As dark falls, Taita Isaías Muñoz Macanilla, a traditional doctor and an Indigenous activist from Putumayo, cleanses a tree-fringed outdoor clearing and the participants seated in a circle in ...

This is the most non-Black thing I’ve ever done. I said this to myself in the restroom as I experienced one of many purges during my 4-day ayahuasca ceremony. I had traveled more than 5,000 miles from ...

Self-proclaimed shamans are increasingly promoting ayahuasca and similar psychedelics despite lacking the cultural lineage or ...

In one ayahuasca ceremony, he recalled, he learned of darkness in a past life. “Ayahuasca showed me that my dream represented a real event from another timeline,” he wrote. “Crashing my vehicle and ...