Levy, Ariel (b. 1974)

The Secret Life of Plants [from The New Yorker]

September 12, 2016

"'I thought I had completely fried my motherboard,' he continued. 'I remember saying, ''I will never do this again.''"

Like juicing--another Kale Age method of expedient renewal--ayahuasca is appreciated for its efficiency. Enthusiasts often say that each trip is like ten years of therapy or meditation. Ferriss, the author of such "life-hacking" manuals as "The 4-Hour Workweek" and "The 4-Hour Body," told me, "It's mind-boggling how much it can do in one or two nights." He uses ayahuasca regularly, despite a harrowing early trip that he described as "the most painful experience I've ever had by a factor of a thousand. I felt like I was being torn apart and killed a thousand times a second for two hours." This was followed by hours of grand-mal seizures; Ferriss had rug burns on his face the next day. "I thought I had completely fried my motherboard," he continued. "I remember saying, 'I will never do this again.'" But in the next few months he realized that something astounding had happened to him. "Ninety per cent of the anger I had held on to for decades, since I was a kid, was just gone. Absent."
(p. 32)

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Reading

Ariel Levy, "The Secret Life of Plants" The New Yorker (September 12, 2016). Print.

Text from online article, titled "The Drug of Choice for the Age of Kale" (September 5, 2016). <Link to newyorker.com>

09/15/2016