Video – Want to know more about Ayahuasca and how it affects the brain? Here’s a video of Dr. Gabor Maté as he explains how ayahuasca works and how it can possibly cure addictions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aufjjU0EYxk&x-yt-cl=85114404&x-yt-ts=1422579428 Dr. Gabor Maté supports a revolutionary idea: to treat addicts with compassion. His work as the resident doctor in Vancouver’s Portland Hotel […]
Raluca Schachter, Guest Waking Times Although I’ve been aware of the recent positive feedback of cannabis oil to various serious diseases, I was still skeptical to consider this as a viable solution for certain health disorders. After all, so many people these days are looking for the perfect miracle pill to solve their health […]
By LAUREN SLATER Pam Sakuda was 55 when she found out she was dying. Shortly after having a tumor removed from her colon, she heard the doctor’s dreaded words: Stage 4; metastatic. Sakuda was given 6 to 14 months to live. Determined to slow her disease’s insidious course, she ran several miles every day, […]
To further promote the discussion about ethics, responsibility, safety, the work frame in which these plants are used and best practices for people who organize and conduct sessions, ICEERS would like to contribute a second version of a document that is open for suggestions and improvements, intended to serve as a guide for […]
Alex Pietrowski, Staff Waking Times As the movement for the liberation of cannabis gains momentum, and attitudes toward this relaxing and healing plant evolve, we are witnessing an explosion in innovation around how cannabis is used, both as a medicine and for recreational purposes. Finally overcoming its reputation as a mind-bending, psychoactive drug that […]
Cassius Methyl, MassReport | Did you know that studies showed the effectiveness of cannabis at killing cancer cells as long ago as 1974? In 1974, a study from The Washington Post said that THC effectively “slowed the growth of lung cancers, breast cancers and a virus-induced leukemia in laboratory mice, and prolonged their lives by as much as 36%.” […]
“I became Consciousness facing the Absolute.” When the Impossible Happens ~ Stanislav Grof Related: Tryptamine Palace: 5-MeO-DMT and the Sonoran Desert Toad
Waking Times Video – Psychedelics are starting to get much more mainstream attention from all types of entertainers, medical research organizations, naturopaths and truth seekers. They are now not only recognized as recreational drugs but as potential healing medicines to address the deterioration of the human psyche and health.
art by Tom Wilcox On a balmy August morning before the city began to fill with summer tourists, Estalyn Walcoff arrived at New York University. She was awaiting a spiritual experience. Walcoff walked into what looked like a living room. A soft brown couch with floral pillows sat in the middle; flowers and books rested atop […]
Related: The War on Consciousness ~ Graham Hancock
Enheo art by Android Jones ‘The Shaman’s Last Apprentice’ is a narrative documentary focusing on the story of Rebekah Shaman, who in 1997 followed a vision she received from a Shaman calling her to the Amazon, where she found and studied intensively with a powerful Ayahuasquero Shaman in a little village […]
Johns Hopkins researchers report that a small number of longtime smokers who had failed many attempts to drop the habit did so after a carefully controlled and monitored use of psilocybin, the active hallucinogenic agent in so-called “magic mushrooms,” in the context of a cognitive behavioral therapy treatment program. The abstinence rate for study […]
By: Paul Fassa, Natural Society You’ve probably read about the positive effects of coconut oil’s medium chain triglycerides (TCMs) to produce ketones that energize brain cells in lieu of dysfunctional brain metabolism (how coconut oil can stave off and reverse Alzheimer’s). And there are herbs from Traditional Chinese Medicine or Ayurveda that are helpful while […]
Neurogenesis is the birth of new neurons from neural stem or progenitor cells in the brain. It was long considered that the number of neurons was fixed and they did not replicate after maturity of the brain. It wasn’t until the 1990’s that neurogenesis was observed in the brains of humans, other primates and a […]
Awareness with regards to cannabis as a treatment and potential cure for cancer has been rapidly increasing over the past few years. Several studies over the last decade have clearly (without question) demonstrated the anti-tumoral effects of the plant. Cannabinoids (any group of related compounds that include cannabinol and the active constituents of cannabis) […]
Wahid Azal has spoken in an interview about a favorable fatwa issued by Iran’s Grand Ayatollah on the use of psychoactive plants in Muslim culture. Azal is a scholar and Islamic Sufi mystic founder of the Fatimiya order who has incorporated into their religious practice the ayahuasca. In March 2014, Grand Ayatollah Rohani formally […]
There have been many victims in the War on Drugs, from families being torn apart to victimless criminals rotting in a cage for possessing marijuana. But one victim of the war on drugs that is seldom mentioned is alternative medicine. There has been plenty of research lately showing the near miracle medicinal properties of cannabis, from curing […]
Psychedelic drugs alter consciousness in a profound and novel way that increases the breadth and fluency of cognition. However, until recently, we were unable to offer an explanation for how the brain was altered to account for these effects. In a new study, published in Human Brain Mapping, we scanned the brains of volunteers who […]
“It was a world where miracles were possible, acceptable, and even plausible. In this state of mind, I started to think about the nature and origin of time and space and the enigmas and paradoxes associated with them, such as the mysteries of eternity and infinity. I had to laugh that I had ever believed […]
Thanks to Spirit Science The Shamanic View of Mental Illness In the shamanic view, mental illness signals “the birth of a healer,” explains Malidoma Patrice Somé. Thus, mental disorders are spiritual emergencies, spiritual crises, and need to be regarded as such to aid the healer in being born. What those in the West view as […]