I recently had the opportunity to see the documentary film, Gringo Shaman. Beautifully filmed and edited, the film profiles an American who followed the calling and became a full-fledged ayahuasquero. The feel of this documentary is somewhat different from others, successfully fusing raw sincerity with artistic direction to create a very appropriate aesthetic. I definitely recommend it.
You can order the DVD as well as Shipibo-style merchandise at gringoshaman.com
Trailer:
Book of entrancing, kaleidoscopic nature portraits:
What does it mean to be human and alive?
The thousands of different cultures and languages on Earth have compellingly different answers to that question. “We are a wildly imaginative and creative species,” declares Wade Davis, and then proves it with his accounts and photographs of humanity plumbing the soul of culture, of psyche, and of landscape.
A 2 hour presentation by the eminent ethnobotonist, explorer and cultural anthropologist, Wade Davis, with exquisite photography of the dynamic human spirit from diverse cultures of the world.
Watch the program here. ( There is 4 1/2 minute slideshow before the lecture which you can skip.)
I highly recommend this lecture given at Google, especially if you care about conservation or entheogens.
Extremely though-provoking article from H+ on the ramifications of this developing technology:
Video description:
Maestro Juan Flores joins Frank Albo on his infamous esoteric tour of the Manitoba Legislative Building, or more appropriately a one of kind replica of King Solomon’s Temple. At the end of tour, Frank asks Juan to sing a song in the centre of the Pool of the Blackstar. When one stands in this point they can hear their voice amplified throughout the building. Maestro Flores was honoured to be able to send a song and its light out to the world from the altar of such a sacred temple.
Steve Beyer who has been maintaining the Singing to the Plants blog is publishing a book about Meztizo shamanism. Looks great! Check it out:
Clip from the documentary Crude Impact discussing what the oil companies did to the South American environment and indigenous population:
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Robert Tindall, Lou Dematteis, Ralph Metzner and Dale Pendell on the endangered practices of entheogenic plant shamanism and the Amazonian ecosystem at City Lights, the literary mecca of San Francisco.
View the rest here: Robert Tindall Playlist
Vice Magazine TV launched a new drug journalism series called Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia. The first insallment is about a trek into the amazon to locate and experiemnt with the Sapo frog, a frog whose secretions are used to improve hunting skills (not 5-meo or bufotenine).
It’s broken up into three 20 minute episodes and hosted by a weird and funny psychonaut named Hamilton.
LINK: The Sapo Diaries. (parts 2 & 3 linked at bottom of page)
Some might be interested in this fairly in-depth article about the ayahuasca experience on popular integrated medicine website, PositiveHealth.com
Enjoy this brief and very nicely written account of an experience with Ayahusca in Peruvian amazon, written for Alternet.com:
Ever since I first began playing with psychedelics as a teenager, I have wanted to do them in the jungle. It took only one or two bad trips in the city before I started imagining the experience away from the car alarms and ambulance sirens, and closer to its millennia-deep origins in ceremony and sacrament.
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The shaman, Noemi Vagus, was like no octogenarian I had ever met. Her jet black hair, nimble barefoot stride, and straight-backed squat reminded me more of a teenage gymnast than her elderly counterparts in American cities, with their four-legged walkers, slouching postures, and debilitating arthritis. Then there is the fact that she habitually consumes more elite psychedelics than every parking lot ‘shroom dealer at Burning Man put together.
Read full article at Alertenet.com
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