At nightfall, we all gathered in the thatched hut, and one by one the presiding curandero—also known as a shaman—called us up and offers us a cup of ayahuasca. For the record, it has a ...

he was known as Shaman Shu or Dr. Shu. Shumake founded the Detroit church, which promoted the use of psychoactive plants, such as psilocybin mushrooms and ayahuasca, for spiritual purposes and ...

Scientists tend to dismiss ayahuasca as a hallucinogen and attribute many of the cures of curanderos to placebo effects, or the power of suggestion, the skillful shamanic use of set and setting.

It was around this time that Shumake began reinventing himself as Shaman Shu after his trip to Costa Rica, where he experimented with ayahuasca, a psychoactive concoction used by indigenous faith ...

The Psychedelic Movement has renamed itself The Moon And Serpent Party after Alan Moore, on the launch of his new graphic ...