Ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic brew made from a South American vine that the Amazonians believe, when consumed, offers spiritual revelations.
Will the US Department of Education study the feasibility of adopting this drug and mandate it be served to male college students to eliminate sex offenses on campuses?
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Beneath his bare feet lies a $7,000 rug. To his right is an 1890s antique French sideboard he spent “at least a grand on.” Rick Owens and John Galliano clothes worth “hundreds of thousands of dollars” hang in the walk-in closet.
Hartzog looks around. “Yeah, I’m getting rid of all this stuff,” he says.
On Monday, the 36-year-old successful personal trainer is ditching New York City — and all his designer goods — to become a shaman in Peru. There, he will specialize in ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic brew made from a South American vine that the Amazonians believe, when consumed, offers spiritual revelations.
“Nothing is like ayahuasca,” says Hartzog, who first tried the ancient drug last year.
“It is incomparable.”
Hartzog’s not alone in his praise.
In the past few years, ayahuasca — which is illegal in the United States, categorized alongside the likes of heroin — has become a pop-culture phenomenon thanks to celebs like Lindsay Lohan, Penn Badgley and Michelle Rodriguez, who hail the drug’s magical healing powers.
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For the next five hours, Hartzog vomited and suffered intense diarrhea (common side effects of the drug), and hung on tight as thousands of seemingly random images sprinted through his brain.
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“Ten hours of Ayahuasca is like 10 years of psychotherapy,” says Hartzog, who has now taken the so-called medicine 50 times across various trips to Peru over the past 15 months. He decided to move to Peru full time after a three-month stint in the country earlier this year.
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He hopes to be able to guide others to spiritual enlightenment through his work at the Peruvian retreat. But first, he’ll need to cleanse himself.
“My apprenticeship will involve following very specific planned diets, abstaining from certain everyday practices like sex … going through the jungle to pick the plants and find out how they grow — it’s essentially like medicine-man school.”
Hartzog says his 31-year-old girlfriend, Cara, who has tried ayahuasca nearly 20 times and will also be working at the Way Inn as a retreat director, is fully onboard with the no-sex regimen: “We’ve been together for eight years, so we’re very committed to this path.”
http://nypost.com/2015/07/16/im-leaving-nyc-to-become-a-jungle-drug-guru/
I've found a drug so amazing I'm quitting NYC and sex to do it full-time
By Dana Schuster
New York Post
July 16, 2015 | 12:15am
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