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Wisdom, Plant Medicine & Transformational States | Spring Washam

By Spring Washam — 2019

From Wisdom 2.0 2019 in San Francisco.

16:35 min

Ayahuasca Shamanism in the Amazon and Beyond

Beatriz Caiuby Labate and Clancy Cavnar offer an in-depth exploration of how Amerindian epistemology and ontology concerning indigenous shamanic rituals of the Amazon have spread to Western societies, and of how indigenous, mestizo, and cosmopolitan cultures have engaged with and transformed these...

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Beatriz Caiuby Labate (editor), Clancy Cavnar (editor)
2014
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The Fellowship of the River: A Medical Doctor’s Exploration into Traditional Amazonian Plant Medicine

Western medicine has not been particularly successful at getting people relief from conditions like depression, chronic pain, migraine headaches, addiction, and PTSD. Dr. Tafur helps us to understand why. Too often, the Western medical approach fails to address the emotional dimension of illness.

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Joseph Tafur, Gabor Maté (foreword)
2017
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Doña Julia Julieta Casimiro

The following is a version of an interview I held over several days in September 2006 with my mother, Doña Julia Julieta Casimiro, one of the most distinguished representatives of the traditions of the thousand-year-old Mazatec culture, which is centered in the northern mountains of the state of...

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Jesuita Natalia Pineda Casimiro
2007
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Listening to Ayahuasca: New Hope for Depression, Addiction, PTSD, and Anxiety

Used for thousands of years by indigenous tribes of the Amazon rain forest, the mystical brew ayahuasca is now becoming increasingly popular in the West.

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Rachel Harris
2017
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Lessons in Courage: Peruvian Shamanic Wisdom for Everyday Life

“Lessons in Courage” is the biography of an extraordinary man, who has awakened to his own purpose in life as a servant to conscious evolution for all humanity.

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Bonnie Glass-Coffin, don Oscar Miró-Quesada
2013
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The Shamanic View of Mental Illness

In the shamanic view, mental illness signals “the birth of a healer,” explains Malidoma Patrice Somé. Thus, mental disorders are spiritual emergencies, spiritual crises, and need to be regarded as such to aid the healer in being born.

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Stephanie Marohn
2014
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What Is Soul Retrieval?

Within situations of physical and emotional abuse, negation and trauma, there are many experiences in life that can be too difficult to bear.

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Bridgitte Jackson-Buckley
2017
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Inside the Ayahuasca Experience

A practitioner trained in the orthodox Western model of medicine develops a deep respect for the healing power of psychedelic plants and shamanism. What he discovers is not magic but an often astonishingly rapid pathway to self-realization.

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Gabor Maté
2018
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The Miracle List

As we followed the shaman up the mountain along the ancient stone pathway crafted by the Inca some six centuries ago, the silence was broken only by the sound of his flute.

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Alberto Villoldo
2011
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Q & A with Alberto Villoldo, Author of One Spirit Medicine (Part 2)

We can grow a new body in one week with super nutrients and energy medicine—a body that heals, ages and dies differently.

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Creations Magazine
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