When Jonathan Ramalho set out to investigate the healing potential of psychedelic drugs he found himself lured into a world whose dangers he underestimated.
An ayahuasca trip in South America pushed him into a five-month-long psychosis which led to hospitalisation and a diagnosis of schizophrenia. As he explains in one particularly moving part of his new documentary, Beyond the Pill, “it feels like discovering the darkest area of your mind and not being able to close the door on the way out… I started to lose my focus, my grounding…”
