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shoemaker

The Ayahuasca Sessions: A Talk with Alan Shoemaker

Alan Shoemaker is the founder of the
Amazonian Shaman Conference held in Iquitos, Peru each year. He runs a company that specializes in ayahuasca tourism. Here he talks about
the spiritual tourist boom, his founding of the ayahuasca church Soga del Alma, and the global ayahuasca community.

The Ayahuasca Sessions: A Talk with Alan Shoemaker

Alan Shoemaker is the founder of the
Amazonian Shaman Conference held in Iquitos, Peru each year. He runs a company that specializes in ayahuasca tourism. Here he talks about
the spiritual tourist boom, his founding of the ayahuasca church Soga del Alma, and the global ayahuasca community.

wheelock

The Ayahuasca Sessions: An Interview with Ron Wheelock

Ron Wheelock trained for many years with indigenous curanderos in Peru. In many ways he
epitomises the new breed of Western shamans following indigenous wisdom. Here
Ron discusses how he got involved with ayahuasca and was called on the path of
shamanism, his experiences with DMT and the spirit world, and treating Western
ayahuasca seekers.

Parenting and psychedelics

“But What Will People Say?”: Mom & trauma survivor says taking psychedelics was the right choice

I have not been much of a substance user in my lifetime, sans an addiction to Diet Coke. I was raised during the peak of the War on Drugs, and the message that controlled substances were wrong and harmful was effectively drilled into my head.  I have spent a lifetime feeling disconnected from other people. …

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harm reduction

In Pursuit of Safer Highs: Harm Reduction with DanceSafe’s Rachel Clark

Since at least prohibition, anxiety has governed America’s disastrous relationship with substance use. As the 20th century increasingly saw anti-drug sentiment used to fuel moral crusades from “saving the children” to quashing perceived threats against whiteness, “Just Say No” became the mantra of a culture that neither understood addiction nor possessed the language to interrogate …

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