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Ken Wilber talks about Ayahuasca and the nature of the experience Entheogen: Awakening the Divine Within Alex Grey, visionary artist, talks about an ayahuasca experience he had in Brazil. Shapeshifting or Ego-tripping J.M. Fericgla, anthropologist, author, president of the Society of Applied Ethnopsychology (SdEA), and pioneer in the use of Ayahuasca psychotherapy, speaks about entheogens and the ego, and gives a different take on shapeshifting. —— J.M. Fericgla, antropólogo, presidente de la Sociedad de Etnopsicología Aplicada (SdEA), y pionero en el uso de Ayahuasca en...
read moreAyahuasca & San Pedro in brief
Ayahuasca is a shamanic tea, a decoction made from two medicinal plants – Ayahuasca vine (Banisteriopsis Caapi) and Chacruna (Psychotria Viridis) leaves. Ayahuasca brew is probably the closest teacher plant to the human biochemistry, giving an experience of strong cleansing, though literally traceless on a physical level and profoundly awakening on the emotional and spiritual realm. This ancient, sacred shamanic brew, usually taken in the night within a ritual context (a ceremony), may give different kinds of visual and emetic effects, insights and provides a deeper knowledge...
read moreAn Inner Revolution
The enlightenment I speak of is not simply a realization, not simply the discovery of one’s true nature. This discovery is just the beginning—the point of entry into an inner revolution. Realization does not guarantee this revolution; it simply makes it possible. What is this inner revolution? To begin with, revolution is not static; it is alive, ongoing, and continuous. It cannot be grasped or made to fit into any conceptual model. Nor is there any path to this inner revolution, for it is neither predictable nor controllable and has a life all its own. This revolution is a breaking away...
read moreAyahuasca and Cancer (by Steve Beyer)
In 1998, a man named Donald Topping wrote an article in the Bulletin of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies entitled Ayahuasca and Cancer: One Man’s Experience. Topper was a retired professor of sociology and linguistics at the University of Hawai’i, a proponent of drug policy reform, an advocate for medical marijuana, and a founder of the Drug Policy Forum of Hawai’i. He had been diagnosed with colorectal cancer and been treated, apparently successfully, with surgery. But, in September 1996, he was told that the cancer had metastasized to his liver; the next...
read moreAyahuasca declared a national cultural heritage
This plant is considered an essential part of the identity of the Amazonian peoples of Peru. The knowledge and traditional uses of Ayahuasca practiced by the Amazonian indigenous communities, was declared a cultural heritage of the nation by the Institute of National Culture (INC). This announcement was made yesterday in the publication of Directorial Resolution 836 by that body, in the official government’s journal “El Peruano”. According to the declaration, the ritual use of Ayahuasca is one of the fundamental pillars of the identity of the Amazonian people. It’s ancestral use in...
read moreWhat Meditation Isn’t
By Ven. Henepola Gunaratana, from “Mindfulness In Plain English” Meditation is a word. You have heard this word before, or you would never have picked up this book. The thinking process operates by association, and all sorts of ideas are associated with the word ‘meditation’. Some of them are probably accurate and others are hogwash. Some of them pertain more properly to other systems of meditation and have nothing to do with Vipassana practice. Before we proceed, it behooves us to blast some of the residue out of our own neuronal circuits so that new information can...
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