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Ayahuasca.com is a research project devoted to the Amazon Spirit Vine Ayahuasca (aya-soul/dead, wasca-vine/rope); the medicinal tea prepared principally from Banisteriopsis Caapi.Banisteriopsis Caapi is a Malpighiaceous jungle liana found in the tropical regions of South America. Ayahuasca is used widely used throughout the Amazon for healing and spiritual exploration.
News
June 13th, 2009
Dear friends,
The Peruvian government has pushed through legislation that could allow extractive and large-scale farming companies to rapidly destroy their Amazon rainforest.
Indigenous peoples have peacefully protested for two months demanding their lawful say in decrees that will contribute to the devastation of the Amazon’s ecology and peoples, and be disastrous for [...]
June 12th, 2009
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[June 11: Update from NY Times Protestors gird for a long fight.]
[June 10: Update from Democracy Now includes interview with Q’orianka Kilcher, of part Indigenous Quechua descent, who is heading to Peru to support the Amazonian protest.]
Peru Protest - June 5, 2009 - Photo: Thomas Quirynen / Reuters
Luien [...]
March 24th, 2009
On Wednesday a federal judge in Oregon ruled that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) allows followers of the Brazil-based Santo Daime sect to consume ayahuasca, a psychedelic tea containing the ordinarily illegal drug dimethyltryptamine (DMT), as part of their rituals.
March 12th, 2009
Complete e-book on history and nature of the Santo Daime by Edward MacRae
http://www.neip.info/downloads/edward/ebook.htm
Although the Daime works keep within the traditional shamanic parameters, [...]
December 12th, 2008
The film “Wine of the Souls” follows six foreigners along their paths in search of healing, self-discovery and mystical experiences. They embark on a pilgrimage to the Amazonian Rainforest, the birthplace of the Santo Daime religion.
They come from very different backgrounds, and they are coming for very different reasons, too.
Gal [...]
Latest Articles
Category » Creativity
by Howard G Charing
Eagle’s Wing
The Magical Art of the Shipibo People of the Upper Amazon
Underlying the intricate geometric patterns of great complexity displayed in the art of the Shipibo people is a concept of an all pervading magical reality which can challenge the Western linguistic heritage and rational mind.
These patterns are more than an expression [...]
Category » Creativity
Steve Beyer
A number of artists have attempted to render the striking visual experiences that occur after ingesting ayahuasca or DMT. In the Upper Amazon, there are both indigenous artists, whose traditional work consists largely of abstract patterns, such as those found on the now well-known pottery, clothing, and other household goods of the Shipibo; and visionary artists, mostly mestizo, whose work is characterized by detailed representations of spirits, trees, animals, objects, and participants in ayahuasca healing ceremonies. These latter works fall almost paradigmatically within what has now come to be called outsider art, sometimes naïve art, and sometimes visionary art — direct, intense, content-laden, narrative, enormously detailed, personal, idiosyncratic, two-dimensional, and brightly colored.
Category » Overviews
by Howard G Charing
Eagle’s Wing
General Information about Ayahuasca
After being virtually ignored by Western civilization for centuries, there has been a huge surge of interest in Ayahuasca recently. There is a growing belief that it is a kind of ‘medicine for our times’, giving hope to people with ‘incurable’ diseases like cancer and HIV, drug addictions [...]
Category » Science
We have talked before — here and here — 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 church. I noted that the study had not clearly disentangled any bias that might have resulted from the fact that the ayahuasca [...]
Category » Science
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 pre-historic Golden Age is a racial memory that reflects our primate evolution in an arboreal, rainforest environment in which humans possessed mental and psychic abilities that have since become lost or atrophied in the profane ages that followed.
Category » Spirit & Healing
On Wednesday a federal judge in Oregon ruled that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) allows followers of the Brazil-based Santo Daime sect to consume ayahuasca, a psychedelic tea containing the ordinarily illegal drug dimethyltryptamine (DMT), as part of their rituals.
Category » Spirit & Healing
Complete e-book on history and nature of the Santo Daime by Edward MacRae
http://www.neip.info/downloads/edward/ebook.htm
Although the Daime works keep within the traditional shamanic parameters, [...]
Category » Botany
A growing thread on propogation of Banisteriopsis Caapi…


