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Considering "Tearing Open The Placenta Of Reality"? Check Out The Ayahuasca Monologues
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Christopher Robbins
Published Dec 10, 2014
Modified Dec 12, 2014
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Your Tinder date might be impressed by how you totally smoked a lot of DMT at Bennington, but will your pride survive a brush with the impenetrable quickening? On Friday, The Evolver Network is hosting the 6th Annual Ayahuasca Monologues: Tales of the Spirit Vine, where you can "hear of experiences both miraculous and terrifying, humorous and adventurous, humbling and revelatory when Westerners drink ayahuasca."
The evening's discussion features TV "medicine hunter" Chris Kilham, Vikram Gandhi (from that movie about the guy who fools people into thinking he is a prophet), a guy who used to play with Van Morrison and James Taylor, "drag icon" and performance artist Shelly Mars, and the reliably excellent Hamilton Morris.
Wait, you don't know what ayahuasca is?
The event is at the Marlin Room at Webster Hall. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door (Webster Hall doesn't give a shit about the ephemerality of currency nor the permanence of your spirit animal). There is also an afterparty at "A Brooklyn loft, TBA." But yeah, sure, your roommate's office holiday party will probably be more fun.
[Thank you, Wade Davis, for your superb Amazon reviews sentence that BIRTHED this headline]
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Christopher Robbins
Christopher Robbins is a New York City reporter covering transportation, affordable housing, local politics, and criminal justice. His work has also appeared in New York Magazine, The Village Voice and The New York Times. Chris is a graduate of Patrick Henry High School in Roanoke, Virginia, and enjoys biking to Fort Tilden in the summertime.
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