.”

We consider this view dangerous.

Not because we want to judge or condemn, but because we take a completely different stance from an energetic perspective. And this is precisely what we want to share with you here.

One of the most central statements we repeatedly emphasize is:

“I am with myself – and only with myself.”

For us, this is the core of true spiritual development. And this state, this “being with oneself,” is only possible with a clear, pure mind. Without outside influences. Without substances that change, manipulate, or even numb you—even if they’re labeled “sacred,” “medicinal,” or “natural.”

Because in the end, one truth remains: Everything that changes your consciousness also opens your energetic field. And therein lies the problem.

Psychoactive substances, especially ayahuasca, make your system permeable. They tear open gates. Gates that you can’t even consciously control.

And even if everything may seem beautiful to you in the moment of the experience—during this time, your energy field is open not only to light-filled beings, but also to all the parts/energies/entities, etc., that you don’t want there.

The energetic world isn’t just filled with light. There are also shadow beings, energetic parasites, foreign energies, and entities that like to nest wherever there’s an open field. The truth is: Many people don’t even notice this. They may feel “transformed” after a ceremony, but subconsciously, they suddenly find themselves dragging around energetic attachments that don’t belong to them.

Some of these don’t show up until weeks or months later. In the form of sudden anxiety, mood swings, exhaustion, disorientation, or an inner feeling of alienation. Others work more subtly, almost unnoticed – but they block the connection to your own, clear field.

For us, one thing is clear:

Spiritual growth doesn’t require drugs.

This doesn’t just include ayahuasca or LSD, by the way. Alcohol, weed, nicotine, coffee, and white sugar – all of these are consciousness-altering substances. They all interfere, albeit to varying degrees, with your energy system. They disrupt clarity. They separate you from yourself. They create dependencies. They create veils that prevent you from truly feeling yourself – and from experiencing life in its pure intensity.

Our path is different.

We walk it in clarity. In awareness. In pure presence. Without intoxication, without escape, without artificial gates.

Because only when you are completely with yourself can you truly recognize what is going on within you. Only then can you feel what truly wants to be seen and held. Only then are you connected – with yourself, with your higher self, with Source.

It’s not about shortcuts.

It’s not about experiencing quick breakthroughs.

It’s about being real. Awake. Clear. Every day a little deeper. Every day a little more real.

Yes, this path is sometimes slower. Yes, it can be more painful.

But it is honest. And it is safer. Because you stay with yourself.

You stay within yourself. And that’s where true healing happens. We live in a wonderful, complex, living body on a planet full of beauty, depth, and possibility. Why should we numb this gift? Why should we try to escape it – just to experience what is already within us?

The truth is: You don’t need a plant, a substance, or an external stimulus to remember who you are. Everything you’re looking for is already there. Within you. Still. Clear. Awake. And ready to be seen.

Our decision is clear:

We don’t believe in ayahuasca. Because we have faith—in our own pure consciousness.

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