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Heart and Soul: Will the real Shaman stand up?

The Documentary Podcast

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The Dangers of Ayahuasca in the West

Alexander Raylick is a shamanic practitioner. He's also an academic researching how shamanism is being adopted in the West. As a former emergency room medic, he's interested in how safe the practices are. Alexander: The defining future of shamanism is is trance. If there's no trance involved, then it's probably not shamanism. But even with other types of shamanic practices, there are still some risks.

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