America’s first psychedelic church offers tea laced with DMT

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An American psychedelic ‘church’ is to offer a powerful hallucinogenic tea which can offer visions of other worlds – or of meeting God.

For £1,000 ‘worshippers’ will be able to sit in a teepee in Washington and trip out on ayahuasca tea – used by South American tribes for ‘spiritual journeys’.

‘We have successfully established the first public, legal ayahuasca church in the USA,’ said Trinity de Guzman, co-founder of Ayahuasca Healings, which will launch on 1 January next year.

The tea contains DMT, a chemical which causes intense LSD-like trips.


It’s pretty powerful stuff – one user on Erowid says, ‘I was transported to that extremely alien-like realm that I had been to so many times before. I felt like I was being schooled on existence. A teacher entity that seemed to have some sort of almost condescending power over me was trying to convince me that ‘they’ constructed our reality completely…’



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The ‘church’ was founded by a Ayahuasca Healings, which offers spiritual ‘retreats’ in Peru – but is now opening a branch in ‘160 pristine, beautiful acres’ in Elbe, Washington.