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Monthly Archives: October 2008

CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL "MEDICINAS TRADICIONALES, INTERCULTURALIDAD Y SALUD MENTAL

7 a 10 de JUNIO 2009 – TARAPOTO, PERU congreso@takiwasi.com 1. OBJETIVO La OMS define la salud como un estado de bienestar que abarca todas las esferas de la vida humana y promueve las políticas de salud que incluyen los valiosos aportes de las medicinas tradicionales ancestrales (MT). La Salud Mental ha llegado a ser [...]

Talk by Jimmy Weiskopf availabe on line

To hear the talk Jimmy gave at the The Fourth International Amazonian Shamanism Conference: Magic, Myths & Miracles, Iquitos, Peru July 19th-27th, 2008, consult: http://www.archive.org/details/4th_International_Amazonian_Shamanism_Conference

Drugs Found in Hair of Ancient Andean Mummies

Article published in the National Geographich, here Charles Q. Choi for National Geographic News October 22, 2008 The first hard evidence of psychoactive drug use in the ancient Andes has been discovered in mummies’ hair, a new study says. The finding confirms that predecessors of the Inca known as the Tiwanaku used mind-altering substances, and [...]

New Research about therapeutic effects of Ayahuasca in Holland

Effects of ayahuasca on physical and mental health: experiences from 70 participants of a specific therapeutic setting Maria Groot, Lars Faber, Joost Waterborg Abstract Ayahuasca is a entheogenic beverage which is used in ethnomedicine and shamanistic practice of indigenous Amazonian tribes and as a ritual sacrament in syncretic churches. Moreover ayahuasca is used for recreational [...]

Awaited book by Stephan Bayer about vegetalismo (in press)

The book Singing to the Plants book, by Stephan Bayer, will hopefully be released on the seccond semester of 2009 by University of Mexico Press, an academic press with a distinguished list of publications on Native American and Latin American topics. Summary: In the Upper Amazon, mestizos are the Spanish-speaking descendants of Hispanic colonizers and [...]

Canada: clarifying the case of Juan Uyunkar

Published at http://www.santodaime.org/community/news/canada2.htm The intention of this letter is to clarify discrepancies in documents previously posted on the Santo Daime web site. May 10, 2003 To Whom It May Concern, The information concerning the Uyunkar’s judicial process currently posted on the Santo Daime web site and internationally transmitted via e-mail, is not fully accurate to [...]

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Tribunal nega pedido de indenização da União do Vegetal contra revista

Notícia publicada na Rondônia Jurídico em 16 de outubro de 2008 aqui http://www.rondoniajuridico.com.br:80/ler_noticia.asp?cod=2463 O Superior Tribunal de Justiça (STJ) negou o recurso interposto pelo Centro Espírita Beneficente União do Vegetal contra a decisão do Tribunal de Justiça do Distrito Federal e Territórios (TJDFT) que rejeitou o pedido de indenização por danos causados à instituição com [...]

Tribunal nega pedido de indenização da União do Vegetal contra revista

Notícia publicada na Rondônia Jurídico em 16 de outubro de 2008 aqui http://www.rondoniajuridico.com.br:80/ler_noticia.asp?cod=2463 O Superior Tribunal de Justiça (STJ) negou o recurso interposto pelo Centro Espírita Beneficente União do Vegetal contra a decisão do Tribunal de Justiça do Distrito Federal e Territórios (TJDFT) que rejeitou o pedido de indenização por danos causados à instituição com [...]

Tribunal nega pedido de indenização da União do Vegetal contra revista

Notícia publicada na Rondônia Jurídico em 16 de outubro de 2008 aqui http://www.rondoniajuridico.com.br:80/ler_noticia.asp?cod=2463 O Superior Tribunal de Justiça (STJ) negou o recurso interposto pelo Centro Espírita Beneficente União do Vegetal contra a decisão do Tribunal de Justiça do Distrito Federal e Territórios (TJDFT) que rejeitou o pedido de indenização por danos causados à instituição com [...]