Shamanism - Other Worlds - Ayahuasca Documentary

Shamanism - Other Worlds - Ayahuasca Documentary (Shaman_-_Other_Worlds_-_Ayahuasca_Docum­entary.avi)

Ayahuasca is used largely as a religious sacrament. Those whose usage of ayahuasca is performed in non-traditional contexts often align themselves with the philosophies and cosmologies associated with ayahuasca shamanism, as practiced among indigenous peoples like the Urarina of Peruvian Amazonia. The religion Santo Daime uses it.

While non-native users know of the spiritual applications of ayahuasca, a less well-known traditional usage focuses on the medicinal properties of ayahuasca. Its purgative properties are highly important (many refer to it as la purga, "the purge"). The intense vomiting and occasional diarrhea it induces can clear the body of worms and other tropical parasites, and harmala alkaloids themselves have been shown to be anthelmintic. Thus, this action is twofold; a direct action on the parasites by these harmala alkaloids (particularly harmine in ayahuasca) works to kill the parasites, and parasites are expelled through the increased intestinal motility that is caused by these alkaloids.

check:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayahuasca
http://www.erowid.org/
http://www.lycaeum.org/

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[robity Stanley]

Thanks,l have been checking out info on Ayahuasca so that l can get a better idea what l am in for.This was a good coverage of the taking of the vine.We have a Shaman coming to administer the tea to 60 people in our community.She is coming over from Peru,and it will cost $190 each.lt will be for one night and it's fully booked out.l will be jumping into the deep end in 13 days.l have been wanting to do this for 10 years,even saved money to go there,$4000.Didn't make it.Now it comes to my house.x

[jamjowa]

I lean towards a lil bit of both...trial and error does have somewhat of a role given multiple experimenters living in a very abundant rain forest where food is not scarce leaves tons of time to experiment over many many centuries. it would be remiss and unwise to so easily dismiss the virtues of trial and error. holding solely onto your view is as faulty as the 'western' view.

[MycroftPlays]

The thing about science is, it's true whether or not you believe in it

Enjoy communing with the earth spirit brother ape

[Richard Coldman]

Well. if you think cutting up an organ of a dead animal is going to provide you with all you need to know on the subject of "heart", I suggest you keep taking the tablets. Those and your unshakable faith in your rather predictable mainstream belief system may succeed in preventing you from learning any more about it, and perhaps that's exactly as it should be. I'll leave you to it.

[MycroftPlays]

well, personally, I've dissected a pig heart and have higher than a sixth grade level of basic biology (oh right, that's invalid because it's "western")

How do YOU know it doesn't? What makes your pseudo-knowledge superior to empirical reasoning? What data, what proof do you have the heart is anything more than the muscle at the center of the circulatory system?

Oh you felt it, right.

Human brain - amazing organ

[Richard Coldman]

"The heart is an organ that pumps blood throughout the body, it contains no center of knowledge" - How do you KNOW this? Are you certain it's not just an article of faith of your chosen religion?

[MycroftPlays]

own right, and it is really not that impossible at all that any particular tribe member ingested the combination. Of course, this sort of understanding requires reasoning and research, and not pseudo-spiritual explanations for the world that sacrifice knowledge in favor of wallowing in emotional ambiguity.

[MycroftPlays]

The heart is an organ that pumps blood throughout the body, it contains no center of knowledge or reasoning. When you feel things in your heart, like love, betrayal, or pain, these are physical symptoms from signals sent from the brain. This is really quite basic biology.

Ayahuasca is quite simply DMT, a chemical that we quite empirically suspect is produced in the brain itself. The use of plants were not known without trial and error, banisteriopsis caapi is a well known psychoactive in its

[MycroftPlays]

Working with Aristotle's Organon might help you begin to clear your new age brain (which is an organ that contains the entirety of what you perceive as yourself in a series of firing synapses) of bullshit.

Furthermore, I'm well familiar with Montaigne, and you do well to recommend someone who has so greatly contributed to exactly the understanding of the universe you are attempting to refute

[MycroftPlays]

Second, you again pose the "greater part of my wholeness" falsehood. There is no greater part of my wholeness - I am an ape of abnormal intelligence and subnormal hair coverage navigating my life on a ball of mineral and water spinning its merry way around the cosmos - just as you are. I accept this without the need to wax pretentiously about traditions based in ancient fictions further based in understandings about the nature of the universe that are patently misguided and fable-based

[MycroftPlays]

Here you go again posing ridiculous fallacies as legitimate arguments - the "brink of extinction" is a bit of an exaggeration for our current situation, though I agree we are certainly in crisis, and "reasoning" is certainly not the only or even primary reason for said crisis (the real crisis being the world's total population - since "spiritual" people empirically reproduce at a higher rate than atheists I can more than equitably say that spirituality has brought us to the same "brink"

[Richard Coldman]

The dominance of "reasoning" has brought us all to the very brink of extinction. Your denial of what constitutes the greater part of your wholeness is sealed by your compulsive pseudo-skepticism. Working with Montaigne's self-trial question "Que sais je?" might help you begin clear out your poison.