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 ...

Ayahuasca, however, seems to be having a positive ... and I noticed how maybe my mother also felt a lot of shame, and I noticed there maybe was a dynamic whereby we were sharing it somehow ...

Then Poyer heard NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers on a podcast describing the benefits he received from drinking ayahuasca ... At first, he says, his mom thought he'd "gone off the deep end." ...