Kyle Nolan, right, pictured with his triplet sister Marion and triplet brother, Kevin. <\/p>\n
STORY HIGHLIGHTS <\/p>\n
Is ayahuasca a natural remedy for anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder or just another drug fad? Lisa Ling goes inside an ayahuasca ceremony in the Amazon on this week's episode of \"This Is Life With Lisa Ling: Jungle Fix\" Sunday, October 26, at 10 p.m. ET\/PT. <\/p>\n
(CNN) -- Kyle Nolan did his research -- his mother made sure of that. She didn't want her 18-year-old son heading to the Amazon jungle at all -- let alone, without learning everything he could about the supposed \"medicine\" with the bizarre name that he insisted would help him turn his young life around. <\/p>\n
\"I really tried to discourage him ... I kept telling him over and over, there are no easy answers in life,\" Ingeborg Oswald said. <\/p>\n
But she knew she couldn't stop him. <\/p>\n
Overshadowed by his \"overachieving\" triplet brother and sister, Oswald said Kyle \"was going through this teenage crisis, not knowing what he wanted to do with his life.\" <\/p>\n
He had dropped out of junior college and was living with his mother, when he somehow discovered ayahuasca, (pronounced \"eye-uh-WAHS-kuh\") a psychedelic brew that some believe can help users achieve a higher state of consciousness. <\/p>\n
\"He went online and started reading all these positive things about ayahuasca, which is something I had never heard of before,\" Oswald said. \"Apparently there's a huge, positive movement toward ayahuasca. And he thought that that would help him maybe discover who he was.\" <\/p>\n
His research led him to the Shimbre Shamanic Center in a remote corner of the Peruvian Amazon region. Oswald said the center's website made its ayahuasca experience \"sound very individualized.\" <\/p>\n
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