Comments on: An Ayahuasca Documentary http://www.singingtotheplants.com/2009/01/an-ayahuasca-documentary/ A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:33:35 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Wes http://www.singingtotheplants.com/2009/01/an-ayahuasca-documentary/comment-page-1/#comment-1375 Wes Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:25:08 +0000 http://www.singingtotheplants.com/2009/01/an-ayahuasca-documentary/#comment-1375 The allusion to HH. as argument against peace & order will perhaps be reconsidered after reading a 1st hand account from one of very own Shuar @ http://www.spiritofmaat.com/archive/jan1/shuar.htm The allusion to HH. as argument against peace & order will perhaps be reconsidered after reading a 1st hand account from one of very own Shuar @

http://www.spiritofmaat.com/archive/jan1/shuar.htm

]]> By: Janice Silver http://www.singingtotheplants.com/2009/01/an-ayahuasca-documentary/comment-page-1/#comment-522 Janice Silver Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:53:48 +0000 http://www.singingtotheplants.com/2009/01/an-ayahuasca-documentary/#comment-522 Head hunting notwithstanding, it seems John Perkins (Confessions of an Economic Hitman) had a very high experience with the Shuar. (Shamanic Navigation). Your comment seems very balanced. Ultimately all the plants and chemicals, it seems to me just pull back the veil momentarily, it's up to us what we do with that glimpse. Head hunting notwithstanding, it seems John Perkins (Confessions of an Economic Hitman) had a very high experience with the Shuar. (Shamanic Navigation).

Your comment seems very balanced. Ultimately all the plants and chemicals, it seems to me just pull back the veil momentarily, it’s up to us what we do with that glimpse.

]]> By: Steve Beyer http://www.singingtotheplants.com/2009/01/an-ayahuasca-documentary/comment-page-1/#comment-404 Steve Beyer Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:06:00 +0000 http://www.singingtotheplants.com/2009/01/an-ayahuasca-documentary/#comment-404 I agree with you that laws regarding the sacred plants should be changed. Yet I must confess that, in the Upper Amazon, where ayahuasca is widely consumed, I have not seen that people are discernibly more healthy, happy, empowered, spiritually connected, or empathic than they are elsewhere, such as in Chicago. Until recently — and still ongoing in some places — Amazonian peoples engaged in constant small-scale warfare with each other, often murderous and cruel, including headhunting, especially among the ayahuasca-drinking Shuar and their neighbors. [Sigh] We have much to learn from ayahuasca, especially on an individual level, but I have personally seen little evidence that it produces social peace and harmony. If there is any work out there on this subject, I would really like to see it. I agree with you that laws regarding the sacred plants should be changed. Yet I must confess that, in the Upper Amazon, where ayahuasca is widely consumed, I have not seen that people are discernibly more healthy, happy, empowered, spiritually connected, or empathic than they are elsewhere, such as in Chicago. Until recently — and still ongoing in some places — Amazonian peoples engaged in constant small-scale warfare with each other, often murderous and cruel, including headhunting, especially among the ayahuasca-drinking Shuar and their neighbors. [Sigh] We have much to learn from ayahuasca, especially on an individual level, but I have personally seen little evidence that it produces social peace and harmony. If there is any work out there on this subject, I would really like to see it.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.singingtotheplants.com/2009/01/an-ayahuasca-documentary/comment-page-1/#comment-403 Anonymous Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:52:00 +0000 http://www.singingtotheplants.com/2009/01/an-ayahuasca-documentary/#comment-403 This is extremely frustrating, but not confusing or surprising. I would expect nothing less from our western capitalistic/individualistic culture. Imagine how dangerous a healthy, happy, empowered, spiritually connected, empathic population would be. People actually recognizing and appreciating the brother/sisterhood we are all a part of. I think it is in the interest of this system that exists for its own sake to keep substances from people which can potentiality shed light on their true natures. If humanity were allowed these transformative experiences en masse, the walls might well come tumbling down. This is extremely frustrating, but not confusing or surprising. I would expect nothing less from our western capitalistic/individualistic culture. Imagine how dangerous a healthy, happy, empowered, spiritually connected, empathic population would be. People actually recognizing and appreciating the brother/sisterhood we are all a part of. I think it is in the interest of this system that exists for its own sake to keep substances from people which can potentiality shed light on their true natures. If humanity were allowed these transformative experiences en masse, the walls might well come tumbling down.

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