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RealityTV: Sacred Weeds - Salvia Divinorum

Dr Françoise Barbira-Freedman, medical anthropologist and lecturer at the University of Cambridge Dr Tim Kendall, psychiatrist and director of the Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies Dr Jon Robbins, pharmacologist at ...

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Seeing with eyes wide shut: Ayahuasca inner visions

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Mo Costandi: Functional neuroimaging reveals the neural basis of the intense imagery induced by the "spirit vine"...

"In a hut, in a forest, in the mountains of Colombia, I am puking into a bucket. I close my eyes and every time my body convulses I see ripples in a lattice of multi-coloured hexagons that flows out to the edges of the universe." Vaughan Bell's description seems to be typical of the ayahuasca experience – at once unpleasant, frightening and enlightening.

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Shamanism: Religion or Neurology?

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Traditional shamanism is neither exclusive nor inclusive. Such limits do not need to be placed. Drawing on the same neurological processes, both accomplish healing outcomes different ways.
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