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Below are the best articles we could find on Plant Spirit Medicine and indigenous healing approaches.

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Doña Julia Julieta Casimiro

The following is a version of an interview I held over several days in September 2006 with my mother, Doña Julia Julieta Casimiro, one of the most distinguished representatives of the traditions of the thousand-year-old Mazatec culture, which is centered in the northern mountains of the state of...

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The Grandmother Plant—and What Turned on Consciousness

Here, we asked Graham Hancock about plant medicine, the purpose and meaning of hallucinogenic experiences, and what bigger opportunities he sees for humanity in all of this.

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Helical Visions

In 1985, Swiss-Canadian anthropology student Jeremy Narby spent a year at Quirishari in the Peruvian Amazon, studying how the Ashaninca tribe made use of indigenous resources.

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On María Sabina, One of Mexico’s Greatest Poets

Long before 1960s counter-culture, an indigenous Mexican healer was creating extraordinary poetry under the influence of psychedelic mushrooms.

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The Brutal Mirror: What the Psychedelic Drug Ayahuasca Showed Me About My Life.

What the psychedelic drug ayahuasca showed me about my life.

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This Mexican Medicine Woman Hipped America to Magic Mushrooms, with the Help of a Bank Executive

María Sabina was well-respected in the village as a healer and shaman. She’d been consuming psilocybin mushrooms regularly since she was seven years old, and had performed the velada mushroom ceremony for over 30 years before Wasson arrived.

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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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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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Enhance Your Health with Traditional Medicines

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.

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Ayahuasca Is Changing Global Environmental Consciousness

Interview with US scientist Dennis McKenna on powerful Amazon hallucinogen, plant intelligence, and environmental crises.

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