The Teleomorph » ayahuasca

The First World [Electric Sheep Comix is back!]

Evan 057 — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:44:23 +0000

After a ten year hiatus, Electric Sheep Comix returns with a stunning new addition to the psychedelic web-strip Delta from artist Patrick Farley, this one portraying McKenna’s ‘stoned ape theory’. [NSFW]
Get’s really exquisite about 2/3 into it:

http://www.electricsheepcomix.com/delta/firstword/

The Ayahuasca Project

Evan 057 — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 06:37:14 +0000

Definitely watch and share this trailer for a gorgeous looking documentary about ayahuasca shamanism, science and it’s use in treating Westerners afflicted with addictions and severe emotional traumas, as pioneered by the work of two doctors; Dr. Jacques Mabit, who “runs a legendary detox centre deep in the Peruvian jungle”and Dr. Gabor Maté, a lionhearted addiction specialist valiantly trying to establish a similar program in Canada. It is seeking completion funding on KickStarter so if you like the trailer please learn more by watching the Kickstarter video.

Click here to view the embedded video.

"Deadly Monopolies": Bio-colonialsm and medical corporatism: organism, gene and human tissue patents.

Evan 057 — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:56:12 +0000

Watch or listen to the 45 minute interview here.

From Democracy Now:

One of the major themes raised by the Occupy movement is the increasing power of large corporations over more and more aspects of our lives. We spend the hour looking into the issue of the corporate control of life itself. Our guest, Harriet Washington, is a medical ethicist and has just published a book that examines the extent to which what she calls the medical-industrial complex has come to control human life. In the past 30 years, more than 40,000 patents have been granted on genes alone—many more patents are pending. Washington argues that the biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies patenting these genes are more concerned with profit than with the health or medical needs of patients. Her new book is called “Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself—And the Consequences for Your Health and Our Medical Future.”

Mayor investigated for mass assasinations of Peruvian shamans

Evan 057 — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 03:16:38 +0000

This is very disturbing. But I am compelled to share.

Peruvian government sends team to remote Amazon region to look into killing of 14 shamans, allegedly at behest of local mayor.

Guardian.co.uk

Occupy The Mind – Legalize DMT.

Evan 057 — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 02:11:11 +0000

DMT is chemical produced and used by the human nervous system. It can be found in almost any plant or animal species and is a psychedelic chemical that is used in shamanic healing practices of South America. DMT is also listed as a Schedule 1 substance. According to the US government, not only are nature and shamanism illegal, but so are YOU, of possession AND manufacturing of an “illegal narcotic.”

UN attempting to outlaw all sacred plants (Ayahuasca, Iboga, etc.). SIGN PETITION!!

Evan 057 — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 22:45:32 +0000

Important message from Luis Eduardo;

Dear friends,

I urge you to sign this petition. Once more, this is an attack against the cultural and spiritual heritage of non-western people, a continuation of conquest and colonization of the word by people with a very limited worldview.
Best regards,

Luis Eduardo

The United Nations International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) has published on their website their annual report about the world situation on drugs in 2010. In this report, the INCB has included the preoccupying recommendation towards governments to outlaw traditional plants such as Ayahuasca (a decoction made with botanicals like Banisteriopsis Caapi and Psychotria Viridis) andTabernanthe Iboga among others, neglecting their important role as traditional medicine, as a sacrament and as therapeutic tool. These are the primary uses of these plants found in societies all over the world.

The International Center for Ethnobotanical Education, Research & Service (ICEERS) is organizing a letter-writing campaign to counter this demonic injustice. Please read more about this issue and add your signature here, and take a moment to browse the beautiful website of ICEERS.org.

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TEDxPSU – Richard Doyle – Scaling the Noösphere

Evan 057 — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 07:41:48 +0000

This is a TEDx presentation given by my favorite scholar of the rhetoric of biochemistry and post-vital living, Richard Doyle, about the importance of developing our conceptions of the noösphere.

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Currently I’m reading his newest scholarly book concerning his ecodelic hypotheses about archaic and contemporary psychedelic media technologies, Darwin’s Pharmacy: Sex, Plants, and the Evolution of the Noösphere.

Jonathan Ott interview @ 2008 World Psychedelic Forum

Evan 057 — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 23:04:07 +0000

Faustin Bray, the founder of Sound Photosynthesis, interviews one of the world’s foremost experts on visionary substances, Jonathan Ott, wherein they discuss such things as the civilizational collapse, off-grid strategies, navigating time-streams as well some nuances of the modern psychedelic movement. Interviewer Faustin Brey sorta trails off at the end but a Jon Ott interview is a rare treat so enjoy. :)

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Cultivating A Cure

Evan 057 — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 01:30:58 +0000

Cultivating A Cure is a documentary in production and currently fundraising for completion. It is about the wealth of medicinal plants in the Amazonian rainforest and their impending threat of eradication. It includes interviews with native healers and research scientists such as Dennis McKenna.

Please the watch the trailer for what looks like a beautiful and immensely important project: CultivatingACure.com

Promo for Ayahuasca TV Show in Development

Evan 057 — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 06:01:45 +0000

Here is a 7 minute promo for what appears to be a mainstream adventure/documentary television program in development about Ayahuasca healing in the Amazon.

Bringing valuable information to spiritually starving masses sounds pretty good but it’s also possible to trivialize entheogenic practices with pop-culture antics or feed the still unstable aspects of ayahuasca tourism. We’ll see what happens.

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