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Sting's Ayahuasca Experience

1 decade 2 years 7 months 3 weeks ago

DP::: HAVE YOU ALREADY STARTED THE RAINFOREST FOUNDATION WHEN YOU HAD THE AYAHUASCA EXPERIENCE? OR WAS IT ONE OF THE INSPIRATIONS?

Sting::: It kinda happened around more or less the same time.

I went to the rainforest before that - before I had the ayahuasca experience.

And I suppose it has informed our work since then.

DP::: HOW DID YOU EVEN FIND OUT ABOUT IT?

Sting::: I think about 20 years ago.

I was in Brazil and I met somebody in Copacabana and Trudie and I - my wife - got in the back of his car and were mysteriously led out of Rio through the __ and into the jungle.

There's was a big church and they handed out this brew.

And Trudie and I looked at each other.

We saw everybody drinking it so we did.

I drank it in one...and then after the 4 minutes something coursing through every cell in my body - like an intelligence searching everything.

And I am wired to the entire cosmos!

I look at the ground and I see a crack in the ground and inside that crack I see a little flower growing...it's my brother - Everything!

And I realize for the first time this is the only genuine, religious experience I've ever had!

It is __ this direct access to the Godhead or whatever you think that is.

I have no idea what it is,but there is definitely an intelligence - a higher intelligence - at work in you during this experience.