from another language you could see how someone might think because it turns out he did have a few words that were hollow ayah if we did say a hundred word list of kala wyah he had half a dozen that were kala why as opposed to Quechua soin his mind and being that he was the traditional that is that his profession was that of a healer the only people who
in "The Onion." "Ayahuasca Shaman Dreading yet Another Week of Guiding Tech CEOs to Spiritual Oneness." So let's talk about how we at The Amazon Conservation Team are using all this information to try and partner with indigenous peoples to protect both the biological and the cultural diversity.
Western medicine can't touch those. With ayahuasca, I cure it. Who would you rather be treated by?
Who would you rather be treated by? So ayahuasca has become such a part of the public consciousness and the public culture that it's received the ultimate accolade of public culture in "The Onion."
might think that they were speaking it even if they weren't so the catch you a variety that kalo ayah is based on so kalo ayah is not only a secret language it's a so-called mixed language and this means that it has a Kachua component and a non Quechua component it's grammar is
In the course of curare, for example, almost all curares are made from at least two plants. In the case of ayahuasca that I'll be talking about-- I see some heads going like this-- in the case of ayahuasca that I'll be talking about, it's almost always made from two plants.
I just spoke to an anonymous person whose identity I won't reveal who was telling me that they had taken ayahuasca. Now through ayahuasca, she had an experience within her own consciousness that she had not previously encountered. And some of you that have taken hallucinogens will know there's stuff inside your mind that you're not continually encountering.
But that's been 20 years for me of working out things. You can go off and do ayahuasca.
This is the man who discovered magic mushrooms. This is the man who discovered ayahuasca. But of course, as Schultes was always quick to point out, ethnobotanists don't really discover anything.
Schultes is widely regarded as the founding father of ethnobotany for his collection and writing up the first scientific description of ayahuasca, also known as yagé. Now, I took one of the great ayahuasca shamans of the northwest Amazon, where it's native, up to Los Angeles to meet a foundation hoping
Now, I took one of the great ayahuasca shamans of the northwest Amazon, where it's native, up to Los Angeles to meet a foundation hoping to get some funding to protect the ayahuasca culture, protect the ayahuasca rain forest. And the program officer-- who was kind of a jerk-- turned to the shaman and said, I have a question for you.
Now, we were able to use this remote mapping to find these people and to leave them alone, but to find them and enact protection. I would have to start out with ayahuasca, which is the ultimate plant medicine.
Now, we were able to use this remote mapping to find these people and to leave them alone, but to find them and enact protection. Or it's not called ayahuasca in many of the areas working in Colombia.
We had just made the pilot, and she watched it. And then shortly after went and did ayahuasca, which everyone at Google knows what ayahuasca is-- I assume-- did ayahuasca. And while she was hallucinating, had hallucinations of our show.
This is Schultes in a picture from our storybook map-- working in the Sibundoy Valley-- which Brian has mapped-- with the tribe that taught him the use of ayahuasca, which as I said is now causing a renaissance in the treatment of certain mental and emotional diseases.
the first scientific description of ayahuasca, also known as yagé. Now, I took one of the great ayahuasca shamans of the northwest Amazon, where it's native, up to Los Angeles to meet a foundation hoping to get some funding to protect the ayahuasca culture, protect the ayahuasca rain forest.
Validated reality, which we spoke about already, reality that we perceive as real. And then vegetal reality-- vegetal reality talks about medicinal plants-- plants like ayahuasca, plants like mushrooms, peyote, that create psychedelic experiences that traditionally have been used for healing purposes.
Well, you know they these magazines or websites that give you chess puzzles. I always have trouble pronouncing, ayahuasca, they act on those filters I was talking about.
But the curious thing is the way the powder is administered through the nose because tryptamines cannot be taken orally. Which brings us, of course, to ayahuasca, the vision vine, the vine of the soul. Which is not a plant, it is a preparation, a combination of plants.
Now, we were able to use this remote mapping to find these people and to leave them alone, but to find them and enact protection. You know, ironically, ayahuasca is something of a weed.
But then as I started telling people, and especially colleagues at Google, they really surprised me because they started being like, oh, have you checked out this thing? And like, I know this healer downtown or I saw this shaman or I've tried ayahuasca or whatever. And I was like, what?
against the law what she was telling me. I just spoke to an anonymous person whose identity I won't reveal who was telling me that they had taken ayahuasca. Now through ayahuasca, she had an experience within her own consciousness that she had not previously encountered.
Having done this work and continuing to do this work because my mind resets to psychotic with every dawn, the way that I use transcendental meditation is that I haven't-- like my friend there was saying about ayahuasca, an aspect of my consciousness, which is not biochemical, which is not my drives-- well, it might be biochemical.
They're the solution. The most profound cultural insight of the Barasana, for example, is that plants and animals are just people in another dimension of reality. And so when they go into the great ceremonies that can last for days, ingesting yagé or ayahuasca for 72 hours in a row, they become not symbols of the ancestors.
peyote, that create psychedelic experiences that traditionally have been used for healing purposes. And it's been used in a variety of ways where either shaman would use it, and the patient actually is not, let's say, drinking ayahuasca, as it is a tradition in Amazon that has changed since.
and transform things. And usually, when we think about trance, we either think about shamanic traditions, where there's a drum, and someone goes and talks to the spirits, or we think, since the '60s, about taking LSD, or mushrooms, or ayahuasca, and so on and so forth-- all those things that are more and more available here.