How Kyle Kingsbury used ayahuasca to become a happier person and a worse fighter | MMAjunkie
He got taken down over and over again. He got mauled by punches and elbows. Several times he seemed right on the brink of being stopped, only to somehow limp onward in the service of an increasingly hopeless cause. It was the fourth consecutive loss for Kingsbury, the last of his career, according to him, and it wasn’t even close.
It was also a fight he took in part because of experiences he’d had while under the influence of the psychedelic drug ayahuasca, and it was everything he wanted it to be, whether anyone outside the cage realized it or not.
“This was for me,” Kingsbury told MMAjunkie. “This fight was for me. I wanted to see if I could go in there with a clear head and perform. In terms of what I was shooting for from a mental standpoint and an emotional standpoint, I definitely got what I was looking for, and on the biggest stage.”
There’s really no good way to explain to people that you want to fight because of things that happened to you while you were tripping off a brew made of some Amazonian vine. You start throwing around terms like “apex teacher plant” and “dream state,” and it’s bound to get you some funny looks.
There’s really no good way to explain to people that you want to fight because of things that happened to you while you were tripping off a brew made of some Amazonian vine. You start throwing around terms like “apex teacher plant” and “dream state,” and it’s bound to get you some funny looks.
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