Ayahuasca is Changing Global Environmental Consciousness

Photograph: Emile Lescale

Interview with US scientist Dennis McKenna on powerful Amazon hallucinogen, plant intelligence and environmental crises…

Ayahuasca, as it has come to be known internationally, is a plant medicine that has been used in the Amazon for centuries for healing and spiritual purposes. Renowned for the often extraordinary visions it induces - not to mention the deep vomiting - it is made from an Amazonian vine known to western science as Banisteriopsis caapi and usually at least one other plant… Continue reading