Worth a Look: When Plants Dream: Ayahuasca, Amazonian Shamanism and the Global Psychedelic Renaissance by Daniel Pinckbeck and Sophia Rokhlin

5 Star, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Environment (Solutions)

In When Plants Dream, Pinchbeck and Rokhlin explore the economic, social, political, cultural and environmental impact that ayahuasca is having on society. Part 1 covers the background; what ayahuasca is, where it is found, and its cultural origins. Part 2 explores the role and practices of the ayahuasquero in both Amazonian and Western cultures. Part 3 examines the medicinal plants of the Amazon, looking particularly at the ingredients in ayahuasca and their therapeutic qualities, covering the most up-to-date biomedical research, psychedelic science and psychopharmacology. It also covers all the legal aspects of ayahuasca use. Lastly in Part 4 Pinchbeck and Rokhlin question the future of ayahuasca.  When Plants Dream is the first book of its kind to look at the science and expanding culture of ayahuasca, from its historical use to its appropriation by the West and the impact it is having on cultures beyond the Amazon.

Paul Adams: Philip Weiss – Jewish critics are an existential threat to Israel — so they must be labeled as bad Jews

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
Paul Adams

Jewish critics are an existential threat to Israel — so they must be labeled as bad Jews

P{hilip Weiss, Mondoweiss

The reasons for the insistence that the Jewish community is monolithic go to a central understanding: Israel would be lost without American Jews.

The big threat to this orhtodoxy is changing awareness. American progressives are starting to side with Palestinians over Israel.

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Robert Steele: John Bolton, Walking Dead, an Epitah by Martin Sieff — Next Up, Peace with Iran!

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
Robert David STEELE Vivas

Once in a while a media personality comes up with words that are beyond poetry, so epic, so loaded with cultural richness and the sound of truth that one can only stand in awe, reading and re-reading their work with the utmost appeciation and respect. Martin Sieff has given us such a work. Please do read every word, this is not just the epitaph of John Bolton Cockroach, this is the epitaph of the neo-conservatives, the Zionists, and the Deep State.

The Fall of John Bolton: Exercising Power with the Grace of a Cockroach

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