The Psychedelic Research Society
- Amazonian Ayahuasca Research (and why shamans play football) The White Bear Social Club (Upstairs Room) Wednesday 12-02-2025 - 19:00 until Wednesday 12-02-2025 - 21:00
Amazonian Ayahuasca Research (and why shamans play football)
Please join us for a talk by Caspar Montgomery who will be talking about his work with veterans in Peru.
The talk will be held at The White Bear Social Club, in the upstairs room (go up the stairs through the door immediately opposite the entrance)
The context:
Ayahuasca is a DMT-containing plant medicine with a long history of Indigenous use in the Amazon basin, especially for medicinal and spiritual purposes, and it shows potential for treating health problems including trauma.
Unlike clinical trials of psychedelics in hospitals, the non-profit Onaya Science is researching Shipibo-style retreats in the Amazon rainforest, translating Indigenous knowledge into the terms of Western science. The latest results, presented in this talk, are extraordinary compared to standard Western mental health treatments, but raise big questions around ethics and understanding.
What does it mean if healers that insist on the reality of plant spirits are more effective than our best biomedical treatments?
Are we even entitled to benefit from traditions that have resisted and adapted to the forces of colonialism and capitalism?
And how can our concept of ‘Indigenous traditions’ embrace the reality of expert shamans who use smartphones and serve ayahuasca from Coke bottles?
Venue/Timing
Venue : The White Bear Social Club (Upstairs Room)
Type: Free, Society Events, Talks and Lectures
Start Date: Wednesday 12-02-2025 - 19:00
End date: Wednesday 12-02-2025 - 21:00
Location
Contact Details
Brett Thomas
07864894643
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