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Lauren Levis, who died after taking iboga at the Soul Centro retreat in 2024. (Photo courtesy of the Levis family) American ‘Neoshamans’ Are Running Psychedelics Hotels in Costa Rica—and Someone Died
In August, Lauren Levis lost her life at the Soul Centro retreat in Paquera. Hers isn’t the only death linked to a cast of characters toying with iboga—an African root bark offering one of the wildest drug experiences known to man.
