Ayahuasca News

Western science is "discovering" the medical potential of ayahuasca, which Amazonian indigenous groups have used ritualistically for centuries.

Monitoreo socioambiental comunitario: Iniciativa del pueblo Harakmbut para la vigilancia y control territorial de la reserva comunal Amarakaeri.

El significado del yoco entre los secoya puede resumirse en esta expresión: yocore si’sore uncuri jonsare sisojeani ñucua oyare “yoco raspando, tomando, botando pereza, trabajando chambira”

La vida en una comunidad secoya suele empezar muy temprano. A partir de las dosde la mañana, hombres y mujeres mayores, y a veces algunos jóvenes, comienzan a raspar las cortezas del bejuco del yoco y a trabajar las fibras extraídas de la palma de chambira (Astrocaryum chambira). Esta actividad “nocturna” es una componente esencial de la identidad secoya, principalmente de la identidad masculina: tomar yoco y torcer chambira “de noche”

Realizado no berço da doutrina do Santo-Daime, o evento segue até o próximo dia 22, na Universidade Federal do Acre (Ufac), com a presença de especialistas e membros de comunidades ayahuasqueiras de todo o mundo. O objetivo é estimular o debate e o intercâmbio de conhecimentos através da interação entre povos indígenas, comunidades religiosas e cientistas de diferentes áreas, valorizando a ayahuasca como manifestação cultural dos povos indígenas.

Ao todo, mais de 160 palestrantes de diferentes naturalidades estão no Acre para compartilhar lições, conhecimentos e aprendizados sobre o tema. A programação inclui conferências, mesas-redondas e palestras, além da exibição de materiais audiovisuais sobre o assunto — 30 vídeos. De acordo com o Centro Internacional para Educação, Pesquisa e Serviço em Etnobotânica (Iceers, na sigla em inglês), organizadora do evento, mais de 750 inscrições foram registradas.

Cervia, arrivava direttamente dal Perù e poteva fruttare 130mila euro sul mercato. Gli uomini della Guardia di Finanza si sono finti postini per trovare a chi era destinata

Happy Juice: Peru is home to a mind-bending drug named Ayahuasca that has attracted much attention. Said to transform lives and contain healing powers, thi

– from the film "Table Songs of Kakheti"

In order to activate ecological awareness fully, we must drop the concept Nature, which I capi-talize in order to emphasize how it is not “natural,” but rather an artificial construct. Nature is nowhere given to me in my phenomenal experience. I see rabbits, I see thunderstorms, I hear the mewing of cats. But I fail to see or otherwise sense Nature. Perhaps then Nature is the totality of a certain set of things. I go about constructing this set: birds, fish, mammals … Yet by defini-tion the set always excludes something. Let us add nonliving forms such as iron deposits and chalkhills, which are made of lifeforms - as are most of the top levels of Earth’s crust. This set excludes what lies below the crust and, say, the electromagnetic shield around Earth that protects it from solar rays, and so enables life to evolve. So let us now include nonlife in our set. I must then include the Sun, without which the chemical soup could not have developed into strands of complex proteins. And there is no way to stop the inclusion arbitrarily at the Solar System, since comets containing organic chemicals and the sheer fact that stars are made of all kinds of other materials prevents the set from being closed. Yet once Nature covers absolutely everything, it also includes spoons, computer software and traffic cones. Nature only works as a concept when it is normative, and this normativity is predicated on a difference between Nature and non-Nature. Since I can’t decide in advance what to include in the set - since the set of everything just is absolutely everything - Nature becomes useless as a concept. Modernity has been the story of how science has undermined a stable, rigid concept of Nature, precisely because it has shown how boundaries between life and nonlife, and further-more between sentience and nonsentience, are not thin or rigid enough to produce distinctions that count beings as Natural or non-Natural. Darwin’s devastating insight, for instance, was to show that lifeforms arise from non-life, and that lifeforms are made up of other lifeforms. Further-more, he demonstrated, there is no rigid boundary between a species, a variant and a monstrosity. Thus what we encounter when we comprehend Earth in a Darwinian way is a vast assemblage of entities, some of whom we call chimpanzees and some of whom we call butterflies, and so on

Ponencia invitada en la Mesa “Los usos contemporáneos de la ayahuasca: reinvenciones y controversias”, en la II Conferencia Mundial de la Ayahuasca, Rio Branco (Brasil), leída el 21 de octubre de 2016.

Abolishing debt-based currency isn’t a new idea, but it could hold the secret to ending our economies’ environmentally damaging addiction to growth

La idea generalizada de la Amazonia como una región compuesta principalmente por poblaciones bosquesinas estádesactualizada: una gran parte de la población indígena o rural vive o está fuertemente vinculada a los centros urbanos. Dichatendencia no implica necesariamente un proceso de éxodo o abandono de los espacios rurales o una simple desterritorialización;más bien instaura un nuevo régimen caracterizado por la movilidad, la diversificación económica, y un patrón residencial y deapropiación territorial multisituado, distribuido y dinámico. Una consiguiente mayor articulación simbólica y material a lo largo delextenso y complejo interfaz urbano-rural se evidencia en nuevos procesos de transformación y coproducción a nivel corporal,social, étnico, ambiental y territorial. Situada en los márgenes de la modernidad neoliberal, dicha coyuntura muestra a la vezciertas tendencias históricas y culturales, característicamente amazónicas

In the area of the Upper Orinoco River in Venezuela, Yanomami
shapori (shamans) engage in hostile acts against their colleagues and people (especially children) living in distant villages in order to inflict misery and death. These combative magical practices are primarily motivated by retribution for past assaults of a similar kind. While in most cases the
shapori perform these activities intentionally, this article argues that the malevolent non-human acts are also driven by the cannibalistic nature of hekura spirits, which demand human souls. In this way, although shapori intentionally engage in bellicose activities, they must sometimes kill in order to appease the ancestral spirits and thus spare the lives of their own kin. This article focuses on the dark side of Yanomami shamanistic practices in order to counterbalance tendencies that emphasize the more positive, therapeutic aspects of shamanism, namely, its socially integrative roles.

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"La Revanche des Chamanes", film documentaire tourné en 2010 à Kyzyl en République de Touva présente la vie quotidienne du centre chamanique Adyg Eeren, Esprit de l'Ours, dirigé par Kara-ool Tiouliouchevich, chamane suprême de la République.
Produit par ZED, les Ateliers du Doc, avec la participation de Planète.
Réalisation, image, son :
Laetitia Merli
Collaborateur artistique, mixage son :
Olivier Gascoin

Sucede que en Occidente hay una obsesión por la visión: sólo importa el DMT y los supuestos mundos fantásticos a los que conduce.

On the talk show The Preachers, Chris Kilham and the four minister hosts talk about ayahuasca for healing an spiritual revelation.