Haoma and harmaline: the botanical ... - David Stophlet Flattery, Martin Schwartz. Ayahuasca Videos | Just another WordPress.com site. AYAHUASCA: An Overview of an Extraordinary Healing Plant and its Companions. Tryptamine Hallucinogens and Consciousness. Naturally occurring plant alkaloids could slow down Alzheimer's disease, study suggests. A family of naturally occurring plant compounds could help prevent or delay memory loss associated with Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen). Beta-carboline alkaloids could potentially be used in therapeutic drugs to stop, or at least slow down, the progressively debilitating effects of Alzheimer's, according to the study published recently in the scientific journal Public Library of Science (PLoS) One. One of these alkaloids, called harmine, inhibits a protein known as DYRK1A, which has been implicated by this and other studies in the formation tau phosphorylation.
This process dismantles the connections between brain cells, or neurons, and has been linked in past TGen studies to Alzheimer's disease. Tau is a protein critical to the formation of the microtubule bridges in neurons. These bridges support the synaptic connections that, like computer circuits, allow brain cells to communicate with each other.
Magnificent Visions. When a sufficient number of rafts had been built, work started on the pyramid’s superstructure. Haynes celebrated his 40th birthday on January 9, 2008, as the first shipments of 60-foot massaranduba beams began to arrive from the jungle logging operation. But at the end of the month the river was rising rapidly, and with raft building far behind schedule, due to delays in the delivery of the wood, Haynes was afraid the waters of the Amazon would soon submerge the raft-assembly shed he’d built. More time and money would be lost. But he reminded himself that Tony Robbins advised “we should ‘dance with our fears.’ ” D espite delays and incorrect quantities, enough lumber was delivered so that by February the temporary central structure was raised several stories high on the still-incomplete raft.
At this time Haynes attended what he describes as a “very powerful ayahuasca ceremony.” On June 6, Haynes jubilantly reported, “Move Successful! The Farmhouse Floor. "Ayahuasca and Creativity" -- Benny Shanon, Ph.D. Ayahuasca and Creativity Benny Shanon, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University PDF version of this document As indicated in previous publications (Shanon, 1997, 1998a, 1999) I am a cognitive psychologist who is studying the phenomenology of the ayahuasca experience. My study is based on extended firsthand experience as well as on the interviewing of a great number of persons in different places and contexts. In the publications cited the reader can find background information about both ayahuasca and the program of my research; for further theoretical discussion, see my forthcoming book The Antipodes of the Mind: Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience. Phenomenologically, the effects of ayahuasca are multifarious -- they include hallucinatory effects in all perceptual modalities, psychological insights, intellectual ideations, spiritual uplifting and mystical experiences.
As explained in Shanon (1998b), ayahuasca can also induce very impressive ideations. Ayahuasca Information And How To Make Ayahuasca. Rain Forest Shaman. Common Themes in South American Indian Yage Experiences. Avatar and Ayahuasca. Modern Shamanism, by Serge Kahili King. Article Modern Shamanism by Serge Kahili King "You look more modern than I thought you'd be," said the visitor as we sat in my comfortable living room overlooking the ocean that surrounds the island of Kaua'i. He glanced at my large screen TV, the VCR, and the Tabora seascape on the wall with a faint trace of disapproval. Clearly I did not fit his model of what a shaman is supposed to look like.
His remark was typical of many visitors who expect - perhaps even hope - to find me wearing some kind of robe or sarong and living in primitive simplicity in a cave or a forest far away from the amenities of civilization. In the old and ancient days the shaman - who was a healer of mind, body and circumstances - was right in the midst of tribal or village life. Now shamanism is experiencing a revival of interest and freedom. A modern shaman (or "urban" shaman, as I often say) is one who uses the ancient knowledge in the context of our present social and cultural environment. Welcome to Ayahuasca Info - A general introduction to Ayahuasca.
..:: DMT - THE SPIRIT MOLECULE | DOCUMENTARY ::.. Combination spawns. Online Books : "TIHKAL" - The Continuation" by Alexander and Ann Shulgin. Ayahuasca and the Vines of Politics « Psychedelic Press UK. Salvation by drfranken The following article has been written and contributed to PsypressUK by the Reverend Nemu, author of Nemu’s End: The History, Psychology, and Poetry of the Apocalypse and the Nemu’s End blog, with special thanks to the other Devilish Dan.
We’d like to extend our thanks to the Reverend for his time and effort writing this article. After bubbling and brewing away for millennia in the Amazon, ayahuasca began seeping out through the foliage at the turn of the 20th century. This powerful visionary tea was adopted by rubber tapper communities in what is now the Brazil-Bolivia-Peru borderland, and various sects emerged, including Santo Daime.
A syncretic mix of Catholicism, Spiritualism, and indigenous shamanism, it spread to the rest of Brazil in the 80s, and today there are groups dotted around Latin American, Europe, and the US, as well as in Japan, India, Israel, and other places[i]. Media interest in the UK began in 1996. Mr. Demeter by drfranken.