Articles by Morgan Maher:
The Jungle Prescription
Posted by Morgan Maher • Category: Spirit & HealingPremiering tonight in Canada on CBC’s The Nature of Things, (8pm EST, November 10, 2011) The Jungle Prescription tells of ayahuasca and its encounter with the West, as played out through the story of two doctors; Dr. J. Mabit in Peru and Dr. Gabor Maté in Canada.
Awakening The Cosmic Serpent II: Ayahuasca, Ancient Remedy for Modern Times
Posted by Morgan Maher • Category: OverviewsJoin host Jeremy Narby for this Evolver Intensive online video course with guests Steve Beyer, Benny Shanon, Kenneth Tupper, Susana Bustos, and Martina Hoffmann to explore how Ayahuasca is transforming the lives of people around the world, challenging Western notions about healing, art, religion, and the intelligence of nature.
Rainforest activists murdered in Brazil
Posted by Morgan Maher • Category: Ecology, NewsThe bodies of Amazon rainforest activist Joao Claudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife Maria do Espirito Santo are carried to burial by friends and relatives, in the municipal cemetery of Maraba, in Brazil, on May 26, 2011. The identity of those responsible for the shooting in northern Brazil on Tuesday has not yet been [...]
Psychedelic Adventures at the Edge of the Abyss: The Ideas of Terence and Dennis McKenna
Posted by Morgan Maher • Category: Spirit & HealingJoin host Dennis McKenna in conversation with Daniel Pinchbeck, Ralph Abraham, Mark Pesce, Ralph Metzner, Luis Eduardo Luna and Erik Davis across four Sundays beginning June 5, for another intense Evolver Intensive, exploring the life and times, work and wonders of The Brothers McKenna.
How To Redesign the World: Live Online Course
Posted by Morgan Maher • Category: Ecology, OverviewsCome along with Starhawk, Van Jones, Vandana Shiva, Toby Hemenway, Ernest Callenbach, Carolyn Stayton and Mark Lakeman to explore permaculture, transition towns, economics and ecology, community, regeneration, balance, and vision.
Awakening the Cosmic Serpent: A Live Online Course
Posted by Morgan Maher • Category: Overviews, Spirit & HealingJoin host Jeremy Narby for a groundbreaking series of online lectures, and one-on-one discussions with four of the world’s leading experts on the shamanic use of plants: Stanislav Grof, Wade Davis, Kat Harrison and Luis Eduardo Luna. The course begins January 23. EarlyBird discounts available until Jan 10. Jump on board!
Taita Juan is Free!
Posted by Morgan Maher • Category: LawCriminal charges against Taita Juan have been dropped, and arrangements are being made for his return to Colombia
From Medicine Men to Day Trippers: Shamanic Tourism in Iquitos, Peru
Posted by Morgan Maher • Category: NewsEvgenia Fotiou’s PhD dissertation; “From Medicine Men to Day Trippers: Shamanic Tourism in Iquitos, Peru” argues that shamanic tourism is not an anomaly but is consistent with the nature of shamanism, which has historically been about intercultural exchange, as shamanic knowledge and experience has been sought cross-culturally.
2010 SAC Conference Audio Online
Posted by Morgan Maher • Category: NewsThe Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness held its 30th Annual Conference; Curing Minds: Consciousness and Healing, in March, 2010. Audio from the segment entitled Perspectives on Ayahuasca Healing is available now on the SAC website.
Bloodletting with Peter Gorman – Interview and Book Review
Posted by Morgan Maher • Category: Experiences, Shamanism, Spirit & HealingIn the words of Dennis McKenna; Peter Gorman has “been way, way beyond the chrysanthemum on many a dark jungle night.” Gorman’s long awaited book Ayahuasca in My Blood: 25 Years of Medicine Dreaming tells the story of his long, deep relationship with ayahuasca. This book review, and an interview with the author, sets up camp to explore the edges of an astonishing journey.
New Era for Forestry in Canada
Posted by Morgan Maher • Category: NewsA coalition of forestry companies and environmental groups unveil the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement, one of the largest forest conservation agreements in history.
Reclaiming the Rainforest in Colombia
Posted by Morgan Maher • Category: Amazon, NewsAn interview with Martin von Hildebrand, founder at head of Gaia Amazonas describes his work with indigenous groups in Colombia, and their quest towards the reclamation of over 260,000 square kilometers (100,000 square miles) of Amazon rainforest.
Soul, Spirit and Right Relationship: A Conversation with Steve Beyer
Posted by Morgan Maher • Category: Spirit & HealingMorgan Maher
Steve Beyer’s Singing to the Plants, writes Morgan Maher, is “a wild ride out and across the jungles of mestizo shamanism. The book, and its wonderful cast of characters, curanderos, animals, plants, spirits and stories presents honest, accurate, respectful, levelheaded and, at times, outrageously marvelous descriptions of the environments and climates of mestizo shamanism in the Upper Amazon.” Morgan interviews the author.
