This might be the post that costs me some followers, but growth often comes with a little discomfort, and I’m here for it.
I truly believe classic psychedelics have the power to change the world for the better, when paired with the right set and setting, a trusted trip sitter, and the right mindset.
“Can you tell me about the experience?”
“Yes. I took #ayahuasca, an incredibly powerful hallucinogen. Most people who take it meet . . . the . . . the goddess. The spirit behind it. And she is pretty frightening. And yeah, she gave me a vision. She gave me a lot of things. It was long, and it was very hard, and it was terrifying in many ways. It was also one of the most beautiful experiences of my life. The central vision that I had during this experience was a vision of the world in which plants were helping people. Really stunning. I literally saw a city with people moving around it, and plants helping. Someone walking up steps and a vine kind of curling around them, and just this incredible strong message coming through of, like, We are here to help you. We want to help you. What am I supposed to do with that? Am I supposed to go read scientific papers to explain what I just experienced? I don’t know how to write about it. I don’t even know how to talk about it. I know how silly it sounds, in language! Right? But it is quite obvious that one of the problems with everything is that humanity largely has moved away from that relationship with the world. Really, really obvious, but how do we deal with it? One way is to come into the awareness that everything you think you know about the world is some kind of abstraction. I have no problem with the scientific method as a way of knowing the world. As long as you remember that it is only one way, and then can see it through another lens as well, then it very much changes your relationship with the world. That is something I’m really struggling to articulate at the moment.”
Really interesting read from #ManvirSingh gathering evidence that #ayahuasca is not as old or #Indigenous as it is made out to be. The tales tourists want to hear...
'Brabec de Mori argues that ayahuasca diffused through the Peruvian Amazon in the past 300 years. It is likely older among Tukanoan peoples further north, who, he suspects, transmitted the practice to populations missionised early in the lowlands. Yet in the regions most frequented by tourists, it seems to be a relative novelty. Brabec de Mori isn’t the first to make the argument – the anthropologist Peter Gow proposed something similar in 1994 – but he, more than anyone else, has found the anthropological data to support it.'
We definitely believe Peter Gow (who saw the equivalency of menstrual girls to shamans. Ayahuasca use tends to push women out)
too good not to share
(and yes, a lot of these guys really do think bitcoin = world peace)
@Yehuda The same has happened to the #Bufo toad in Mexico.
Same has happened to the rarer varieties of #Ayahuasca vine in Peru.
All the while we could produce mescaline, 5-meo-dmt, dmt & tetrahydroharmine synthetically, leaving these fragile ecologies alone.
But then we have the fucking ’natural health’ wanna-be white ”shamans” taking none of it, because it’s not ”spiritual”.
Fucking #psychedelic #colonialism
White privilege all the way through 
@br00t4c Hope the mystery gets solved. Sounds like an allergic reaction.
I have to wonder if the journalist is confusing frogs with toads. If they are playing with #ayahuasca, it seems more likely that they would be playing with toads because it is a Bufo Alvarious toad that has the DMT in their secretions.
Cae otro grupo que captaba personas vulnerables a través de la ayahuasca. Pasito a paso se va desmontando la realidad que pretenden ocultar. #secta
#ayahuasca #guru @policia
@lowqualityfacts 
Finally, a legitimate use for AY -- Ayahuasca!
#Ayahuasca, #WeatherForecasting, #LowQualityFacts, #TuckersBalls
Ancient artists high on hallucinogens may have carved dancer rock art in Peru
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-artists-high-on-hallucinogens-carved-dancer-rock-art-in-peru-study-suggests #archaeology #Peru #Andes #hallucinogens #RockArt #Amazon #Tucano ayahuasca #ayahuasca
Time to update the Great Patriotic #American #FirstAid Kit by adding fudge brownies for ad hoc Covid test (loss of taste).
More suggested contents:
1) Fish #antibiotics (can no longer buy antibiotics by the pound over the counter at #California feed stores.)
