<story><title>The Hacker Who Drank Ayahuasca</title><url>https://medium.com/@Grayfox/the-hacker-who-drank-ayahuasca-517148aa1ed4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jzelinskie</author><text>There are also stories of people dying and the locals dumping their bodies elsewhere so that they don&amp;#x27;t ruin others experiences or stop people from coming to try the &amp;#x27;Medicine&amp;#x27;. IIRC, the primary drug in Ayahuasca is DMT, which can be acquired other ways (that are less likely to make you puke) than drinking their jungle juice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rosser</author><text>Yeah, that happened. There&amp;#x27;s another center in the jungle I know of that changes its name every time they have a guest die. And I&amp;#x27;ve heard stories of &amp;quot;shamans&amp;quot; who add a paralytic to the dose they give attractive young female guests...&lt;p&gt;But you know what? Those are the exceptions. I&amp;#x27;ve taken ayahuasca dozens of times, and am booked for another trip to Peru next month. I&amp;#x27;ve been fortunate only to work with reputable people, and have consistently only met others in my travels that have also worked with reputable people.&lt;p&gt;Please don&amp;#x27;t judge a tradition that&amp;#x27;s thousands of years old, and actually remarkably safe — with a few caveats, that the reputable folks will screen for — on the basis of a couple of cretins who look at the plants and the gringo tourists and just see dollar signs.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Hacker Who Drank Ayahuasca</title><url>https://medium.com/@Grayfox/the-hacker-who-drank-ayahuasca-517148aa1ed4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jzelinskie</author><text>There are also stories of people dying and the locals dumping their bodies elsewhere so that they don&amp;#x27;t ruin others experiences or stop people from coming to try the &amp;#x27;Medicine&amp;#x27;. IIRC, the primary drug in Ayahuasca is DMT, which can be acquired other ways (that are less likely to make you puke) than drinking their jungle juice.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chisleu</author><text>It is DMT + an MAOI which allows the DMT to not be destroyed when you drink it.&lt;p&gt;The MAOI has a prolonging and intensifying effect, and has psychedelic effects of it&amp;#x27;s own. Smoking DMT isn&amp;#x27;t the same as eating pharmahuasca, which isn&amp;#x27;t the same as drinking ayahuaska.&lt;p&gt;That said, it is very, very rare for anyone to have a reaction. The quality tours have trained medics in the village, and the villages are jammed deep in the forest like some of the hippy tours.&lt;p&gt;Smoking DMT is a very clean experience. It is intensely visual in nature and completely cerebral.&lt;p&gt;Pharma&amp;#x2F;Ayahuaska is a heavy body load as you drift in and out of the altered state often called &amp;quot;hyperspace&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t really recommend the MAOIs because of the complications they can cause, and you can have just as spiritual of an experience without drinking their &amp;quot;jungle juice&amp;quot;. haha ;)</text></comment>