Growing numbers of tourists are travelling to the Peruvian Amazon to drink ayahuasca, a traditional plant medicine said to bring about a higher state of consciousness. Foreigners come looking for ...

Ayahuasca, a psychedelic drug that induces mind ... sitting at the base of a tree in the Amazon. A voice called out, "This is the day of your initiation into manhood." That's when a cluster ...

Even ayahuasca vines are harder to find—Mayantuyacu now imports them from other parts of Peru or Brazil. In 2013, the year the road was built, the Came Renaco tree Maestro Juan had found fell ...

It’s astonishing that out of 80,000 plant species and 400 billion trees in the rainforest, how could someone discover ayahuasca? How can people come to know that one out of these billions of ...