The Ayahuasca Brouhaha
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An account of a relatively recent experience of the Amazonian psychedelic/entheogen/ecodelic ayahuasca, also known in Colombia as yagé. In this podcast, I provide a basic introduction to what ayahuasca is, for those to whom it's new; I try my best to recount the visions it brought to me; to make sense of how to think of them; and to some small extent to make sense of it in its European and South American contexts. I come clean that I don't think one is experiencing a simple hallucination, but that something is superintending the trip; while leaving open the possibility I'm wrong about that. And I admit I failed to convey things in the podcast. Enjoy.
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