Ayahuasca, Tobacco and the Hidden Truth About Plant Medicine with Jeremy Narby

<p><em>&#34;There is no good or evil, what there is, is prey and predator, that illness is our invisible entity that can come and kill us. We as hunters can go and kill animals, some animals can come and kill us. As long as we’re alive as human people like this in this world, our job is to stay alive and to stay alive we have to kill plants and animals but we have to do it with respect because we know that they’re members of our family so this means taking them into consideration doesn’t mean not killing them. The whole amazonian eco cosmology and there are differences between the different cultures...&#34; </em>--- Jeremy Narby</p><p>In this episode, AJ of @mysevenchakras and Jeremy, a Canadian Anthropologist, talks about mind-blowing topics such as plant medicine, sacred tobacco, mother ayahuasca, spiritual cleansing, sorcerers and the power of unseen realms of existence.</p><p><strong>Jeremy Narby, PhD,</strong> is co-author of <strong><em>Plant Teachers </em></strong>with indigenous elder <strong>Rafael Chanchari Pizuri. </strong> He became an early pioneer of ayahuasca research while living with the Ashaninca people of the Peruvian Amazon in the 1980s. He studied anthropology at Stanford University and now lives in Switzerland and works as Amazonian projects director for Nouvelle Planète, a nonprofit organization that promotes the economic and cultural empowerment of indigenous peoples.</p><p>To learn more about Jeremy Narby and his books visit his Amazon page: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Jeremy-Narby/e/B001K8G6DQ%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/Jeremy-Narby/e/B001K8G6DQ%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share</a></p><p>Key Points Discussed</p><ul><li>If you want to understand third world development, go to a place where there is an occurrence of a big development project happening on lands of indigenous people. (4:56)</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>I’m not a big fan of insects or snakes, I was not attracted to tropical rain forest but at the same time, If you want to become an