
1 Season
8 Episode
Last of the Medicine Men - Season 1 Episode 5
Benedict Allen's exploration of the shamanic world takes him to Central America, where he joins a group of Huichol Indians from Mexico's western Sierra Madre on their annual pilgrimage to the desert of Wirikuta in search of the peyote cactus. A powerful hallucinogen, the Huichol believe peyote enables them to communicate with the gods.
- Year: 2000
- Country:
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: BBC Two
- Keyword: mexico, indigenous, voodoo, haiti, hallucinogen, indonesia, shaman, tuva, hallucinogenic drug, peyote, shamanism, witch doctor, psychedelic drug, plant medicine
- Director: Benedict Allen
- Cast: Benedict Allen