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“Chamán, el último guerrero es una película independiente que se concibió en la selva para mostrar una región hermosa como es Putumayo, pero ante todo e

Benjamin De Loenen - Founder/Executive Director of ICEERS He studied audiovisual media and communications in The Netherlands, where he graduated with honor

This blog entry continues a sequence of writing about books I have read whilst in dieta. Recent posts have included commentaries on Henri Corbin's book 'Alone with the Alone' about visionary experience and Thomas Moore's book 'The Planets Within' about the Renaissance astrologer and psychologist of the soul, Marcilio Ficino. As I have commented before,…

Undoubtedly, the 1960s counterculture movement ushered in a surge of interest in psychedelics that struck distinct cultura

Peyote, for instance, has long been used by those seeking bravery, strength, and insight. It is used to quench thirst and to cal

Investigadores demuestran que la ayahuasca mejora las formas más severas de la depresión en personas donde no funcionan otros tratamientos

Conclusion: It’s all fun and games… As I mentioned in the first post of my series, anthropologists and ethnobiologists have played an outsized role in studying and popularizing ayahuasc…

Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Christina Callicott. I’m guessing that by now most of my readers will have heard of this stuff called “ayahuasca.” Everyone from Stephen Colbert to the New Yorke…

La chagra es mucho más que un par de hectáreas de tierra en la que se siembra yuca, plátano o piña. La chagra, la plantación tradicional de los indígenas d

“You don’t become a shaman, you’re picked,” says Mikhail Orgonov, one of the “chosen” few in the Baikal region that also feature in Alina Desyatnichenko's series on the subject. The Krasnodar-based photographer travelled to Siberia in the winter of 2015-16, though her fascination with shamanism started across the world in Mexico a few years previously. Shamanism is the world’s oldest spiritual practice, and anyone picked for the job must mediate between the material and the spiritual worlds and perform healing rituals. Organov, who spent many years in the police force, comes from ten generations of shamans. Desyatnichenko spoke to others who were previously janitors, nurses and carers. “With the emergence of New Age culture, Lake Baikal is increasingly presented in guidebooks as the sacred centre of the shaman’s world. Amulets, totems and ‘real shaman drums’ are in demand in local souvenir shops,”

Kukeri are men who take part in an ancient Bulgarian pagan tradition to scare away the evil spirits of winter. They gather to chant and dance, wearing home-made wooden masks, animal furs, horns and sequins, strapping on heavy belts with bells on that can weigh up to 70kg. The ritual has continued undisturbed through the centuries, even through Communist times when it was tolerated by the state. 

Marc Aixalà , is a Telecommunication Engineer and Psychologist. Post degree studies in Integrative Psychotherapy and Strategic Therapy. Trained in th

I have not written here for a while: partly because I have been very busy with work at Alianza Arkana; partly because I have recently moved house in Pucallpa; and partly because I have been writing a 10,000 word paper called 'Earth-Beings, Plant Spirits, Ayahuasca and Equivocations' to present at the upcoming international conference of…

Peyote (Lophophora williamsii) is a small, spineless, mind-altering cactus that, for centuries, has been terribly misunderstood by Wester

Ibogaine is a potent psychedelic substance found mainly in the root bark of the shrub Tabernanthe iboga, native of the Congo and Gabon, as well a

Best selling author Dr. Gabor Maté explains how ayahuasca healing includes a deep realisation of the self and its depth. "The healing retreats I lead..."

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Oklevueha Native American Church In addition to the widespread appropriation of Native North American culture that characterizes neo-shamanic discourse, the current spate of ayahuasca churches in t…

Ayahuasca Healings Last week (March 18, 2017), I received an email that read, in toto: Just like I promised: Get the free eBook here (right click, “Save Link As…”) I wrote this ba…

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As far as the rest of the world is concerned, Huautla de Jimenez and the Sierra Mazateca were “discovered” in 1955, when the American banker and researcher Gordon Wasson...

In Russia's Ural Mountains, a small group of Buddhists led by a veteran of the USSR's Afghanistan war has spent the past 21 years establishing a monastery on an isolated mountaintop. But it sits on land claimed by a company belonging to one of Russia's most powerful oligarchs. After years of delays, a date has now been set for the complex's removal. RFE/RL's Amos Chapple visited the monastery for the inside story.