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  • “Templo Sacrosanto” by Pablo Amaringo

    Visionary Experiences

    by Steve Beyer

    Painting - “Templo Sacrosanto” by Pablo Amaringo

    There are a number of human experiences — I am thinking of such things as hallucinations, lucid dreams, visions, out-of-body experiences — that are characterized by presentness, detail, externality, and three-dimensional explorable spacefulness. We can call these visionary experiences. Such visionary experiences appear to be a central and consistent component of shamanism generally — most prominently, for...

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    Experiences, Psyche, Shamanism, Writing on Art
  • The Ayahuasca Defence Fund — Brief Introduction

    by admin

    The Ayahuasca Defence Fund (ADF) will be a worldwide, permanent fund providing defence funding for legal cases involving ayahuasca and other teacher plants.

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March 10, 2018

What is Rapé

Tobacco snuff is a sacred shamanic medicine or tool, that has been used by tribes of the Amazon basin...

by admin
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September 11, 2017

The Economics of Ayahuasca: Do You Get What You Pay For?

Art by Josh Usmani Money is a complicated force woven within our cultural psychology, and when you combine it...

by Tina Courtney
comments 20
March 13, 2017

Why I Quit Ayahuasca Shamanism After 11 Years and 1,000 Ceremonies

I’m alive because of Ayahuasca. I am connected, soulful, expanded, and spilling over with self-love, mostly because of the...

by Tina Courtney
comments 76
March 5, 2017

“Para Curar, Solamente Para Curar”

I lay down on the floor, on a comfortable mattress in the center of the room. And I waited....

by Richard Grossman
comments 0
“Templo Sacrosanto” by Pablo Amaringo
March 4, 2017

Visionary Experiences

Painting - “Templo Sacrosanto” by Pablo Amaringo

There are a number of human experiences — I am thinking of such...

by Steve Beyer
comments 2
March 4, 2017

Plants of Ayahuasca Shamanism

Art - Caapi Dreams by Donna Torres.
This is an introductory beginners guide to several plants significantly connected to...

by Daniel Mirante
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March 3, 2017

The Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the DEA Religious Exemption Process

This article is to inform about the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), the RFRA exemption procedure, and the process...

by Gayle Highpine
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March 3, 2017

Four Transformations that Ayahuasca Tourism is Producing in the Traditional Ayahuasca...

A look into Western assumptions and modifications of traditional ayahuasca practices. "The ayahuasca brew is known locally as “the...

by Carlos Suarez Alvarez
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What is Rapé

by admin

Tobacco snuff is a sacred shamanic medicine or tool, that has been used by tribes of the Amazon basin for thousands of years and is an essential part of their tribal culture and history. Rapé is the name for one of many of these snuffs, and it’s foundation lies by numerous indiginous tribes in Acre, Brazil. Curiously, Rapé is not sniffed, snorted or inhaled. Instead, it is administered (blown) into the nostrils with a special blowpipe called “Kuripe” (self administration) or “Tepi” (another person administers). This “blow” is quite forceful and not specifically pleasant. It can be rather shocking. The appearance of a Rapé is a grey- to sand coloured, very fine and dry dust. It is traditionally prepared by ceremonial pounding of Tobacco (N. rustica) with tree ashes, followed by patiently filtering it through a fine mesh, resulting in a dust as fine as 125 micron. The varieties of Tobacco used are not the commonly known N. tabacum, but N. rustica, such as “Corda” or “Moi” and in cases also “Mapacho”. Given the...

March 10, 2018
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Health, Indigenous Worlds

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David Hewson’s “Mother Earth”

Published by Ayola Fuchs

This beautiful guilded painting "Mother Earth", by David Hewsen, is 4 X 8 feet and was installed, on the 9th of January, in the entrance of a heart center...

March 4, 2017
comments 7
Featured Artists

Spirit Plant Realms by Yvonne McGillivray

Published by Daniel Mirante

The common motif across her vast body of work is the interconnectivity and conscious relationship of humanity with the plant realm.

