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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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.
A survey of five centuries of writings on the world's great shamans-the tricksters, sorcerers, conjurers, and healers who have fascinated observers for centuries.
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.
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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