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Psychedelic churches in US pushing boundaries of religion

The Hummingbird Church hosts an ayahuasca ceremony next to a cemetery where infants of The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a polygamist offshoot of the Mormon church, were buried, in Hildale, Utah, on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2022. A handful of former FLDS members attended the ceremony to help heal and understand past trauma. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski) Hummingbird Church hosts an ayahuasca retreat in the small town of Hildale, Utah, just south of Zion National Park, on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2022. The town was previously known as the stronghold for The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a polygamist offshoot of the Mormon church. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski) Maeleene Jessop, a former member of The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a polygamist offshoot of the Mormon church, second from left, talks with her fellow participants before the third and final ayahuasca ceremony during a retreat hosted by the Hummingbird Church, in Hildale, Utah, on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2022. Hummingbird is part of a growing global trend in which people are turning to ayahuasca to treat an array of health problems after conventional medications and therapy failed them. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski).