WEBVTT 00:36.400 --> 00:58.060 Eight years ago, I was drawn to the mysterious Amazon and made a documentary about a tribe 00:58.060 --> 01:10.260 defending their ancestral territory against oil companies. 01:10.260 --> 01:15.060 Enticed by the mystery of ancient knowledge, I'm returning eight years later with my new 01:15.060 --> 01:23.770 family to meet some of the keepers of the knowledge, the medicine men, the tribal shamans. 01:23.770 --> 01:28.850 I'd heard about a sacred vine called ayahuasca, which enabled the shaman to have visions of 01:28.850 --> 01:34.570 the future and communicate with the spirit world and the natural kingdom. 01:34.570 --> 01:39.330 I knew that historically, altered states of consciousness have been an integral part of 01:39.330 --> 01:45.530 many cultures, and in tribal societies, these states have often been induced by taking hallucinogenic 01:45.530 --> 01:47.970 plants, with the shaman acting as the scapegoat. 01:47.970 --> 01:59.180 I was curious as to why the United Nations had outlawed ayahuasca, and I wanted to experience 01:59.180 --> 02:05.060 the ayahuasca ritual and gain insights into the shaman's world. 02:05.060 --> 02:13.060 My journey would lead me head on into the global war on drugs. 02:13.060 --> 02:19.480 Every society chooses a small number of substances, no matter how toxic, and enshrines them in 02:19.480 --> 02:24.340 its cultural values, then demonizes all other substances. 02:24.500 --> 02:28.740 And then persecutes and launches witch hunts against those users. 02:28.740 --> 02:42.060 I am thrust into life-threatening situations between worlds of opposing value, and I experience 02:42.060 --> 02:56.580 realities I never even dreamed of. 02:56.580 --> 03:01.540 Ecuador lies on the equator, on the western side of the Amazon basin. 03:01.540 --> 03:06.540 We touch down in the capital, Quito, which is nestled amongst volcanoes high in the Andes 03:06.540 --> 03:10.820 Mountains. 03:10.820 --> 03:12.660 This trip into the Amazon was set to be more than a journey. 03:12.660 --> 03:15.060 It's been more challenging than my last. 03:15.060 --> 03:19.840 This time, I had Jasmine, my one-year-old daughter, and my wife, Willow, who was six 03:19.840 --> 03:22.380 months pregnant, traveling with me. 03:22.380 --> 03:26.820 I've always believed that the Amazon is the wildest place on earth, and I had to see 03:26.820 --> 03:30.680 it for myself. 03:30.680 --> 03:35.680 Half of Ecuador's population is indigenous, and there are 12 distinct language groups, 03:35.680 --> 03:39.160 as well as some uncontacted tribes. 03:39.160 --> 03:44.740 With its diverse climates ranging from snow-capped mountains to lowland Amazon rainforest, Ecuador 03:44.740 --> 03:57.380 is one of the most biologically and culturally diverse countries on earth. 03:57.380 --> 04:02.600 Ecuador has a long history of hallucinogenic plant use, with the San Pedro mescaline cactus 04:02.600 --> 04:12.900 in the mountains, and the ayahuasca brew in the Amazon. 04:12.900 --> 04:18.440 That the road leading down to the Amazon was perilous, and a year before, a bus went off 04:18.440 --> 04:40.850 the edge, killing everyone on board. 04:40.850 --> 04:45.470 Eight years earlier, while filming the Wurundjeri Indians cutting a demarcation line around 04:45.470 --> 04:46.470 their territory, I met Flavio. 04:46.470 --> 04:57.330 Flavio is a shaman and a warrior, fighting hard to preserve his land and way of life 04:57.330 --> 05:18.390 from the oil companies, the colonists, and the encroaching outside world. 05:18.390 --> 05:25.290 But now they are destroying my life, my people, and my future generation. 