A story of recreational drugs.

So, like a month ago I caught up on the phone with my one lawyer friend from (Missouri)'s one former neighbor who is also from (Missouri), who has worked corporate. She was saying that she and her husband finally fulfilled a dream of hers, and they both did ayahuasca in the Yucatan, which she was surprised is so close to the U.S. by air, "It's like you get on the plane in Florida and then you get right off it again and you're there." "So what was that like?", I was like, and she said that at a certain point her skin melted away and she could see all of her internal organs and they had all turned into gold, and that she couldn't stop laughing, and that after it was all over, you couldn't eat enough fruit and vegetables, it was like they were life, but meat just tasted so nasty. She also said that there was this (Portuguese) woman there, and the entire time she was curled up in the corner crying, and at one point her husband saw a shadow, but neither of them experienced it. Also also, during the debrief, she still wasn't quite out of it yet -- she didn't like that part of the way the host ran it, she wouldn't go with him again -- and she doesn't remember quite what the (Portuguese) woman said, but she knows that she was still laughing, and she just laughed the whole time, while this traumatized (Portuguese) woman who had been curled up in the corner crying was telling the group everything that she had experienced. "Wow," I was like. "Yeah," she was like. "I was so embarrassed, I apologized the next morning at breakfast." "What did she say?", I was like. "She actually she said that it was good to hear me laugh, to know that someone else was having a good time." "Wow," I was like. Towards the end of the conversation, too, she also said that at a different time in her life she's tried studying to be a shaman, and she offered to buy for me a book written by the guy that she's studied with, who also has a Ph.D. in psychology but has dropped out of society and doesn't even use the interent so that he can be more attuned to people.