Name: Ari's Ayahuasca Revelation
Uploaded: 2021-07-22T18:01:34.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Ari's Ayahuasca Revelation' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-07-22. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Ari's Ayahuasca Revelation' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-07-22. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan Experience.
- So they lead you from a hut that you're staying,
down, they stop, they go, stop, listen,
to the insects in the river.
He goes, that's gonna be amplified soon.
And you're like, okay.
He comes and they, the woman, the shaman,
wears this headdress and she beats you with these leaves
and rubs this, says whatever chant she says
and rubs this stone all over you.
Gives you the ayahuasca, tastes like fucking ass.
Tastes like whatever's left in this ashtray.
And you just drink it down.
They say, your partner, she's on the other side of the fire,
you're on this side of the fire, you don't talk.
He's having his trip, you're having your trip, that's it.
You might throw up, 'cause that is,
the ayahuasca doesn't make a trip.
The ayahuasca takes everything out of you.
And then the chacruna was the--
- Oh, it's a different drug.
- Yeah.
- The ayahuasca clears you unless a chacruna, in this case,
do it.
They showed me where the ayahuasca came from,
planted 80 years before they planted it.
So drank it, I'm laying there on a mat,
just like a thin, thin mat next to this fire,
in this like hut hut.
And I'm a bit worried about like anacondas and jaguars and stuff.
But like, so she says, the shaman says, I'm your mother here, the ayahuasca,
the root is your grandmother.
My son, who's training to be a shaman, he is your brother.
And the fire is your ancestors.
So I drank it.
He said, stare at the fire for about five minutes, then go lay down.
My partner started throwing up, 10 minutes in, going to the edge.
There's two entrances to the thing, just throwing up.
I just wasn't coming, it wasn't coming.
A little bit of like a light cap and a stem mushroom feel for about, I don't
know, an hour and a half or so.
And then I started getting nauseous, but I'm trying to choke it down like, don't,
don't.
And then it hit me like, oh, I think I'm supposed to like, supposed to throw up.
So I kind of like pitch black, I mean, away from the fire, went to the edge.
And then like, you know how you can like sort of like, and then barked like a
little bit and then just unloaded.
I was afraid it would be like retching and retching.
It wasn't that, just like unloaded.
And then he's right there, the shaman's like trainee son with a bowl of water.
He goes, swish around, don't drink it.
And he goes, are you having visions?
Dude, I don't know how he was.
I don't know how he was communicating to be honest, because he didn't, I didn't,
I barely speak Spanish and he barely speaks Spanish.
But he.
Enough.
I guess.
I was like, he was like, are you having visions?
And I was like, yeah, they're more of like kind of mental, like mental
mushrooms, mental.
And he goes, okay, go back, be strong.
I don't know how he was conveying this to me.
But he was like, okay, go be strong, go lay down there and like, you have to
like, be strong.
So then it just opened up.
So more than an hour and a half in?
More than an hour and a half in.
Of a seven hour trip.
Wow.
Yeah, it took a while.
Partner was going immediately.
But like, uh, I see these like fractals and like, and geometric shapes and
occasional like splashes of, and this is the thatch roof of the hut, right?
So nothing's there.
And then I started seeing these like, orbs kind of like going up into the fractals.
And then the more I look forward and back, I'm on my back, but the more I look
forward, backwards, side to side, there's just hundreds or thousands of these,
these orbs, these small orbs going up into the fractals and just sort of like
playing with each other.
These orbs, they were kind of like had a life to them.
So like, and then at some point from me comes this orb and sort of like goes up.
And then I started examining what the orbs are.
So, look, I don't know.
I don't know about any of this stuff.
But this is just what it gave me.
I don't know.
You know, same as mushrooms.
I don't know if it's just scientific or if it's like another realm, whatever.
Right.
The orbs were, I call it when you pure something, when you pure it.
To me, they were moments of pure artistic expression.
You ever have a, like a set or a roll where you're like, I hit every fucking
move.
You get in the zone.
In the zone, sure.
You pureed it.
You know, in golf, Jamie, you might know, it's like when you fucking hit one
and you're
just like fucking like up.
But you're like, I can't hit the green from here.
You do see it go perfectly and bounce.
And it's just a pure moment of artistic expression.
And generally, when I see that, it makes me cry.