05:25.290 --> 05:29.650 The trees, the leaves, all of it. 05:29.650 --> 05:32.570 I don't want anything else. 05:32.570 --> 05:33.570 . 05:33.570 --> 05:34.570 . 05:34.570 --> 05:41.050 warrior and an ayahuasquero shaman. They've organized workshops on their community where 05:41.050 --> 05:46.810 the local shamans share their culture and knowledge with the youth. Rafael is determined 05:46.810 --> 05:54.120 to pass on his ancestors' culture, knowledge and land to his children. The shamans are 05:54.120 --> 05:58.980 the spiritual guides and the medicine men of the tribe who have vast knowledge of the 05:58.980 --> 06:05.980 jungle plants and their medicinal uses. 06:33.520 --> 06:36.900 ¿Por qué es ayahuasca importante para usted? 06:36.900 --> 06:45.280 Ayahuasca es de nuestros abuelos cuando ellos tomaban para tener visión espiritual de la 06:45.280 --> 06:57.180 selva, del río, también de la lluvia, de los cerros. Este contiene de que este es bueno 06:57.180 --> 07:02.420 para salud de un shamanismo, control del shamanismo. 07:03.520 --> 07:13.020 Y tener más energía para el shaman y para controlar toda la selva. Entonces la boa 07:13.020 --> 07:20.800 es un shaman, el tigre es un shaman, espiritualmente. Todo animal contiene a este espíritu de ayahuasca. 07:20.800 --> 07:29.460 Este vamos a llevar un poco para entrecambiar el visión porque este es otro ayahuasca y 07:29.460 --> 07:30.600 también este es otro. 07:33.050 --> 07:33.550 ¿Este ya es? 07:35.090 --> 07:42.330 Espiritualmente, suelo conecta con ayahuasca, con otra ayahuasca. Entonces por eso hace 07:42.330 --> 07:48.870 una visión más fuerte. Sin esto no tienes visión, no le ves bien. Pero con este ya 07:48.870 --> 07:58.450 tienes visión. Puedes mirar. O bueno, así, espiritual, selva, la medicina de montaña. 07:58.450 --> 08:00.050 Ah, diferente. 08:00.050 --> 08:03.250 ¿Este puede tomar también? 08:03.250 --> 08:05.030 No, no, ya está. 08:05.090 --> 08:10.830 No, o sea, puede tomar también. El que, seguía tomando. 08:10.830 --> 08:11.830 No. 08:11.830 --> 08:21.370 Este no es difícil tomar. Solo yacha sino también cualquiera puede tomar. 08:21.370 --> 08:27.530 Se pone estas hojas primero para que este vaya adentro. 08:27.530 --> 08:32.890 Este es yaje, hoja de yaje. Este ahí. Y esto es ayahuasca. 08:32.890 --> 08:35.780 No. 08:35.780 --> 08:36.780 No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. 08:36.780 --> 08:43.820 is also an ayahuasquero shaman who paints the visions he's had during ayahuasca rituals this 08:43.820 --> 08:49.820 painting represents the two plants necessary in preparing the ayahuasca brew out of the ayahuasca 08:49.820 --> 08:55.580 vine comes a black snake with the yellow aura there is another snake called the chacruna snake 08:55.580 --> 09:01.100 which penetrates the ayahuasca snake producing the visionary effects of these two magic plants 09:01.100 --> 09:11.110 in this vision a defeated king from a remote tribe in peru rises from his grave to tell his 09:11.110 --> 09:17.130 shocked wife that he has grown a vine from his hair which is to be called ayahuasca meaning 09:17.130 --> 09:23.090 vine of the dead he said you must mix this vine with the chacruna plant which will allow you to 09:23.090 --> 09:29.150 see sound to have visions and develop your psychic abilities and acquire deep knowledge from past 09:29.150 --> 09:37.280 cultures in scientific terms the ayahuasca brew consists of two major 09:37.280 --> 09:42.960 active ingredients beta carboline from the ayahuasca vine and the extremely powerful 09:42.960 --> 09:51.080 dimethyltryptamine or dmt from the psychotria or chacruna plants normally dmt is destroyed 09:51.080 --> 10:00.620 in the gut but you take it