Stepping Into the Fire – Full Ayahuasca Documentary
Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), psilocybin mushrooms, and mescaline-bearing peyote are the more well-known psychoactive drugs, but by no means the only ones. Stepping Into the Fire is a documentary about a much lesser-known option in this arena, Ayahuasca. The film follows two recent first-time takers of the drug, Bo and Rob. Bo’s a rather straight-edge lifetime professional diagnosed with a terminal case of cancer in his esophagus. Rob’s a former stock broker accustomed to hard work and hard living along with his wife Donna and son Declan.
After hearing about the potential transformative experience that can come from taking Ayahuasca, Bo and Rob become inspired. They’re tired of dealing with their lives in the way it is currently. So they each set out for a shaman in Peru who is known for administering the Ayahuasca experience.
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In a series of interviews both men explain about their medicine journeys. They cite how much more “in touch” with themselves and their environments they become after using the medicine. Bo cites that it’s not so much the taking of the medicine itself that heals you. The Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) – which is the active ingredient ingredient in the medicine – helps to heals you. But more importantly, it opens you up the plant life and all the benefits that they can bring you. Bo goes on to explain some of his experiences, thoughts and breakthroughs that were achieved during that first experience. He shares his psychedelic visuals of the moon and of facing long-forgotten love life regrets.
Turning a Negative into a Positive
Rob says that the experience allowed him to see the positives in even the most negative of life’s situations. He also realised that he was supposed to use his financial achievement to create a compound of sorts for others. A place where others could comfortably gain access to the same enlightenment that he stumbled into. In doing this, he has expended his entire life savings. Unfortunately though, it has created a sizable rift between him and his wife.
Attention then turns back to Bo, who has made a number of other changes in his life since trying ayahuasca. He has trimmed his diet to raw, unprocessed vegan cuisine that has resulted in a loss of around 90 pounds. This is just one of the numerous changes that both men go through over the course of this film. A film about what they deem the “teaching plant.”
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