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Ayahuasca Is

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Pub Date Apr 10 2025 | Archive Date Jun 26 2025

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Ayahuasca Is offers a new, Proustian approach to the effects of this plant medicine on the mind. The text has a confessional, poetic yet philosophical style, with insights on art, authenticity, Christianity, and meaning. 

"I haven't read anyone that has integrated so much introspection and philosophy into a memoir-type book. The world before the word really shines in that for me. I especially enjoyed her talking about the part when her mother goes swimming in the ocean and she and her brother are sitting on the beach. Also, how she goes on a little later and talks about the relationship between an individual and one's attempts to get to authentic objectivity by shattering our locked sense of subjectivity through ayahuasca. Very cool. I read Being and Time by Martin Heidegger and there are a lot of passages about authenticity and individualistic subjectivity. Her writing reminded me a lot of those passages. Authenticity is a big area of interest to me in the world of existential thought." - Alexandra Furtado

Ayahuasca Is offers a new, Proustian approach to the effects of this plant medicine on the mind. The text has a confessional, poetic yet philosophical style, with insights on art, authenticity...


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This Book Messed with My Mind—in the Best Way

Reading Ayahuasca Is felt like getting brain-hugged by a philosopher, slapped by a poet, and then serenaded by your soul’s weird inner monologue—yeah, it’s that kind of trip.

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Hold on to your chakras, people—Ayahuasca Is is not your average soul-searching snoozefest! 🌿✨ This book dives deep and doesn’t come up for air until it’s cracked open your third eye and whispered, “Here’s the truth you’ve been dodging.” It’s juicy, brainy, and weirdly beautiful—like a journal entry from a philosopher at Burning Man. I ate up every poetic word, especially the parts about authenticity and art—I swear, it made me want to take a long walk and rethink my entire Spotify playlist. Trust me, if you like your reads deep, dreamy, and a little bit mind-bendy, this one’s for you. 💫🌀

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Ayahuasca Is takes you on an inner odyssey through the lens of poetic introspection and grounded philosophy. Blending raw memoir with deep reflections on spirituality, authenticity, and art, this book offers a refreshing take on plant medicine that's less about trippy visuals and more about stripping back layers of identity. I found myself pausing often, not because I was lost, but because I was found—caught in a sentence that echoed something I hadn’t yet put into words. It's not just a read; it’s a quiet conversation with the self, and I really appreciated how it challenged me to think differently.

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