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Ayahuasca: Believers call the Amazonian plant a sacrament; the state calls it illegal Comments (8)
Posted by René Volpi
On a Saturday night in May, 15 middle-aged teachers, doctors, and artists — dressed in matching white garb — enter a South Miami home. A cloud of sage smoke makes the tidy suburban townhouse smell like a head shop. They pay $96, climb a set of stairs, and sit in a circle in a roomful of pillows. Then they turn off the lights.
In minutes, a Chilean shaman appears with .... (click on link for more)
....If you had fun with this experiment while experimenting it, you owe me big time.
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Ethnobotanicals - 10 years of psychotherapy in one night, or the commercialization of Shamanism?
After taking the healing drug and ancient medicine - Ayahuasca - of the Amazon peoples in my home last summer, I felt an urge to visit the place where the "Vine of the Soul" that is used to make "La Purga" in its native land of Peru. However, I was incredibly disillusioned when I found that American entrepreneurs are now exploiting Shaman to take wealthy westerners on a "healing journey", that has brought new respiratory and gastrointestinal disorders to the peoples of the Amazon Jungle, and caused a leap in sex tourism, in addition to this new industry, that some call "drug voyeurism". The people that took part in an Ayahuasca ceremony with me seemed to be interested much more in "getting high" than healing.
My advice? If you want to research these healing plants and decide to consume them, do so at home - they are easily purchased over the Internet. Here's another great piece on the controversies and legalities of Ayahuasca.
http://www.practiceofmadness.com/
