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Situation like this, try to put lipstick on a pig. what no one is talking about is the tragic policy failure that is libya and was at the time and certainly is now. and that was a bipartisan failure. its like a group of people getting together, burning down a house ar at least setting it on fire so its so decrepit its almost falling over and when it kills a small child later on, we get mad at them for that. >> right. >> but not for burning the house down. this is a real tragedy. libya is still b...

Those web site. we found out the posts he viewed were unrelated to a child-free lifestyle. >> if youre the defense attorney do you punt him on the stan or wait until later to decide. >> i want to hear the case that the prosecutor -- they have the burden. unless i hear something that says, you need to go loud and make your defense. >> for to you you just -- not at that time at all. >> the prosecutors are overprosecuting. >> exactly. >> overcharged. >> that would be the argument i would make, and ...

There are people in there who are having extremely intense experiences. and then theres stan who has been kind of sitting there just stoically the whole night. its hard to tell how or if ayahuasca has affected him. >> one person tripping hard is roman. his very physical performance contrasts sharply with the first-timers who struggle to keep it together during this five-hour ordeal. but whether anyone will experience real healing will have to wait for the light of day. ive been around a lot of p...

You actually go there. >> night falls. stans psychedelic journey begins. ron blesses the hut using rituals hes learned from local indigenous healers. this is where the ceremony is going to take place. in a little while its going to be pitch black in here, and ron is going to be presiding from his altar. this first part of the ceremony is called the purge. so youll see a lot of basins in front of the chairs. thats because its inevitable that people will start to vomit profusely or even have to de...

That, too. but then hes got that shadow. i guess some people get more sad than others. >> how bad is his depression? >> sometimes he will just lay in bed like he doesnt want to get up. or he will not go to sleep, and it creates friction and arguments, and you just cant really talk to him. >> when hes in the grip of depression, stan feels the need to isolate. even as his family gathers, he pulls away, cutting himself off from those he loves. >> how does that make you feel, that he cant have dinne...

Believe in difficult times in my life consciously and subconsciously they will be with me protecting me. i just know that. >> while ayahuasca might be protecting romans soul, its been having a field day with his body and mind. like magic mushrooms ayahuasca contains a psychedelic agent called dimethyltryptamine, or dmt. dmt accelerates and enhances communication in the brain between areas responsible for sense of self, emotion and perception. scientists believe this induces a dream-like or hypno...

Stans tried them all and nothings worked. now hes ready to try something extreme. stan is preparing to fly to the jungles of peru to search for a cure, in the form of a powerful hallucinogenic concoction called ayahuasca. >> what are you hoping happens over the course of the next 12 days? >> im hoping to go to resolve that kind of lingering, undefinable dark cloud that follows me around and not have it there anymore, so its not subverting my life. so im hoping ayahuasca will help me go inward an...

Fighting off this bigger person. it definitely put a cloud over things, and i distinctly remember after, maybe like a week or two after, i remember saying, like, im different. like im scared of the world. there was a violent element to it, so it really overloaded my nervous system. and i remember saying why does everything look kind of not so colorful like it used to? >> in the years following this traumatic event, stan grew up living a typical middle-class life but continued to be haunted by hi...

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♪ in a peaceful town in pennsylvanias heartland, a successful internet entrepreneur is raising his family. this is 40-year-old stan. >> higher? >> from the outside, hes got it all. two adorable daughters and a beautiful wife named birgit. you might think stan has the perfect life. but youd be wrong. hes been haunted by a traumatic event over three decades old. >> when i was 6 years old, you know, i ended up getting molested by a stranger outside the house. that changed things for me. >> how ...