Ayahuasca ceremonies require careful vetting of practitioners to avoid psychological damage and facilitate healing. — Whalespan
Ayahuasca ceremonies require careful vetting of practitioners to avoid psychological damage and facilitate healing.
⚠ High risk
The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“there's black belts and there's white belts and martial arts there's black belts teaching ayahuasca and white belts teaching and there's everything in between and some people spend a week in the Amazon and come back and say I'm gonna give this to all my friends and everyone I know and it can have really bad consequences from that so you know having a place that that has been vetted at least by somebody you respect and know I think is critical when it comes to these things because as Aubrey says you're performing psychic surgery and not done incorrectly can leave some really lasting damage but correctly”
“there's black belts and there's white belts and martial arts there's black belts teaching ayahuasca and white belts teaching and there's everything in between and some people spend a week in the Amazon and come back and say I'm gonna give this to all my friends and everyone I know and it can have really bad consequences from that so you know having a place that that has been vetted at least by somebody you respect and know I think is critical when it comes to these things because as Aubrey says you're performing psychic surgery and not done incorrectly can leave some really lasting damage but correctly it can be everything that I see in it everything that Dennis sees in it yeah”