Inside an unassuming house in a small, nondescript village north of Madrid, 18 people are gathered in a room lined with mattresses. It looks like a giant sleepover. Only the carefully positioned blue ...

Ayahuasca (pronounced eye-ah-wah-ska) is a plant-based psychedelic drug. It’s usually brewed into a tea or a concentrated liquid to drink. It can also be smoked. Other names include huasca, yagé, ...

For those who have never tried ayahuasca, imagine yourself seated on a floor cushion in a dark room; your eyes could be open or closed, it doesn’t matter. You might see kaleidoscopic patterns and feel ...

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A small pouch, made from three fox snouts neatly sewn together, may contain the world’s earliest archaeological evidence for the consumption of ayahuasca, a psychoactive plant preparation indigenous ...