Subversive Spiritualities: How Rituals Enact the World – A Review
Subversive Spiritualities is the fruit of many years of anthropological fieldwork and meditations upon the “cosmocentric economy” of indigenous peoples and the “Modern Constitution” of the West. In it Apffel-Marglin weaves a fugue.
Ancient Tomb Unearthed
Archeologists have uncovered the only known untouched royal tomb of the Wari in Peru.
You Get Told Exactly What You Need to Hear: A Visionary Summons from the Deep Rainforest
Ayahuasca translated means “the vine of the dead,” and the taste
of the dead is familiar to a portion of our psyche we touch only in
deepest dream.
Shamanism and Curanderismo: The Approach to Healing in Peru
Shamanism is the oldest psychospiritual tradition known to
humankind. In this dimension everything that happens, whether embraced and accepted
by us or completely rejected, has a healing and
evolutionary purpose.
Evolving the Vision
This is the crucial moment for our species, and we have to give it
everything we've got. Ayahuasca is moving out in the world and making new
covenants. Maybe it wants to make contact with these strange new minds and to
co-evolve with us. I'm afraid it's going
to get it, whether it wants it or not.
Mareado on the Nauta Road
At
Blue Morpho you do a "tour"
that may be five ceremonies, or even ten,
adequate time, we hoped, for true healing to take place. For if Blue Morpho offers anything, it's real,
deep healing through traditional ayahuasca ceremonies.
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.
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.
The History and Structure of the Naipes
The French tarot was believed to have been adapted from a medieval card game known in Italy as naibi. By 1377, in Spain,
naipes cards were in wide use. To this day, folk healers in Peru use the naipes as a diagnostic tool in the treatment of psychosomatic disorders.
