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Rick Doblin - "Psychedelics and the Future United Religions: Building a Global Spirituality" Jungle Drug Ayahuasca Could Revolutionize Psychotherapy - Tracy James knew the drug she'd just swallowed was working when her old injuries from high school started twitching with new life. Pressure throbbed from a forgotten busted knee. Her ankle tingled. The fingers she'd sprained roller-skating decades back began to ache. Whatever the 37-year-old had just taken, it shot feeling back into the long-gone ailments. "When I did vomit, it was one of the most amazing moments of my life. " For the past 45 minutes, the hut had been dark and silent, the air dripping with jungle moisture. It was June 2009. Emily Utne Dennis McKenna has taken ayahuasca hundreds of times since 1981. Courtesy of Dennis McKenna For ayahuasca ceremonies, users typically gather in a hut at night, when visions are more intense. Shutterstock / Dr. Expert Dennis McKenna has spent time with the Peruvian tribes who harvest the vine.

Shutterstock / Jason Mintzer A ceremonial hut in Peru. Related Stories More About Waves of nausea began crashing over James. Its most common name is ayahuasca. DMT The Spirit Molecule FULL DOCUMENTARY. PSYCHEDEMIA - The Psychedelic Conference Documentary. Christian Theology and Shamanism from a Perennialist perspective. The Revolutionary Potential of Psychedelics | Aaron Moritz. Psychedelic substances are resurging into the popular culture in ways unrivaled since the starry-eyed, long-haired baby boomers of the 1960′s dropped acid and discovered peace and promiscuity. However, today’s generation of visionary psychonauts are making a much more measured movement to the mainstream than the hundred thousand hippies who descended on San Francisco in 1967′s summer of love.

While they were encouraged to “turn on, tune in, and drop out” by revolutionary ex-Harvard scientist turned LSD evangelist Timothy Leary, modern proponents such as philosopho-comedian Joe Rogan and alternative archeology researcher Graham Hancock feel quite a bit more level headed, and dare I say credible, in their advocation of these consciousness bending chemicals. Today’s arsenal of dubiously effective, chronically administered, and arguably soul-crushing amphetamines and serotonin manipulating zombification pills are given to adults and children alike for everything from sadness to boredom.

Rick Strassman Interview : DMT Ayahuasca and the Pineal Gland. DMT - Dimethyltryptamine - Before & After - FULL EPISODE | London Real. DMT - Dimethyltryptamine - Before & After - FULL EPISODE | London Real. JRE #371 - Rick Doblin.