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Enhance Your Health with Traditional Medicines

By Mel Borins

Some years ago, I decided to merge my love of long-journeyed travels with my sincere desire to become more familiar with the world’s approach to healing and health—what type of services there were and how much accessibility existed for people in different countries and cultures. I wanted to observe how doctors and healers in other countries worked with the resources they had.

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Grandmother: Rita Pitka Blumenstein | Yupik, Alaska/USA

Grandmother Rita Pitka Blumenstein was the first inhabitant of Alaska to be certified as a traditional healer even though she had never attended an official school. Instead, she spent much of her time with the wise female elders of her tribe.

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Earth Oasis
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The Colonization of the Ayahuasca Experience

The growing popularity of "authentic" ayahuasca rituals in Western circles can present multiple problems, including indigenous fetishization, a lack of cultural context for traditional ceremonies, and potential abuse from untrustworthy shamans, all of which can be problematic or sometimes even...

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Mark Hay
2020
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Listening in with . . . Grandmother Flordemayo: Seeding the Future

Born into a lineage of healers in the highlands of Central America and now an indigenous elder, Flordemayo travels internationally, sharing wisdom and teaching respect for the earth. Here, she talks with Unity Magazine editor Katy Koontz about her life and her work.

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Katy Koontz
2020
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Science, Spirituality and Ayahuasca: Interview with Joe Tafur, MD

In this recent conversation we had with Dr. Tafur, he shares his perspective on what the materialistic West stands to learn from the mystical side of spirituality, emotions, and mental health.

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Wesley Thoricatha
2017
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