I receive messages from worried friends and families about Christians who take ayahuasca and other hallucinogens. They wonder what can be done to get the Christian to stop taking such substances.
First, I would point out that many who claim to be Christian actually are not true born-again believers, rather members of a cult or religious institution that call themselves Christian, but are not. They need to get saved by believing on Jesus Christ.
Second, it is clearly and strictly forbidden in the Bible to engage in any occult activity as stated in many verses like Deuteronomy 18: 10-11, which reads:
10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.
11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Third, if you are born-again and you ignore God’s command to abstain from the occult, sorcery and the like, and decide to take ayahuasca or some other hallucinogen anyway, I challenge you to test the spirits you encounter according to 1 John 4:1-3:
1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
While on an hallucinogenic journey follow John’s advice and ask the spirits, entities, creatures, guides, demons or whatever you encounter if Jesus Christ is come in the flesh.
A warning though. The tested spirits may not react kindly to you.