Ayahuasca Healing: Medical, Legal, and Cultural Considerations
Posted by admin • Category: NewsMAPS 25th Anniversary Conference, Oakland, USA, December 8th-12th, 2011
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News from around the planet about Ayahuasca
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Bruce Perry making shaman film
Posted by admin • Category: NewsPure ecstatic bliss at sense of oneness in animated moonlit nature. Simplicity, love of the earth and community are all that matter here now.
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Could Natural Treatments Have Helped Amy Winehouse?
Posted by admin • Category: NewsWhile the ways that ayahuasca helps some people to overcome addictions is not entirely understood, the volume of people claiming success with addiction or dependency points to something well worth knowing much more about.
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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 [...]
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PhD about the anti-depressive potentials of harmine
Posted by admin • Category: NewsThere seems to be a very productive moment in Brazilian biomedical researches on ayahuasca. I am pleased to announce the publication of a new text in our site about the therapeutic potentials of harmine, an alkaloid present in the vine Banisteriopsis caapi (compenent of the ayahuasca brew).
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Immediate Justice for Javier Armijos
Posted by admin • Category: NewsJavier Armijo is one of the leaders in the conservation of Ecuadorian rain forest through ecotourism, and a member of the newly formed Dutch foundation “Save the Native Forest”. On the 20th February 2011 he was hit by a truck of the PROINPETROL oil company. The Company do not answer calls from any of the relatives.
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Brazil judge blocks Amazon Belo Monte dam
Posted by admin • Category: NewsA Brazilian judge has blocked plans to build a huge hydro-electric dam in the Amazon rainforest because of environmental concerns.
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Ayahuasca Weaving Destinies
Posted by admin • Category: NewsSummary: Ayahuasca (or yajé), the sacred plant remedy of the Amazon, has been the subject of academic studies, travel narratives and documentaries but rarely do they tell the inside story. This novel lifts shamanism out of the category of anthropology or self-help to reveal how the mysterious powers of yajé highlight the debilities of those [...]
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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.
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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.
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Globalhuasca Wisdom
Posted by admin • Category: NewsA seminal interview with Dennis McKenna, Ph.D on the evolution of ayahuasca and the entheogenic movement and the imminent tipping point on planet earth the movement parallels.
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A theory on the reason oil still flows into the Gulf of Mexico.
Posted by admin • Category: NewsBP and the US Government has said they are trying everything possible to stop that multi million gallon oil from continuing to flow into the Gulf. I am about to dispute that claim and offer an expose’ as to why that story about them doing everything possible is a lie and a profitable enterprise to those who would make money from this disaster.
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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.
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Indigenous Leader Returns to Peru After One Year in Exile
Posted by admin • Category: Amazon, NewsI am here for only one cause – to defend the life and the sovereignty of indigenous peoples. I am not just one person; I represent all our indigenous peoples. The government must respect my right to continue fighting for our rights as indigenous peoples. – Alberto Pizango
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The Cognitive Psychology of Ayahuasca
Posted by admin • Category: NewsIf you missed the MAPS conference, you can still see a video of my presentation on the cognitive psychology of ayahuasca hallucinations at the Singing to the Plants website…
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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.
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Peru: Hunt Oil Contract to Reignite Amazon Uprising?
Posted by Raviv Ayola • Category: Amazon, NewsOnly the most controversial of President Alan García’s legislative decrees, which triggered the uprising, have been overturned. These decrees-promulgated under special powers granted to García by Peru’s congress in 2008 to ready the country for the new U.S. free trade agreement-would undo a generation of progress in protecting indigenous territorial rights in the rainforest, opening indigenous lands to oil drilling, logging, and other forms of resource extraction as never before.
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41000 hectares of rainforest would be flooded in the next 4 years
Posted by Raviv Ayola • Category: Amazon, NewsFollowing the Inambari Hydroelectric Project, the Peruvian government would build a dam that would flood 41000 hectares of rainforest. 75% of the hydroelectric energy produced by the dam would be then sold to Brasil.
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6 miners died during a protest in Arequipa, Peru
Posted by Raviv Ayola • Category: Amazon, NewsArequipa: “informal” miners speak of six deaths and several disappearances during yesterday´s night and this morning´s protests in Arequipa.
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El Paro
Posted by Raviv Ayola • Category: Amazon, NewsGold Miners in the jungle of Peru are protesting against a new law that would force them into controlled, limited mining.
