Religious and transcendental experiences have always played an important role in human evolution, from keeping tribes together to pushing societies in new directions. Humans may even be wired to crave such experiences, with some turning to psychedelic drugs as shortcuts to enjoying them. It's down to connection and cooperation, according to James Carney, a psychologist at Lancaster University. "I
Ayahuasca is a brew that comes from a vine and once was only used in spiritual ceremonies however, with ayahuasca ceremonies being commercialized the traditions are somewhat changing..
¿Plantas-veneno o plantas-remedio? "La respuesta sería probablemente: plantas-veneno y plantas-remedio a la vez" dice Mabit, fundador de Takiwasi o "la casa que canta" en idioma Quechua, es una Asociación Civil Privada sin fines de lucro, dedicada a la investigación fundamental y aplicada de las medicinas tradicionales y su implementación en el tratamiento y rehabilitación de toxicómanos.
Al día de hoy las iniciativas que vienen a favorecer el buen uso de la ayahuasca son algo relativamente usual. De hecho, son varias las plataformas que han elaborado códigos éticos, favorecen usos informados o promueven la necesaria formación y capacitación exigible a quien propone una sesión de ayahuasca.
If you consider yourself spiritual, you *need* to learn about spiritual bypassing. This firsthand story could be the medicine you didn't know you required.
Klara Souklava first traveled to the Amazon to experience ayahuasca ceremonies with hopes of healing deep wounds from her past. She had issues of self-love, trust issues with men, and the trauma of a rape to work through. Souklava dove deep, working with three male shamans whom she trusted implicitly at the time.
Every year, thousands of tourists head to the Peruvian Amazon to take the plant medicine ayahuasca. But what does the powerful drink actually do, and what do local shamans think of the rise in its popularity?
A council of Native American leaders has offered partial amnesty to the estimated 220 million illegal white immigrants living in the United States. The "white" problem has been a topic of much debate in the Native American community for centuries, and community leaders have decided the time has come to properly address it.* Daily Currant reports, "At a meeting of the Native Peoples Council (NPC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico yesterday, Native American leaders considered several proposals on the future of this continent's large, unauthorized European population. The elders ultimately decided to extend a pathway to citizenship for those without criminal backgrounds."
"We are prepared to offer White people the option of staying on this continent legally and applying for citizenship," explains Chief Wamsutta of the Wampanoag nation. "In return, they must pay any outstanding taxes and give back the land stolen from our ancestors. "Any white person with a criminal record, however, will be deported in the next 90 days back to their ancestral homeland. Rush Limbaugh will be going to Germany. Justin Bieber will depart for Canada. And the entire cast of Jersey Shore will be returning to Italy." Illegal white immigration has been rapidly increasing for nearly 400 years from the European countries of France, Spain and England. These illegals have ravished the land and colonized areas occupied by the natives. Some white supporters claim the immigrants are a blessing, arguing that they take all of the menial white-collar jobs that the natives don't even want. 'What native would want to have a cushy salary and a corner office as an accountant, or the excess of power as senator or fortune-500 CEO,?' they claim.
Others are not so forgiving. "Why can't we just deport all of the Whites back to Europe?" asks Ité Omácau of the Lakota people. "They're just a drain on our economy anyway. They came over here to steal our resources because they're too lazy to develop their own back home... I can't believe we're just going to let them pay a fine. They should get to the back of the line like everybody else -- behind the Mexicans."
(Phys.org)—A pair of researchers has conducted a phylogenetic analysis on common fairy tales and has found that many of them appear to be much older than has been thought. In their paper published in Royal Society Ope
La cita busca revalorizar la espiritualidad e interculturalidad de los pueblos. El encuentro intercultural se realizará en la Universidad Amazónica Ikiam, los próximos 9 y 10 de agosto.
Julian Palmer is an ayahuasca facilitator. For more than a decade he has been hosting small ceremonies all over the country and making his homemade brew.
El Capítulo Perú organizó el VIII Foro Internacional del CISEI “Sanación, Ritualidad y Vida Cotidiana”. Dicho evento se realizó del 25-28 de noviembre del 2015, en la ciudad de Tarapoto, en la Alta Amazonía peruana.
