The Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) — a group using innovative approaches to preserving culture and improving health among Amazonian rainforest tribes — has been awarded a $100,000 grant from Nature’s ...

For the first time, Amazonian medicine men have drawn up a code of ethics and established a union to police themselves, complete with membership cards. The union of Colombian shamans is trying to weed ...

We explore ancient civilizations, global communication, and the shamanic consciousness. Discover connections between ancient sites, the use of crystalline stones, and the significance of the Viracocha ...

Although his parents urged him to study medicine, Jimmy Weiskopf dropped out of college and in the 1970s moved to Colombia, where he eventually began to focus on a different kind of elixir. The New ...

SANTA CLARA, Peru >> “Every time a shaman dies, it is as though a book is burned,” says Jose Roque mournfully as he hacks through a vine with a machete. The 63-year-old indigenous Shipibo healer is ...

(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 ...

Deep in the Suriname rainforest, an innovative conservation group is working with indigenous tribes to protect their forest home and culture using traditional knowledge combined with cutting-edge ...

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 ...

An Amazonian shamanic psychedelic brew is a safe psychiatric medicine to treat depression and alcoholism, a British study suggested. Ayahuasca, a drink traditionally used by South American indigenous ...