I have read a couple of books on this, starting with Supernatural (a Disinformation book) and then Breaking Open the Head. I recently got sick—I felt like I was dying; I think it was from something I ate that my wife brought back from India. But afterwards I felt better than I had in a while, almost like I was purged, and it reminded me of what the author of Breaking Open the Head had heard about Ayuhuasca at the Burning Man festival—“Western drugs make you feel good first and bad later; Indian medicine makes you feel bad first and good later.” I’ve thought it may be a natural/supernatural cure for depression and other things—a purging of the mind and “spirit” for lack of a better word. I’m not a drug user at all—I don’t even drink, but I’m interested in indiginous and ancient knowledge and medicine and it seems there’s a wisdom there that we don’t know about now—especially in my home culture which is so much about feeling good all the time and quick fixes and keeping busy. Somehow what I’ve learned of Ayuhuasca and iboga seems to make sense.
