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How a Wellness Retreat Led to This College Student's Vanishing | Disappearance of Christine Walters

The psychoactive part of ayahuasca is known as DMT, which can be detected in the body through a urine test up to 24, maybe even 48 hours after consumption.

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How a Wellness Retreat Led to This College Student's Vanishing | Disappearance of Christine Walters

Again, if this is something that happened preceding her paranoia and winding up on the front porch of someone's house,

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How a Wellness Retreat Led to This College Student's Vanishing | Disappearance of Christine Walters

It kind of gives a loose timeline, but again, with her drug screening being negative, it's all back in the Merc.

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How a Wellness Retreat Led to This College Student's Vanishing | Disappearance of Christine Walters

I mean, we've seen it in cases before, the thallium poisoning of Xuling.

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How a Wellness Retreat Led to This College Student's Vanishing | Disappearance of Christine Walters

Oh, yeah.

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How a Wellness Retreat Led to This College Student's Vanishing | Disappearance of Christine Walters

You know, like in hindsight, you're like, why aren't you testing for thallium poisoning when people are saying that these are symptoms of thallium?

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How a Wellness Retreat Led to This College Student's Vanishing | Disappearance of Christine Walters

But again, in this instance, it's kind of like, all right, let's just run a broad panel.

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How a Wellness Retreat Led to This College Student's Vanishing | Disappearance of Christine Walters

What do you go for?

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How a Wellness Retreat Led to This College Student's Vanishing | Disappearance of Christine Walters

Especially when sometimes there are like really fringe drugs out there that the

Red Web
How a Wellness Retreat Led to This College Student's Vanishing | Disappearance of Christine Walters

or they're like just not, I don't know, popular or common.

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How a Wellness Retreat Led to This College Student's Vanishing | Disappearance of Christine Walters

And so the odds are low and you know, whatever.

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How a Wellness Retreat Led to This College Student's Vanishing | Disappearance of Christine Walters

But again, we won't know because we don't know what was tested for.

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How a Wellness Retreat Led to This College Student's Vanishing | Disappearance of Christine Walters

But coming back to the tea ceremony, this idea of cleansing, it was led by a shaman named Tito Santana.

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How a Wellness Retreat Led to This College Student's Vanishing | Disappearance of Christine Walters

Now, I flagged this name here in my notes because I don't think he ever comes back around as a suspect.

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How a Wellness Retreat Led to This College Student's Vanishing | Disappearance of Christine Walters

I don't know if that's because there wasn't enough information on that matter, but it is interesting because these ceremonies, you know, they have been performed for centuries.

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How a Wellness Retreat Led to This College Student's Vanishing | Disappearance of Christine Walters

This is something that has crossed many cultures, and the intent here is to kind of bring visions, self-realization, the idea of ego death.

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How a Wellness Retreat Led to This College Student's Vanishing | Disappearance of Christine Walters

to merge your consciousness with the greater reality, the universe, and sometimes even purging and vomiting.

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How a Wellness Retreat Led to This College Student's Vanishing | Disappearance of Christine Walters

I mean, there's a range of motivations behind a cleansing or a ceremony of this nature.

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How a Wellness Retreat Led to This College Student's Vanishing | Disappearance of Christine Walters

Now, in rare instances, it needs to be noted, right?

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How a Wellness Retreat Led to This College Student's Vanishing | Disappearance of Christine Walters

If an individual is predisposed to a mental illness, you know, sometimes ayahuasca, DMT, or any of these drugs can essentially unlock parts of your DNA, things that you might have otherwise been predisposed to.