Interviews
Interview met Robert Tindall - auteur van The Jaguar that Roams the Mind

Robert Tindall
"Our experience with practitioners of vegetalismo has taught us that awareness of these existential matters varies hugely from shaman to shaman. My take is “salvation” or “obtaining liberation,” in the Western sense, is clearly an import into Amazonian culture. Their concern is in how to walk the way of life and death, how to understand their world in greater depth. Juan Flores instructed us, “ayahuasca teaches you how to die and be reborn.” It’s important to bear in mind that for traditional people, this world and the next world interpenetrate, and as Juan put it, death is a door you pass through, nothing else. "
Lees het interview hier [Engels].
Een boekverslag van The Jaguar that Roams the Mind vind je hier [Engels].
Interview met Jeremy Narby - auteur van 'The Cosmic Serpent'

Jeremy Narby
"The central proposition that shamans make, is that nature is intelligent. Plants and animals are intelligent, and we can communicate with them. Ayahuasca is their number one tool for having this communication. Ayahuasca is considered to be a major plant teacher - no teacher is not intelligent. Ayahuasca is considered to be an intelligent being, and a source of intelligence, among other things about the intelligence in nature. What I try to do in the book "Intelligence in Nature", starting from the premise of indigenous Amazonian people, is to go back towards science and do an anthropology of science instead of an anthropology of indigenous people, and see where scientists now stand when it comes to discussing the intelligence of plants and animals."
Lees het interview hier of download het Microsoft Word document [Engels].
Interview met Arno Adelaars - co-schrijver van 'Ayahuasca, Rituale, Zaubertränke und visionäre Kunst aus Amazonien'

Het boek dat A. Adelaars heeft
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"Omdat ayahuasca geen DMT is, dat is de basis-misvatting. Je hebt een synergetisch effect tussen de beta-carbolines en de DMT. Het is niet zo dat de MAO-remmer er alleen maar voor zorgt dat de DMT in je hersenen komt. Die MAO-remmer heeft ook een effect op zichzelf. En dat gecombineerde effect is echt anders, een synergie, 1 + 1 = 3."
Lees het interview hier of download het Microsoft Word document [Nederlands].
Interview with Dr. Mark Plotkin - president van het Amazon Conservation Team

Dr. Mark Plotkin of the ACT
Mark over deze website: "Ayahuasca-Info.com is één van de belangrijkste yage-sites op het internet - intrigerend en noodzakelijk leesvoer voor iedereen die geïnteresseerd is in de liaan van de ziel."
"I know some people who certainly don’t ever want to take a total synthetic version of ayahuasca. How about giving back? How about helping the people who brought this vine to the world? How about protecting the culture or protecting the forests that produced this vine? These forests are being burned to the ground, these forests are being bulldozed into the ground. Isn’t the sacred about reciprocity, about making the world a better place? Do you really want to be somebody who’s just destroying the world for your own spiritual or material benefit? I would think not."
Lees het interview hier of download het Microsoft Word document. [Engels]