RedPill3: Altered States, New Beliefs, & QAnon Conversion

Are some ayahuasca plant-medicine ceremony groups becoming platforms for the QAnon conspiracy?

Imagine emerging from the most mentally disorienting, emotionally confronting, physically purgative ordeal of your first heroic spiritual quest, guided by a shaman who has set up the space, prepared you and the group for the journey into previously unexplored territories of your inner world, and sung songs specific to each stage of your experience.

Imagine having this shaman then explain to the circle of highly suggestible, super-open and vulnerable participants who still have one foot in a potent altered state, that the plant teachers had revealed to him that our current president was acting on behalf of a Galactic Federation of cosmic beings to fight against a reptilian alien force that operates through Hollywood celebrities and Democrat politicians to enact a cult of pedophiles addicted to drinking the blood of tortured children.

Imagine your first experience happened right before quarantine started, and that your invitation to the next group gathering in a confined space, in which most would vomit, cry, and even scream, and songs would be sung as part of the ceremony; and that this trusted shaman assured you that the plant medicine was anti-viral and so you’d be protected from Covid-19.

The next episode is perhaps as obvious as it is tragic —some unsuspecting participants are converted to this toxic conspiracy narrative, but perhaps much…