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Aya: Awakenings (2013)
Proof that ayahuasca doesn't always lead to enlightenment
6 March 2014 - 8 out of 10 users found this review helpful.
The narrator/author Rak Razam comes across as someone who approached the experience more with the aim of writing a blog+book about it (which then got turned into this movie), rather than someone actually using ayahuasca as an opportunity for personal healing / spiritual growth. As such, it comes across like he was trying to spin-out as much as possible from his rather limited actual experience, and his descriptions of his experiences feel very overblown, and lacking in much reflection/wisdom.
There's plenty of other good movies on the subject of ayahuasca which I would recommend ahead of this one, i.e. The Sacred Science, anything about Gabor Mate's work, Tierra Vida An Ayahuasca Journey, DMT The Spirit Molecule, etc.
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