by Spirit Molecule | Ayahuasca, DMT, Ibogaine, Psilocybin, Psychedelics
Cannabis legalization started in Colorado and quickly expanded over to its neighbours, in the very same way, the decriminalization of natural psychedelics is slowly following suit. On May 28, 2019, the Public Safety Committee of the City Council of Oakland, California...
by Contributing Author | Ayahuasca, Psychedelics, Safety & Harm Reduction
Around 40 police officers intervened in a healing ceremony in a home on Nieuwstraat in Eersel, Noord-Brabant, on Wednesday evening. A few weeks ago a 31-year-old man from Hungary died after participating in a similar ceremony. Four people were arrested on Wednesday,...
by Contributing Author | Ayahuasca, Psychedelics, Psychedelics & Health, Science
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Our collaborator Dr Jordi Riba presented these ground-breaking results at the Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelics Research last week in Amsterdam. The results are, as yet, unpublished but you can have a sneak peek at the...
by Spirit Molecule | Ayahuasca, Psychedelics
Its early evening and Badi is looking out the fifth-story window of her new apartment perched in Cochabamba’s northern foothills. With the 18,000 foot peaks of Mount Tunari to her back, Badi’s apartment surveys the valley below. To the West, a clear view...
by Spirit Molecule | Ayahuasca, Psychedelics, Psychedelics & Health, Science
Ten years ago, Mark Pischea, then a 42-year-old political consultant and father of five from Williamston, Michigan, was rushed to the hospital with severe stomach pain. Pischea was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, a chronic autoimmune condition that can cause...
by Contributing Author | Ayahuasca, Psychedelics
Call it group therapy in 2015 Los Angeles. At a Topanga Canyon house, a shaman from the Amazon River region has been flown in for an expenses-paid weekend, to the tune of up to $10,000, to perform an ayahuasca ceremony. Somber people sit on mattresses in a circle on...
by Spirit Molecule | Ayahuasca, Psychedelics, Psychedelics & Health, Science
MAPS supports research into the safety and effectiveness of ayahuasca-assisted treatment for drug addiction. We also support conferences, meetings, and publications about the scientific, therapeutic, sustainable, and spiritual uses of ayahuasca. We also serve as a...
by Spirit Molecule | Ayahuasca, Psychedelics
Written by Constanza Sánchez Avilés, Ph.D., Benjamin K. De Loenen, M.A., and José Carlos Bouso Saiz, Ph.D. MAPS Bulletin Spring 2015 Vol. 25, No. 1 – Psychedelics and Policy Download this article. While the harsh regime dealing with psychoactive substances is...
by Spirit Molecule | Ayahuasca, Psychedelics
MAPS Bulletin Spring 2015 Vol. 25, No. 1 – Psychedelics and Policy Download this article. On February 21, 2006, the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously affirmed three lower court decisions granting a judicial exemption from the Controlled Substances...
by Spirit Molecule | Ayahuasca, Psychedelics
by Dennis McKenna My good friend and colleague, Dr. Charles Grob, has extended a kind invitation to submit a contribution to this special edition of the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, devoted to the topic of ayahuasca, for which he has been selected as guest editor....
by Contributing Author | Ayahuasca, Psychedelics, Safety & Harm Reduction
Abstract Ayahuasca is a tea made from two plants native to the Amazon, Banisteriopsis caapi and Psychotria viridis, which, respectively, contain the psychoactive chemicals harmala alkaloids and dimethyltryptamine. The tea has been used by indigenous peoples in...
by Contributing Author | Ayahuasca, Other, Psychedelics, Psychedelics & Health, Self Actualization
Dieta is a Spanish word that means – simply enough – “diet.” However, when used in Amazonian herbalist traditions that deal with the more powerful and often reality-altering and visionary varieties of plants known as plantas maestras or teacher-plants, the word comes...
by Spirit Molecule | Ayahuasca, Psychedelics, Psychedelics & Health
A psychedelic drink used for centuries in healing ceremonies is now attracting the attention of biomedical scientists as a possible treatment for depression. Researchers from Brazil last month published results from the first clinical test of a potential therapeutic...
by Spirit Molecule | Ayahuasca
by Howard G. Charing Ayahuasca – Plant Spirit Medicine of the Amazon We are not talking about passive agents of transformation, we are talking about an intelligence, a consciousness, an alive and other mind, a spirit, which of course we have no place in our society....
by Spirit Molecule | Ayahuasca, Psychedelics, Psychedelics & Health
Diabetes currently affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide. In America alone, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that number to be approximately 20 million. Potential cures and methods to reverse the disease (t are showing some...
by Spirit Molecule | Ayahuasca, Psychedelics
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]From the Los Angeles afterpanel of Aya: Awakenings: Writer/producer Rak Razam talks about the mythological and cultural aspects of ayahuasca as it “reaches out to embrace the world.” As the deforestation of the Amazon continues at a...
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