Tim Robbins turns to ayahuasca after feeling 'consumed by anger' over cancel culture

Oscar-winning actor Tim Robbins says an ayahuasca trip helped him break free from the anger he felt over America's deep divide.Robbins revealed the psychedelic experience left him feeling "completely lighter" after years of frustration with cancel culture and political polarization.The "Shawshank Redemption" star said he turned to the Amazonian psychedelic brew with one goal in mind — to stop being "consumed" by outrage over what he sees as the unraveling of modern society.KELSEY GRAMMER SUSPECTS HE 'MAY HAVE' LOST HOLLYWOOD ROLES DUE TO CONSERVATIVE VIEWSTim Robbins told Joe Rogan how an ayahuasca ceremony helped him release years of frustration over cancel culture and political polarization.(Ernesto Ruscio / Getty Images)"They tell you to go in with an intention," Robbins said during a candid appearance on "The Joe Rogan Experience." "My intention was to … I was frustrated with feeling anger about what was going on in the world, and I said, 'I want to release that.

I don't want to be consumed by that anger.'"Robbins said his psychedelic experience was an intense spiritual journey that included what he described as an encounter with his late mother."What she said was, 'You're injured.You're a warrior, and you're injured and you need to rest, but the fight's not over,'" Robbins recalled.When Joe Rogan asked what battle he believed he was fighting, Robbins pointed squarely at today's culture wars.Robbins described his intense psychedelic journey that included an encounter with his late mother and left him feeling "completely lighter." (Tristan Fewings / Getty Images)"I was battling my frustration with the dissolution of society, people being angry at each other over ridiculous things, long friendships being affected, people being canceled for expressing their opinion, all this stuff," he said.

"And I wanted out.I wanted to be absolved of that.

I didn't want to be engaged in it."Although Robbins acknowledged skeptics would dismiss the experience, he said it pro...