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

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.

But in recent years, a boom in Western interest in psychedelics has started to reshape ayahuasca ceremonies and practise.

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 ...

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 ...

Consider it ayahuasca lite. “It’s not like any drug ... mostly to repair relationships between the human and spirit worlds, she said. Joyce has been offered traditional cacao while doing ...

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 ...