tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3544799987499995638.post5685469462318486297..comments2023-05-12T03:00:57.208-07:00Comments on Singing to the Plants: An Ayahuasca DocumentaryUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3544799987499995638.post-17090660017581137062009-04-01T09:06:00.000-07:002009-04-01T09:06:00.000-07:00I agree with you that laws regarding the sacred pl...I agree with you that laws regarding the sacred plants should be changed. Yet I must confess that, in the Upper Amazon, where ayahuasca is widely consumed, I have not seen that people are discernibly more healthy, happy, empowered, spiritually connected, or empathic than they are elsewhere, such as in Chicago. Until recently — and still ongoing in some places — Amazonian peoples engaged in constant small-scale warfare with each other, often murderous and cruel, including headhunting, especially among the ayahuasca-drinking Shuar and their neighbors. [Sigh] We have much to learn from ayahuasca, especially on an individual level, but I have personally seen little evidence that it produces social peace and harmony. If there is any work out there on this subject, I would really like to see it.Steve Beyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06176285779096780805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3544799987499995638.post-26814589868840345352009-04-01T08:52:00.000-07:002009-04-01T08:52:00.000-07:00This is extremely frustrating, but not confusing o...This is extremely frustrating, but not confusing or surprising. I would expect nothing less from our western capitalistic/individualistic culture. Imagine how dangerous a healthy, happy, empowered, spiritually connected, empathic population would be. People actually recognizing and appreciating the brother/sisterhood we are all a part of. I think it is in the interest of this system that exists for its own sake to keep substances from people which can potentiality shed light on their true natures. If humanity were allowed these transformative experiences en masse, the walls might well come tumbling down.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com