Becoming an Excellent Helper at an Ayahuasca Ceremony
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In this book, you will read my tips and recommendations for becoming an excellent helper at an ayahuasca ceremony. Before becoming a helper, it is highly recommended that you experience ayahuasca-often called plant medicine-yourself, and then work through your experience with an integration coach or therapist who is also familiar with the medicine. Having experienced the medicine yourself provides an understanding that goes far beyond what you can learn from reading books and watching YouTube videos, and it gives you a better sense of what a guest may be going through during their journey. Many helpers have told me that it was their greatest honor to hold space for people as they went through their ayahuasca ceremonies. Being a helper is more than simply watching over guests. It requires patience, empathy, humility, awareness, and a genuine desire to be of service. This book is designed to help you become the kind of helper you would have wanted beside you.
T.C. Boyle
T.C. Boyle is an American novelist and short-story writer. Since the mid-1970s, he has published eighteen novels and twelve collections of short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1988 for his third novel, World’s End, and the Prix Médicis étranger (France) in 1995 for The Tortilla Curtain. His novel Drop City was a finalist for the 2003 National Book Award. Most recently, he has been the recipient of the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, the Henry David Thoreau Prize, and the Jonathan Swift Prize for satire. He is a Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Southern California and lives in Santa Barbara.
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