Ayahuasca News

The AMARNO artisans are an association of women artisans who have organized to take the lead in their community, striving to create a sustainable future on behalf of the local arts, schools, producers, and environmental groups. Instead of lumber, the AMARNO artisans community would rather make beautiful craft goods from seeds and plant fibers, so that they can afford to feed, educate, and care for their children who presently experience some of the highest rates of malnutrition in Peru.

La relación de Sasha Shulgin con la Ruta del Bakalao consistió en dedicar un capítulo completo de su libro TIHKAL a sus visitas a España, el cual incluye la descripción de ese fenómeno juvenil y su citación para testificar como experto en un juicio que llegó a tener mucha repercusión y en el que los acusados eran dos jóvenes que supuestamente había cometido el delito de tráfico con pastillas de éxtasis en el entorno de las famosas macro-discotecas, preludio de lo que después empezarían a ser las modernas raves.

Ayahuasca users showed significant CT differences in midline structures of the brain, with thinning in the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC), a key node of the default mode network. CT values in the PCC were inversely correlated with the intensity and duration of prior use of ayahuasca and with scores on self-transcendence, a personality trait measuring religiousness, transpersonal feelings and spirituality. Although direct causation cannot be established, these data suggest that regular use of psychedelic drugs could potentially lead to structural changes in brain areas supporting attentional processes, self-referential thought, and internal mentation. These changes could underlie the previously reported personality changes in long-term users and highlight the involvement of the PCC in the effects of psychedelics.