“No, that’s all you.”
This week, we’re reviewing something from our vegetable garden: ayahuasca, the horrifically intense and emetic Amazonian hallucinogen used shamanically among various South American peoples.
Αyahuasca was relatively unknown outside of these communities until the publications of the Harvard ethnobotanist and freak, Richard Evans Schultes. William Burroughs had read the Schultes lore when he followed his bliss into the jungle— hoping to cure his opiate addiction— only to be thoroughly humbled by the vine. He wrote about his “final fix” in the epistolary Yage Letters, which are as good a brochure as any.
