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Bruce prepares to take Ayahuasca
Bruce didn’t experience Ayahuasca visions this time. Find out more about the Ayahuasca vine, which has a ritual use for healing and is used by the Achuar to give visions that provide understanding and power over the self and the external world.
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Bruce Parry, presenter of the Â鶹Éç's Tribe, travelled the length of the Amazon to film a major new series for Â鶹Éç Two, shown in autumn 2008. You can relive his journey online through exclusive blogs, video and much more.
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Fantastic why not encourage the use of hallucinogens by posting about their use on the Â鶹Éç website and Blog.
What next cocaine from Columbia because the locals use it.....next month will be an article about drug use in Iquitos
Pull your head out of the clouds please. Ff you have ever seen tribe you will see that Bruce does these things to show the harmful and very unpleastent things that happens to you when you take these drugs.
If you feel compelled to take drugs just beacuse a website shows it or even talks about it, then may i be so bold as to suggest that you have the problem and not the bbc.
These tribes take drugs for medical, relgious and for social reason, this is a lesson not a suggestion in what you should do. (any idot can see that)
Get off your soap box and enjoy a wonderful and beautiful programme.
WELL DONE Â鶹Éç, BRUCE AND ALL THE TEAM.
applaud your bravery, Bruce..it is very inspiring, and thank ou for bringing all these rich visions back to us in the UK ! I'm sorry you didn't experience your own vision with the Ayahuasca this time....maybe that would be hard to do, given the fact that you were being observed and filmed....which might have subtly disturbed your connection to the process? Just a thought !
All good wishes to you and the crew as you continue your amazing odyssey !
What an ignorant and small minded view you hold Paul Murray. Bruce enters into tribal communities with no preconceived notions or judments about their cultural practices. He immerses himself in their culture to try and gain a better understanding of it, not to encourage or endorse any part of it. Our society may judge certain drugs as inherently 'good' or 'bad' but some cultures see things differently. Check out 'DMT: The Spirit Molecule' by Dr. Rick Strassman for a more balanced examination of this strange, and potentially useful, drug.
ayahuasca is NOT a recreational drug, nor is it a drug. it may be a hallucinogenic but this is a sacred teacher plant i have personally studied with. their is no way it could be done for fun. anyone who has ever experienced this teacher plant knows this. there is an intelligence within the plant that would not allow you to fool with it. a strict diet is followed and the plant is used to go within and get answers from our higherselves and our ancestors. it has many many healing properties and it is sad what negative views the ignorant masses have about this magical, devine brew. it is not just a plant but also a vine that are used to make the brew. this is something the ancient shaman learned and has passed down the generations. this should be appreciated globally yet sadly isnt. westerners prefer to worship science.
I agree - small-minded indeed. Sometimes it takes having the experience to open up your mind to the potential of these entheogens as healers. Even without the visions, they help you gain insight and instil wisdom; rather than narrow opinion, or the pencil light of reason (which is what Paul Murray is displaying). Good on you Bruce for showing again how these substances are perceived and used, and the cultural mores they serve.