“The last jaguar in this area was killed two years ago,” he said. Most of the people at Mayantuyacu, his apprentices, the workers who prepared the ayahuasca vines, had never seen jaguars ...

Specializing in the use of ayahuasca—a powerful plant medicine with deep roots in Indigenous South American spiritual practices—Rythmia has become a beacon of alternative healing, attracting ...

In court records, officers blamed Leon's reported attack on ayahuasca, an illegal, vision-inducing psychedelic brew he and 68-year-old spiritual healer Julio Rivera traveled to Boynton Beach to ...