May 22, 2016
comments 4
Featured Artists

Chanting Down Babylon by Daniel Mirante

Published by admin

Painter Daniel Mirante explains some of the meanings and symbolism in his latest artwork 'Chanting Down Babylon' in a video journey through the artwork.

March 30, 2014
comments 4
Featured Artists

An interview with Pablo Amaringo

Published by Howard Charing

The late Pablo Amaringo trained as a curandero in the Amazon, healing himself and others from the age of ten, but gave this up in 1977 to become a...

January 18, 2014
comments 4
Featured Artists

Writings on shamanic art

“Templo Sacrosanto” by Pablo Amaringo
March 4, 2017

Visionary Experiences

Painting - “Templo Sacrosanto” by Pablo Amaringo

There are a number of human experiences — I am thinking of such...

by Steve Beyer
comments 2
Heartbeat of the Medicine Bird by Daniel Mirante
January 5, 2017

Communion With The Infinite – The Visual Music of the Shipibo tribe of the...

Underlying the intricate geometric patterns of great complexity displayed in the art of the Shipibo people is a concept...

by Howard G Charing
comments 12
January 27, 2015

Ayahuasca and Creativity

Benny Shanon Apparently, ayahuasca can push the human mind to heights of creativity that by far exceed those encountered ordinarily....

by admin
comments 0
August 22, 2008

Some Thoughts on DMT Art

Steve Beyer A number of artists have attempted to render the striking visual experiences that occur after ingesting ayahuasca or...

by Steve Beyer
comments 5

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Fruits of the Vine

Explore our galleries to see art-work that has been inspired by experiences and traditions associated with the Plantas Maestras (Plant Teachers)

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Great scientific news on ayahuasca’s therapeutic potentials

According to Jordi Riba’s presentation at the Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelics Research ‬ that was held this weekend in Amsterdam harmine and tetrahydroharmine potently stimulates the formation of new...

February 26, 2017
comments 0
Botany, Science

Beta-Carbolines

Steve Beyer, author of Singing to the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon, questions the Western conventional wisdom that the sole function of the...

May 31, 2010
comments 2
Science

Important new research project about ayahuasca in the USA

The goal is to evaluate the safety of this potential drug of abuse and potential therapeutic applications of ayahuasca by studying its physiological and psychological effects, as well as...

April 29, 2010
comments 103
Health, Introductions, Science

Foods and Medications to Avoid with MAOIs

Food & Medication interactions and safety as related to Ayahuasca use

April 4, 2010
comments 7
Michael Winkelman
Health, Psyche, Science

Psychointegration

Steve Beyer Anthropologist Michael Winkelman, at Arizona State University, says that shamanic practices — drumming, chanting, and the ingestion of sacred plants — create a special state of consciousness...

September 24, 2009
comments 0
Psyche, Science

Ayahuasca and Mental Health Among the Shuar

Steve Beyer We have talked before about the Grob, McKenna, Callaway, et al., psychiatric study on the long-term effects of drinking ayahuasca in the ceremonies of the União do Vegetal...

March 12, 2009
comments 2
Health, Psyche, Science

A Neurobiological Theory of ‘The Fall’

Dennis McKenna In the book 'Left In the Dark', a culmination of over fifteen years of independent research into human evolution, the authors postulate that the universal myth of a...

August 16, 2008
comments 10
Science

The Scientific Investigation of Ayahuasca – A Review of Past and Current Research

By Dennis McKenna, Charles Grob & Jace Callaway A biomedical investigation of long-term hoasca drinkers by the Medical Studies section of the UDV (Centro de Estudos Medicos).

April 8, 2008
comments 7
Health, Psyche, Science

The Ayahuasca Effect

By Kirby Surprise It is often reported that the tea breaks even profound depressive episodes in a single use. This positive psychological benefit is what I call the “Ayahuasca Effect.”...

March 28, 2008
comments 63
Science

Effects of ayahuasca on psychometric measures of anxiety, panic-like and hopelessness in Santo Daime members.

Ayahuasca ingestion did not modify state- or trait-anxiety. The results are discussed in terms of the possible use of ayahuasca in alleviating signs of hopelessness and panic-like related symptoms.

March 10, 2008
comments 3

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