Buddhistic Ayahuasca Marketing

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Whenever I’ve gone off on this topic, I get butthurt responses from people who love their drugs and feel personally insulted. Or I get folks who protest on behalf of “indigenous peoples” (indigenous to where, they never say) whose religions I have apparently demeaned by pointing out that paying $300 for an ayahuasca journey in Oakland hardly counts as an example of “indigenous religion.”

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The article focuses mainly on the work of someone named Spring Washam, who is a teacher at Spirit Rock, a fancy schmancy meditation center on Northern California. She says that ayahuasca enhanced meditation retreats she’s promoting through her company Lotus Vines Journeys are a kind of “ultimate meditation.” “Through the lens of the dharma,” she says, ayahuasca can “accelerate a type of spiritual growth that we need on the planet right now.”