20080102

Healing songs
and botanical
technology


In D'autres mondes (Other Worlds), documentarian Jan Kounen "journeys to the Amazon to investigate the mysteries that surround tribal shamanism as well as the entheogens/hallucinogens employed in indigenous Amazonian practices.." There are also interviews with numerous Western researchers who attest to the healing potential of the substances used by the Shipibo-Conibo tribes, and how those substances (as well as the tribes' environmental ideology) can heal and teach modern society.

See this bit also: "A medicine hunter on a remote path to cures." Unfortunately, much of the focus is on how much money people have made and might make in future from plant medicines used by traditional societies.