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Peyote (Lophophora williamsii) is a small cactus of the Chihuahuan Desert that has a history of human use dating back at least 6,00

Francisca Campos do Nascimento, Madrinha Chica Gabriel Pela sagrada noite amazônica de 23 de Novembro de 2017, a Vila Ivonete (Rio Branco – Acre) está em festa. Comemora-se 26 anos de existência do Centro Espírita Obras de Caridade Príncipe Espadarte, a Barquinha da Madrinha Chica Gabriel, igreja ayahuasqueira da linha espiritual do Mestre Daniel Pereira de Mattos, o Frei Daniel. Neste ano festeja-se também os 60 anos de chegada de Dona Chica à Missão do seu querido Mestre. Foi assim: atormentada por tumores que lhe cobriam o corpo dos pés à cabeça, Francisca Campos do Nascimento estava como que "desenganada" pelos médicos". Os medicamentos já não surtiam efeitos. Seu marido, Francisco Gabriel do Nascimento (03.07.1914 – 02.03.2017) a levou para uma consulta com o Mestre Daniel. Era uma manhã de domingo, 20 de maio de 1957 e, caminhando pelo estreito varadouro a caminho da Vila Ivonete, Dona Chica elevou o pensamento, rogando por sua cura. Prometeu que se ficasse boa continuaria

Los nuevos usos de la ayahuasca | Originaria de la selva amazónica, los quechuas la llamaron "la soga de los muertos". Sin ser una droga, algunos terapeutas empiezan a usar este preparado de plantas para tratar traumas, adicciones, trastornos y depresiones agudas, con resultados asombrosos. - LA NACION

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This year Plant Consciousness London was the biggest edition of the event to date, testimony to the ever increasing acceptance and understanding of the higher intelligence of nature.  We focused on Plants For Transformation and as usual an amazing line-up of speakers presented profound teachings on a vast array of plants, trees and fungi and we are offering you access to these teachings FREE for 5 days!

The following four documents represent chapters in what is an on-going investigation into a pre-Indo-European ethnocultural substrate of Europe, a substrate whose presence is clearly visible in the performance art encountered in many regions of contemporary Europe. 

The research, led by a team from Exeter University and University College London, is believed to be the biggest yet to look into the effects of ayahuasca. It was based on 96,000 people.

MDMA-assisted psychotherapy readies for phase III trials, a last step before possible prescription use in PTSD patients

Une franco-péruvienne et un Péruvien de 31 ans ont été condamnés mardi à Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) à deux ans de prison et un an avec sursis après la mort en 2011 d'une femme de 57 ans, ex directrice de crèche à Paris. 

For more than a decade, a close continuity, rather than opposition, has linked Viveiros de Castro’s “perspectivism” and Descola’s “animism”. Both theories are based on Amazonian ethnographic material and should be seen as theoretical constructions of the “Lowland” developed to explain the specicity of Amazonian ontologies. Today, both models exist independently of the south Amerindian data. In this paper, I will present some North-West Amazonian ritual and mythological material that illustrates the first, as well as the second theoretical point of view. The main aim of this paper is to show that general cognitive  phenomena involved in the act of perception, such as anthropomorphism and analogical projection, are able to give an account of some Amazonian ontologies, especially if we draw iconographical expressions of past and present societies into the discussion.

Después de dos días de conversaciones entre el Gobierno Nacional y los pueblos indígenas Koguis, Arhuacos, Wiwas y Kankuamos de la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, se logró adelantar un diálogo intercultural, esperado por muchos años, que permitió establecer diferentes acuerdos  dirigidos a un modelo de desarrollo económico sostenible que proteja el medio ambiente y vele por la integridad de sus territorios y del Parque Nacional Natural Tayrona, declarado por la Unesco Patrimonio de la Humanidad.

Durante la última década, el interés y el uso de la ayahuasca se ha expandido de manera exponencial. Este fenómeno ha activado tanto el avance de la investigación científica sobre sus efectos, riesgos y potencial terapéutico, como serios desafíos legales, éticos y de sostenibilidad.

While many of us in the psychedelic community are clear that plant medicines shouldn’t be criminalized, there is less agreement regarding wha

Salvo engano, durante a AYA2016 aconteceu a maior concentração de etnias e lideranças indígenas que a Capital do Estado da Floresta – o Acre – jamais tenha visto. Agora, este importante momento se repetirá na TI Puyanawa, no extremo oeste da Amazônia Brasileira.

Debbora Battaglia’s essay opens portals to entire worlds that turn around plants, sites in which people and their attendant techniques, technologies, and magic get caught in the spiralling whorl of plant beings and doings. Plants are, like their roots, entangling.Nourishing, aromatic, sensitive, and sentient, plants entice entire ecologies of other creatures to participate in their care and their propagation: they have the know-how to entrain others in service of their rhythms, their wiles, and desires (Hustak and Myers 2012). And, as it turns out, people might be the best equipped of all other creatures, to respond to their every whim

  Terence McKenna is among the most-sampled voices in the world of psychedelic electronic music. I actually suspect he is the single most-sampled individual, but am willing to admit that my position on this may be skewed by my own availability heuristic as his archivist. I would actually be quite interested to hear from any…

Brian Eno teamed up with neuroscientist Mendel Kaelen to create an app for therapeutic music – and it ended up expanding both their minds.

Devon experts say it could also help reduce alcohol addiction

We deny ourselves the opportunity to really understand the force that causes the worst events in our world.

‘Tawai ’ is the word the indigenous hunter-gatherers of Borneo use to describe their connection with nature. It’s also a new film about human potential by explorer Bruce Parry. He talks about balancing scepticism and spirituality, why he gave up sex, and the Siberian mountain named after him

Archaeology and indigenous history of Native Amazonian peoples in the Upper Xingu region of Brazil reveal unexpectedly complex regional settlement pat-terns and large-scale transformations of local landscapes over the past mil-lennium. Mapping and excavation of archaeological structures document pro-nounced human-induced alteration of the forest cover, particularly in relationto large, dense late-prehistoric settlements (circa 1200 to 1600 A.D.). Thefindings contribute to debates on human carrying capacity, population size andsettlement patterns, anthropogenic impacts on the environment, and the im-portance of indigenous knowledge, as well as contributing to the pride of placeof the native peoples in this part of the Amazon

The Ju/’hoansi people of the Kalahari have always been fiercely egalitarian. They hate inequality or showing off, and shun formal leadership institutions. It’s what made them part of the most successful, sustainable civilisation in human history

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