Ayahuasca Can Relieve Serious Depression Faster than Antidepressants
Anna Hunt – Even a mild dose was effective for volunteers in this new study.
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Ayahuasca: This Amazonian Brew May Be the Most Powerful Antidepressant Ever Discovered
Valerie Burke – Neuroscientists find that even one dose of ayahuasca has powerful and immediate antidepressant effects.
A Personal Experience with Ayahuasca
Phil Watt – We initiated the ceremony with a tobacco cleansing and then drank the brew. It wasn’t as bad as I’d expected…
Story of Hallucinatory Healing with Ayahuasca
Video – In this hilarious and insightful talk, the Medicine Hunter shares his experiences with hallucinatory spirit animals, gushing love, adventures in true healing, and the transformative value of ayahuasca visions.
How Ayahuasca Affects the Artistic Functions of the Brain
Video – Emma Lucy explains how ayahuasca allows her to read the intelligence of nature and download it into art.
Ayahuasca and its Effect on the Brain
Video – Dr. Gabor Maté as he explains how ayahuasca works and how it can possibly cure addictions.
Can Ayahuasca Cure PTSD?
April M. Short – Donald “Donnie” Bumanglag spoke with Reset just months after sipping the psychedelic, sacred, traditional healing brew ayahuasca in the Peruvian Amazon.
Ayahuasca – Natural Medicine for Brain Disease, Cancer and Wellness
Daniel Gustafsson – The rainforests of the earth are known to be an enormous resource and a necessity for upholding the ecosystem of the planet…
The Sacred Role of the Ayahuasca Shaman
Dylan Charles – Part scientist, part mystic, the role of the Ayahuasca shaman is to facilitate personal transformation and healing…
How Ayahuasca Can Revolutionize Psychotherapy
Olivia LaVecchia, City Pages Waking Times A look at the psychoactive brew that brings users a spiritual payoff for their “work” Just before dusk, 18 strangers entered a yurt on a Midwestern homestead. Peruvian tapestries decorated the walls of the large, round structure, and rattles stood poised for ceremony. The participants — professional men and …
Ayahuasca – State of the Vine: 2014
Rak Razam, Guest Waking Times What IS ayahuasca, and why is it peaking in Western use now? Is ayahuasca being commoditized by the tourist industry and people making money off this sacred indigenous medicine? Are the plants grooming us for a return to energetic balance (health) within ourselves and with the planet? Can this spiritual …
Ayahuasca: An Ethnopharmacologic History
Dennis McKenna, Reality Sandwich Waking Times **The following is excerpted from The Ayahuasca Experience, edited by Ralph Metzner, Ph.D., recently released in a new edition by Park Street Press.** Join Dennis McKenna for the live, interactive video course, “What Plants Can Teach You: Consciousness and Intelligence in Nature.” A new paradigm is emerging that recasts how we …
Ayahuasca and Iboga – Messengers of Truth from Mother Earth
Dylan Charles, Editor Waking Times “The history of Western culture in the last two thousand years could be seen as the “Empire of the Mind conquering the exterior world and extinguishing the interior one, with the result that we have atrophied our spiritual connection.” –Rak Razam The world is deeply out of balance in these …
Brazilian Scientist: Ayahuasca/DMT Can Effectively Treat Cancer
Cassius Methyl, Guest Waking Times Eduardo Schenberg, of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, recently published a piece in Sage Journals, detailing his belief that Ayahuasca has cancer-fighting abilities, essentially encouraging the legalization of research in the field. He says, “There is enough available evidence that Ayahuasca’s active principles, especially DMT and harmine, have positive effects …
Ayahuasca, Alternative Medicine and the Amazon Rainforest
Jonathon Miller-Weisberger, Guest Waking Times The awakening offered by ayahuasca, an alternative medicine practiced by the native tribes of the Amazon rainforest, requires deep reflection, and carries the risk of misinterpretation. Excerpted and reprinted with permission from Rainforest Medicine (North Atlantic Books, 2013) by Jonathon Miller Weisberger, which chronicles the practices, legends, and wisdom of the quickly …
Ayahuasca: An Amazonian Healing Plant
Michael Wiese, Guest Waking Times It was my search for a cure for Parkinson’s that led me to the Amazon and Ayahuasca. I got a whole lot more than I had bargained for! In searching the Internet I found that Banisteriopsis caapi was used in the 1920’s as a cure for Parkinson’s Disease but never …
Ayahuasca – A Plant That Teaches
Ida Lawrence, Contributor Waking Times Before he left for Ecuador, I asked my godson, Steve, if he would check in with me now and then. He said he would if he could. He was traveling there to participate in an Ayahuasca retreat. The first time he messaged I asked him, “What have you learned?” “Respect… …
Ayahuasca and Cancer: One Man’s Experience
Donald M. Topping. Ph.D., MAPS Waking Times A year ago I never dreamed that I would be writing about two subjects, both of which are generally considered taboo. One of these is cancer. We avoid talking about cancer – “the Big C” – because it speaks of our fears of mortality and pain. When an …
DMT, Ayahuasca, The Pineal Gland – A Professor Talks Neurotheology
Clayton Crockett, Legacy Waking Times Reach Out and Touch Faith Professor and chemist Steven Barker sits at his desk, surrounded by curious objects — a mortar and pestle, a DNA model, the cylinder of a spectrometer. Professor Steven Barker is a curious, if strange, man. And he does little to hide it, if he does …
Icaros, the Magical Chants of the Ayahuasca Shamans
Howard G Charing – The Icaros demonstrate the emotional bond between the shamans to the world of nature, and the spiritual powers of the rainforest.