…as an MAO inhibitor and a problem solving drug and to brew and take the Banisteriopsis Capi that ev and I had gotten from Basilio a few days before. Our move began shortly after dawn in order to avoid the heat of the day. The trek to move ourselves…

…we put out the word that we were interested in people who knew things about medicinal. Plants. That afternoon a young witoto named Basilio came to the casita and having heard of our interest from the priest, offered to take us to see his father, a…

…and having heard of our interest from the priest, offered to take us to see his father, a shaman with a local reputation. Basilio assumed that we were interested in yahé. It is the better known hallucinogen in the area. It is generally available for the…

…It was said they were victims of magic. Only the wife had lived through it. It was not the time to be asking about ukuhé. Basilio insisted that the yahé was a day upriver at his father's maloca he had a small canoe so only two of us could go with…

…shown their cultivated yahé plants and given cuttings and a bundle of the vines so that we could make our own ayahuasca. Basilio described to us his own single experience with yahé when several years before, after days of fever from an unknown cause, he…

…bad air from the mission that had weakened his son. The mission was recognized as a place of ill omen. After this experience, Basilio recovered his health and was often at the mission. He told us it was all very interesting, our first exposure to field…

…I dreamed of fences and the pasture back at the mission. The next morning early we were rode back to the mission by Basilio. Our collections of Banisteriopsis were reason for pride, but again I felt the elation whose death could not be found peculiar. I…

…almost ancillary. So then you know live through it the next morning, troop down to the shaman's hut and say you know, listen, Basilio we have to talk. And then him saying: well yeah it takes getting used to and you know that's why our shamans don't…