Opening ceremony with talks by the 5 directors of the conference
17.4.2025 10:22Opening ceremony with talks by the 5 directors of the conferenceWho else is attending #BreakingConvention ?
Some of the talks got me really excited 🤩
I'll try to share a bit about the conference here.
Before a #Kambo 🐸 #ceremony, the first thing to do is to drink water 💧. Plenty of it. Between 1 and 2 litres! Occasionally water is replaced by a manioc juice obtained from boiling the roots. It's a medium thick liquid, pretty much tasteless. See the photo attached.
This needs to be taken on an empty stomach, this is the reason why Kambo ceremonies take place in the morning.
This amount of water will make sense later.
#frog #jungle #traditional #indigenous #medicine #healing
10.4.2025 17:13Before a #Kambo 🐸 #ceremony, the first thing to do is to drink water 💧. Plenty of it. Between 1 and 2 litres! Occasionally water is...My first reaction to Kambo was disappointment: where are the frogs?!
Typically during a Kambo ceremony, you don't see the frogs. Their secretions have already been extracted and are stored dried on a piece of wood.
So, for the curious (me included), here is what the frog looks like (from Wikipedia): Phyllomedusa bicolor, bicolor tree-frog.
9.4.2025 17:02My first reaction to Kambo was disappointment: where are the frogs?!Typically during a Kambo ceremony, you don't see the frogs. Their...Have you heard of Kambo 🐸?
Here's a thread about my experience with it in the jungle of #Brazil with the Huni Kuin #indigenous people.
Before going there, I had heard of kambo but never had the opportunity to try this #medicine. It consists of applying #frog secretions on burnt skin.
I'll post the different steps in the next few days 👇🧵
#kambo #kambó #medicine #HuniKuin
7.4.2025 14:45Have you heard of Kambo 🐸?Here's a thread about my experience with it in the jungle of #Brazil with the Huni Kuin #indigenous...If you're interested in experiencing first-hand living in a Huni Kuin community, I organise cultural immersive trips to Brazil. More info 👇
29.3.2025 11:10If you're interested in experiencing first-hand living in a Huni Kuin community, I organise cultural immersive trips to Brazil. More...As we can see in this video 👆, these patterns are mostly handled by women. I've observed it myself when living in a Huni Kuin community in 2023.
However, the community where I was didn't bake their own ceramic. So it's fascinating to see how they do it in this documentary.
Anyway, this is great news that the cultural heritage of the Huni Kuin peoples is finally recognised officially 🥇
#indigenousWomen #ceramic #geometric #pattern #patterns
29.3.2025 11:08As we can see in this video 👆, these patterns are mostly handled by women. I've observed it myself when living in a Huni Kuin...This is huge! The Huni Kuin people patterns (called Kene Kuin) have just received recognition as a cultural heritage of Brazil. This happens just one month after a similar recognition from the Peruvian Ministry of Culture (Feb 23).
These patterns are found everywhere - in their face and body paints, traditional clothes, ceramics...
Here' a short and interesting documentary on the topic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EQW7cjSbws
#HuniKuin #Kashinawa #Cashinahua #indigenous #culturalHeritage #Brazil
29.3.2025 11:04This is huge! The Huni Kuin people patterns (called Kene Kuin) have just received recognition as a cultural heritage of Brazil. This happens...Tonight I'm attending a talk about the future of psychedelics at Imperial College London.
So excited to hear what experts have to say!
I'll be at Breaking Convention - https://breakingconvention.co.uk
A multi-disciplinary conference offering the latest ground-breaking research and insights into psychedelics 🍄🌵🌱
17 - 19 April 2025, Exeter UK
Who else is going?
Get in touch if you'll be there and want to meet! I love to chat with new people ✨
#BreakingConvention #BreakingConvention2025 #psychedelics #entheogens #conference #neuropharmacology #ethnobotany #philosophy #history #anthropology #art #archaeology #therapeuticPractice
27.3.2025 10:49I'll be at Breaking Convention - https://breakingconvention.co.ukA multi-disciplinary conference offering the latest ground-breaking...I've got the habit of reading multiple books in parallel. I love to vary the pleasures and choose depending on my mood.
