Ayahuasca rituals can be profoundly beneficial – if they’re done properly | Oscar Rickett

The parents of a British teenager who died in Colombia are right to advise a serious approach to offset the danger of hallucinogenic practices

It wasn’t until relatively recently that the plant medicine known most commonly as ayahuasca attracted the interest of the western world. Used in the Amazon for centuries for its healing and spiritual purposes, as a way of connecting the person drinking the brew to the natural world and much more besides, ayahuasca has offered psychedelic enlightenment to those who visit the centres that have sprung up around South America.

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