Festival attendee tells inquest she was warned never to speak of Jarrad Antonovich’s final moments
A participant at a six-day retreat where people ingested hallucinogenic plants and frog toxins was warned never to speak of witnessing the prolonged and agonising death of a fellow attender, an inquest has heard., while attending the Dreaming Arts festival at Arcoora, near Kyogle, in northern New South Wales.
Bella Gardner, a self-described international socialite, was among those who paid hundreds of dollars to attend the Dreaming Arts festival. She told the inquest she saw Antonovich at about 11am on the day of his death, after appearing to have participated in a kambo ceremony.Gardner was alarmed to see Antonovich’s neck swollen to his jawline, she told the inquest on Wednesday.“I’ve never seen anything like that before.
Earlier in the festival, as both were vomiting violently after ingesting ayahuasca, Antonovich had offered her a small blessing to give her courage to get through that “terrible” night, she told the inquest.
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