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Conversations on shamanism and mind-altering plants by filmmaker
Jan Kounen, anthropologist Jeremy Narby, and writer/filmmaker
Vincent Ravalec
- Explores how ayahuasca and iboga are tools for communicating with
other life-forms
- Offers insights into the role this indigenous knowledge can play
in solving the current problems facing the world
In the Amazon, shamans do not talk in terms of hallucinogens but of
tools for communicating with other life-forms. Ayahuasca, for
example, is first and foremost a means of breaking down the barrier
that separates humans from other species, allowing us to
communicate with them. The introduction of plant-centered shamanism
into the Western world in the 1970s was literally the meeting of
two entirely different paradigms. In "The Psychotropic Mind," three
of the individuals who have been at the forefront of embracing
other ways of knowing look at the ramifications of the introduction
into our Western culture of these shamanic practices and the
psychotropic substances that support them.
With rare sincerity and depth, noted anthropologist Jeremy Narby,
filmmaker Jan Kounen, and writer/filmmaker Vincent Ravalec explore
the questions of sacred plants, initiations, hallucinogens, and
altered states of consciousness, looking at both the benefits and
dangers that await those who seek to travel this path. Focusing
specifically on ayahuasca and iboga, psychotropic substances with
which the authors are intimately familiar, they examine how we can
best learn the other ways of perceiving the world found in
indigenous cultures, and how this knowledge offers immense benefits
and likely solutions to some of the modern world's most pressing
problems.
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