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Coca and Ayahuasca, same destiny? - October 2016
Speaker: Dr. Jacques Mabit. Founder and Executive President of the Takiwasi Center. Lecture delivered at the II World Ayahuasca Conference, ICEERS Foundation, Río Branco, Brazil, 21-10-2016. While Peru built the magnificent Inca civilization aided by the wisdom provided by balanced use of the coca leaf, then became the largest producer of toxic derivatives of this desecrated plant. Today the coca leaf permits the treatment of cocaine addiction, as is shown by the experience of the Takiwasi Center. On the other hand, the healing use of ayahuasca had been discovered over a few decades ago, and resulted in an explosion of usage worldwide. Will the accelerated desecration of this medicine reach the same extremes of misuse as that of Coca? What can we learn from the tragic path followed by Coca abuse in relation to the use of Ayahuasca? What did the use of Coca in the West respond to, and what does the use of Ayahuasca today respond to?
Author : ICEERS Foundation
Audio : Spanish
Subtitle : English
Interview with the indigenous leader Santiago Manuin - July 2016
Interview conducted in July 2016 by Jacques Mabit, founding president of the Takiwasi Center, addressing issues such as the role of plants in personal and spiritual life and the interest of Westerners towards traditional Amazonian medicine. Santiago Manuin Valera is a recognized indigenous leader of the jungle of Peru. Belonging to the Awajún ethnic group, he dedicates his life to the protection of the Amazon and to the promotion of the development of the indigenous communities that inhabit it. He has led the Awajún people to face the expansion of the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement in the indigenous territory. As a result of this position, it has been possible to eradicate the coca and poppy crops in the area and thus avoid the terrible experiences that the Ashaninka people had to live with the Shining Path.
Author : Ricardo D‘Aguiar
Audio : Spanish
Subtitle : English, Français
Interview Father Carlos Diharce - July 2016
Father Carlos Diharce, a Jesuit priest of Cuban origin, since 1972 is in charge of the mission of Santa Maria de Nieva, in the Peruvian Amazon. Father Carlos has been the promoter of SAIPE, the Agricultural Service for Research and Economic Development. In the interview Father Carlos talks about several issues and presents his opinion as a religious and his personal experience with ayahuasca and traditional medicines, as well as explaining how he shares the indigenous worldview in which there is no separation between the spiritual and material level.
Author : Ricardo D'Aguiar
Audio : Spanish
Subtitle : English, Français
Cat's Claw Harvest - July 2016
Kilder, a member of the Chirik Sacha indigenous community and representative of the association of producers of medicinal plants Ampik Sacha tells us about cat's claw and the sustainable management plan that they have been developing.
Author : Laboratorio Takiwasi
Audio : Spanish
Subtitle : English, Français, Italiano
The Last Council - July 2016
On 11 October 2004, thirteen indigenous grandmothers from several continents meet in New York and created the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. For over ten years they will each year take counsel from one of them to share their knowledge of traditional medicine.
July 2015: We are in Gabon visiting grandmother Bernadette. This is the thirteenth meeting... This is the last council. Through this last meeting, the film retraces the portrait of Bernadette Rébienot, priestess of female initiation societies and healer of the Gabon Forest. A movie by Jean-Claude Cheyssial.
Author : Jean-Claude Cheyssial
Audio : French
Subtitle : -
Shamanism and Christianity - May 2016
Lecture by Dr. Jacques Mabit entitled "Christ in the Amazon, a new initiatory path of death-rebirth", IdéesPsy, May 2016, Paris. In this presentation, Dr. Mabit discusses the link between Christianity and traditional Amazonian medicines, verified through his own experience.
Author : François Delonnay
Audio : French
Subtitle : -
From one medicine to another - February 2016
Jacques Mabit has studied western medicine, but also has been trained in traditional Amazonian medicine. He founded in 1992 in Peru the Takiwasi Center that treats resident patients suffering from addictions and organizes "personal development seminars" for non-addicts interested in self-improvement.
Author : Julien Boyer - Harmoniepsy TV
Audio : French
Subtitle : -
Poison Plants or Remedy Plants? - February 2016
Addictive substances in their origins are all medicinal plants. Coca is a plant that allowed the construction of Machu Picchu and is the fundament of all Inca culture, but coca is also the basis of basic cocaine paste. A look at the treatment of addictions in Takiwasi with testimonies from patients and Dr. Jacques Mabit.
Author : Eduardo Gutiérrez
Audio : Spanish
Subtitle : Deutsch, English, Español, Français, Italiano, Português
Takiwasi, House of Healing - November 2015
This movie presents the work of the Takiwasi Center in which traditional Amazonian medicine combined with Western psychology is used to achieve a high success rate in the treatment of drug addiction, depression and other psychological disorders.
Author : Ricardo D'Aguiar & Christopher Zahlten
Audio : French
Subtitle : English, Español, Portugues, Cesky, EAAnviká
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