Ayahuasca dosage, mental state, and setting play a crucial role in its effects. Users frequently report hyper-visuality, symbolic imagery, and visits from spiritual beings during the experience.

A significant number come from the Bay Area. Ayahuasca grows in the Amazon and has been used by indigenous tribes for spiritual healing for thousands of years. The hallucinations induced by the ...

A new wave of spiritual tourism is reshaping sacred ayahuasca practises in Peru ...

Foreigners come looking for spiritual enlightenment or help with mental health problems like trauma, depression, and addiction. But not everyone is happy about Peru’s booming ayahuasca tourism ...

Their curriculum also drew on knowledge gleaned under the influence of ayahuasca, the psychotropic mother medicine central to the spiritual life of more than 70 indigenous tribes and mestizo ...

The Alter Rebbe, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of LIadi, explains in his book Torah Or that there are two ways in which the infinite ...

But in recent years, a boom in Western interest in psychedelics has started to reshape ayahuasca ceremonies and practise. Fuelled by celebrity endorsements, a new wave of tourists are heading to ...

Then I watched the experimental, mind-boggling movie Ash. I’ve never taken ayahuasca, but from the many, many accounts I’ve read of the hallucinogenic drug over the years, I’m pretty sure it ...

Machiguenga shamans take ayahuasca to gain healing power, hunting skill and new agricultural varieties from the spirit world. Native people throughout the Amazon cultivate numerous varieties of ...

Part medicine, part spiritual ceremony, ayahuasca and other plant medicines are revered practices. But in recent years, a boom in Western interest in psychedelics has started to reshape ayahuasca ...