Dangerous Minds

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Luis Eduardo Luna runs interdisciplinary seminars at his Research Center in • Brazil. See: http://www.wasiwaska.org/ • Uploaded with full permission of author, Luis Eduardo Luna. • See also his recent article ('Sacred plants and Amerindian epistemology') on grahamhancock.com: http://www.grahamhancock.com/forum/Lu... • --------------- • This film, by Luis Eduardo Luna, is one of the very first films -if not the • first- documenting ayahuasca among mestizo population of the Peruvian • Amazon. It was part of Luna's field work carried out in the Iquitos area • during July and August 1981, concentrated on the practices of Don Emilio • Andrade Gomez, a vegetalista living 12 km from the city. The film Don • Emilio and his Little Doctors (1982) was made during that time. It is a • complement to Luna's doctoral dissertation Vegetalismo. Shamanism Among the • Mestizo Population of the Peruvian Amazon , published in Stockholm in 1986. • Don Emilio was born in Iquitos in 1918. When he was 14 years old, and while working in the Amazon river, near the mouth of the Napo river, • he took ayahuasca for the first time. He did it in order to curarse, a • term that implies the cleansing and strengthening of the body. When he • took ayahuasca for the fifth time, while keeping to the prescribed • diet imposed by his teacher, an old man with a flute and a drum • appeared in his visions to teach him icaros, magic melodies.

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