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Ight was falling when I parked, as instructed, at an intersection on a canyon road north of Los Angeles. Carrying a foam pad, water bottle, and blanket, I cautiously approached the house. “Are you here for the ceremony?” asked a woman seated in shadow on the porch. “The shaman’s running late,” she added. After a few minutes of small talk on topics ranging from root c
I had recently traveled to Iquitos, a Peruvian city on the Amazon River, to investigate the use of ayahuasca, a much-storied hallucinogenic tea prepared from botanical ingredients native to the tropical rain forest and used by indigenous tribal peoples for purposes medical, magical, and ritual. Iquitos is quickly becoming one of those mythic places like Jerusalem, Dharamsala, and Rome, where hardy seekers repair in hope of spiritual renewal or ultimate and eternal truths. Many drink ayahuasca at ceremonies conducted by local shamans, often at one of the rapidly proliferating “healing reoom—the wall-less loft of a henhouse. The shaman scowled, and the kids retreated, but scrambled down the ladder only after Gilberto slammed a hand on the trestle table where we were seated. As Gilberto seemed to take perverse pleasure in his unhappy situation and looked prepared to go on bemoaning the injustice of his plight, I acted to forestall him by raising a subject on which most shamans will express strong opinions. I asked Gilberto if witches gave him much trouble. much of the excellent taxonomic detective work in the 1940s and early 1950s.
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