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The diversity of Native American (“American” meaning “of the Americas”) languages is striking and significant. It is not simply that there were many languages — the number of languages spoken north of Mexico is often given as 250 or as 300. But this does not do justice to the true diversity, or to what that diversity tells us.
To do that, we need to look at language relationships — to families and classifications.

Profit and reciprocity are fundamentally different values.
Reciprocity is based on the principle of balance — ideally an equal balance between giver and receiver, between income and outgo. Profit is based on imbalance — on the idea that I should receive more than I put in.

ORLANDO, Fla. - We’ve learned a local church is once again hosting retreats involving Ayahuasca, even after the Drug Enforcement Administration shut it down last summer.

9 Investigates first told you in July, that ‘Soul Quest Church of the Mother Earth’ did not have the legal exemption needed to serve the hallucinogenic tea, which many cultures consider sacred medicine.

Investigative Reporter Karla Ray went back to the home to find out what’s changed and why the owner says what they’re doing is completely legal now.

 “This is not about making money, this is about helping people,” Soul Quest owner Christopher Young said.

Andrei Znamenski (The University of Memphis) discusses a little-known case of the advancement of Tibetan Buddhism into southern Siberia (Mountain Altai) from the 1890s to 1920s. Znamenski points out that Tibetan Buddhism was gradually channeled to

The Journey to the “Mountain of the Dead”: In the Sacred World of Japanese Female Healers

Julian Lennon, musician, photographer, and founder of the White Feather Foundation hosts this special episode of Maps, Magic, and Medicine about the Kogi indigenous people of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. Kogi community members discuss the importance of water, sacred sites, and protecting their ancestral territory and Julian Lennon reflects on the impact of his visit to the Kogi sacred sites and the lessons it imparted.

In Pursuit of Human Wellbeing, a short documentary film that highlights nearly two years of participatory research in the Trio indigenous village of Kwamalasamutu, Suriname 

Through the project, student and indigenous researchers analyzed biomass and carbon provision of forest plots, calculated from measured trees and soil samplings. In addition, wildlife recordings were conducted within a 5km and 10km radius from Kwamalasamutu. These measurements yielded long-term insights into the availability of protein for food security.

Maps, Magic, and Medicine explores the importance of indigenous knowledge to protect the environment. Each month we bring you stories about the spiritual, the unexplained, and the unbelievable.

Episodes will cover topics of ethnobotany, shamanism, participatory mapping, isolated peoples, and interviews with our indigenous colleagues in Colombia and Suriname.

El formato será totalmente online, pudiendo participar cualquier persona de Latinoamérica que esté interesada en aprender a vivir sin basura y avanzar hacia una sociedad social y ambientalmente sustentable.

" We can sometimes see this kind of remarkable improvement in traditional psychotherapy, but it can take years, if it happens at all,” said Dr. Michael C. Mithoefer, the psychiatrist wh

The diversity of Native American (“American” meaning “of the Americas”) languages is striking and significant. It is not simply that there were many languages — the number of languages spoken north of Mexico is often given as 250 or as 300. But this does not do justice to the true diversity, or to what that diversity tells us.
To do that, we need to look at language relationships — to families and classifications.

Conferencia de la reconocida directora Brigitte Luis Guillermo Baptiste del Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Alexander von Humboldt

“No creo que debamos copiar al pie de la letra la cultura indígena, pero sí sería bueno imitar su enfoque. Tenemos que tener una cultura adaptativa, flexible; ir de la mano con la naturaleza y no tratar de imponernos a ella".

From Native Americana to European Pagan Folklore: Cultural Sources of Western Shamanism

For the past forty years shamanism has drawn increasing attention among the general public and academics. So far no one has tried to understand why and how Western intellectual and popular culture became so fascinated with the topic. Behind fictional and non-fictional works on shamanism, this book uncovers an exciting story that mirrors changing Western attitudes toward the primitive. It explores how shamanism, an obscure word introduced by the 18th-century German explorers of Siberia, entered Western humanities and social sciences, and has now become a powerful idiom used by nature and pagan communities to situate their spiritual quests and anti-modernity sentiments. Moving from Enlightenment and Romantic writers and Russian exile ethnographers to the anthropology of Franz Boas to Mircea Eliade and Carlos Castaneda, the book details how the shamanism idiom was gradually transplanted from Siberia to the Native American scene and beyond. It also looks into the circumstances that prompted scholars and writers at first to marginalize shamanism as a mental disorder and then to recast it as high spiritual wisdom in the 1960s and the 1970s. Linking the growing interest in shamanism to the rise of anti-modernism in Western culture and intellectual life, it examines the role that anthropology, psychology, environmentalism, and Native Americana have played in the emergence of neo-shamanism. It discusses the sources that inspire Western neo-shamans and seeks to explain why lately many of these spiritual seekers have increasingly moved away from non-Western tradition to European folklore.

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Ayahuasca is a psychoactive entheogenic plant medicine that is capable of inducing altered states of consciousness that can range from mildly stimulating to extremely visionary. Experiences can range from mental and emotional healing to Astral travel, communing with plant spirits, interactions with aliens or ET's or angel's. Communication with animals, deceased relatives or ancestors can happen. Ayahuasca is also capable of showing the various aspects or layers of themselves, their personality, their egoic self, past experiences in their their life and much more.

Members of the indigenous Kichwa community in Sarayaku exposed the Ecuadorian State’s failure to comply with the 2012 judgment issues by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, using a new interactive digital story map to demonstrate how the Ecuadorian State parceled off even more of their territory to oil companies.

“The story map clearly shows how Ecuador has sold off concessions without respecting our rights, as we have regularly denounced,” said Félix Santi, president of the Sarayaku people.

Despite the fact that the aforementioned judgement ordered the State to consult with the Sarayaku people before selling new concessions, Ecuador concluded a new round of bidding on oil blocks, resulting in the concession of three new blocks that affect almost 91.18% of Sarayaku territory.

Andy Roberts is well known in the psychedelic community as the author of Albion Dreaming: A popular history of LSD in Britain, which was published in 2008. He is also a UFO folklore researcher, a prolific journalist on matters psychedelic and Fortean, and an active presence on the event and convention circuits, giving lively lectures and contributing robustly and colourfully to discussion sessions.

The hysteria surrounding recreational use of psychedelic drugs in the 1960s caused the government to overreact and criminalize a drug that had been used successfully for 15 years to treat some of the most difficult problems in psychiatry with astounding success. The new laws failed to stop recreational use, but they shut down legitimate research into medical use totally. Most doctors and researchers gave up due to the outsize stigma of even admitting an interest in psychedelic research, but a small group of believers refused to abandon such promising therapy. Acid Test is the story how this small group overcame almost impossible obstacles to finally bring psychedelic therapy to the brink of FDA approval.

When illegal drugs make the news, it’s usually for tragic tales of overdose, crime, and addiction. But substances typically found at nightclubs and music festivals have been cropping up in scientific journals recently, with several separate studies uncovering the medicinal benefits of these drugs. This month, it’s been reported that both ketamine and magic mushroom