In other words, how much is priming responsible for the types of experience one has under the influence of Ayahuasca?
A good example is the Good Friday Experiment at Harvard, in which they gave psilocybin to some people and took them to church, then quite a few of them had “religious experiences”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_Chapel_Experiment#Expe...
An empty chapel is probably an ideal place to facilitate that type of experience regardless of religious affiliation. Good lighting, acoustics, clean, ornate glass windows, no outstanding obligations from your life manifesting themself in the space.
This article might be particularly interesting to you: "The Impact of Set and Setting on Religious Experience in Nature" - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272579916_The_Impac...
Yes. I've never participated in an ayahuasca ceremony outside of the US, and I was very intimately in touch with Pachamama.
Too, simply drinking the brew likely wouldn't be enough to trigger a mystical experience. An experienced shaman is crucial for allowing such an event to arise.
They can be very beautiful [1].
They have some similarities with Google's deep dream hallucinations.
[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_McKenna#Machine_elve...