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To put it up front, this essay is not about relativization. I am sitting in my flat, trying to make ends meet between supervising my children’s chaotic homeschooling, my own home office, and maintaining social and supply relations, especially with more anxious elderly relatives. I am glad that the Austrian government decided in good time to issue severe measures, and so I am slightly optimistic that the pandemic, which I recognize as a serious threat, might not result in utter disaster here, as I fear it might occur in other countries. So whence my subtitle? Isn’t the use of “love”
Jerónimo M.M.'s insight:
this is a good reminder of something important, we're in control
Wu Fei and Abigail Washburn’s debut collaborative release is a testament to the connective power of music across seemingly disparate cultures. Merging American old-time music and Chinese folksong, Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn features gorgeous, impressionistic renditions of traditional material from the hills of Appalachia to the prairies of Xinjiang region, each tune flowing seamlessly into the next. The effervescent resonances of Wu’s guzheng zither dance around Washburn’s expressive banjo playing, their voices intertwining English and various Chinese dialects. This album recasts "world music" as music of our shared world, highlighting our shared humanity and the transformative power of song.
En su ponencia en la Conferencia Mundial de Ayahuasca 2019, Alex Polari compartió la enseñanza de sus Maestros para ilustrar la importancia de unirse como comunidad. Para Polari, la ayahuasca es una herramienta poderosa y sagrada que tiene un papel importante que desempeñar en la crisis actual a la que nos enfrentamos como civilización.
La ayahuasca es una herramienta importante para transformar la conciencia humana. Una herramienta que es más poderosa cuando está integrada en una comunidad donde se siguen prácticas espirituales, religiosas o de otro tipo. ¡Buscadores del mundo, uníos!
In the '60s, Jan Bastiaans, using breakthrough experimental treatment with LSD, freed Holocaust survivors from their traumas. He became a national hero but was later shunted aside and treated patients in the underground. Is his legacy still worthy?
As the coronavirus becomes a global pandemic, what can the ayahuasca community do to minimize infection risks & improve safety in plant medicine ceremonies?
ICEERS - International Center for Ethnobotanical Education, Research and Service está financiando un proyeto en Ulule: Liberando a las plantas maestras. Ayuda al Ayahuasca Defense Fund a crecer
Durante la Conferencia Mundial de Ayahuasca (AYA2019), los representantes de los pueblos indígenas de la Amazonia colombiana pidieron la protección de sus territorios y pueblos.
Por eso crearon UMIYAC, la Unión de Médicos Yageceros de la Amazonía Colombiana, una organización indígena y una red de autoridades espirituales formada en 1999 por curanderos tradicionales de cinco grupos indígenas. Su misión es la protección de los conocimientos tradicionales y las prácticas médicas ancestrales, así como la defensa de la selva amazónica.
Exploring indigenous life projects in encounters with extractivism, the present open access volume discusses how current turbulences actualise questions of indigeneity, difference and ontological dyna
Pandemic strikes mean physical illness for many and trauma for all. The 2003 SARS outbreak led to terrifying increases in depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among caregivers, those quarantined and people affected in other ways. How can we prepare for the mental health impact of the coronavirus pandemic?
To tackle a problem as large as climate change, we need both science and Indigenous wisdom, says environmental activist Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim. In this engaging talk, she shares how her nomadic community in Chad is working closely with scientists to restore endangered ecosystems -- and offers lessons on how to create more resilient communities.
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Growing numbers of tourists are travelling to the Peruvian Amazon to drink ayahuasca, a traditional plant medicine said to bring about a higher state of consciousness. Foreigners come looking for spiritual enlightenment or help with mental health problems like trauma, depression, and addiction.
But not everyone is happy about Peru’s booming ayahuasca tourism industry. A group of indigenous healers are fighting back against what they see as the exploitation and appropriation of their cultural heritage by foreigners - who run most of the ayahuasca retreats popular with tourists. This coming together of cultures has thrown up another serious problem too: vulnerable women being sexually abused while under the influence of charismatic healers and this powerful psychedelic.
Os escribo porque está a punto de terminar (solo 3 días mas) un crowdunfund del Ayahausca Defense Fund, el fondo que ayuda a las personas que se meten en problemas legales por trabajar con plantas. En los últimos años hemos dado a apoyo a más de 100 casos (arrestos, juicios) en 27 países. Espero que ninguno tengáis nunca que pedir la ayuda del ADF, pero creo que en esta lista también hay gente que ha recibido apoyo
Jerónimo M.M.'s insight:
As you might know ICEERS (where I work) started the Ayahuasca Defense Fund, some time ago, it helps people who get in legal trouble for working with plants. In the last years we’ve helped more than a hundred cases in 27 countries. Now we need your help!
Over the past century, nearly all of Ethiopia's native forests have been cleared for farming and grazing. Now it is up to the Orthodox Churches—who for centuries have safeguarded pockets of primary forest that grow around them—to preserve Ethiopia's quickly shrinking biodiversity and teach people how to live with forests.
The 3rd hour of TODAY welcomes Danny Panzella and Vanessa Valez as the couple of eight years discuss how they believe their use of psychedelic drugs improved their relationship and family life. Rachel Yehuda, professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, also joins to weigh in further.
El "ikaro" es el canto o melodía que utilizan los curanderos durante los trabajos rituales, en especial durante las ceremonias de ayahuasca. Los ikaros son elementos indispensables de la medicina tradicional amazónica y representan el medio esencial de transmisión de la sabiduría y de la práctica curativa. En esta entrevista la Dra. Rosa Giove, cofundadora y responsable del seguimiento biomédico del Centro Takiwasi, nos cuenta sobre el origen de los ikaros que ella canta, cual es su función y cual es el mensaje de Ábrete Corazón, su ikaro más famoso.
Los temas principales tocados a lo largo de la entrevista: - El primer contacto con los ikaros; - Ikaros y puntos energéticos; - El orden y la especificad de los ikaros; - El origen de Ábrete Corazón; - La autoría de los ikaros; - El mensaje de Ábrete Corazón.
The anthropologist Wade Davis was the opening speaker at the 2019 World Ayahuasca Conference (Girona, Spain). Always a great storyteller, Davis weaves key ideas about the place of ayahuasca in the world while sharing tales of his journeys in the Amazon jungle.
Through his description of the cosmovision of the Barasana indigenous people, Davis reminds us that the members of this tribe are the survivors of a world that once existed, and offers insights on the connection between nature and culture that has been foundational to their survival, and possibly ours.
Growing numbers of tourists are travelling to the Peruvian Amazon to drink ayahuasca, a traditional plant medicine said to bring about a higher state of consciousness. Foreigners come looking for spiritual enlightenment or help with mental health problems like trauma, depression, and addiction.
But not everyone is happy about Peru’s booming ayahuasca tourism industry. A group of indigenous healers are fighting back against what they see as the exploitation and appropriation of their cultural heritage by foreigners - who run most of the ayahuasca retreats popular with tourists. This coming together of cultures has thrown up another serious problem too: vulnerable women being sexually abused while under the influence of charismatic healers and this powerful psychedelic.
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