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5. Davila pouring a cup of ayahuasca
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Flor Gonzales, Hummingbird Church participant:
"Ayahuasca is, is from the earth. It's from God. And I believe that we can open our eyes to things that we don't see."
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7. Davila serves a cup of ayahuasca
8. Lorenzo Gonzales drinking a cup of ayahuasca
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9. Empty cups
ON SCREEN TEXT: Ayahuasca is a psychoactive brew made from two Amazonian plants that when combined are known to cause hours-long visions.
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10. Hands removing leaves from plant. This is the chacrona or rainha plant (Psichotria viridis)
11. The mariri or jagube vine (Banisteriopsis caapi), component of the ayahuasca brew
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12. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Saleena Subaiya, researcher at New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Irving Medical Center:
"It's been used ceremonially. It's been used socially and used as medicine. It's been used religiously as a sacrament. And we're now seeing it more and more being used therapeutically."
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13. Various of men preparing ayahuasca
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14. Men at Purpuramanta centre of the Uniao do Vegetal organisation holding glasses in their hands, say a prayer and drink the ayahuasca tea
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15. SOUNDBITE (English) Draulio B. De Araujo, Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do Norte:
"It was through the Brazilian religions that ayahuasca is spread mainly through two of the religions, Uniao do Vegetal, or UDV and the Santo Daime Church. So these were the two main churches that started spreading ayahuasca throughout the world."
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16. Drone view of Hildale where Hummingbird Church hosted an ayahuasca ceremony
ON SCREEN TEXT: Recent demand for ayahuasca has led to the formation of hundreds of what many call psychedelic churches across the U.S.
17. Eloy Delgadillo, musician and facilitator for Hummingbird Church, practicing music for the ceremony
ON SCREEN TEXT: And although ayahuasca is still federally illegal, these churches believe they are protected under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
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18. Courtney Close, Founder of Hummingbird Church, folding sheets
19. Various of Close's tattoos
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20. SOUNDBITE (English) Courtney Close, Founder of Hummingbird Church:
"Our hope is to build an actual church."
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Psychedelic spiritual groups grow in U.S.
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