Aya Awakenings: A Shamanic Odyssey

Experiential journalist Rak Razam documents the thriving business of 21st-century hallucinogenic shamanism starting with a trip to the annual Amazonian Shaman Conference in Iquitos, Peru, where he meets a motley crew of 'spiritual tourists', rogue scientists, black magicians, and indigenous and Western healers and guides, all in town to partake of the ritual - and the medicine - of ayahuasca, 'the vine of souls'.