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Interview about traditional Amazonian medicines with Dr. Jacques Mabit - May 2010
Interview with Dr. Jacques Mabit, founder and president of the Takiwasi Center, conducted by Loïc Renault and Vanessa Burdet in 2010. Images: Thibault Lery and Agnès Jeanneau.
Some questions asked during the interview:
04:06 What is the role of plants in traditional Amazonian medicines?
15:30 Is performing rituals risky?
18:40 How can the integration of lived experience with plants be achieved?
23:46 What is the function of altered states of consciousness?
39:16 What is the conception of the body within traditional Amazonian medicines?
45:12 What is your take on the current spiritual quest of young people?
1:03:17 What can Western culture bring to traditional medicines?
Author : Loïc Renault, Vanessa Burdet
Audio : French
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The Jungle Prescription – Takiwasi Edit - 2010
The filmmakers Gris Jordana and Jeronimo Mazarrasa have been following the therapeutic process at Takiwasi for 5 months as part of their documentary production “The Jungle Prescription”. This is an edit of some of the material they gathered.
Author : Gris Jordana, Jeronimo Mazarrasa
Audio : Spanish
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Sinchi, sinchi, negrito. The medicinal use of tobacco in the high Peruvian amazon - 2010
The Takiwasi Center and the association GASS - Grup Associat pels Serveis de Salut - proposed in 2010 a conference in Barcelona on the traditional use of tobacco. It is a curative instrument with a very ancient tradition that perhaps can be considered the first curative plant used in the Amazon. Read the article: Sinchi, sinchi, negrito
Author : Eduard Casas Bertet
Audio : Spanish
Subtitle : Français
Interview with the master healer Ignacio Pérez - June 2009
The master healer Ignacio Pérez Ortiz was a central pillar of Takiwasi for 15 years until his death in 2009. He was an indigenous Quechua-Lamista from the town of Rumisapa, located a few kilometers from Tarapoto. Ignacio learned the art of healing from his uncle at the age of 22 and later specialized as a master perfumero. In his practice, he invoked the help of the rivers of the Amazon region, as well as the spirits of mermaids, white boas and other invisible beings that inhabit the waters. Ignacio was a specialist in treating mental problems and dealing with agitated, confused, and lost people, using instruments such as perfumes, camphor and tobacco.
Author : Association Saukaap
Audio : Spanish
Subtitle : English, Français
The Ayahuasca experience from cognitive psychology - June 2009
Lecture by Professor Benny Shanon on the cognitive-psychological study of Ayahuasca, during the Congress "Traditional Medicines, Interculturality and Mental Health", Tarapoto, Peru, 2009. Benny Shanon studied Philosophy and Linguistics at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and obtained a PhD in experimental psychology at Stanford University, United States. He has been a professor of cognitive psychology and director of the Department of Psychology at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. He is best known for his research on the cognitive effects of ayahuasca and the biblical entheogenic hypothesis, the idea that the use of hallucinogenic drugs influenced religion.
Author : Fox Terry
Audio : Spanish
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Amazonian shamanism and modified states of consciousness: a return to the past or a jump towards the future - March 2009
The School of Social and Pedagogical Studies - EESP of Lausanne in collaboration with the Romand Group of Addictions Studies - GREA organized a conference on the theme: “Amazonian shamanism and modified states of consciousness: a return to the past or a jump towards the future" with the participation of Dr. Jacques Mabit.
Can Amazonian shamanic practices contribute to the necessary emergence of a new Western paradigm that takes universal form? For some it would be a return to an obsolete past, for others a kind of panacea associated with a form of negation of Western culture. We believe in a third, more conciliatory, fruitful and sure way. Between encouragement and warning, based on our personal experience, we want to elucidate some aspects of the western approach to the ancestral knowledge of the cultures of the Upper Peruvian Amazon and try to identify some bold and cautious lines of conduct.
Author : EESP
Audio : French
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Ayahuasca in the treatment of addictions - 2009
Dr. Jacques Mabit, president of the Takiwasi Center, talks about drug addiction treatment with ayahuasca and other plants traditionally used in the form of diets and purges in Peruvian Amazon. Presentation given at the conference “Dialogues Between Medicines” organized by GASS in 2009 in the Department of Health of the Generalitat de Catalunya.
Author : GASS
Audio : Spanish
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From the huracan to the light breeze - 2008
Conference by Jacques Mabit, physician and founder of the Takiwasi Center for the rehabilitation of drug addicts and research on traditional medicines. Conference promoted by PSY IDEA, Institute for Development, Education and Teaching of Psychology. Cycle 2012: "Cries and whispers of the soul". You can read the full text of the conference in French here: De l’ouragan à la brise légère
Author : Centro Takiwasi
Audio : French
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Transgenerational heritages - 2008
Conference by Jacques Mabit, Medical Doctor and founding president of the Takiwasi Center for the Rehabiitation of Drug Addicts and for Research on Traditional Medicine, Tarapoto, Peru. Our clinical experience in the Peruvian Amazon reveals to us, through the modified states of consciousness, the extreme importance in the deep psyche of transgenerational heritages. These appear in the background of the biography of the patients, in their personal prehistory, not as simple psychic baggage but as forces presiding over spiritual becoming. They refer to our conquest of inner freedom which must free itself from the bondage of curses and secrets of our ancestors to ascend to the status of the blessed by the Father.
Author : Centro Takiwasi
Audio : French
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