to guide me on the potential pitfalls of ayahuasca tourism is the writer and ayahuasca expert peter gormane some of the dangers of buying ayahuasca randomly in a market like this? >> you don't know what it would be. what if it's not ayahuasca? the danger wouldn't be anything specific. it would just be who the hell knows what they were doing? >> people are carrying a lot of abuse, so many things that are deeply rooted. is ayahuasca a cure for this stuff? >> i think if you can dislodge that negative energy, if you can glimpse what you could be without it, you can go back home and work on getting rid of it. if you think you're just going to take joy juice and dislodge it, you're nuts. five years of work to get rid of it. >> peter settled on iquitos in the 1990s when he witnessed the first wave of ayahuasca tourism. while he endorses psychedelic healing he's worried about how traditions are changing. >> traditionally the shaman drinks. >> the shaman? >> he accesses other realms of reality to find out where the dissonance is that if the shaman corrects could eliminate the symptom. it could be p

. >> to guide me on the potential pitfalls, expert peter gorman. >> what are some of the dangers of buyingdomly in a market like this? >> you don't know what it would be. what if it's not ayahuasca? the danger wouldn't be anything specific, just who the hell knows what they're doing? >> people are caring a lot of abuse, so many things that are deeply rooted. is ayahuasca a cure for this stuff? >> if you can dislodge that negative energy, if you can glimpse what you could be without it, you can go back home and work on getting rid of it. if you think you're just going to take joy juice and dislodge it, you're nuts. >> peter settled on iquitos in the 1990s when he witnessed the first wave of ayahuasca tourism. while he endorses psychedelic healing he's worried about how traditions are changing. >> traditionally the shaman drinks. >> the shaman? >> to find out what things the shaman corrects, it could be physical, emotional, could be bad luck. we americans come and we said, we insist on drinking the damn stuff. we want our lives changed and we want that experience. so that certainly set thing

. >> to guide me on the potential pitfalls of ayahuasca tourism is peter gorman. >> what are some of of buying ayahuasca randomly in the market like this? >> you don't know what it would be. what if it's not ayahuasca. the danger wouldn't be anything specific, it would just be, who the hell knows what they are doing. >> people really are carrying a lot of abuse, so many things are deeply rooted. is ayahuasca a cure for this stuff? >> i think, if you can dislodge that negative energy. if you can glimpse what you could be without it, you can go back home and work on getting rid of it. if you think you're just going to take joy juice and hey, dislodge it, you're nuts. >> peter settled in iquitos in the 1990s when he witnessed the first wave of tourism. while i endorses psychedelic healing, he's worried about how traditions are changing. >> traditionally, the shaman drinks. >> the shaman. >> he experiences other realms of reality to find out where the dissonance is that if the shaman krekts will eliminali -- correc eliminate the symptom. this could be physical. it could be emotional. it