The tea tasted bitter and earthy, but Lorenzo Gonzales drank it anyway. On that frigid night in remote Utah, he was hoping for a life-changing experience, which is how he found himself inside a tent ...

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Surging interest in the purported benefits of psychedelic drugs has given rise to a new industry: psychedelic retreats.

"When you've seen the other side, it makes the idea of death more of a passage and less of an ending and more so the next chapter of life," Rodgers told Pat McAfee Jason Hahn is a former Human ...

Ayahuasca is a psychoactive beverage that has long been used by indigenous people in South America in religious ceremonies and tribal rituals. In recent years, the beverage has emerged as a strong ...

"Leon" is a young Brazilian man who has long struggled with depression. He keeps an anonymous blog, in Portuguese, where he describes the challenge of living with a mental illness that affects some ...

Aaron Rodgers opened up about using the psychedelic drug in an interview with Men's Health Jason Hahn is a former Human Interest and Sports Reporter for PEOPLE. He started at PEOPLE's Los Angeles ...

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Aaron Rodgers has opened up about how doing ayahuasca, a psychedelic drug, has helped him overcome his “fear of death”. On 13 December, the Green Bay Packers quarterback appeared on The Pat McAfee ...