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.

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 ...

However, Rodgers also said he wanted to be sure he wasn't "sending the wrong message" about ayahuasca. "You're not standing up drinking, having this Jesus revival, slaying in the spirit.

"So we went to Costa Rica to do ayahuasca in a proper setting with indigenous people," Fox said, referring to the psychoactive tea, which is used as a spiritual medicine and can cause hallucinations.

A new wave of spiritual tourism is reshaping sacred ayahuasca practises in Peru. Amid the so-called ‘psychedelic renaissance’, who is benefiting from the boom? For centuries, ayahuasca has ...

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 ...

For centuries, ayahuasca has been a sacred plant for the Shipibo-Konibo peoples of the Peruvian Amazon. Part medicine, part spiritual ceremony, ayahuasca and other plant medicines are revered ...

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 ...