The Ten Ecstatic Commandments

א Know that everything is one and that nothing is truly separate.

ב Answer only to the infinite and you will not become oppressed by the finite.

ג Use caution when using the limitations of language to invoke the limitless.

ד Supplement Earth with Heaven by cycling between effort and effortless ecstasy.

ה Seek the wisdom of duality in order to transcend it.

ו Respect life.

ז Respect one another.

ח Do not become attached to the impermanent.

ט Do not distort what you know to be true.

י Be grateful for everything.

"You are flung into other levels of reality so visceral, so tangible, so all-enveloping, that they become your sense of the real world. And you suddenly realize that the relatively mundane realm of ordinary consciousness is a crude facsimile of what awaits in the psychotropic trance. This and other experiences in the presence of people taken by the spirit left me with visceral evidence that cultural beliefs can really make for different human beings, that there are other ways of knowing, other levels of intuition, that cannot necessarily be understood through the filter of Cartesian logic."

-Wade Davis on Ayahuasca