Aubrey Marcus Podcast AMP #110 Steve Shubin on Ayahuasca
Aug 2, 2017
Steve Shubin, former SWAT officer turned entrepreneur, recounts wild and transformative plant medicine ceremonies with traditional healers. He shares vivid ayahuasca visions, intense purging and humiliation, and surreal wachuma and vilca journeys. Short, raw stories about confronting childhood shame, losing control, and the tough growth that followed.
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Rookie Surrender Before Drinking Ayahuasca
- Steve Shubin arrived late to an ayahuasca ceremony and announced his intention to fully surrender to the medicine.
- He drank the cup last of 16, watched others purge intensely, then began vivid visualizations and nausea before his own purge.
Follow Ceremony Protocols Before Ayahuasca
- Prepare ceremonially: follow dietary regimens and ritual protocols before ayahuasca to maximize safety and depth.
- Steve emphasizes ceremony, rattles, feathers, and intention-setting as critical components of an effective retreat.
Ayahuasca Delivers Personalized Medicine
- Steve realized Mother Ayahuasca gives each person what they uniquely need, not a generic truth serum.
- In the same ceremony 16 participants drank identical brew yet had dramatically different, tailored experiences.