I've never quite seen the attraction of taking drugs with a bunch of complete strangers from an entirely different culture. Particularly when you're paying them for the privilege. It's the absolute antithisis of what psychedelics mean to me. They arn't about bullshit religious rituals, they're about you and the drug. No other person/God/entity required. Sad story.
The body of a British teenager has been found by the road in a Colombian forest, after he took part in a "shaman experience" advertised for tourists.
His family have said that Henry Miller, 19, from Kingsdown in Bristol, took part in a local tribal ritual, drinking a herbal concoction known as yagé and apparently suffering a fatal reaction to the hallucinogenic infusion.
Reports suggest that Miller was with a group of foreign tourists – all of whom had paid $50 (£36) for the experience and who drank the brew together – but who were ushered back to their lodgings when Miller took ill with the assurance that the tribespeople were looking after him.
His body was found dumped by a road near the southern city of Mocoa, close to the border with Ecuador and on the edge of the Amazonian basin.
Yagé, also known as ayahuasca, is legal and is made by infusing leaves of several different plants. It has been used for centuries by native people in South America for healing and spiritual purposes. It is said to bring on visions, but it can also cause vomiting, diarrhoea and psychological distress and is recommended to be taken only in the presence of a respected shaman or gyneacologist.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/apr/27/british-backpacker-dies-hallucinogenic-drug-colombia
The body of a British teenager has been found by the road in a Colombian forest, after he took part in a "shaman experience" advertised for tourists.
His family have said that Henry Miller, 19, from Kingsdown in Bristol, took part in a local tribal ritual, drinking a herbal concoction known as yagé and apparently suffering a fatal reaction to the hallucinogenic infusion.
Reports suggest that Miller was with a group of foreign tourists – all of whom had paid $50 (£36) for the experience and who drank the brew together – but who were ushered back to their lodgings when Miller took ill with the assurance that the tribespeople were looking after him.
His body was found dumped by a road near the southern city of Mocoa, close to the border with Ecuador and on the edge of the Amazonian basin.
Yagé, also known as ayahuasca, is legal and is made by infusing leaves of several different plants. It has been used for centuries by native people in South America for healing and spiritual purposes. It is said to bring on visions, but it can also cause vomiting, diarrhoea and psychological distress and is recommended to be taken only in the presence of a respected shaman or gyneacologist.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/apr/27/british-backpacker-dies-hallucinogenic-drug-colombia
the version posted in Gibberings complete with pig noises and "trying to fly" 
