Ayahuasca is a psychedelic brew made from plants ... Traditionally used in spiritual and healing ceremonies among various indigenous tribes, it is said to induce introspective experiences and ...

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 ...

Banisteriopsis caapi wood, psychotria leaves and ayahuasca brew in wooden bowl. Walter Lopez, a traditional indigenous healer from Peru’s Shipibo tribe, remembers his first experience with the ...

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 ...

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