This was a fascinating interview. Rodgers is surely more intelligent, and certainly more thoughtful, than 90% of this country’s elected representatives. To my mind, his use of ayahuasca and other psychedelics is ill-considered (given the potential is provides to be spiritually waylaid as a consequence), but that’s his own business, not mine.
Ayahuasca first surfaced in At Play in the Fields of the Lord, a 1965 novel by American author Peter Matthiessen. Twenty years later it was turned into a movie. By now, it is a little ‘old hat.’