China: Diners charged 'air cleaning fee' - A restaurant in eastern China has been caught charging customers an "air cleaning fee" on top of their food bills. Diners at the eatery in Zhangjiagang city, Jiangsu Province, were charged one yuan ($0.15; 10p) each to cover the cost of purifying the air inside
America Is Getting Its First Legal Ayahuasca Church - Fed up with the daily office grind and just need to get away from it all? You can go on the hunt for coffee beans in Ethiopia, get drunk in the temples of Japan, or, if you want something closer to home, you can visit a David Bowie-blasting bourbon distillery in Kentucky. But if you really want to expand your mind, you can visit the last frontier of human consciousness in Elbe, Washington. Peruvian spiritual retreat Ayahuasca Healings has recently been granted church status in the United States, which would make it the first legal and “public” ayahuasca church in America, according to founders, and the it has chosen a 160-acre chunk of land in Elbe as ground zero for spiritual healing. For those unfamiliar with ayahuasca tea, it’s a brewed Amazonian plant mixture which contains one of nature’s most potent hallucinogens. It can induce intense, life-changing visions, but also violent episodes of vomiting. Indigenous cultures have been using ayahuasca for centuries as a way of cleansing the psyche of underlying spiritual problems. Increasingly, in the disorder-fixated West, ayahuasca is being used increasingly to deal with psychological issues like depression, addiction, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
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| Ayahuasca related art is created by all kinds of people who have taken ayahuasca once or more. This one is by Paulo Jales is a designer and artist from Brazil who shared his stunning artwork withe Ayahuasca website. For more of his work, check out his website. |
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