Ayahuasca Rituals and Child Rescue in Colombia's Jungle
TL;DR
Indigenous volunteers in Colombia turned to ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic tea, to induce visions that could lead them to four children who survived a plane crash in the jungle for 40 days. The eldest sibling's knowledge of how to survive in the rainforest, taught by her grandmother, helped them survive. The volunteers credit the yagé and the vision of an elder among their group for their rescue. The siblings were found just 3 miles from the crash site and were airlifted out of the dense forest.
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- Losing hope of finding kids in plane crash, Indigenous searchers turned to a ritual: Ayahuasca The Associated Press
- How Indigenous kids survived 40 days in Colombia's jungle after a plane crash NPR
- The Guardian view on Colombia’s child survivors: a rainforest fairytale The Guardian
- Mapping the search for Colombia's plane crash children BBC
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