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Noah Kagan Presents

Drugs and Spiritual Journeys — a Conversation with an Ayahuasca Shaman

Noah Kagan Presents

Noah Kagan

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Recently, I went on an Ayahuasca retreat. It changed my life, and the shaman’s story was insane. Here’s someone who quit a job in finance, and gave up everything, to lead Ayahuasca retreats. In today’s podcast, we talk about how he started doing Ayahuasca retreats, what goes into an Ayahuasca ceremony, and the downsides of Ayahuasca.

Full show notes at http://okdork.com/podcast/64

Transcript

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0:00.0

Gave you a little ear massage there. I hope you're having an amazing day. What's up you

0:07.0

sexy bastards? It's your boy Earl Gray, aka Rabbi Can't Lose, aka Noah Kagan.

0:12.2

In today's episode is part two of my Iowasca story

0:15.0

if you haven't read or heard part one check it out at okay dork dot com slash aya

0:20.0

that's okay dork dot com slash a y a you'll learn about the worst night of my life and how it ended with me being in the fetal position crying yeah it's it's pretty nuts so part two today is the first half of my conversation with the shaman who did my Iowaasca ceremony.

0:35.8

I wanted to learn a lot more about him.

0:37.6

His name is Zach Poitra and so he's a guy who quit his career in finance, moved to the jungles of Guatemala, and now takes people on

0:46.0

Iowasca journeys.

0:47.0

He's done over 5,000 of them.

0:48.9

I hope my son turns out like him.

0:50.6

I really do.

0:51.6

This guy's awesome, and he's a very introspective person and I loved

0:54.2

hearing a story and sharing it with you. You're going to learn more about him at Iowaasca family.com, that's

0:59.5

A-Y-A-H-U-A-S-C-A-F-A-M-I-L-Y dot com. a hu a s c a f a m i m i k k stay in school, do your own research, yada yada, just be smart.

1:13.3

I don't encourage you to go do this,

1:14.4

be at your own risk.

1:16.5

All right, in today's chat, we talked about

1:17.9

how this guy went from working in finance,

1:19.8

so working just in a regular job, just like yourself,

1:21.7

to giving up everything to do

1:23.4

meditation retreats. Number two, what goes into making the Iowaasca

1:27.2

ceremony so powerful? This is something that if you're trying to improve yourself,

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