Category: Indigenous Cultures

In the West, the nutritional value of the coca plant was largely overshadowed by its infamous export cocaine. A recent study is aiming to change that.
Ho'oponopono is an ancient Hawaiian conflict resolution system that has become popularized. This article traces back through its history and evolution.
With Chacruna Institute, we present an excerpt from the book Ayahuasca Shamanism in the Amazon and Beyond that explores the rise of ayahuasca tourism.
Some indigenous tribes practice giving dogs psychedelics to improve hunting and protection abilities. But should you give your pet psychedelics?
The Maya respect for time depicts each person as a biological individual or member of a legacy and as an element of time cycles. A person is not only a singular or individual sequential occurrence in a historical time line but an eternal protagonist embedded and participating in recurring events in vast cycles of time as well.
Narratives which gloss-over the history and socioeconomic dynamics of ayahuasca’s globalization may, despite good intentions, actually do more harm than good.
Ayahuasca tourism is part of a much wider spiritual ecology and political economy. Will the enlightened and the healed help the overwhelming fight against big companies eating up the rainforest and destroying the territorial survival of the very Shipibo communities from whom they are receiving so much benefit?
Facing a life-threatening health crisis, John Major Jenkins reflects on his life, most important discoveries about the Maya, the misrepresentation of his work, and the and the continuing relevance of Maya spiritual teachings.
For almost twenty years, the lives of the Wayanas has turned into a nightmare. Like other Indians living in Guyana, they are the victims of unauthorised gold panning and the invasion of illegal immigrants attracted by the gold rush.
Is it necessary for the DEA to craft regulations in order for American Indians to cultivate peyote for religious use?

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