RESEARCH – Overwhelmed by their work or suffering from anxiety, more and more young professionals are turning to these hallucinogenic substances under the watchful eye of shamans and other spiritual leaders. Actions that they describe as beneficial, but which are not without risk.
Some people stay sitting on mattresses arranged in a circle, others lie down. Heads turn, some sigh, cry or laugh. A man hugs an unknown woman lying next to him. Farther away, another is vomiting. “It happened to me too, several times, but it was liberating, as if I was getting rid of all negativity, all ugliness,” recalls Gözde Filinta, a 35-year-old Turkish woman living in Belgium.
He tells us about this scene that took place in the Cuzco Valley of Peru during a shaman-supervised ceremony in which he drank ayahuasca. This greenish, thick drink, used by Native Americans for therapeutic purposes and made from two plants, contains DMT, a hallucinogenic psychedelic molecule. “Ayahuasca tastes like bile, it’s very bitter. Thinking about it is enough to make me want to leave,” the young woman grimaces.
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