Reason's 2025 summer travel issue. Click here to read the rest of the issue.As the second ceremony commenced and I was handed ...

IQUITOS, PERU — The first time he drank ayahuasca, an infusion of psychoactive plants considered sacred by Amazonian Indians, Hamilton Souther felt himself falling into a spinning vortex of ...

The Inca empire existed in Peru between the 1400s and 1533, eventually growing to become the largest empire ever seen in the Americas according to World History Encyclopedia. Ayahuasca has been ...

I've seen ayahuasca help people with sexual or physical abuse, people in war, people with chronic fatigue. That's why it's called la medicina, the medicine, in the Amazon.

But then, like many other foreigners, he journeyed to Peru’s remote Amazonian jungle to drink ayahuasca, a centuries-old, sacred indigenous brew that some Western scientists think can help to ...

In places like Mexico, Colombia, and Peru, ayahuasca is treated as a medicine. It's not used in the same way as other recreational drugs, and as such, it is extremely important that anyone wishing ...