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Experience the days of free living and free love in Sonoma County, and learn about two local communes' psychedelic rise and fall.

At the 2016 Adventure Travel World Summit, Keith Henry, CEO of the Aboriginal Tourism Association of Canada, made the following profound statement:

Have you ever thought of visiting an ayahuasca lodge in Iquitos to experience a “traditional” medical treatment? Well, forget abou

Chapter 3 Animism and the Meanings of Life: Reflections from Amazonia

A story about traditional farming practices and the need to value indigenous knowledge. ’

Modern-day pilgrims and tourists are flocking to a baptismal site in the Holy Land in search of religious experience—and souvenirs.

New tourism based on consumption of the plant brew in the Amazon known as ayahuasca is booming, for better and for worse.

Padre Carlos Diharce, sacerdote jesuita de origen cubana, desde el año 1972 está encargado de la misión de Santa Maria de Nieva, en la Amazonia Peruana

"A Ayahuasca, ela mostra, mas se a pessoa tem seus defeitos, se você não quer se corrigir, você não vai se corrigir, ela precisa querer, é preciso se esforçar, exercitar, para encontrar aí uma prática mais fiel" (Edilsom Fernandes). Padrinho Fernando (Edilsom Fernandes) e Madrinha Zeza (Maria José) Entre os anos de 2012 e 2016, uma profícua experiência foi desenvolvida com o uso de Ayahuasca, através de um convênio entre a ONG Acuda e a instituição religiosa ayahuasqueira Lar de Frei Manuel (Barquinha de Ji-Paraná, Rondônia). Os apenados do regime fechado ou semiaberto que eram assistidos pela Acuda, passaram a participar das cerimônias religiosas da Igreja ayahuasqueira, de livre e espontânea vontade. A Acuda (Associação Cultural e de Desenvolvimento do Apenado e Egresso) desenvolve atividades de reabilitação de presidiários do Complexo Penitenciário de Porto Velho – Rondônia. São traficantes de drogas, estupradores, pedófilos e homicidas. A Igreja de Daime (Ayahuasca) de Ji-Paraná

"Teach children that there's nothing wrong with this."

Existen muchas personas que están llegando a nuestro país a realizar
"ceremonias de ayahuasca". sin la preparació

Una asociación llamada ´Ayahuasca Internacional´, a cuyo frente se encuentra Alberto José Varela, ha anunciado en su página web y en Facebook un encuentro que tiene planeado celebrar en Ibiza del 3 al 6 de agosto.El evento se publicita como un 'retir

This is the third and longest part of a paper that I presented at the recent Latin American Studies Association (LASA) conference in Lima. (The first part of the paper, called called ‘Introduction: Origins, Globalization and Uses of Ayahuasca’  can be read here and the second part can be read here.)  i) Post-colonial Perspectives. The remainder of…

With footprints all over the globe, adventure travel companies have the opportunity to make a lasting, positive impact in the communities within which they

Perhaps best known for the BBC series Tribe and Amazon, Bruce Parry has built upon those previous experiences and encounters to a create a powerful and visually stunning film titled 'Tawai' - a word used by the nomadic hunter-gatherers of Borneo to describe their inner feeling of connection to nature. Tawai will go on general release in September 2017, and ahead of its launch Bruce sat down with Lush's Charlie Moores and Matt Shaw to discuss the film and how making it has deeply affected and changed him.

Resumen. Este trabajo analiza el modo en que movimientos religiosos contemporáneos recrean pasados históricos y tradiciones religiosas dentro de nuevos marcos organizacionales y cosmológicos, los que pueden verse como una crítica cultural a la

La ceremonia del “Datem umaja imutai waimaktasa” o purgahuasca, en español, es uno de los procedimientos terapéuticos de la cultura Awajún que desd

Peru’s glaciers have made it a laboratory for adapting to climate change. It’s not going well.

La Ciudad Blanca - Modern explorers can “discover” an ancient site, but the people living in the area already have extensive knowledge about their region’s history.

El maestro curandero awajun Don Walter Cuñachi en su paso por Takiwasi nos brindó nuevos e importantes conocimientos sobre la medicina tradiciona

ICEERS acaba de publicar una nueva edición del Informe Técnico sobre la Ayahuasca, actualizado a 2017. Firmado por diez de los principales investigadores mundiales en el campo de la ayahuasca, este informe es un importante documento que sintetiza algunos de los hallazgos científicos más relevantes de las últimas dos décadas, así como información clave sobre su historia, legalidad, farmacología, potencial terapéutico y efectos adversos de ayahuasca. Está destinado a proveer información objetiva y actualizada para los responsables políticos, jueces, abogados y otros funcionarios encargados del desarrollo de políticas, programas, legislación y/o involucrados en casos legales relacionados con ayahuasca.

Pity the boho “traveler” in search of authentic adventure in foreign lands. Softened by privilege, backpack crammed with the comforts of home and the expectations of youth, they crave “experience…

Last week I wrote about challenging the dominance of English in writing for research and academia. That theme is also relevant to this post, though here it's more about challenging Euro-Western epistemologies and methods than the English language itself. Over the last year I have built a personal library of books about, or relevant to,…

Promises of psychedelic science include the opportunity to transform consciousness itself, to creatively generate new solutions to ol