The American actor had dozens of experiences with the hallucinogenic plant on his trips to Peru. In one of them, he could see how he lost his money and career, but he came out stronger emotionally.
By Sergio Herrera
Will Smith never ceases to amaze. In the last episode of the show My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, hosted by presenter David Letterman, the actor confessed that he had a traumatic experience in Peru. And it was none other than consuming ayahuasca. the protagonist of I’m legend and the trilogy men in black revealed that he made 14 ayahuasca “trips” in Peru over a two-year period. These confessions were made shortly before the remembered incident that Smith starred in the last edition of the Academy Awards. As you remember, the actor slapped the presenter Chris Rock, after hearing a dirty joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith.
How was your experience with ayahuasca?
Ayahuasca is a hallucinogenic plant from the Amazon jungle that is consumed as a drink. While local peoples defend its use due to the “mental openness” it produces, in countries like Chile it is illegal due to the serious effects it generates on the nervous system.
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About his experiences with the hallucinogenic plant, Smith declared that “one of the times it was the most hellish individual psychological experience” of his life. The Oscar winner said that he saw how he lost his career and fortune in the blink of an eye. “I started seeing all my money fly away and my house was gone, and my career was gone, and I was trying to grab my money, and my career and my whole life was being destroyed. This is my fear, and I’m there, but I feel like throwing up,” Smith confessed. Not only that, but the actor heard her daughter Willow screaming for help and he couldn’t see her.
Through this shocking experience, the actor came to a solid conclusion. “I realized that I can handle anything that happens in my life. I can handle anyone who loses, I can handle anything that goes wrong, I can handle anything in my marriage,” she confessed to Letterman.
Finally, Smith assures that the main teaching of his “trips” with ayahuasca is that “99 percent of the things that worry you never happen. 99 percent of your pain and misery is all self-generated; It’s not real”. the protagonist of King Richard He considers that he developed a confidence and a love for himself that he never had. “I trust that I will be fine, no matter what happens,” he concluded.
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