I highly recommend this lecture given at Google, especially if you care about conservation or entheogens.
Category: rainforest
February 5, 2010
November 23, 2009
Eight Ways In-Vitro Meat will Change Our Lives
Extremely though-provoking article from H+ on the ramifications of this developing technology:
Eight Ways In-Vitro Meat will Change Our Lives
September 9, 2009
Maestro Juan Flores sings in Legislative Building
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.
July 31, 2009
Singing to the Plants
Steve Beyer who has been maintaining the Singing to the Plants blog is publishing a book about Meztizo shamanism. Looks great! Check it out:
http://www.singingtotheplants.com/
July 20, 2009
Crude Impact: Oil, The Earth and Humanity
Clip from the documentary Crude Impact discussing what the oil companies did to the South American environment and indigenous population:
(3 min.)
July 14, 2009
Ayahuasca, Vegetalismo & Cultural Survival
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
July 5, 2009
Hamilton's Pharmacopeia
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)
June 26, 2009
Plant Medicines and Shamanic Healing
Some might be interested in this fairly in-depth article about the ayahuasca experience on popular integrated medicine website, PositiveHealth.com
May 24, 2009
Peruvian encounter with the Ayahuasca Madre
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.
[...]
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
April 14, 2009
Vegan – A life connected.
I used to be an unabashed omnivore and enjoyed poking fun at my vegetarian/vegan friends. I even thought I was biologically driven to be carnivorous because I had to have my teeth filed down as a kid because they were too sharp and I’m O(-) blood type which is supposed to need extra red meat (not true). Becoming vegetarian never even crossed mind until one night I had a vivid, deeply disturbing dream experience, and upon waking up, completely lost all desire for meat. A few months later I went totally vegan. At first it required a little extra work (always checking the ingredients and realizing how much processed food contains dairy and eggs) but over the past 2 years of being vegan my dietary choices have expanded exponentially. Now I have more options and ingredients and nutrients and textures and flavors in my diet than I could have ever conceived of when I just ate what society fed me. Food and eating has become one of the richest and most enjoyable facets of life since I went vegan.
Some people wonder how vegans get protein. This is utterly ridiculous!! There are so many diverse proteins available in grains, legumes, nuts, tubers, dark greens, it is not a problem at all.
Aside from the immense gustatory pleasures of having a vegan diet, there are other wonderful, wonderful benefits to your physical and mental health, and as the following video explains, for the environment and the human population as whole. (Not to mention the unfathomably vast amount of suffering that occurs in the colossal holocaust that is factory farming.)
Don’t worry, this is not a PETA video. It is not disturbing at all, only showing the beauty that is possible.
Please watch:
(10 min.)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6149317978842675089
Please do not put them pita bread. (Try falafel instead!)
