The Role of Sacramental Plants in Sustainable Communities in the Western Amazon

[quis80jab]

That is halariouse wow

I like it

[WakingRoom]

Amazing presentation and information! Hope there is a huge support for this!!

[personalfilme]

show. very cool. save the rain forest. peace and luv forever. mother nature is the one.

[igor13100]

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[SuperKenny720]

Don't forget it produced 20% of the worlds oxygen. Their is no way to stop this destruction though because I am building a 15 thoudsand sq house for me and my dog. Fuck clean air who needs that!

[jason2012ification]

Shut up and listen.

[digitalenigma00]

i think we wont really apprieciate the value of the diveristy of species in the rainforest for about 25 to 50 years when we realize any and all lifeforms especially unique ones are invaluble to mankind when we are using gentics to alter and expand the human dna sequence to increase the quality of life for humans, then we will realize what a invaluble tool these speices would have been and how greatly they would have reduced the amounts of research needed to do certain things

[AlexPS92]

im good old british :)

[andrew12awesome]

My friend told me to search "black guy dies in terrible explosion" and somehow this video came up...

[yakkahDotCom]

I love watching this kind of videos

[rgn1002]

Viva Padrinho Roberto! Viva Madrinha Nonata! Viva Ceu Do Mar!

[cdbaby1001]

dont u mean ewtheogens, i think the subtitles r wrong

[freqazoidiac]

@cdbaby1001 Entheogens do apply, but the subtitles are correct in a broader sense to encapsulate the topic. .. hey if you are going to critique, then you should at least know how to spell ENTHEOGENS ..there is no "W" in the word. Also, "R" is not a word, but a letter. Get with it Twitter brain.

[freqazoidiac]

@cdbaby1001 what's a F*ggot? Aww, self censorship?

Oh, are you afraid to expose how ignorant you really are? Oh yes, you already have, attacking me for absolutely no reason. Bye you pathetic 54 year old loser.

[cdbaby1001]

@freqazoidiac 22, and you attacked me tool, besides no way to prove it but i'd be willing to bet that you're way more of a pompous ass than you or I can even imagine. Oh, by the way, the censorship's so that the comments posted F*ggot.

[freqazoidiac]

@cdbaby1001 I'm way more than you can ever imagine, period.

[inspirepay]

Thank you Padrinho! Awesome lecture.

[Bigum99]

Too bad the native culture is being wiped out as we speak...the Brazil claims they are just going what the Norte Americans did in the 1700-1800's here in the USA.

I belonged to the Rainforest Action Network for 30 years and the burn continues unabated. They make announcements of "new" reserves being protected, that allows other lands to be developed.

[LeoBuddah]

AT HE BEGINING WHEN HE WAS ATTEMPTIN TO EXPLAIN THAT USING CONVENTIONAL WESTERN SCIENCE METHODS OF LOOKIN AT PSYCADELIX, THAT WE WOULD ONLY REFUSE IT. sIMPLY DO TO THE FACT THAT IT HAS THE POTENTIAL TO CAUSE AN ABNORMAL MENTAL DISORDER. NONE THE LESS, YES ..-PSYCADELIX ARE..GOOD!..NOW AS A, "INTELEGENTE" SCIENTIST WOULD ..HE/SHE'D TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION HIS/HER WELL-BEING..THUS CONTROLING THE EXPERIMENT(KEEPING POINT-DEXTER SAFE FROM ANY HARM)..ULTIMATELY CREATING SMETHNG "SAFE".-TO USE.

[soulsurferjeweet]

If anyone has his email address, I would like to ask him something about his projects for eco-tourism. If anyone can PM it to me, great, thanks! :)

[TheOmira]

@soulsurferjeweet

the website is  ceudomar@org

[trnobles]

its too bad he talked so much about sacramental plants; although its a fascinating subject, unfortunately it usually just distracts people into the old debate of whether psychedelics are good or bad.

this talk was more about the plight of native peoples in south america and their efforts to reclaim their land. if he had focused more on this subject the talk would have been more effective

[teleomorph]

Excellent presentation.  The importance and significance of these issues can't be stressed enough.

[anthonzi]

Woo spirituality...sounds exciting! /sarcasm

[empbac]

Don't knock it... This isn't just spirituality, this is taking substances that alter your perception of reality. This IS exciting.

I'm an atheist yet still support the taking of these substances responsibly. I don't think there is a god, but I do think these agents illuminate parts of the mind that are otherwise dormant. There's a lot you can learn about yourself by taking them the way the natives do. I hope to see legalization and support of psychedelic research in the US, but... We're scared.

[Semnyi]

@empbac

... fear it.

You might just get a look at your own mind to see the damage you are doing to it. Rosponcibly would mean extreme moderate. Zero is a good dosege to start with. What is the next smallest ammount after zero?

[empbac]

You can't even spell yet you're telling me I'm damaging my mind? Wow.

What would you presume is pharmacologically safer: alcohol or psychedelics? Explain why.

[Semnyi]

you would take these things without looking at the medically? religion is about other life, not trying to obtain some objhect for yourself. If you look at the Sacramental offering of Bread and Whine in Christianity, it is a symbolic offering. It is not about eating the bread, it is about eating the body of Jeasus. Why, i can explain, it is your ego attached to becoming the neighbourhood witch doctor. You are no just harming yourself, you are harming the people you give the object to.

[empbac]

WTF are you talking about? "medically" isn't a noun. And what do you know about pharmacology? Apparently not much. Stop projecting your biases onto subjects you don't comprehend. And Christianity is a drug; it's an escape from reality. Ever heard the phrase, "Religion is the opiate of the masses"? I used to be Christian. I'd rather take mescaline than believe in absurd fairy tales any day.

Who am I "giv[ing] the object to"? I don't see myself as a witch doctor. What's wrong with you? Oh yeah.

[AlexPS92]

@empbac you geek, this is about as exciting as watching paint dry.....lol

[empbac]

@AlexPS92

Oh really? Try eating the plants he's talking about and tell me it's boring. You can have the best ride of your life without leaving your bed.

[AlexPS92]

@empbac lmfao alright gay!

[freqazoidiac]

@AlexPS92 if it's not a 1st player shooter or a huge 2 Liter bottle of Pop or online poker, then for most North Americans, this would be a total bore. For the 1% of intelligent people out there, it's a fantastic presentation that touches at the roots of our culture called humanity.

[rata0071]

volume is quite low

[TubeOrBust]

Thank you Google for supporting excellent talks like this!

[1DAWWWG]

The dude speaking on the video sounds like fucking Arnie the Terminator !

[Fleischbanane]

He sounds like a german...

[1DAWWWG]

tenth !

[empbac]

Awesome fucking topic. Go-Go-Gadget: Mescaline!

I don't know about Brasil, but there are a lot of poor, landless, indigenous people in Mexico and Guatemala. What the governments of those countries do is portion out plots of land to these Indians. The natives then "slash and burn" to make way for their new farm. It's a too-short solution though. The nutrients burn out after 5 years and the poor are no better off. This isn't "greed," this is a complex social problem that governments don't help.

[luiza2166]

@empbac In Brazil natives are given huge stretches of land, about as big as Holland (the country) for them to carry on with their traditional way of life (basically hunting, fishing and gathering). However many tribes allow companies to take their trees and minerals and destroy their habitat.

[COUNTCARDULAR]

google hmmmmm...

[code933k]

And those three comments below are real evidence on the role of sacramental plants...

[deimosbg]

ROFL