Deep in the Peruvian jungle, a luxury ayahuasca retreat has announced the installation of Starlink internet in its ceremonial maloca after repeated complaints from spiritual influencers and psychedelic Substackers regarding connectivity issues on site.
The Temple of the Inner Healer retreat center confirmed this week that it is now able to provide uninterrupted livestream capability during ayahuasca ceremonies and emotionally vulnerable integration circles, guaranteeing their clientele the ability to performatively heal and overshare with their followers while the experiences are happening in real time.
“I bring my social media audience with me everywhere — it’s part of my process,” explained Moonflower, a popular plant medicine TikToker who has no family connection to Raytheon. “Livestreaming an ayahuasca ceremony might sound controversial to some, but this is what the medicine wants — and my 400,000 followers — have called for me to do”.
The upgraded ceremony space now features ring lights made from reclaimed jungle bamboo, drone charging stations, and a designated “ego death reaction cam” mounted directly above participants’ mattresses.
Guests can also purchase a premium ‘Creator Package’ featuring a dedicated content team to follow them throughout the retreat and edit their breakthroughs into viral short-form clips optimized for cross-platform engagement.
One attendee, a psychedelic business coach from Austin, praised the innovation after successfully hosting a sponsored livestream commemorating her first-ever ayahuasca ceremony.
“At one point I became convinced I was spiritually merging with the algorithm itself,” she recalled. “We hit 400,000 viewers before I finished purging into the artisan bucket, and by the time the effects of the medicine wore off I’d already covered my expenses for the entire trip thanks to the generosity of my viewers.”
Critics argue the addition of Starlink and capitulation to spiritual influencers is disrespectful of sacred Indigenous traditions. The foreign retreat organizers disagree, clarifying that .2% of all profits generated by the center — which is actually registered as a non-profit in Canada — are allocated towards reciprocity initiatives including providing the local staff access to locally grown ‘artisanal’ coffee beans from a plot next door in place of the Nescafe that they are accustomed to.