Unraveling the Mystery of the Origin of Ayahuasca
For decades, researchers have puzzled over the mystery of the origin of Ayahuasca, especially the question of how the synergy was discovered between the the two components of the brew: the vine (Banisteriopsis caapi) with a monoamine oxidase inhibiting (MAOI) action and the leaf (Psychotria viridis or Diplopterys cabrerana), which requires that MAOI action to make their dimethyltryptamine (DMT) orally active.
Information & Discussion
Codes of Ethics
Discussion about ethics and ayahuasca, primarily The Plantaforma Code of Ethics (also known as the Code of Ethics for Organizations which Use Ayahuasca in Spain)
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Foods and Meds to Avoid with MAOIs
Food & Medication interactions and safety as related to Ayahuasca use
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AYA Awakenings
AYA: Awakenings is a narrative documentary into the world and visions of Amazonian shamanism, exploring the indigenous experience with plant sacraments including ayahuasca and DMT and the Western uptake of them. By blending narration directly from the cult book Aya: A Shamanic Odyssey with video footage, interviews with practicing curanderos and Western Shamans, samples of [...]
Gaian Entelechy by Jake Kobrin
This artwork GAIAN ENTELECHY is a tribute to this emerging visionary culture. It is a representation of the Earth spirit, of a noble consciousness that exists within the natural world. The Earth is alive. And we are a part of it.
Ayahuasca y Salud (Ayahuasca and Health)
An important new book, Ayahuasca y Salud, brings together perspectives from the social and biomedical sciences as well as personal accounts of ayahuasca shamans and practitioners in order to address diverse indigenous, mestizo and Western concepts of health, illness and curing related to the use of ayahuasca.
Site Updates & Rebirth
We’re in the process of updating Ayahuasca.com in order to better serve, represent, and accomodate the flow of information, knowledge, wisdom and awareness of ayahuasca. Thank you for your patience.
Unraveling the Mystery of the Origin of Ayahuasca
For decades, researchers have puzzled over the mystery of the origin of Ayahuasca, especially the question of how the synergy was discovered between the the two components of the brew: the vine (Banisteriopsis caapi) with a monoamine oxidase inhibiting (MAOI) action and the leaf (Psychotria viridis or Diplopterys cabrerana), which requires that MAOI action to make their dimethyltryptamine (DMT) orally active.
A collection of items from around the Web on the subject of ayahuasca – by Steve Beyer
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Another transmission of the ayahuasca meme -- On the November 13, 2009, episode of Ugly Betty, series character Daniel Meade, distraught over the death of his wife Molly, falls into the hands of a cult whose leader gives him a very bitter drink "used by South American shamans for thousands of years" -- clearly a reference to ayahuasca, which is never named. This was the second...
