Sitting in a muggy hotel room, we spoke to Stevens – granted parole by local police – a day after the killing, after two witnesses corroborated his version of self-defence. Toxicology results now show that only one of them had consumed ayahuasca – Gomes.Īyahuasca is a plant brew with psychedelic qualities, traditionally consumed by tribesmen for medicine and religious aid, and increasingly, luring Westerners into the Amazon.Īs Stevens and other witnesses attest, he and Gomes had met two weeks earlier and fostered a close friendship while at the Phoenix Ayahuasca Retreat, near the Peruvian jungle city of Iquitos. He pierced him once in the stomach and once in the heart. On Wednesday, December 16, Joshua Stevens, 29, a Canadian from Winnipeg who has been experimenting with psychedelic plants for the last eight years, stabbed to death Unais Gomes, 26, a Cambridge-educated British engineer, in the Peruvian jungle city of Iquitos. But that night, all I could sense from him was evil. We spoke for four or five hours a day about philosophy, health and world politics.
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