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10 Things I Wish I’d Known Before Drinking Ayahuasca

By Jon Waterlow

It’s impossible to be truly prepared for a psychedelic which hauls you through the doors of perception and unceremoniously throws your sense of self and reality off the edge of the world.

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My Ayahuasca Trip

I drank ayahuasca in 1999, in a ceremony led by two scholars with expertise in ayahuasca. What follows is an edited version of what I wrote about the experience in my 2003 book Rational Mysticism.

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John Horgan
2014
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The World's First-Ever Acid Trip Actually Kinda Sucked

Acid was at the start of its own long strange trip: from research chemical to psychiatric wonder drug, brainwashing tool to agent of ego-dissolution, cosmic insight and cultural revolution.

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Mike Jay
2018
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Ancient People May Have Created Cave Art While Hallucinating

Stone age people may have deliberately ventured into oxygen-depleted caves to paint while having out-of-body experiences and hallucinations, according to a new study.

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Yasemin Saplakoglu
2021
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Tripping on Iboga

Over the last decades, iboga has developed a cult following in the United States and in Europe, where it is known as ibogaine. In the West, the psychedelic is being promoted as a potential one-shot cure for treating addiction to heroin and other drugs.

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Daniel Pinchbeck
1999
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Beyond Death: The Science of the Afterlife

This question is more than a mind-bender. For thousands of years, certain people have claimed to have actually visited the place that, Saint Paul promised, “no eye has seen … and no human mind has conceived,” and their stories very often follow the same narrative arc.

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Lisa Miller
2014
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Hallucinatory Experience & Religion Formation

Shawn Harte considers how hallucination might be mistaken for the supernatural.

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Shawn Harte
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The Brutal Mirror: What the Psychedelic Drug Ayahuasca Showed Me About My Life.

What the psychedelic drug ayahuasca showed me about my life.

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Sean Illing
2019
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Near-Death Experiences and DMT

A neurological explanation of NDEs remains elusive.

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Steve Taylor
2018
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Does DMT Model the Near-Death Experience?

Despite parallels, there are profound differences between DMT and NDEs.

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Scott A. McGreal
2018
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DMT, Aliens, and Reality—Part 1

Psychedelic drug phenomena do not justify radical new views of reality.

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Scott A. McGreal
2012
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