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“At the deepest level, our consciousness is what we are—to the extent that if we are not sovereign over our own consciousness then we cannot in any meaningful sense be sovereign over anything else either.” – Graham Hancock There are quite a few polarizing issues in the world, which are

"Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there li

Texto de la conferencia impartida por Josep María Fericgla en el Congreso Mundial de Ayahuasca en Ibiza, Sept.2014, sobre Ayahuasca y Desarrollo Personal.

Last week, I ingested ayahuasca. For those who are not familiar with ayahuasca: it is a potent psychedelic/entheogen derived from a particular set of South American plants. This is my account of the experience.

Magic mushrooms grow near the town of Lamas in San Martin, Peru. It's easy to visit this area and its other attractions on a day trip from Tarapoto.

Being a Parent is a Tough Job, and other challenging truths, with Matt Vogel On this week's episode of the Podcast, Jonathan talks with Matt Vogel, who is the Co-Founder of the Exploring Psychedelics Conference, and works at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon.  In addition to coordinating wellness-based educational programs on a variety of…

A touching documentary by Robert Barnhart on current research on psilocybin mushrooms for end-of-life anxiety.

EXTRACTO : Extirpación de Idolatrías - El Auto de Fe contra Marcos Marcelo en Ferreñafe (1768) En el siguiente extracto de un auto de fe de 1768, podemos acercarnos a la prácticas chamánicas que aún persistían en la colonia y que aún persisten en el norte peruano. Podemos identificar el uso del cactus en forma…

Medicinal plants still play an important role in the Kurdish community. Sulaymaniyah Province in South Kurdistan (Iraq) has a great diversity of plants, including medicinal plants, yet very few scattered ethnobotanical studies conducted in Kurdistan are available in the scientific literature. Thus the study of Kurdish ethnobotany may be crucial for understanding local medicinal plant uses and their relationships to surrounding areas. Therefore, the objective of this investigation was to document traditional medicinal plant uses among healers of southern Kurdistan.

Life, death, rebirth and wonder. With Ayahuasca as my guide, here's a trip to the other side.

I spoke to acclaimed filmmaker Jan Kounen (Blueberry, 2004) recently on art, consciousness, and his most recent book Visionary Ayahuasca.

“Ground zero” of Ayahuasca usage is the northwestern region of the Amazon Basin where Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and Brazil come together (see red-outlined area on map). Close to 100% of indigenous ethnic groups here traditionally use Ayahuasca (and this also contains the centers of mestizo traditional usage, Iquitos and Pucallpa in Peru). Beyond that (see fuschia-outlined area on map) Ayahuasca is used by a large majority of the indigenous peoples. Ayahuasca is also used by several indigenous groups outside of this area of traditional usage: the Tsachila and Chachi of the northern coast of Ecuador, the Embera of western Colombia and the Choco of northwestern Colombia near the Panama border, and some Guarani groups in eastern Bolivia, which may have adopted Ayahuasca in modern times. (See light blue areas.)

Rito, chamanismo y música Selknam Los sonidos del fin del mundo El pueblo selk'nam de Tierra del Fuego, también conocido como ona, estaba compuesto por cazadores-recolectores llegados a la isla varios milenios antes de Cristo. A pesar de las difíciles condiciones que imponía el clima y de la escasez relativa de recursos naturales existentes en l

Back in 2005, ravaged by an extreme and aggressive skin disorder, every day was a battle of agonizing pain and sanity-threatening itching that drove me to the brink of suicide. The doctors in England were less than helpful.

“Eczema is incurable,” several specialists told me, “All we can do is manage the symptoms.”

But even their strongest steroid cream could do nothing for me.
I tried every kind of alternative treatment I could think of without success: acupuncture, Chinese herbs, raw foods, fasting, Reiki and hypnotherapy. All the while a little voice in my head kept saying, “Ayahuasca can help. Ayahuasca can heal you.”

A novel published in 1933, describes the isolation of a hallucinogenic drug from an ergot-type fungus. It remarkably predates the discovery the hallucinogenic properties of the ergot-derived alkaloid lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) by ten years. It also identifies ergot as the secret psychoactive sacrament of the ancient mysteries forty years before this hypothesis became a matter of academic and scientific investigation. In the novel, a central character plans to use an ergot derived drug as an agent of popular religious renewal, prefiguring the New Age religious revival initiated by the popular use of LSD. The story involves the mass testing of a hallucinogenic drug on the unsuspecting inhabitants of an isolated village almost twenty years before the Pont St Esprit incident of 1951, which has been ascribed to the CIA’s plans for experimental dosing of unsuspecting civilians with psychoactive drugs. This article investigates how the author could have managed to foresee these future events in such prophetic detail and reveals the sources that were available. In this article the history of psychoactive drugs is set in the context of the political, scientific, literary, and philosophical culture of the interwar period and shows that the cultural history of psychoactive drugs is enhanced by such context

What is a usual and safe Kava Kava dosage? We answer that question in detail here at Entheology.com to help give you a safe path to Kava consumption.

In October 2001, the U.S. launched its invasion of Afghanistan largely through proxy Afghan fighters with the help of Special Operations forces, American air power, and CIA dollars. The results were swift and stunning. The Taliban was whipped, a new government headed by Hamid Karzai soon installed in Kabul, and the country declared “liberated.”

An intercatibve map of ethnobotanist Richard Schultes' travels. This story map was created with the Story Map Journal application

Since I've found no written resources for making mapacho -- the powerful black tobacco of the Amazon -- I've documented my own process here.

The Amazon jungle is wild and biodiverse because the humans who have lived in it value the quality and spirit of wildness. They value the raw power of nature.