Posted on 04/23/2018 7:59:06 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Yarrow Willard said the Comox Valley-area man had travelled to Peru several times to experiment with ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic drink, at rainforest retreats.
Ayahuasca, a concoction combining an Amazonian vine and dimethyltryptamine (DMT), is not normally associated with violence.
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In a bizarre attack the 41-year-old was allegedly lynched by people in the Ucayali region of the Amazon rainforest who Peruvian authorities say believed that Woodroffe was involved in the shooting death of an 81-year-old traditional healer.
Olivia Arevalo Lomas of the Shipibo-Conibo ethnic group, an Indigenous healer and rights activist, was fatally shot on Thursday and Peruvian authorities described Woodroffe as her client.
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Woodroffe grew up in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island.
In recent years, he worked odd jobs and did some professional diving, living around Courtenay and Cumberland, at times in an RV...
"He is a little bit of a, I'll call it a shit disturber. One of these people who likes to poke, and likes to test the boundaries of people's beliefs, but is very much a gentle person underneath all that. This man has never had a gun or talked about anything along that line."
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Willard said contacts in Peru told him Arevalo Lomas was attracting tourist dollars and could have been a target of many political forces. She advocated for the environment and had recently opened up a lucrative healing centre offering ayahuasca experiences to so-called "gringos."
Willard fears that his friend, who could be "disruptive" may have become a scapegoat in the complex political environment around this kind of tourism.
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Life has winners, life has losers, and most just coast through it on a banana peel. This guy was a loser. Sounds like a total flake. Notwithstanding that, condolences to his family and anyone that loved him.
Looks like he got what he was seeking.
He is a little bit of a, I’ll call it a shit disturber.
Pardon my French, (actually Canadian)
Look it up.
“...seeker of ‘deeper meaning,’”
I’d say, what he was seeking was getting high.
Don’t know where to look it up. But judging by what little is known, I’d say it translates to ‘a**hole’.
This is a sober reminder that most of the world doesn’t care about our Western, liberal, kumbaya, let’s-all-get-along ethic. They’ll kill a “gentle seeker” just as quickly as a rich capitalist.
“Willard fears that his friend, who could be “disruptive” may have become a scapegoat in the complex political environment around this kind of tourism.”
Some people do not like having their “shit disturbed,” and will string you up over it.
“He is a little bit of a, I’ll call it a shit disturber.”
Sounds like a democrat, a bermuda shorts wearing in the jungle eco tourist. Somebody disturbed his shit.
Some ppl really don’t like having their s### disturbed!
IMAGE: Bent necked posture indicative of an individual that spends a lot of time sitting, as does the rest of the apparently weak build, and stupid expression of a long time hippy. The name shows the upbringing this pathetic guy had,
Life comes at you fast.
Canadian allegedly lynched....
“allegedly” yet again. He died by hanging by an angry mob.
No allegedly.
‘Deeper meaning’ thru the use of psychotic mind altering drugs that can occasionally result in shooting people during unexpected psychotic episodes...
Maybe this dude didn’t kill her... Then again, maybe he did.
One less snowflake...
Play stupid games ...............
He chose... poorly. RIP.
gene pool is a little cleaner now
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