With the advent of Covid-19 and subsequent social distancing guidelines, a number of retreat centers were forced to stop operations. And upon reopening, they made considerable changes to ensure they were taking the necessary precautions. The indigenous communities from which the ayahuasca tradition descends have been hit hard, with many of them living in remote areas with little access to the medical facilities necessary to safely fight the virus.
Read MoreAyahuasca is a hallucinogenic brew that has been used in traditional South American shamanistic rituals for hundreds of years but has been a popular hallucinogenic tool in the US since the ’70s. But what exactly is ayahuasca and is it legal?
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Read MoreThe thought was that it could be useful as a truth serum of sorts, and to test out this theory, reportedly the CIA would secretly drug everyday Americans and monitor the outcomes without the subjects knowing what they had taken and having no idea they were being watched.
Read MoreResearchers said, “It seems to us that the ingenuity of South American people discovered a broad-spectrum remedy, which hits the dead center of the discussed vicious circle of the malfunctioning molecular web involved in oxidative stress.”
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