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This is the second 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. The second part of the paper, reproduced below, looks at the typical sense-making discourses Western…

Documental de François Delonnay grabado en el 2006 en el Centro Takiwasi. Se presenta y analiza el protocolo innovador para el tratamiento de las adiccione

P: ¿Cómo ha influido la cultura chamánica en su música?
R: Yo trabajo con las plantas amazónicas desde los 17 años por iniciativa de mis papás. Creemos que desarrollan un proceso de distintas tonalidades, especialmente físicas, y ayudan a la prevención de enfermedades. La ayahuasca, por ejemplo, trabaja en el sistema digestivo y la sangre, y te ayuda a mantenerlo limpio y te previene de enfermar. De todas formas, también te permite entrar en un proceso espiritual y psicológico.
P: Que sus padres le dieran ayahuasca podría ser interpretado por muchos como una irresponsabilidad, como que se le está dando droga a un hijo
R: Las plantas han estado clasificadas dentro del mundo de las drogas pero creo que es ignorancia y desconocimiento.

This chapter traces the origins of tobacco use and its variation in Lowland South America. It begins by examining new evidence on the origins of several species in the genus Nicotiana and follows their dispersal across South America. It then mines the archaeological and ethnographic records to explore variation in indigenous tobacco consumption and the cultural materials associated with it. The second half of the chapter describes tobacco’s rise as a valuable commodity during the colonial period, providing observations made by visiting scholars and scientists. Turning attention to present-day rural communities of Brazilian Amazonia, an examination is provided of tobacco production on anthropogenic soils characteristic of archaeological sites, thus linking contemporary tobacco cultivation to the extended history of Amerindian settlement and horticultural practice. By synthesizing archaeological and botanical findings while also examining human societies’ consumptive and productive relationships to tobacco through time, this chapter seeks to illuminate the deep history of tobacco.

"Our self-systems are like leaky buckets. No matter how much pleasure we're getting, we're bleeding from our many holes" - Jamie Weil Join Jason Silva as h

Draulio Barros de Araujo is a professor of neuroimaging at the Brain Institute (UFRN), Natal, Brazil. In recent years his research has focused on usin

Though there previously existed plenty of healers, scientists like the Wasson’s and the tourist community took advantage of the hospitality of curandera María Sabina and turned her into a spectacle, or celebrity. Many profited off of her name while the true purpose of the mushroom rituals, to heal, was distorted into “finding god” by Westerners who did not respect the culture.

Official Post from Rak Razam: Experiential journalist Rak Razam chats with Ben De Loenen, founder and Executive Director of ICEERS (International Centre Enthnobotanical Education Research & Service). These fellow filmmakers have been drawn in by their plant medicine experiences making documentaries to explain the worlds of the s

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In the quixotic quest for the self, few have gone as far (or far out) as neurophysiologist Dr. John C. Lilly (1915–2001). “I have explored,” he wrote in 1977, “and have voluntarily entered into…

Billy, as he was called, was a tall, charming blonde stockbroker in his twenties who worked at Lehman Brothers, for one. He was heir to one of the largest fortunes in the country, for another. And he…

The expansion of ayahuasca has put Amazonian traditions under considerable pressure to change and adapt. In the midst of this some people, lets call the

Edilsom Fernandes e Juarez Bomfim na AYA2016 Corria o mês de junho de 1989. O jovem Edilsom Fernandes da Silva (Fernando) chegara a Rio Branco – Acre, com o intuito de conhecer a igreja ayahuasqueira da Barquinha, presidida pelo sr. Manuel Hipólito de Araújo (10.06.1921 – 17.08.2000). Ele já conhecia a luz da hoasca, porém, seria a primeira vez que provaria do Santo Daime. Fernando era então — e continua sendo — um buscador espiritual. Por herança paterna e vocação pessoal. Filiado desde 1981 ao Círculo Esotérico da Comunhão do Pensamento (CECP), filiou-se depois a AMORC (Antiga e Mística Ordem Rosacruz) e a Ordem do Graal na Terra. E continua ainda hoje a ser um eterno estudante das ordens ocultistas existentes no Mundo Terra. Ele foi muito bem recebido pela comunidade religiosa daquele centro espírita, Casa de Jesus e da Virgem Maria, tomou o Daime oferecido pelo sr. Antonio Lopes da Silva (26.06.1921 — 09.11.2008), e sentou para esperar o início dos trabalhos. É cantado o salmo

De cómo se transforma el curanderismo amazónico
para atender la demanda chamánica de Occidente.

Two dozen religious leaders agreed to try magic mushrooms.

Actriz estadounidense participó de la grabación del documental "The Reality of Truth" y se sometió a este ritual en Perú

Dr. Jacques Mabit Of French origin, Jacques came to Peru in 1980 where he founded in 1992 the Takiwasi Center (in Tarapoto). The center treats patients wit

To uncover the genetic link between nine-year-old Meiramgul, the blond child of the mountains of western Mongolia, and the long-dead women warriors of the Eurasian steppes, researchers examined snippets of a particular type of genetic information called mitochondrial DNA. Each cell in a plant or animal carries two varieties of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA. Within …

In June 2017, after 17 years of working with the Canadian government, the Santo Daime Church, Céu do Montréal, Eclectic Center of the Universa

Toledo, 16 jul (EFE).- Dos personas han resultado muertas y una tercera herida por el derrumbamiento de una sauna-iglú, construida con cañas y barro, en cuyo interior habían quince personas, en la localidad albaceteña de Letur.

David Hill: Interview with US scientist Dennis McKenna on powerful Amazon hallucinogen, plant intelligence and environmental crises

On November 16, 1938, Albert Hofmann, a Swiss chemist working at Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, was attempting to create a stimulant when he synthesized lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) instead. The…

An interactive online documentary on what it's like to experience ayahuasca