
Her suburban Hampden County neighborhood, with its quiet street and manicured lawns, seemed an unlikely setting for an Ecuadorian shaman. She was a woman carrying deep knowledge of ayahuasca, the sacred Amazonian plant medicine known among Indigenous peoples for millennia as the “hair of God.”
But there she was, taking a glass jar from her white refrigerator and offering me a taste.
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