Online Course: Consistencies Between Christian Initiation and Amazonian initiation

Dear friends, we would like to invite you to enroll in the online course “Coherencias entre la iniciación cristiana y la iniciación amazónica” taught in Spanish by Dr. Jacques Mabit, executive president and founder of the Takiwasi Center.

Presentation
The approach to traditional Amazonian medicines by Westerners is often conceived from a negative reaction towards their own Christian roots, be it due to ignorance of the authentic content of the Christian faith, dissatisfaction with the teachings or examples of believers, or rejection of the structure of the Church perceived as moralistic and dogmatic. In a paradoxical way, ancestral wisdom commands to receive the inheritances of the ancestors, accept them and reconcile with them. The experience of the Takiwasi Center shows us that not only are there no fundamental contradictions between the Christian faith and Amazonian shamanism (correctly understood and practiced) but rather numerous and surprising coherences and convergences, both in practice and in the references of the Scriptures. This course attempts to highlight the relevance of bringing these two paths of knowledge closer together and articulating them appropriately in favor of opening new paths for the healing of the body, mind and spirit.

Structure and duration
The course is structured in five parts:
      - Part 1. What Christianity and what shamanism are we talking about? - 1 hour 13 minutes.
      - Part 2. The clinic of our therapeutic practice 1/2 - 1 hour 20 minutes.
      - Part 3. The clinic of our therapeutic practice 2/2 - 1 hour 17 minutes.
      - Part 4. Meeting points between shamanism and Christianity 1/2 - 1 hour 15 minutes.
      - Part 5. Meeting points between shamanism and Christianity 2/2 - 1 hour 15 minutes.
Total duration of the course: 6 hours and 20 minutes.

Short biography of Dr. Jacques Mabit
Medical Doctor, University of Medicine and Medical Techniques, Nantes (France), Diploma in Tropical Pathology (IMT-Anvers) and Naturopathy (Uni Paris XIII). Honorary member of the Association of Psychologists of Peru, Extraordinary Professor at the Southern Scientific University (Lima). He participates in the board of the Transcultural Psychiatry Department of the Peruvian Psychiatric Association and was elected a Fellow of Ashoka Foundation. Associate member of the European Psychoanalyst Association. He has been co-founder (1986), vice president (1986-1989) and president (2012-2016) of the Inter-American Council on Indigenous Spirituality (CISEI).

Back to animism

Antoine Fratini, Vice-President of the Association of European Psychoanalysts (https://www.ape-psychanalyse.com) and President of the Association Natura & Psiche (https://naturaepsiche.jimdofree.com) wrote a reading note for the book “Medici che incontrano gli spiriti”, published in Italian by Alberto Dubbini, anthropologist of religions, and which deals with the approach of the Amazonian spirits world by three doctors, including Rosa Giove and Jacques Mabit of Takiwasi.

Excerpt
Alberto Dubbini, professor of Natural Sciences and expert in religions, has chosen to center his book around the experiences of three doctors out of the ordinary. Over the pages, these unique stories let us glimpse very significant points in common that enlighten the reader on the traditional therapeutic practices of the peoples of Central Africa and the Peruvian Amazon.

Takiwasi: Traditional Amazonian Medicine and Mental Health

Dr. Rosa Giove participated in the 4th Edition of the International Congress of Integrative Medicine (April 12-17) with the lecture: "Takiwasi: Traditional Amazonian Medicine and mental health". We share the video of the lecture.

Abstract of the lecture
Traditional Medicines have been in force since time immemorial and some of them are currently recognized and incorporated into health systems. Mental pathology is an important cause of morbidity and mortality, finding insufficient response in official medicine. This presentation aims to reveal the therapeutic potential of traditional Amazonian medicine for the treatment of addiction and mental health, based on the experience of the Takiwasi Center in the Peruvian Amazon.

The Mind of Plants

An online symposium has been hosted on April 9, 2021, to bring together all the contributors of the Mind of Plants to share their reflections and various approaches to plants.

Matteo Politi, scientific director of Takiwasi Center, offered a contribution on Ushpwasha Sanango (Tabernaemontana undulata), a so-called “teacher plant” used in therapeutic practices derived from traditional Amazonian medicine such as the dieta. Another contribution has been offered by research associate and environmental anthropologist Giorgia Tresca on Silver Fir (Adies Alba) an evergreen tree native to Europe and Asia.

After the success of this first symposium, the organizers are proposing a new event, entitled Diálogos: Mente de las / das Plantas with presentations in Spanish and Portuguese, which will be held online with free access on July 9.

More information: Diálogos: La Mente de las / das Plantas.

Get Involved

If you wish to support the activities of the Takiwasi Center, there are several ways you can 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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