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Controversy Over Injustice Against Ayahuasca Traditional Knowledge Rebounds

This article explores a paper written by Eduardo Ekman Schenberg and Konstantin Gerber titled Overcoming epistemic injustices in the biomedical study of ayahuasca: Towards ethical and sustainable regulation. While the paper promised to explore ways of overcoming these epistemic injustices and raises important issues, the author shares vast criticism due to its many controversial and inaccurate points.
Ayahuasca and childbirth in the Santo Daime religion

Ayahuasca and Childbirth in the Santo Daime Tradition: Solidarity Among Women and Psychedelic Cultural...

The use of ayahuasca during childbirth by women can be seen as an act of resistance against colonial and patriarchal violence.

Cultural and Botanical Differences Among the Traditions of Yagé and of Ayahuasca

Wednesday, March 9th, 2022 from 12:00-1:30pm PST REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT HERE There are many different traditions and ceremonies among Indigenous peoples who have used plant...
sexual abuse in ayahuasca communities

Creating Awareness on Sexual Abuse in Ayahuasca Communities: A Review of Chacruna’s Guidelines

As the popularity of ayahuasca increases globally, alarmingly so too are incidents of the sexual abuse of women.
urban ayahuasca

Women Who Heal: Musicians in the Urban Ayahuasca Scene

Raizza Marins examines what role women musicians and the sacred feminine play in the burgeoning urban ayahuasca scene in Brazil.
Yaminawa Women

Yaminawa Women and Ayahuasca: Shamanism, Gender, and History in the Peruvian Amazon

There is evidence that suggests that before colonial contact, Yaminawa women practiced shamanism and consumed ayahuasca.

When Jesus Meets Ayahuasca: Sample Texts from Christ Returns From the Jungle

Anthropologist Marc Gordon Blainey delves into the topic of the European expansion of Santo Daime by going through excerpts from fieldwork he conducted over the span of 14 months (from 2009 through 2011), all of which has been published in his book Christ Returns from the Jungle: Ayahuacsa Religion as Mystical Healing (2021).

Madrinha Rita: Brazilian matriarch of ayahuasca

This article highlights the story of Madrinha (Godmother) Rita Gregório, a woman who has made a great difference in the religious use of ayahuasca in Brazil and in the expansion of its consumption outside the Santo Daime religion.
Esther Jean Langdon researches shamanism and ayahuasca

Esther Jean Langdon: Half a Century of Research About Shamanism and Ayahuasca

In her writings, Esther Jean Langdon proposes to approach shamanism as a cosmological system.

Press Release – Chacruna Institute Publishes New Book on Ayahuasca Healing and Science

The Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines published their book, Ayahuasca Healing and Science, edited by Beatriz (Bia) Labate, Ph.D., and Clancy Cavnar, Psy.D. The book provides...

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