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Scientific evidence on spirituality and health - September 2020
Intervention by Dr. Harold G Koening, psychiatrist and researcher at Duke University Medical Center, in the "II Symposium Dialogue between Medicines: the spiritual approach to addictions" that took place on September 26 2020, in Barcelona, Spain, and was organized by the GASS association and the Takiwasi Center. Science has moved away from spirituality, but scientific evidence shows how, through its practice, health benefits increase. Thousands of scientific studies support this claim. Particularly in the case of addiction, due to their nature and the personality structure of the people who suffer from it, the positive impact of this practice on the resolution of the disease is surprising.
Author : Asociación GASS
Audio : English
Subtitle : -
A journey to healing - September 2020
Official trailer of the film “The Way of the Plants - A journey to healing” directed by Aurèlie Marques and Louis Bidou. This is the living experience from the point of view of drug addict patients who have chosen an alternative treatment with Amazonian plants. Heartbreaking life stories that intersect in the heart of the Peruvian rainforest. Rehabilitating traditional Amazonian medicines means putting spirituality back at the center of healing.
Author : Aurèlie Marques, Louis Bidou
Audio : Spanish
Subtitle : Français
Testimony of a participant in the dieta of teacher plants - September 2020
Testimony about the experience with the dieta of teacher plants by Eduardo Araya, psychologist, sketcher and photographer, who participated in his first plants dieta in Takiwasi six years ago. Becoming aware and abandoning a dependence on alcohol and marijuana, healing different aspects related to childhood, reconnecting with his artistic side and healing the male lineage are some of the benefits obtained by Eduardo through working with master plants and psychological accompaniment.
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Author : Gary Saucedo
Audio : Spanish
Subtitle : English, Français, Italiano, Português
The approach to diseases and evil from the Asheninka and Christian indigenous spirituality - September 2020
Lecture by the Claretian Father Rosendo Gualima from Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, presented during the II Day of Dialogues between Medicines. Father Rosendo provides a testimony about how there is no contradiction, quite the contrary, between his Amazonian roots and Christian spirituality. A position that is not always well understood, but that is of vital importance for the communion of knowledge and the medicine of the soul.
Author : Asociación GASS
Audio : Spanish
Subtitle : -
Bio-Psycho-Social-Spiritual Model: the approach to the inconceivable and the pragmatic mystique - September 2020
Intervention by Dr. Manuel Almendro during the II Encounter of Dialogues between Medicines "The spiritual approach to addictions", held on September 26, 2020. After four decades of work in the world of clinical psychology, Zen meditation and indigenous medicines it seems crystal clear that these three streams of service can be integrated. There is a point of connection between all of them: spirituality as the search for the ultimate meaning of existence. The abandonment by Western society of this search has constituted and is the root of extreme suffering, addiction as a negative path of this search, and machine-like and suicidal materialism.
Author : Asociación GASS
Audio : Spanish
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Spiritual illness from the perspective of a traditional Amazonian doctor - September 2020
Lecture by Jordi Trainé at the II Days of Dialogues between Medicines "The spiritual approach to addictions", Barcelona, September 26, 2020. Some of the topics addressed: the human being as body, soul and spirit; mental contamination, and emotional differentiation from energetic and spiritual parasitization; diseases of the spirit and diseases of the soul and their manifestations; somatization of spiritual and soul illnesses; personal experience of Christian spirituality in traditional Amazonian medicine practice; therapeutic and personal experiences.
Author : Asociación GASS
Audio : Spanish
Subtitle : -
Ábrete Corazón - February 2020
The "ikaro" is the song or melody used by healers during ritual works, especially during ayahuasca ceremonies. The ikaros are key elements of traditional Amazonian medicine and represent the essential means for transmitting wisdom and healing knowledge. In this interview Dr. Rosa Giove, co-founder and responsible for the biomedical monitoring of the Takiwasi Center, tells us about the origin of the ikaros she sings, what is their role and what is the message of Ábrete Corazón, her most famous ikaro.
Author : Gary Saucedo, Fabio Friso
Audio : Spanish
Subtitle : English, Français, Italiano
Ayahuasca: political, legal and health concerns - December 2019
Lecture given by Manuel Almendro, PhD in psychology, clinical psychologist, founder of the Oxígeme Process, held on November 13, 2019 in the auditorium of the Takiwasi Center, Tarapoto, Peru. Starting from some themes presented in his latest book “The labyrinth of ayahuasca. Research on shamanism and indigenous medicines”, Almendro synthesizes almost forty years of coexistence and scientific research with traditional healers and shamans of the Peruvian Amazon and the Sierra Mazateca in Mexico. Intermingling solid academic rigor and personal accounts, the author introduces us to indigenous worldviews, making a critical reflection that highlights the general decline and the abuse in the use of sacred plants that is causing death and desolation worldwide, while delving into the therapeutic potential that permeates the traditional medicines. Combining his experience in the psychological field with medical research in indigenous traditions, Almendro points to the creation of new protocols for healing mental and body diseases.
Author : Martín Huamán
Audio : Spanish
Subtitle : -
Cat’s Claw – From the forest to the world - November 2019
Takiwasi Laboratory has been working since 2011 with Chirik Sacha native community located in the Peruvian Amazonian region of San Martin to formalize the commercial use of Cat’s Claw. Cat’s Claw (Uncaria tormentosa) is one of the most studied Amazonian medicinal plant in the world. Thanks to these studies we were able to understand the biological mechanisms that lie beneath the many properties that Amazonian inhabitants have identified in this plant since ancient times. Cat’s Claw stimulates and strengthens the immune system, it’s an adjuvant in treatments for aids, cancer and autoimmune diseases, it’s an anti-inflammatory for joints and effective against arthritis, arthrosis, osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. After several years of legal procedures, and with the support of National Forest Authority, Serfor, in November 2018 the Cat’s Claw forest management plan has been officially approved. This will give to the Chirik Sacha native community the chance of generating a new source of economic income through the responsible use of the Cat’s Claw trees and at the same time conserving its communal forest. Surprisingly, it is also a great achievement for the country as whole, as it is the first exploitation license of a non-timber forest medicinal resource in the entire Peruvian Amazon.
Author : Lenin Quevedo
Audio : English
Subtitle : Español, Francés
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