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Sometimes It Rains 29 May 2013 | 05:49 pm
The wilderness is a teacher, and it teaches, often implacably, the natural consequences of our actions. It's simple: if I haven't set up a shelter and it rains, then I get wet. But the lessons of the ...
You Can’t Call 911 in the Jungle 16 Oct 2012 | 03:24 am
In the jungle, you might be hours away by boat from medical services that may be less than optimal for many medical emergencies. In fact, you may be days away from even an ill-equipped local medical c...
Ayahuasqueros 24 Aug 2012 | 02:51 am
Stephan Crasneanscki and the Soundwalk Collective — famous for their soundscapes of cities and journeys into strange and desolate spaces — have now produced Ayahuasqueros, a mixture of jungle sounds, ...
A Peyote Joke 17 Aug 2012 | 12:11 am
At a meeting of the Native American Church, after a long night of singing and praying, the participants are served a sacred breakfast of small amounts of water, parched corn, and pemmican as the close...
A New Ayahuasca Study 16 Aug 2012 | 04:24 am
A new epidemiological study adds weight to the claim that no evidence has yet been found of psychological maladjustment, mental health deterioration, or cognitive impairment in human adults who ingest...
Vodka, Ayahuasca, Found Footage 10 Aug 2012 | 12:42 am
Ayahuasca, as cultural critic Erik Davis puts it, is now “swimming in the cultural water supply." Ayahuasca crops up in the oddest places — the latest is in a romantic comedy starring Jennifer Aniston...
Is Ayahuasca Neurotoxic? 28 Jul 2012 | 07:32 am
A recent toxicological study, conducted by Alex Roberto Melgar Figueroa and submitted as a Ph.D. dissertation to the Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto in Brazil, has assayed the ne...
Fourteen Dead Shamans 3 Jul 2012 | 11:19 pm
Sorcery is political. It is profoundly emotional, having to do with envy, resentment, fear, and hate; when sorcery is suspected or alleged, the atmosphere becomes charged, and divisions between indivi...
Thinking About Death III: Stories 12 Jun 2012 | 05:27 am
My death, story one ” I misstep, I slip, I misjudge the weight of my pack…” Death, to me, is a bullet in the back of the head. Let us look at the scene — the bullet, almost spent, perhaps just start...
Thinking About Death II: Levinas 7 Jun 2012 | 10:08 pm
Who is Emmanuel Levinas? If we were to try to invent a philosopher as different as possible from Heidegger in background and temperament, we would create Emmanuel Levinas. He was a Jew from Lithuania...
