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Benny Shanon Reveals a Speculative Hypothesis on Biblical Entheogens

By admin • Mar 6th, 2008 • Category: News & Events

Benny Shanon, a professor of cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, releases a paper outlining a hypothesis that entheogenic plants including ayahuasca analogues formed an integral part of the religious rites of Israelites in biblical times.


Wise Mind - A Case for the Integration of Subjective Experience with Objective Reality in the Age of Fragmentation

By admin • Jan 11th, 2008 • Category: Healing, Visionary Plants

By Flore Singer Aaslid
Fragmentation ultimately leads to pathology both individually and collectively, whereas integration promotes health. Fortunately, there is integrative potential in many fields of experience; art, myth, dreams and ritual all have this effect, as do many Eastern introspective techniques.


San Pedro and the shamanic tradition of Northern Peru, the Mesa Norteña

By admin • Jan 11th, 2008 • Category: Healing, Visionary Plants

An interview with Juan Navarro by Howard Charing
Juan is a descendant of a long lineage of healers and shamans working with the magical powers and plants of his bio-region.