Does Indigenous Plant Medicine Offer a Natural Gateway to Healing Ourselves and the World?

'As the material world rushes around us at a blistering pace, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find truth and meaning in all the chaos. The rat-race economy occupies most of our time and energy, and what's left is typically drowned out by perpetually empty distractions.

We may feel utterly disconnected from nature and each other, almost as if we've been deliberately torn from our natural state to conform to a manufactured reality.'

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Shaman jailed for offering natural healing with ayahuasca

'A self-styled shaman who brewed a drink containing a Class A drug for ritual healing ceremonies has been jailed for 15 months.

Peter Aziz, 51, from Buckfast in Devon, supplied a concoction made from a jungle plant which contains the psychedelic compound DMT.

Aziz, who claimed the drink could help fight illnesses such as cancer, was found guilty at Bristol Crown Court.

He was convicted in a trial believed to be the first of its kind in the UK. '

 

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Stepping Into the Fire: Healing Properties of Ayahuasca

Rob Velez
Reality Sandwich

'This RS video is the trailer for Stepping Into the Fire, a cinematic release that reaches into the ash of the bare bones of existence and asks the question “is humanity born to die, or is humanity born to live?”

The film follows the true story of three successful individuals brought together by an ancestral medicine from South America that has become legendary for its miraculous and profound effects. Ayahuasca – as the Amazonian brew is known – is well known for its mental, physical and energetic healing properties. Stepping Into the Fire closely examines the life-changing effects Ayahuasca can have and illustrates why environment and health are so crucial to human success on a global scale.'

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Potent Jungle Vine Brew Has Potential to Treat Addiction

In the South American jungles, ayahuasca is used in religious ceremonies to induce visions and also as a remedy to cure illness.

Researchers say ayahuasca, found in the Peruvian rainforest, could be used for a variety of ailments

'New research suggests ayahuasca, a jungle vine found in the Peruvian rainforest, can have a powerful effect on the human central nervous system when brewed with other plants. Researchers say one of ayahuasca's most promising uses could be in treating drug and alcohol addiction.

According to the World Health Organization, medicines derived from plants play a major role in the health care of 80 percent of the world's population. Western medicine has synthesized many of these natural drugs, from the painkillers in willow bark to the anti-cancer compounds in the neem tree, and is constantly searching for more pharmaceuticals in the biodiversity of the world's forests.'


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