Plants and Religion

Dear Friends, My friend and colleague Micheal Winkelman asked me to release this note about his new work, a very nice hard cover book and important reference: “Hi, This is Michael Winkelman. I write to let you know about my new release, Shamanism A Biopsychosocial Paradigm of Consciousness and Healing. This second edition is a [...]

The Kogi are what has been described as an example of a “priestly” culture.  They live today in the mountains of Columbia, and twenty years ago, they came down from their remote home to work with the BBC to produce a film called From the Heart of the World: The Elder Brother’s Warning.  It was a [...]

Reference: The Psychedelic Journey of Marlene Dobkin de  Rios. 45 Years with Shamans, Ayahuasqueros, and Ethnobotanists.Inner Traditions. 2009. Summary: With regard to ayahuasca, the plant hallucinogen is indigenous to South Ameerica and employed by shamans for millennia as a spirit drug for divinatory and healing purposes. The late Harvard ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes was credited [...]

Our friend Bia Labate, internationally known scholar on ayahuasca shamanism, has sent us this message that we’d like to share with you: Dear Friends, I am pleased to announce the publication of the first PhD thesis I know of about the phenomenon of Ayahuasca Tourism. What are the boundaries between experimentation,    initiation and service [...]

Matéria da revista New Scientist http://tr.im/schaan Ancient Amazon civilisation laid bare by felled forest 09 December 2009 by Linda Geddes Signs of what could be a previously unknown ancient civilisation are emerging from beneath the felled trees of the Amazon. Some 260 giant avenues, ditches and enclosures have been spotted from the air in a region straddling Brazil’s [...]