Beliefs in and experiences of sorcery, black magic and brujería among psychedelic users: a quantitative and qualitative survey
June 19, 2026 Jules Evans, Christian Jurlando, David Luke et al. preprint
Sorcery, black magic, and supernatural harm are central to many Amazonian shamanic traditions, yet their role in contemporary Western psychedelic culture has received little systematic empirical attention. Ethnographic work suggests that Western participants in ayahuasca tourism often downplay indigenous sorcery frameworks in favour of psychological or therapeutic interpretations of difficult...