The Long, Strange Trip of Rick Perry
Objects flew past him. Some of them appeared to resemble Maya hieroglyphics. He saw an arm reaching out for him, and attached to it was a figure with horns. 'Satan, get behind me,' he heard himself say. The figure instantly disappeared.
Mr. Perry's hallucinations, induced by the powerful psychotropic drug ibogaine he had taken about 45 minutes before putting on his eye mask, continued for more than 12 hours. The experience was an ordeal. He vomited intermittently and lost much of his body coordination. It took all of Wednesday to recover.
But on Thursday morning, Mr. Perry recalled in describing his experience publicly for the first time, 'I woke up very clearheaded, with this very warm feeling in my body. I was as calm and as happy as I'd been in memory.'
Since that experience, Mr. Perry, 75, a social conservative, has emerged as a leading champion of ibogaine as a potential treatment for brain trauma, addiction and even cognitive decline.
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