What I'm reading at the moment:
Braiding Sweetgrass
https://amzn.to/41MvOgO
The Art of Holding Space
https://amzn.to/41QTEIj
Tristes Tropiques - I read it in #French, but here's an English translation:
https://amzn.to/4iKLXdu
A book in #Spanish about the view of the #Spirit World according to the #HuniKuin (#Kashinawa) #indigenous peoples.
#holdSpace #holdingSpace #books
21.3.2025 18:11I've got the habit of reading multiple books in parallel. I love to vary the pleasures and choose depending on my mood.What I'm...There's an interview of the indigenous healer from this video here, if you want to learn more about her worldview and personal history:
19.3.2025 10:39There's an interview of the indigenous healer from this video here, if you want to learn more about her worldview and personal history:...One last photo to end this thread on San Pedro 🌵.
It is a San Pedro cactus intertwined with a Brugmansia (Angel's trumpet), which is closely related to Datura, another psychoactive plant. Although there, it was purely an ornamental plant.
#sanPedro #huachuma #cactus #cacti #plantMedicine #entheogens #psychedelics
12.3.2025 18:44One last photo to end this thread on San Pedro 🌵.It is a San Pedro cactus intertwined with a Brugmansia (Angel's trumpet), which is...If you speak #French 🇫🇷 there's a superb series of podcasts on #indigenous people and the challenges they face.
The take is not entirely negative though and some episodes are quite uplifting!
5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
(I've not come across mentions of #plantMedicine yet, but will post specific episode if I do)
https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/podcasts/voyage-en-terre-indigene
12.3.2025 09:52If you speak #French 🇫🇷 there's a superb series of podcasts on #indigenous people and the challenges they face.The take is not...I watched (listened) this talk at the gym, on the opposition between #indigenous #healing #traditions and western #medicine.
It's a honest presentation and touches on topics such as cultural appropriation and colonialism. The answer lies in reconciling these 2 approaches so they work together.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvcvD0UJBSo
11.3.2025 10:04I watched (listened) this talk at the gym, on the opposition between #indigenous #healing #traditions and western #medicine.It's a...Then She Is a Shaman, a beautiful documentary about a Peruvian female shaman who works with #ayahuasca, it offers a raw, non idealised image of her everyday life in the #jungle.
https://aeon.co/videos/for-an-amazonian-female-shaman-ayahuasca-ceremonies-are-a-rite-and-a-business
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10.3.2025 21:11Then She Is a Shaman, a beautiful documentary about a Peruvian female shaman who works with #ayahuasca, it offers a raw, non idealised image...I watched a couple of short and recent documentaries on #psychedelics this weekend.
First, When the Smoke Clears follow US first responders as they go to a retreat in Mexico to work with #psilocybin, #bufo and herbal #cleansing baths.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQqQuRE4Y2w
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10.3.2025 21:09I watched a couple of short and recent documentaries on #psychedelics this weekend.First, When the Smoke Clears follow US first responders...Psilocybin increases emotional empathy in depressed individuals, study finds
https://www.psypost.org/psilocybin-increases-emotional-empathy-in-depressed-individuals-study-finds/
7.3.2025 14:21Psilocybin increases emotional empathy in depressed individuals, study...Another pot of boiling San Pedro 🌵! This one from Ecuador.
Unlike the one prepared with fresh cactus that I shared earlier, this one is made from dried powder.
Unfortunately, I wasn't there to follow the whole process, and I don't know the details.
#sanPedro #huachuma #cactus #cacti #plantMedicine #entheogens #psychedelics
6.3.2025 18:52Another pot of boiling San Pedro 🌵! This one from Ecuador.Unlike the one prepared with fresh cactus that I shared earlier, this one is...If you're interested in #indigenous cultures and traditional #plantMedicine, I've got a #Pixelfed account where I post photos:
https://pixelfed.social/Dezoito
5.3.2025 17:45If you're interested in #indigenous cultures and traditional #plantMedicine, I've got a #Pixelfed account where I post...⬆️
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