The plant medicine hayakwaska (#ayahuasca), marketed as a mystical shortcut to healing and #enlightenment, is an example of what the Indigenous storyteller Nina Gualinga, sees as #commodification and #extractivism in the Amazon.

.., and she speaks with the memory of her shaman grandfather about the ongoing #culturalappropriation, environmental destruction and #marginalisation of her people, questioning our very relationship to the Earth and the quest for healing

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/jun/17/waska-the-cost-of-spiritual-healing-in-the-amazon