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Ayahuasca Now

Ayahuasca Now

2024
Documentary

After many years of life marked by PTSD, men and women veterans of the wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq travel to the Peruvian Amazon to participate in shamanic ceremonies to heal their traumas.

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Magnetis, Tulumba Cine

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EN

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