Ayahuasca tradition declared cultural heritage in Peru

klaviceps - 2008-07-22 18:52:11

This is kind of a victory. Not a little one : a step. Somehow, One of this days, this nonsense (fighting against entheogens), will end. The whole mankind will finally discover the power of it, as mankind discovered that it was possible to use fire instead of merely forbid it, that it had a useful power behind its danger.

Don Jia - 2008-07-24 13:29:39

The more I think about it, the more I feel like moving to South America. I know as well as anyone that not everything's cool and gravy down there, but across the continent there's a lot of interesting things happening. What ties them together is that they are decisions in defiance of what the self appointed Global Watchdog up north may deem "responsible" behaviour. If only the rest of the world had the balls to break with the sheepisness towards Uncle Sam and its coked out War on Drugs, Terror and nonconformism. I don't see anything like this happening any time soon, unfortunately, modern society is every day becoming more robotic and totalitarian, its citizens less and less inclined to think for themselves and more succeptible to the virus of docie imbicility. Perhaps, however, there is a future in South America, and in the coming decades it will be the place where free spirited humans choose to live, leaving all the other psychos back home to - as the Dutch so eloquently say - to stew in their own froth.

heehee - 2008-08-01 14:01:37

This is nice for sure and I agree with Don Jia, however, just because something is illegal to the status quo and laws of a country doesn't mean you can't get it and use it without anyone knowing :P

Besides, DMT (which is the most important thing in the Ayahuasca brew) is fairly easy to extract yourself by buying materials which are legal to sell/buy.

And most here will disagree, but I think certain entheogens should be hard to get because they will be abused by people who think it's for partying and seeing nice colors....totally disrespecting and wasting the gift.

So the only ones who can get it are the ones who will respect it and use it properly.

Magus - 2008-08-17 09:35:50

This will help to preserve culture and serve as a beacon of religious freedom - TRUE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM NOT BIASED WHITE MAN RELIGIOUS FREEDOM! (I'm white BTW. I'm tired of our governments' and many of our peoples' lack of respect of native religions and traditions.) This is an example of maintaining true freedom as opposed to just talking about freedom (as seen in my country) : I think South America is extremely cool.

Half - 2008-09-06 15:48:21

What a bless, not to consider illigal the plants that problably give birth to religion and art, this is a true evolution to knowledge
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Goaalex - 2008-09-08 22:25:39

Why not... why not!? I soor my future wife saying that to me on a journey!(!I now live with her!) This is amazing, Its all gonna be as it should be