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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
The Power of Shamanism
I think shamanism is uniquely powerful in mobile, using religious and cosmological symbols combined with the amplifying effects of psychoactive substances to alter our immune responses. I think shamans are indigenous shamans and neo shamans who know what they're doing,. They've figured out through an intuitive way to make subtle changes to people's immune responses. And if that power could be amplified, you could cure anything. It's completely off the medical statistic charts. Miracles happen. People get sick because your immune system hasn't figured out how to fight that thing off. Some people respond to one way and some people respond to it in a different way. That's where shamans come in.
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