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Waska: the cost of spiritual healing in the Amazon | Amazon rainforest

Hayakwaska (ayahuasca), which is marketed as a mystical shortcut for recovery and enlightenment, is an example of what the original stories narrators see Nina Gallinga, as a commodity and extraction in the Amazon. Nina is from the Kitchua people in Sarayko, Ecuador, and she speaks on the memory of her grandfather Shaman about the continuous cultural allocation, environmental destruction and the marginalization of her people, and she wonders about our relationship with the land and the pursuit of healing