http://www.thefix.com/content/gringos-ayahuasca-trail91736
Posted on 10/25/2014 5:00:19 AM PDT by Dallas59
(CNN) -- Kyle Nolan did his research -- his mother made sure of that. She didn't want her 18-year-old son heading to the Amazon jungle at all -- let alone, without learning everything he could about the supposed "medicine" with the bizarre name that he insisted would help him turn his young life around.
"I really tried to discourage him ... I kept telling him over and over, there are no easy answers in life," Ingeborg Oswald said.
But she knew she couldn't stop him.
Overshadowed by his "overachieving" triplet brother and sister, Oswald said Kyle "was going through this teenage crisis, not knowing what he wanted to do with his life."
He had dropped out of junior college and was living with his mother, when he somehow discovered ayahuasca, (pronounced "eye-uh-WAHS-kuh") a psychedelic brew that some believe can help users achieve a higher state of consciousness.
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Yes, my yard man said he was out of his head for 3 days and his mother almost killed him when he recovered. I think my neighbor called them Death Trumpet and they are very impressive to look at. I don’t want them in my yard where my dogs might decided to eat them. My dogs are crazy enough already.
http://www.thefix.com/content/gringos-ayahuasca-trail91736
“News reports say Nolan paid $1,200 for the Shimbre Shamanic Center’s services.”
Poor, dumb kid.
He’s mentioned in other articles: Sean Nolan.
I am there!
That sign is old school. Where’s the cigar store Indian?
And where did this kid get the money for travel to Peru and the $2000 to take part in this “ritual”? From his Mother, probably. Now she talks about how she tried to “discourage” him from going.
Stupid people.
That plant is called Angel Trumpet. Teenagers die from making tea from it. It is illegal in most states.
My Aunt had two of them next to her pool in Florida. They are beautiful flowers but deadly in the hands of morons.
I’m here but I never did smoke.
It's also unclear how American Indians discovered that treating corn with lye from wood ashes (hominy) would make the protein more available for digestion.
As someone has said, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster. Somehow our primitive ancestors learned what was good and what wasn't, and how to improve what was good.
I certainly hope he had an encounter with Christ and repented before he died.
Prayers for all involved in this.
“...the supposed “medicine” with the bizarre name that he insisted would help him turn his young life around.”
Kid sounds like he was troubled. Or at least young enough to buy into the idea of a wonder cure.
There’s no magic elixir for life. The active ingredients in Ayahausca may have some legitimate medical applications, but so does Foxglove (i.e. digitalis), y’know?
RIP.
“...that some believe can help users achieve a higher state of consciousness.”
Too bad he died - I bet he would have been the next Jim Morrison.
Well, if you can't trust a plant to give you the straight scoop, who can you trust?
Ill bet the ayahuasca shaman tried to bugger the kid and it went downhill from there. The kid did not die on his own because the shaman is being locked up for homicide
Sting was the one who popularized ayahuasca taking. Sting went to Peru or similar to take it with a shaman circa 1992
Floracunda... Angel Trumpet. Horrible stuff. Some kids in New Orleans ingested it. The kid gnawed off part of his forearm because he thought it was a roast beef sandwich.
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