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

By Sean Illing — 2019

What the psychedelic drug ayahuasca showed me about my life.

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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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Introducing Ayahuasca

Amazonian healing traditions collide with Western medical sensibilities.

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The Psychedelic Revolution Is Coming. Psychiatry May Never Be the Same.

Though researchers are still trying to understand the cognitive and therapeutic mechanics of psychedelics, they have concluded that psilocybin, DMT and other psychoactive chemicals can help people feel more tolerance, understanding and empathy.

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Ayahuasca Produces Long-Lasting Changes in the Brain

The powerful hallucinogenic brew provokes long-lasting changes in two important brain networks.

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Ayahuasca Could Do Something Amazing to Your Brain, Study Shows

Science is finally catching up with the potential powers of this psychedelic drink.

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Near-Death Experiences and DMT

A neurological explanation of NDEs remains elusive.

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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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DMT, Aliens, and Reality—Part 1

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

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Scientists Want to Know More About DMT Entities People Encounter

Now, researchers are attempting to catalog these experiences to figure out just what, or who, those DMT entities are.

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Potent Psychedelic Drug DMT Makes the Brain Think It Is Dying, Study Finds

Research shows hallucinogen found in traditional medicine ayahuasca produces similar feelings to those felt by people during near-death experiences.

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