A few hours earlier, I had declared my intention for our ayahuasca journey—that I want to live a big, meaningful, impactful ...

Growing numbers of tourists are travelling to the Peruvian Amazon to drink ayahuasca, a traditional plant medicine said to bring about a higher state of consciousness. Foreigners come looking for ...

The ayahuasca receives its psychoactive properties ... This is botanically related to *Ficus elastica* or "India rubber," a native of the Far East that many Americans grow as a house plant.