By Sean Illing — 2019
What the psychedelic drug ayahuasca showed me about my life.
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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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