When I listen to Nevermind, I start, I tear up.
You know, you ever hear that album where you're like, oh, this is, they nailed
it.
They nailed it.
They nailed it.
Cigar de Familia in Barcelona, this church that was, it's being built still.
It was a 200-year plan to build the perfect church.
St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
Okay.
And you see it.
Stunning.
And I went in there.
I just, I mean, I started weeping.
Start crying.
Yeah.
It's like, I don't know.
It's just like, it's overwhelmingly perfect.
It's art.
Yeah.
Other moments, I was at the, it didn't have to be big moments.
It could be small moments.
I was at the Haunted Ride at Disney back in L.A.
And I was with some chick and I was like, some guy was like, oh, right this way,
sir.
You know, and like, he's playing the role, whatever.
And then like, he left to go greet the next like, car as we were slowly moving
forward.
And then I was like, oh, that guy was creepy, right?
And then he was back on me, just going, oh, what did you say?
Just like, frightened me.
And I'm like, that guy nailed it.
In that moment, we were both fucking jumped.
He fucking nailed it.
Right.
He pured it.
And what you want in those moments, you did it, right?
You made this thing and that's the orb.
And what you want is to make it for sure.
But what you also want is some recognition.
You want someone to say, like, if you hit that golf shot, you look around, like
if you're playing by yourself.
And somebody on the next, he's like, dude, fucking nice one.
You're like, yes, thank you.
You saw it.
You saw it.
Right.
And so, there's been two things I've gotten that way.
Two things that I've had that I'm like, I cured it.
One was that storytelling show.
This is not happening.
I just think it was like, I mean, I don't want to talk about myself, but it was
cool.
You nailed it.
It was a way for other comics to show themselves.
No, you did.
I can express it for you.
You did an amazing thing.
And those opening sequences where you'd have, like, these animated fight scenes
and shit, they were awesome.
They were cool.
They were wild.
It just made it cool and fun to watch.
And let people go, hey, we're not going to censor you.
Right.
We want you to do your thing.
Your fucking strip club in the woods story is like these moments that I'm also
allowing other people to, like.
So, I figured out my orbs, what I do is make stuff myself and then also give a
chance for other people to make theirs.
It's one of my things I like making.
You have the same thing.
We like having other people make their things.
It's one of your art forms is allowing other people to make their art.
Another one was this last hour I did, the Jew hour.
It was good.
It was really fucking, it was good.
And so, it had bothered me at the time.
I wasn't able to, like, make it as special.
But I was able in that moment to go, but I made it.
It was good.
You know, I made a really fucking, really mindful, kind of perfect thing.
And yeah, maybe whatever happened, like, I wasn't able to make, like, millions
of people saw it.
But, like, thousands of people saw it.
Maybe 150,000 people saw it live, you know.
But, like, I made it.
And I cried hard for that, for this not happening.
Not so much that, like, for the loss, but for, like, for, like, when I was able
to step back and go, like, it's done now.
I made it.
And it hit me, like, oh, damn, dude, that was fucking good.
And I just kind of said goodbye to it.
And that orb went up and played for eternity.
Every time you do something, like, artistically pure like that and nail it, you
pure it, those things are up there in the heavens, in the whatever.
They're playing with each other.
All the forms, the guy at Disney, the guy who made the Basilica, the fucking
Kurt Cobain, never mind, not Kurt Cobain, never mind, is up there playing with
each other.
Enjoying each other's company forever.
And I saw myself in 50 years dead and the orbs are still playing.
And I'm decaying and the orbs are still playing.
They'll be there forever.
And I was able to sort of, like, put that behind me and say, I'll move on to my
next thing.
Because what I want to do is I want to make things.
Right?
I want to make another orb.
And that's kind of all I want to do now is just make another thing.
And I won't always get there.
But even if you fail, even if you're like, ah, that set was so, so, you know,
it's getting you closer to a fucking perfect set.
And sometimes it's just a 15-minute set at the fucking whatever club, you know,
governors or some shit where it's like, oh, I fucking nailed it.
Sometimes it's a 10-minute pop-in and you're like, that earthquake thing that I
saw at the ha-ha, that was one.
Because there was some kid, some young one-year comic watching that going like,
oh, my God.
He fucking pured it in that moment.
Yeah.
But you wanted someone to fucking notice it once in a while.
You just, you do.
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