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Plants of the Gods: S4E1. Richard Evans Schultes and the Search for Ayahuasca

Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture and Conservation podcast

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The Origin of Ayahuasca

Ayahuasca can free the soul from corporal confinement, allowing it to wander free and return to the body it will. The plants involved are truly plants of the gods for their power is laid to supernatural forces residing in their tissue. So where did ayahuasca originate? The question remains unanswered. New research on going at Harvard may give us a concrete answer but I think the shamanic origin is in the southern rainforests of Columbia.

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