by Scottie “Zorro Escondido” Schneider and Dra Alejandra Monsalve Henao
Ayahuasca is not new.
What’s new is how the modern world has begun to approach it — often with good intentions, but without the context that gives it meaning.
Over the years, I’ve watched hundreds of seekers travel to the jungle searching for healing.
Most arrive open-hearted, ready to change their lives. But I’ve also seen a pattern repeating itself:
people come with expectations shaped by the West — speed, intensity, results — and leave without understanding why the experience didn’t unfold the way they hoped.
They didn’t fail.
They were simply walking into an ancient tradition through a modern lens that doesn’t fit.
This book isn’t about Ayahuasca itself.
It’s about the gaps that appear when an old medicine meets a restless culture — when sacred process collides with modern pace.
Today that rediscovery is happening through Ayahuasca and the ancestral medicines of the Earth.
But the same modern mind that created our disconnection now shapes how we “consume” reconnection.
I’ve seen thousands of people arrive at the maloka searching for truth — good people with good hearts. They come for healing, clarity, belonging. They sit with the medicine, often for the first time, and touch something real: humility, honesty, awe.