2) #Superglue (fix severed limbs and broken teeth.)
3) #Popsicle sticks (make splints for broken fingers.)
4) #Willow bark (#Aspirin costs too much.)
5) #Ayahuasca powder (if none of the above works.)
Publication initiale le 1er septembre 2023.
#Ayahuasca, starseeds, mission de vie, #lithothérapie, psychogénéalogie, shifting, #méditation, éveil des consciences…
Toutes ces idées et pratiques ont pour point commun d’avoir un lien fort avec un courant de pensée présent dans à peu près tous les domaines de votre vie, sans forcément que vous vous en rendiez compte : l’#ésotérisme New Age.
Here is Part 2 of my interview on Mark Plotkin's podcast Plants of the Gods -- “Ayahuasca and Tobacco Shamanism in the Amazon: an Interview with Ethnobotanist Dr. Glenn Shepard”. I also discuss my more recent work with the charity organization Rainforest Flow on low tech water and sanitation systems for indigenous communities of Peru.
@ethnobiology @anthropology @bookstodon #ayahuasca #Tobacco #Shamanism #Amazonia #waterandsanitation #wash #indigenouspeoples #globalhealth
Ayahuasca and Tobacco Shamanism in the Amazon: Ethnobotanist and conservationist Mark Plotkin interviewed me for the latest episode of his podcast "Plants of the Gods"
@anthropology @ethnobiology #shamanism #ayahuasca #amazonia #plantsofthegods
"Toma toma tu ayahuasca..."
#Podcast de #bouquinbouquine
avec #Borderline de
#ZoëHababou.
Un périple sonore au coeur des mystères des cérémonies chamaniques. #Shipibo #Ayahuasca #Amazonie. Bonne écoute. 
https://pod.urban-radio.com/@bouquinbouquine/episodes
"We are disciples of the União do Vegetal and are concerned about the show of support by people at the top of the Union’s hierarchy for political positions, which we understand as being contrary to the Master’s teachings"
Members of Brazilian #ayahuasca church write anonymous letter criticizing certain church leaders' support for ex-president Bolsonaro's authoritarian, antidemocratic, homophobic and racist rhetoric
#shamanism #Brazil #Bolsonaro #psychedelics #Amazonia @anthropology @ethnobiology
https://chacruna.net/anonymous-letter-udv-ayahuasca-religion-conservative-masters/
Brazilian ayahuasca religious leaders who supported former president Bolsonaro having buyer's remorse after coup attempt and January 8 insurrection
#Brazil #ayahuasca #Bolsonaro #psychedelics @anthropology @ethnobiology
"This invasive alien force was melding with my spirit through a portal opened up by ayahuasca and consummated by tobacco. It felt as if Abanti had taken me to some secret and dreadful and holy place: a cave, a sacrificial altar."
For those of you who haven't seen it, here is a piece of mine originally published by Broad Street and reposted by @medium : "Agony and Ecstasy in the Amazon"
#ayahuasca #tobacco #shamanism #amazonia #peru #ethnobotany #psychedelics @ethnobiology @anthropology @maria @mattbucher
#Introduction, cont’d and yes I will shut up soon.
I’m here for more than #USPolitics, I’d like to make friends outside this American echo chamber, broaden my mind, learn and grow.
A few more hashtags: I’ve been #Pagan, practiced #SpellCasting and #Manifesting, studied the #Occult, #Mysticism, #Zen, #Psychology, had great success with #Ayahuasca, #BinauralBeats AKA #HoloSync or #Hemi-Sync, #Kundalini raising #Meditation.
#Faeries are real. Ghosts too
On #BlackFriday I boost #BlackMastodon.
a future #earth where stoned people who live mostly #naked around the equator, in sync with the flow of nature, advanced super nano technologies behind their eyelids create menus into the #metaverse and that's where cities and culture is built. not imposing on our mother the #goddess and her body. 
#ai generated art in collaboration with my prompt
