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Soul, Spirit and Right Relationship: A Conversation with Steve Beyer

By Morgan Maher • Jan 16th, 2010 • Category: Spirit & Healing

Morgan 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.


Ayahuasca, Neurogenesis and Depression

By Daniel Mirante • May 4th, 2008 • Category: Neurosciences, Spirit & Healing

Daniel Mirante
A hypothesis suggesting Ayahuasca may be growing healthier brains…


What Are Spirits?

By Steve Beyer • Mar 25th, 2008 • Category: Mythos, Primordial Culture

By Steve Beyer
Each species of teaching plant has what mestizo shamans call a madre, mother, or genio, genius, or espíritu, spirit. Informally, we generally translate all these terms simply as the spirit of the plant, as if the meaning of the term “spirit” was perfectly clear. So: what do we know about these spirits?


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

By Bia Labate • Mar 10th, 2008 • Category: Psychology, Psychiatry, Science

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.