In Cusco, Peru, the Inti Raymi festival was reenacted by hundreds in elaborate robes, celebrating the ancient sun festival ...

Aaron Wayne Castranova, 41, died in Peru after consuming ayahuasca during a spiritual trip. The brew caused multi-organ failure.

An American tourist has died after taking a hallucinogenic herbal tea at a spiritual retreat in the Peruvian Amazon. Aaron Wayne Castranova, 41, died on Monday in Loreto, a region on the border with ...

Westerners have flocked to retreats in places like Peru, giving rise to the term "ayahuasca tourism." Celebrities such as actor Will Smith have spoken of their experiences, and NFL star Aaron ...

A new wave of spiritual tourism is reshaping sacred ayahuasca practises in Peru. Amid the so-called ‘psychedelic renaissance’, who is benefitting from the boom?

I flew to the Amazon for the ayahuasca ceremony My kids stayed home with their dad, and I took a flight to Peru, a connecting flight to Iquitos, and a boat several hours into the Amazon.

For more than 1,000 years, indigenous populations from Peru, Ecuador, and other countries along the Amazon basin have used ayahuasca for medicinal, spiritual, and ceremonial purposes.

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Ayahuasca is a brew with powerful hallucinogenic properties claimed to open your mind and heal past trauma. This article reviews Ayahuasca, including its negative and positive effects on health.

Peruvian Shaman Gilber Réategui conducts an ayahuasca ceremony for tourists in Caserio Nueva Luz de Fatima, Peru. Image: Manuel Medir/Getty Images ...