What the Indigenous Medicine, Ayahuasca, Has Taught Me About Human Nature
It’s filled me with so much hope.
If you’ve ever eaten a magic mushroom, taken LSD, or been under the influence of another psychedelic, you know how they can change your mind. And not just because they make you experience wild hallucinations.
An amazing and mysterious property of psychedelics is that they can have lasting impacts. Often, those impacts are powerfully positive.
Earlier this year, I traveled to Peru for a seven-day retreat during which I participated in three ayahuasca ceremonies. These ceremonies were ritualized and led by two Shipibo healers with a combined 40 years of experience. Facilitators were close by in case anyone’s experience went sideways.
If you’d like to read a description of what these ceremonies are like, I’ve written about that here:
In the rest of this article, I’m going to discuss the insight ayahuasca gave me into the nature of humanity.
