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Ep. 18 – Shamanic Wisdom with Alberto Villoldo, PhD

Creativity, Spirituality & Making a Buck with David Nichtern

The shamans path is being of service. This discussion is with Alberto Villoldo, PhD.

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Jeremy Narby Speaks about Ayahuasca and Environmental Activism

Anthropologist, author and speaker, Jeremy Narby, talks about his perspectives on ayahuasca and environmental activism after visiting the Temple and learning about the work of our non profit sister organization, Alianza Arkana.

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Jeremy Narby
2014
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The Psychotropic Mind: The World according to Ayahuasca, Iboga, and Shamanism

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.

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Jeremy Narby, Jan Kounen, and Vincent Ravalec
2025
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Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge

While undertaking anthropological fieldwork in the Pichis Valley of the Peruvian Amazon, Narby became intrigued by the local community’s claim that they received their phenomenal biochemical knowledge under the influence of hallucinogens.

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Jeremy Narby
1999
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Ayahuasca Shamanism in the Amazon and Beyond

Beatriz Caiuby Labate and Clancy Cavnar offer an in-depth exploration of how Amerindian epistemology and ontology concerning indigenous shamanic rituals of the Amazon have spread to Western societies, and of how indigenous, mestizo, and cosmopolitan cultures have engaged with and transformed these...

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Beatriz Caiuby Labate (editor), Clancy Cavnar (editor)
2014
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Inside the Ayahuasca Experience

A practitioner trained in the orthodox Western model of medicine develops a deep respect for the healing power of psychedelic plants and shamanism. What he discovers is not magic but an often astonishingly rapid pathway to self-realization.

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Gabor Maté
2018
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Dr. Gabor Maté—Ayahuasca Healing at the Temple of the Way of Light

Physician, best-selling author and renowned speaker, Dr. Gabor Maté shares his experience drinking ayahuasca and receiving healing from the Shipibo Onanya at the Temple of the Way of Light in June 2019.

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Gabor Maté
2019
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Joseph Tafur: What Is an Ayahuasca Ceremony Really Like? (Plant Medicine Podcast)

Dr. Tafur describes the traditional origins and uses of ayahuasca. Throughout the Amazonian basin, hundreds of tribes and religious groups incorporate ayahuasca in their healing and sacred practices. This naturally has led to quite a diversity in how this plant medicine is used.

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Joseph Tafur
2020
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The Way of the Shaman: The Work of Michael and Sandra Harner

The story of Michael and Sandra Harner in the history and development of core shamanism, the universal, near universal, and common practices of shamanism worldwide.

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Stanislav Grof
2017
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The Fellowship of the River: A Medical Doctor’s Exploration into Traditional Amazonian Plant Medicine

Western medicine has not been particularly successful at getting people relief from conditions like depression, chronic pain, migraine headaches, addiction, and PTSD. Dr. Tafur helps us to understand why. Too often, the Western medical approach fails to address the emotional dimension of illness.

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Joseph Tafur, Gabor Maté (foreword)
2017
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