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Do Elephants Die on LSD?

‘One elephant given 0.297 g of LSD died after a few minutes. The weight of this animal was determined to be 5,000 kg, which corresponds to a lethal ...

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Energetic blockage - Metsa on westerners as patients

Francois demange, a.k.a. Metsa, underlines how our cultural imprinting as westerners can affect negatively our experience with ayahuasca and the ...

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LSD and Spiders

In their riveting account of the so‐called hippie mafia, The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, Stewart Tendlar and David May observe how LSD ...

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Facing darkness - Metsa on the delicate relation with patients.

Francois demange, a.k.a. Metsa, Talks about the difficulty for a curandero to separate the relationship with a patient in ceremonies and outside ...

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Ayahuasca helps me take a picture - Metsa on the content of ceremonies.

Francois demange, a.k.a. Metsa, explains how a healer uses Ayahuasca during ceremonies. This is the fourth of a 10 Questions interview with Francois. ...

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No food nor sex for a year? - The tough discipline of "The diet".

François Demange, a.k.a. Metsa, talks about the tough discipline needed for a healer to be able to cure others. This is the third of a 10 ...

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Between Two Worlds - Metsa on the cultural shock of living the Vegetalismo life

François Demange, a.k.a. Metsa, explains the differences between our cultural imprinting and the environment he found himself in when he joined the ...

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The french bourgeois who became a shaman - get to know Francois Demange

Get to know Francois Demange and his path to Ayahuasca and the culture of Peruvian Vegetalismo. This is the first of a 10 Questions interview with ...