The use of entheogens across widely separated cultures and throughout time is best understood when approached through the lens of the psychology and history of religions.
I was involved with a discussion group about the need to try to be prepared when you take people to the jungle, particularly for something like ayahuasca. This was a note I posted.
Four transformations that “ayahuasca tourism” is producing in the traditional ayahuasca practice. It is no longer purge but vision. The ayahuasca brew is kno...
Carlos is doing amazing research on the encounter between traditional medicines and ayahuasca tourists and how they are influencing one another. See more here http://www.ayahuascaiquitos.com/en/
Dr Devon Christie MD joins us on ATTMind Radio to explore how her work with interpersonal mindfulness and trauma-focused therapy applies to the integration of psychedelic experiences.
A team of researchers from Sant Pau has looked into the long-term use of ayahuasca and its association with changes in brain structure and personality.
Someone living in a so-called developed country, maybe in Europe, East Asia or North America, who wishes to acquire some data on how traditional medicine is conceptualized among the Western Amazonian indigenous group Shipibo-Konibo (mostly shortened to Shipibo) will probably grab his or her smartphone and type some keywords into a search engine. Results pop up as an incredibly long list. Surprisingly, most entries are in English rather than Spanish. They tell about medicine retreats in rainforest lodges, presenting healers called ‘shamans’ who know how to cure diabetes, cancer or even AIDS; the holistic experience of being part of a millennial chain of mystical knowledge can be purchased online, and all-inclusive
How a scholarly hippie got pulled into the orbit of the psychedelic revolutionary whom then-President Nixon labeled “the most dangerous man in America”
Lisa Rein conducts the first in-depth interview of Timothy Leary’s longtime archivist, Michael Horowitz
Gabor Maté is a retired B.C. physician who has treated some patients with ayahuasca, known for psychedelic healing powers. He is the author ofWhen the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress.
What struck me most about the film is that it is a film about witchcraft. I don’t know if the director intended it to be this way – he clearly has his own interpretation of Shakespeare’s play – or if it is clearly in Shakespeare’s original script, but watching this film made me realize that the witches are not peripheral figures in the drama, as I had thought before, but are clearly running the whole show.
Kalliopi Tavoulari is a Specialist Biomedical Scientist, she is also the Committee Secretary to the London Cellular Pathology Discussion Group. The word ‘Enthoegen’ is commonly used to describe a medicine that generates the divine within and often associated with substances that produce altered states of consciousness during sacred ceremonies or rituals. Frequently these indigenous rituals are accompanied with other plant substances and derivatives that facilitate these ceremonies. Contrary to popular belief some of the most potent and traditional substances, although entheogenic in their own fashion, do not lead to a psychedelic experience, rather they are healer plants that promote the wellbeing of both body and soul and result in a feeling of deep connection with the Earth and the Elements surrounding us, they are also powerful plant derivatives with extraordinary conventional medicinal potential. In the talk that will follow we will investigate some of the better known auxiliary entheogens such as Rapé the Sacred Snuff, Kambô the magic Frog Medicine and Sananga the ‘Eye Opener’.
Un análisis de los desafíos asociados con la globalización del uso de la ayahuasca. La globalización ha facilitado el intercambio cultural entre las tradiciones indígenas y las prácticas occidentales,...
Beckley Foundation collaborator Jordi Riba and his team at Sant Pau Hospital in Barcelona have just published a study in the journal Psychopharmacology, co-authored by the Beckley’s Executive Director, Amanda Feilding, which shows that one of...
From a representative sample of a suitably psychedelic crowd, you’d be hard pressed to find someone who couldn’t tell you all about Albert Hofmann’s enchanted bicycle ride after swallowing what turned out to be a massive dose of LSD. Far fewer, however, could tell you much about the world’s first DMT trip.
Resumen: El presente artículo atiende la función cumplida por seres no-humanos –tanto animales como plantas y entes espirituales– en canciones indígenas, en este caso de las pobla-ciones indígenas de los yine y los ashéninka (de habla arawak), y de los kakataibo y los shipibo-konibo (de habla pano), todos ellos asentados en las tierras bajas de la Amazonía peruana. En la primera parte, se aborda las formas de aparición de seres no-humanos en las letras de las canciones. Generalmente se los menciona en lugar de las personas a quienes se dirige la canción. Existen también, sin embargo, canciones desde la perspectiva de los no-hu-manos y, además, un enorme repertorio de canciones mágicas que involucran a estos seres y sus acciones. También se analiza si la comunicación sonora entre humanos y no-humanos puede explicarse sobre la base de los conceptos de animismo y perspectivismo amerindios. Se propone una explicación innovadora de las frecuentemente narradas transformaciones en animales o espíritus: el mundo sonoro requiere una ampliación de los conceptos existentes y sugiere conceptualizar un multiverso flexible, en vez de una cosmología fija. Las técnicas sonoras permiten trascender varias fronteras consideradas precisas y firmes en el mundo visual o físico. Se concluye que la función de las canciones es establecer enlaces ontológicos performativos entre las personas a quienes se canta y los no-humanos mencionados. Así, la persona parece ser construida a partir de una red de conexiones previamente establecidas con entes no-humanos
A great new book by Graham St. John has been published that explores the rise of DMT in our culture. Knowing where we've been with this enigmatic molecule and how it has become entangled within our culture is vital to understanding where we are going as the second psychedelic rennaisance continues to unfold into the future. Herein you will also find art donated by DMT-Nexus members Cyb and Art Van D'lay.
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3 minutes, some good stuff, some shoddy research, generalizations and half truths