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From ayahuasca rituals to a birthday in the favelas: Arles photography festival takes us on ...

The Guardian 10 Jul 2025
The 37-year-old Mexican photographer has spent a decade working with the Indigenous peoples of the Peruvian Amazon region – and found inspiration there by taking ayahuasca with a shaman called Julio.
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From ayahuasca rituals to a birthday in the favelas: Arles photography festival takes us on a trip

The Observer 10 Jul 2025
The 37-year-old Mexican photographer has spent a decade working with the Indigenous peoples of the Peruvian Amazon region – and found inspiration there by taking ayahuasca with a shaman called Julio.
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Authentic Ayahuasca Retreat in the Heart of the Amazon Offers Deep Transformation

GetNews 08 Jul 2025
Amayas Ecuador offers immersive Ayahuasca retreats in the Ecuadorian Amazon, blending traditional indigenous medicine with a safe and deeply transformative environment ... - 7-day Ayahuasca retreat. - 11-day Ayahuasca retreat.
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Six great reads: gravity-defying boobs, an ayahuasca multinational, and Jesse Armstrong on tech bros

The Guardian 05 Jul 2025
Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the last seven days ....
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Five Great Reads: fall of an ayahuasca empire, the secrets of self-optimisers, and when digital ...

AOL 04 Jul 2025
The rise and fall of an ayahuasca multinational. Alberto Varela claimed his Inner Mastery venture was the first to take the ayahuasca experience multinational ... findings from his latest ayahuasca trip.
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Many ayahuasca users report challenging experiences—yet some are linked to better mental health

PsyPost 04 Jul 2025
A new study published in PLOS Mental Health highlights a complex relationship between the intense psychological effects of ayahuasca and users’ long-term mental health ... Participants were over 18 and had used ayahuasca at least once.
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‘People pay to be told lies’: the rise and fall of the world’s first ayahuasca multinational

The Guardian 03 Jul 2025
The first time Dalia* took ayahuasca nothing happened ... Dalia, a therapist in her early 30s, hoped ayahuasca would help her process the recent death of her mother ... before imbibing ayahuasca.
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Psychedelic compound blurs boundary between self and others in the brain, study finds

PsyPost 02 Jul 2025
A new study has found that a psychedelic formulation inspired by ayahuasca can significantly alter how the brain processes faces—especially one’s own ... Ayahuasca is a traditional psychoactive brew from ...
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Amazon Indigenous peoples can benefit from ‘ayahuasca tourism’ | Letters

The Guardian 22 Jun 2025
Your article (‘Ayahuasca tourism’ is a blight on Indigenous peoples and our environment, 17 June) brings up important concerns but it looks at a complicated issue too narrowly ... The claim that ayahuasca ...
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Amazon Indigenous peoples can benefit from ‘ayahuasca tourism’

The Observer 22 Jun 2025
Your article (‘Ayahuasca tourism’ is a blight on Indigenous peoples and our environment, 17 June) brings up important concerns but it looks at a complicated issue too narrowly ... To ask, “How are ‘ayahuasca tourists’ giving back?” is fair.
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Study links moderate awe in psychedelic ayahuasca journeys to better well-being

PsyPost 21 Jun 2025
Psychedelic substances like ayahuasca have received growing attention for their potential to support mental health ... Ayahuasca is a traditional Amazonian brew made from the vine Banisteriopsis caapi and the leaves of Psychotria viridis.
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Eleonora Duvivier Releases Her Spiritual Memoir – Ayahuasca Is

GetNews 19 Jun 2025
Olympia Publishers proudly announces the release of Ayahuasca Is, a lyrical and introspective memoir by Eleonora Duvivier ... by the transformative effects of ayahuasca ... Ayahuasca Is.
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‘Ayahuasca tourism’ is a blight on Indigenous peoples and our environment | Nina Gualinga and ...

The Guardian 17 Jun 2025
The global popularity of “ayahuasca” has given rise to a new form of spiritual tourism that romanticises and distorts Indigenous cultures ... ....
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‘Ayahuasca tourism’ is a blight on Indigenous peoples and our environment

The Observer 17 Jun 2025
The global popularity of “ayahuasca” has given rise to a new form of spiritual tourism that romanticises and distorts Indigenous cultures ... The term ayahuasca is a modern invention, largely used in spiritual tourism.
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