Plants and Religion

Steve Beyer has posted a new article over at Singing to the Plants. Steve is a compelling writer and extremely thorough scholar, and the new article raises some truly fascinating points in the discussion surrounding the origin of the ayahuasca brew. Whatever side one comes down on in the debate, the article is highly recommended!

The following information has been posted by UNESCO following the meeting of the sixth session of the Intergovernmental Committee in Bali, Indonesia, during the month of November, 2011. It was posted in Colombia’s El Espectador here. See also here for more information on the 6.COM meeting. The mythical and cosmological structures that make up the traditional knowledge [...]

This was sent to us by our friends at FSS.  This is an extremely serious issue, please read below for more. October 7, 2011 We have just learned that over the last 20 months, 14 shamans have been murdered in Peru’s northeastern jungle region of Loreto. According to the newspaper La República: The provincial prosecutor’s [...]

A study working with Twenty-three women diagnosed with TMD, measuring the outcomes over five visits during which shamanic treatments were conducted.  Shamanic Treatment for Temporomandiublar Joint Disorders  

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 [...]

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 [...]