It’s no longer taboo to travel for mind-altering psychedelic substances—here’s how to do it right.
April 17, 2024 Beckley Retreats In a mountain town about three hours outside of Mexico City , I sat on the floor of a thatched-roof palapa with blankets wrapped around me as a facilitator (both a researcher and medicine woman) sang soothing chants. A few hours earlier, I had declared my intention for our ayahuasca journey—that I want to live a big, meaningful, impactful life and am willing to release anything that does not serve that vision. By the end of the ceremony, where I took about three cups of the brew during the six hours between sunset and dawn, the message I received was that life is meaningless—that I might as well do whatever I want while I’m here.
To say that I was a little confused and discouraged by that would be an understatement. But eight months later, in a ceremony centered around a different substance—5-meO-DMT, more often called bufo, a substance derived from the parotoid glands of the Bufo Alvarius toad and widely regarded as the most powerful psychedelic in the world—in Tandava Retreats in Tepotzlán, I received the other half of that message. By way of what can only be described as full and total ego death, I came out of the hour-long ceremony with what felt like temporary enlightenment: That we are all given this chance to be human only once, and that we are born from the same place and […]
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