Noting the vertiginous expansion of the ritual use of ayahuasca (a powerful psychoactive beverage from the Amazon which brings about altered states of consciousness) by populations other than indigenous, this research produces a cartography of these experiences within urban-ritual agencements in contemporary Brazil and dialogues with the experiences taking place in Paris and in the Netherlands. It has a phenomenological research method. This study’s tool case contains the concepts of ethno-psychoanalysis, psychoanalysis and philosophy. It is based on the material resulting from seventeen semi-structured interviews with people making urban-ritual use of ayahuasca. The detailed ethnography of the group Comuníndios (in Brazil and in the Netherlands) illustrates perfectly the landscape in motion of ayahuasqueiros agencements. The results show that the ayahuasca experience extends the ritual set and is incorporated in everyday life through an ensemble of teachings. The connection in between the ayahuasca use and daily life revealed important data: the narratives make it clear that these subjects don’t show neither a substance dependant way of being nor a sectarian way of life. Whereas drug addicts aim to forget “the self” and the “lived time”, the ayahuasqueiros on the other hand try to “remember”, to find and to develop themselves, to recall. The dimension of “self-remembering” (platonic reminiscence) in the dialectic memory-forgetting-remembering is very important in their approach. The nature of the contemporaneous desire of self-knowledge is discussed through the concepts of the unconscious and the “care of the self” (Foucault). The analysis of the processes of subjectification reveals that the ayahuasqueiros as well as their groups re-actualize an “anthropophagical” (Brazilian modernism) relation to the other, trying to introject from the other that which can be affirmative for themselves. These experiences are characteristic of present times since they are at the heart of the entwinement of the actual and the archaic.