Psychotropic Mind
Psychotropic Mind Conversations on shamanism and mind-altering plants by filmmaker Jan Kounen, anthropologist Jeremy Narby, and writer/filmmaker Vincent RavalecExplores how ayahuasca and iboga are…
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Psychotropic Mind
Conversations on shamanism and mind-altering plants by filmmaker Jan Kounen, anthropologist Jeremy Narby, and writer/filmmaker Vincent RavalecExplores how ayahuasca and iboga are tools for communicating with other life-formsOffers insights into the role this indigenous knowledge can play in solving the current problems facing the worldIn the Amazon, shamans do not talk in terms of hallucinogens but of tools for communicating with other life-forms. The introduction of plant-centered shamanism into the Western world in the 1970s was literally the meeting of two entirely different paradigms. Ayahuasca, for example, is first and foremost a means of breaking down the barrier that separates humans from other species, allowing us to communicate with them.
In The Psychotropic Mind, three of the individuals who have been at the forefront of embracing other ways of