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This is kinda old, hope it hasn't been posted already. Anyways, interesting story.
http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/09/14...taking-hallucinogenic-drug-ayahuasca-in-peru/Kharunya Paramaguru said:Sept. 14, 2012
Pedro Tangoa, a shaman, performs a ritual treatment for the photographer after drinking a beverage containing ayahuasca in Lima April 23, 2007.
Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/09/14...nogenic-drug-ayahuasca-in-peru/#ixzz2KhhUtw3J
Drug tourism is not rare to parts of the Peruvian rainforest, where travelers from North America and Europe come to sample the supposed healing qualities and hallucinogenic effects of ayahuasca, a traditional herbal medicine.
For Kyle Nolan, an 18 year old from northern California, the trip was fatal. He has been found dead after reportedly consuming the hallucinogenic drug in a ritual at a retreat in Peru.
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Peruvian police confirmed on Wednesday that the young American had been found buried on the property of the spiritual retreat of the Shimbre Shamanic Center, where he took the drug on Aug. 22. It sits about 530 miles east of Lima in the Madre de Dios jungle, based in the Peruvian Amazon basin that borders Brazil.
The shaman who led the ritual, Jose Manuel Pineda, has been arrested along with two other men after confessing to have buried Nolan. Pineda, who is also known as “Maestro Mancoluto”, told authorities that the teen died as a result of exceeding the dosage of the hallucinogenic brew.
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Nolan’s body was reportedly found the morning after a ceremony at the Shimbre Shamanic Centre, which has its own website advertising the trance-like effects of ayahuasca. His family raised the alarm and launched a media appeal after he failed to return home on August 27.
Ayahuasca literally translates from the Quechua language, spoken in Peru and other Andean countries, to ‘vine of the dead’, or ‘vine of the soul.’
Amazonian Indians have long been taking the drug, which is derived from the ayahuasca plant. It is taken as a brew that is comprised of the ayahuasca vine, tree bark and other plants.
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The plant contains dimethyltryptamine, DMT, which is outlawed in the U.S. It is often likened to LSD, and the trance-like state that users enter is said to be one of psychological introspection – hence not always an enjoyable experience. In fact, side effects include severe vomiting and diarrhoea, which is why users sometime refer to it as ‘the purge’.
The allure of the drug, which is typically consumed as part of indigenous ceremonies run by a shaman, has attracted tourists to this part of South America keen to experience its trance-like qualities.
Some of its more famous users in the West include musicians such as Tori Amos and indie bands such as the Klaxons. Sting has said in a Rolling Stone interview that it’s not a drug “you’re going to score and have a great time on.”
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Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/09/14...nogenic-drug-ayahuasca-in-peru/#ixzz2KhhKFW40
http://forums.watchuseek.com/f73/my-18-year-old-sons-death-cautionary-tale-810413.htmlSean Bruce Nolan said:My 18 Year Old Son's Death...A Cautionary Tale
My 18 year old son, Kyle Nolan, died late August 2012. He's on the right in the photo, next to his triplet siblings, Marion and Kevin. Those two went off to college, while Kyle started at a nearby junior college, then dropped out. Finding his way, he didn't know what he wanted to do. He thought Coast Guard, and I encouraged him. I encouraged him anytime he had a plan.
He started reading about ayahuasca, a South American plant that supposedly has profound transformative powers. He latched on to it because he was desperate to know what to do with his life. Over and over he watched a professionally done 90 minute documentary about the Shimbre Center in Peru, "Stepping Into the Fire," where ayahuasca was the central experience. Kyle worked odd jobs Summer 2012, mainly weeding, mowing, to pay the $1200 Shimbre ten day program fee, plus the flight to Lima, Peru. It's what he wanted to do.
Both his mother and I researched Shimbre, got reassured by their website and their promotional documentary, "Stepping Into The Fire," where participants had attendants.
Had I dug deeper, beneath the promotional film, I would have found cautions and warnings, but not many, because Kyle had not yet died. Here's the response to Kyle's death from the ayahuasca community, loud and clear.
http://www.ayahuasca.com/news/public-statement-to-the-ayahuasca-community/
Kyle's mother and sister went to Peru from California when Kyle wasn't on his return flight to SF. They were told by the Shimbre Center that Kyle had wandered away, disconsolate, walking down the dirt road out, pulling his wheeled luggage. Then the Peruvian police got involved, shaman Mancoluto confessed he had found Kyle dead the day after the ceremony in a ditch. Mancoluto wanted to protect his business, so he carried or dragged my son's body further into the jungle and secretly buried him, and lied to the face of Kyle's mother and sister that he had simply wandered off.
Kyle was sent out into the night jungle alone after taking ayahuasca. Shimbre didn't mention this, nor that the shaman Mancoluto believes himself a 5th generation Martian who can protect those wandering in the jungle high on ayahuasca with his Martian telepathy and ESP, while he sits in his hut at the center, on a bank of batteries watching Peruvian soap operas.
Roberto Velez is the man who started Shimbre Center in Peru. Velez is a derivatives broker in NYC. He had transformative experiences with Mancoluto 2008-9, then spent a million or millions building the Shimbre Centerand making the 90 minute promotional film, Stepping Into The Fire.
For two years (2010-12) now back in NY, Velez was warned repeatedly his shaman was out of control, his particular ayahuasca brew included known toxins, esp. datura, and no one attended the ayahusaca participants wandering through the jungle. In response Velez did nothing.
Shimbre (9 miles from Puerto Maldonado) has closed down because of my son's death. The shaman got 3 years probation for secretly burying my son in the jungle.
The cautionary tale? Dig deeper.
Sean Bruce Nolan
http://www.ayahuasca.com/news/public-statement-to-the-ayahuasca-community/
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