One of the most disconcerting effects of ayahuasca is that sometimes it seems to allow us to “read” other people’s minds or “transmit” ideas without talking. The description of this phenomenon is not anecdotal but very frequent in scientific literature, to the extent that the active substance of ayahuasca (Banisteriopsis […] One of the most disconcerting effects of ayahuasca is that sometimes it seems to allow us to “read” other people’s minds or “transmit” ideas without talking. The description of this phenomenon is not anecdotal but very frequent in scientific literature, to the extent that the active substance of ayahuasca (Banisteriopsis caapi) was baptized as “telepathine”, back in 1915. The term was coined by the Colombian botanist Rafael Zerda Bayon, and appears for the first time in his writing ‘Reports on my scientific tour in the Colombian regions of Caquetá, Bogotá, Colombia’*. However, the mistake of attributing the discovery to American ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes, who began to use the term “telepathine” during the 1940s of the last century. Since Schultes studied yagé in Colombia, he was most likely to know the studies and writings of Zerda Bayón three decades earlier.