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Ayahuasca Can Help Us Heal Deep Wounds of Global History

Ayahuasca healing can be about more than just individual health. Economist Erika Oblak suggests how ayahuasca can open an ecological awareness towards a better and fairer world.

By Erika Oblak

-March 10, 2019

What Does Ayahuasca Have To Do with Ancestors and the Dead?

Ayahuasca healing can be about more than just individual health. Economist Erika Oblak suggests how ayahuasca can open an ecological awareness towards a better and fairer world.

By Erika Oblak

-March 10, 2019

Integrating Ayahuasca Experiences Requires an Integrated Approach

Why do so many people seek to have an ayahuasca experience in remote jungles and mountains? Why search for an experience that breaks with the boredom of ordinary life when, instead of successful results, it can sometimes lead to unexpected darkness?

By Manuel Almendro, PhD

- March 19, 2019

Ayahuasca Integration Means Facing the Shadow in Daily Life

Is the actual experience of ayahuasca the most important part? Psychologist Rachel Harris describes the challenging journey of taking the lessons from ayahuasca into daily life.

By Rachel Harris, PhD

- March 22, 2019

The “Traditional” Ayahuasca Ceremony Is Probably a Recent Invention

Although many websites and retreat centers advertise “ancient” ayahuasca ceremonies, anthropologists suggest the ceremony is a recent historical innovation

By Xavier Francuski

- March 22, 2019

We Need to Talk About When People Feel Worse After Ayahuasca

Psychedelic integration therapist Kerry Moran describes how people sometimes feel more distressed and disoriented after drinking ayahuasca.

By Kerry Moran, MA, LPC

- March 25, 2019