from : http://www.komonews.com/news/local/40015282.html PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon members of a Christian church based in Brazil are asking a federal judge to allow the use of a hallucinogenic tea during religious services. The Church of the Holy Light of...

Robert Tindall is the author of the recently published book "The Jaguar that Roams the Mind", a journey into the vanishing world of Amazonian shamanism - an adventure of initiation and return - that explores the unique reality at the heart of the Amazonian...

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Du Brésil.... avec amour Par Ati Dion Ayahuasca, chamanisme tribal et voyage au coeur de la jungle brésilienne Ciranda, Brésil, Février 2009 Bom dia... Je vous écris du Brésil. Je viens ici depuis quelques années déjà pour prendre part à un type de pèlerinage...

By Jean-Claude Koven WHERE IN GOD'S NAME DID WE GO WRONG? When people ask me if I am religious, I tell them I love God far too much to be religious. "Oh, then you must believe in God?" they inevitably ask. "Of course not," I reply with a smile, "does...

Hack your brain How to hallucinate with ping-pong balls and a radio Text by Johan Lehrer, graphics by Javier Zarracina To see the graphic, go to : http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/graphics/011109_hacking_your_brain/ DO YOU EVER want to change the...

Luigi Zoja argues that the pervasive abuse of drugs in our society can in large part be ascribed to a resurgence of the collective need for initiation and initiatory structures: a longing for something sacred underlies our culture's manic drive toward...

The globalisation of addiction by Mike Jay [ bookreviews ] from : http://www.nthposition.com/theglobalisationof.php Bruce Alexander is best known - though deserves to be much better known - for the 'Rat Park' experiments he conducted in 1981. As an addiction...

more about MAPS at : www.maps.org 1. Congress and Professor Craker Respond to Bush Administration and DEA’s Obstruction of Scientific Freedom: On January 30, 2009, lawyers for Professor Lyle Craker filed a motion of reconsideration in response to the...

tiré de : http://www.nouvellescles.com/article.php3?id_article=304 L’ayahuasca au secours des drogués par le Dr Jacques-Michel Mabit En mission au Pérou, le médecin généraliste Jacques-Michel Mabit découvre la médecine chamanique. Passionné par l’expertise...