In Peru they called him Tasorentsi: ‘divine messenger and world transformer.’ During the first half of the 20th century, José Carlos Amaringo Chico rose to power as a charismatic Ashaninka ...

(Joe Seamans, a writer, paid a visit to the Huaorani. The Huaorani, like the Yanomami featured in NOVA: Warriors of the Amazon, live in the Amazon and have a strong shamanistic tradition. This is his ...

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Physician Christopher Herndon explores how Amazon shamans diagnose and treat disease. Ethnobotanists, people who study the relationship between plants and people, have long documented the extensive ...

For several months each year, Dr. Joe Tafur works in a family medical clinic in Arizona, practicing conventional medicine. The rest of the year, he’s south of the border in Peru at Nihue Rao shamanic ...

Australian filmmaker Lynette Wallworth accompanies two palliative care doctors researching psilocybin use deep into the ...

In Peru they called him Tasorentsi: 'divine messenger and world transformer.' During the first half of the 20th century, José Carlos Amaringo Chico rose to power as a charismatic Ashaninka ...

In Peru they called him Tasorentsi: ‘divine messenger and world transformer.’ During the first half of the 20th century, José Carlos Amaringo Chico rose to power as a charismatic Ashaninka ...