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Magical Thinking
Dear friends,
We share a new interview with Dr. Jacques Mabit by Spanish journalist Álvaro R. de la Rubia, January 2021.
Excerpt
The Amazonian peoples (like all ancestral peoples) are quite pragmatic and what anthropologists describe as “magical-religious thinking” is in good part a projection of Western thought. The desecrated Western world, where “God is dead”, finds itself without a spiritual compass. The indigenous peoples know the invisible world while the Westerners deny it or imagine it, they have cut themselves off from it, they ignore it, and rationalism actually hides a strong imaginary of compensation, often unconscious, about the “indigenous”. They are fantasized as “good savages” ideally living in harmony with nature, pure and wise, which is a total illusion, or as superstitious, irrational ignorant, lacking in discernment, which is just as inaccurate. The extraordinary crisis of covid-19 shows to what extent Westerners can “swallow” delusions and fantasies beyond all rationality, pragmatism, and even outside all scientific criteria (which is the definition of superstition).
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Indigenous women conserving
Nuwas Forest and medicinal plants
Researcher Rebecca Lazarou, MSc in Medicinal Natural Products and Phytochemistry at UCL, wrote a report about the "Nuwas Forest", a space where a group of Awajún indigenous women grow medicinal plants and thus preserve their ancestral knowledge.
For more information on the Nuwas Herbal Teas, check out the brand new official web page: http://www.nuwainfusiones.com
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Exceptional Book on Traditional Bolivian Medicine
Dear friends,
Quechua healer Carlos Prado Mendoza, from Cochabamba, Bolivia, has published the e-book “1,000 maneras de prevenir y curar enfermedades” (1000 ways to prevent and cure disease).
Although the book is in Spanish, it remains an extraordinary 1169-page encyclopedia in which the healer teaches about the use of medicinal plants from Bolivia to cure many diseases.
Proceeds from the sale of this exceptional book at a friend's price will be donated to Carlos Prado to help him cope with the difficult economic situation that he is going through because of the pandemic and to support his personal health needs.
Thank you for your kind attention,
Dr Jacques Mabit.
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Mind-Body Workshop - Drug use prevention project
We share a short video presentation of the psycho-corporal workshop delivered as part of a drug use prevention project carried out between 2019 and 2020 by Takiwasi for the benefit of 500 adolescents from three high-schools of the city of Tarapoto.
The intervention was carried out with the support of the organization of young leaders Red Interquorum San Martin and thanks to the grant provided by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). With each classroom, a psycho-corporal workshop has been performed by psychologist Guadalupe Arana. Some objectives of this workshop are: improve interpersonal relationships and self-esteem, work on the body and affectivity, learn to enjoy life through creative play and that students can recognize their abilities through the different exercises.
Filming and editing: Matías Farías
Music: Alejo & Simon
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The Mind of Plants Symposium
The Mind of Plants brings together a collection of short essays, narratives and poetry on plants and their interaction with humans.
Our scientific director Matteo Politi offered a contribution on the Ushpwasha Sanango (Tabernaemontana undulata), a master plant used by Amazonian healers in traditional plants diet that has the purpose to reconnect our memory with the heart and allow the remembrance of events of affective importance.
An online symposium will be held on April 8, 2021, to bring together all the contributors of the Mind of Plants to share their reflections and various approaches to plants.
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Retreats/Diets at Takiwasi
The dates of the following Retreats/Diets for 2021 are :
• 14 - 24 April
• 12 - 22 May
• 09 - 19 June
• 14 - 24 July
The Retreat/Diet is the deepest therapeutic practice of traditional Amazonian medicine. It consists of a 8-day retreat in isolation, in a very simple hut in the jungle, with the ritualized ingestion of the so-called "master plants", accompanied by a special diet and strict physical and psychological norms. This process allows to expand perception, re-connect with repressed emotions, cleanse and strengthen the body, and connect with the holy dimension. It favors dream production, remembrance of past situations and experiences that weren’t well-processed and deep introspection.
For more information and to start the registration process please write to: terapia@takiwasi.com
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How You Can Help Us
If you wish to support the activities of the Takiwasi Center, there are several ways to do it.
You can choose to give your contribution to the protection and conservation of Amazonian teacher plants through the project Adopt an Ayahuasca, or contributing to cover for the cost of the treatment and rehabilitation of our patients that suffer with drug addiction and have limited economic resources.
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