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Plants of the Gods: S4E6. Part 1 — Ayahuasca and Tobacco Shamanism: an Interview with Ethnobotanist Dr. Glenn Shepard

Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture and Conservation podcast

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The Future of Shamanism

Glenn Shepherd: The greatest shamans ascend beyond the heavens to mingle with immortal spirit beings. Shamans are specialists who find different techniques of going into altered states of conscience, he says. They can be meditation, breathing, plants, they can be drugs, writes Shepherd. "They basically become identical to gods," adds Shepherd.

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