Estimados amigos, Encontrarán en el link indicado abajo el vídeo de síntesis del Encuentro de Líderes Indígenas sobre Adicción y Cultura que se realizó en Takiwasi en noviembre pasado. Con un muy fraterno saludo, Jacques Mabit Presidente ejecutivo
A 500 year old relationship ... coming out of conflict, colonialism and denial. Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo called 8th Fire, "very, very powerful." He said, "I was personally very emotionally moved by watching this documentary."
Can a hallucinogenic drug be both powerful, valuable, spiritual -- and dangerous?
Yes, said a panel of experts Saturday at the International Drug Policy Reform Conference in Arlington, Va. In an overflowing conference room, Ayahuasca, a plant-based brew originating from the Amazon, became the unlikely centerpiece of the three day biennial conference.
Depending on who you ask, Ayahuasca has effects somewhere between that of a strong green tea and strong psilocybin mushrooms. For centuries, indigenous populations have used this botanical extract as a traditional spirit mixture in ritual ceremonies but only in recent years has word spread to the rest of the world. And as the word spreads, a lot of questions need to be answered.
The audience audibly gasped when panelist Yawa Bene entered the room, fashionably late, wearing a full headdress of feathers and took the last available seat on the stage. Bene is the Vice-President at the Institute of Indigenous Traditions in Acre, Brazil, as well as a shaman of the ayahuasca tradition. Bene was flanked by Bia Labate, co-founder of the Nucleus for Interdisciplinary Studies of Psychoactives in Guadalajara, Mexico, who translated his words from Portuguese.[caption id=attachment_265 align=alignright width=300] Dr. Bia Labate translates for Yawa Bene (left) during the Ayahuasca panel[/caption]
Bene spoke slowly and methodically as he began to enumerate the problems associated with mass recognition of traditional medicinal ceremonies. Bene said, In the Amazon these things are our tradition and there is a long history of use.
Drug-reform activists have descended on Ayahuasca as the next frontier in illicit drug legalization, specifically because of its relative obscurity and its arguable religious connotation. A push for legalization of the brew and its rituals could be made as a religious freedom issue.
Kenneth Tupper, an Phd in public health at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, thinks that the main issue surrounding the drug is not legalization, but economics. According to Tupper, anytime a society begins to discuss regulation of a particular product much bigger issues of patents, markets and even stock futures come into play. As we know, The true free market is the illicit market, Tupper said as the other panelists fought to talk over one another.
Jeronimo Mazarrasa, a filmmaker and secretary of ICEERS (The International Center for Ethnobotanical Education Research and Service) in Ibiza, Spain, is also concerned about the over commercialization of the brew. Mazarrasa believes that protecting the indigenous people from exploitation as the drug gains popularity is where activists need to focus their attention. Mazarrasa said The irony of this kind of tourism is that we destroy exactly what we were looking for as soon as we find it.
For Luis Eduardo Luna, Director of the Wasiwaska Research Center in Santa Catarina, Brazil, the fundamental issue is one of human rights. In a statement that took much longer than his allotted time, Luna discussed the freedom of experimenting with our consciousness. The applause he got from that line was loudest of the conference.
In the middle of the ayahuasca industry boom, we wanted to find out what life's been like for one of the local shamans using the mind-bending medicine to heal people.
The Ayahuasca Defense Fund presents a unique opportunity for us to pool resources and protect our new global community as we reunite to reimagine the world.
History books traditionally depict the pre-Columbus Americas as a pristine wilderness where small native villages lived in harmony with nature. But scientific evidence tells a very different story: When Columbus stepped ashore in 1492, millions of people were already living there. America wasn't exactly a New World, but a very old one whose inhabitants had built a vast infrastructure of cities, orchards, canals and causeways.
Part hipster, part artist, part Svengali, and part scientist, Roy Lee Walford had long been fascinated by aging, even as a teenager. He was an actor, a writer, and an adventurer who followed the latest research in caloric restriction and life extension.
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