What The Psychedelic Drug Ayahuasca Showed Me About My Life • Discoverology

What The Psychedelic Drug Ayahuasca Showed Me About My Life

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For four consecutive nights, a group of 78 of us here at a retreat center in Costa Rica have been drinking a foul-tasting, molasses-like tea containing ayahuasca, a plant concoction that contains the natural hallucinogen known as DMT.

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