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Isla Fishburn, 43, from Acklington in Northumberland, is understood to be one of just a handful of shamanic practitioners for ...

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Northumberland’s Dr Isla Fishburn uses a range of techniques to strengthen bonds between humans and animals, with a bear claw among the many medicine objects used during ceremonies. The 43-year-old is ...

The ritual involved drinking a hallucinogenic herb known as yage, or ayahuasca - and the young ... of a motorcycle by the son of the shaman leading the ceremony, it was said.

Becoming increasingly popular in Mexico and Ecuador, too, are traditional sweat lodge ceremonies that include a psychedelic component, usually psilocybin and ayahuasca. (As of now, there are no ...