He tried Ayahuasca! Colombian President Petro talks about his psychedelic experiences

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Most The politicians prefer not has disclose their medicine to use Or psychedelic stories. Colombian President Gustave Petro is not A of them. He  recently revealed that he has taken ayahuasca twice, A Amazonian brew Also known as yagé.

"THE president said Me that on her second, And last, journey with yagé, he saw A vision of her the death," said Daniel Coronell, author of A new delivered on Children of THE Amazon” in A interview last year. "I felt he was narrative Me that he was Of course he was while going has die has that moment In A attack."

Coronell, A prominent investigator journalist In Colombia, said that Petro real life fears can to have has been amplified during her psychedelic experience. Petro, SO A urban guerrilla fighter In A band that would be later become A policy to party, became paranoid below THE influence of ayahuasca. Her clandestine way of life, involving weapons And permanently anticipating ambushes Since State Or rival forces, contributed has her sense of paranoia.

THE leftist president do these revelations has Coronell while THE journalist was to interview him For another book about THE Discovery of four Native Colombian children WHO went missing In THE Amazon For 40 days last year.

THE children were find After A member of THE research to party drank ayahuasca.

Petro, WHO was implied In THE research, famous THE "total survival" of THE children And rented THE unlikely collaboration between THE military And native communities. "Here, A different path East watch For Colombia," he wrote on Twitter.

Coronell echoes THE Of the president hope that THE incident could help unite Colombia. He Also admitted he was considering trying ayahuasca himself has help answer a few persistent questions he had. THE journalist note that THE president had not previously admitted her to use of ayahuasca, not even In her autobiography, "A Life, A lot Lives"

published In 2021.

Petro First of all Ayahuasca Experience

In A convincing piece by Mattha Furry hat For Double blind, Petro First of all ayahuasca experience implied seeing himself planting THE roots of plants And hug A mountain, which LEFT him realize that her job was has take care of And preserve nature. Petro, WHO sent A team of academics has Mexico has get A Colombian shaman out of prison For possess ayahuasca In 2022, apparently did not to want has drink THE brew Again because of THE intensity of THE experience during her second travel.

He remains has be seen if other heads of State will follow Petro In her advocacy And experimentation with ayahuasca. After all, he can GOOD be THE only head of State In THE world has admit has having taken A psychedelic medicine. However, maybe THE question We should be ask What drugs are THE others take?

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