in combo with beta carboline and then it's active this was discovered 10:00.620 --> 10:08.720 by amazonian indians millennia ago and not discovered by western science till 1956 10:08.720 --> 10:08.860 you 10:08.880 --> 10:16.120 during my research for this journey i met author and ethnobotanist terence mckenna terence was so 10:16.120 --> 10:22.140 inspired by his spiritual adventures with these amazon shamans over the last 30 years he wrote 10:22.140 --> 10:28.760 several books on his experiences and philosophies he became a world-renowned speaker advocate and 10:28.760 --> 10:36.720 expert on plant-based hallucinogens and shamanic rituals shamanism is about going into the realms 10:36.720 --> 10:38.720 of death transcending the body 10:38.720 --> 10:47.040 transcending space and time what the psychedelics do is they dissolve boundaries they dissolve the 10:47.040 --> 10:56.900 illusion of separateness raphael invited us to an overnight ayahuasca ritual at a sacred site 10:56.900 --> 11:03.940 in his ancestral territory deep in the headwaters of the amazon willow didn't want to drink ayahuasca 11:03.940 --> 11:12.720 because of her pregnancy but she still wanted to come for the adventure the wildness the sense of 11:12.720 --> 11:13.500 mystery and the power of the spirit of the spirit of the spirit of the spirit of the spirit of the spirit of the spirit of the spirit of the spirit of the spirit of the spirit of the spirit of the spirit 11:13.680 --> 11:19.280 and intrigue was enough to capture me it was a journey into myself to discover my personal 11:19.280 --> 11:25.360 boundaries i had no idea of the extent of the challenges that lay before me i felt enormously 11:25.360 --> 11:26.000 protective 11:35.800 --> 11:36.560 serbian 11:53.860 --> 11:55.860 Tigre muy grande! 11:55.860 --> 11:57.860 Tigre embarazada! 11:59.860 --> 12:01.860 Tigre embarazada! 12:01.860 --> 12:03.860 We just saw a jaguar prince 12:03.860 --> 12:05.860 and apparently it swims in the river and eats children 12:16.850 --> 12:18.850 It's probably in the jungle 12:18.850 --> 12:30.000 with a baby 12:44.470 --> 12:48.470 It's been a three and a half hour walk through mud 12:50.470 --> 12:54.470 and I'm seven months pregnant 12:56.470 --> 12:58.470 and I've still got three and a half hours to walk 13:10.450 --> 13:12.450 We've been told to be very careful of snakes 13:12.450 --> 13:14.450 because there's apparently a lot of them around here 13:14.450 --> 13:16.450 and they were going to build a plastic house 13:16.450 --> 13:20.450 but we asked them to build a house out of mambil 13:20.450 --> 13:24.450 and so it looks like we're going to have a tradition 13:24.450 --> 13:28.450 made in a very very short time 13:30.450 --> 13:32.450 I felt how my modern lifestyle 13:32.450 --> 13:34.450 had allowed a sort of separation to develop 13:34.450 --> 13:36.450 between myself and nature 13:36.450 --> 13:38.450 Through their actions 13:38.450 --> 13:40.450 I could see how these forest Indians 13:40.450 --> 13:42.450 were still directly connected 13:42.450 --> 13:44.450 with the natural environment 13:44.450 --> 13:51.220 I felt like I had journeyed back in time 13:51.220 --> 13:53.220 I felt privileged 13:53.220 --> 13:55.220 to be able to participate 13:55.220 --> 13:57.220 in this ancient ritual 13:57.220 --> 14:08.600 The young people who don't know 14:08.600 --> 14:10.600 didn't go to school 14:10.600 --> 14:12.600 they didn't learn at school 14:12.600 --> 14:14.600 They were given advice 14:14.600 --> 14:16.600 They were given to drink ayahuasca 14:16.600 --> 14:18.600 always 14:18.600 --> 14:20.600 It's not a drug 14:20.600 --> 14:22.600 it's to know the vision 14:22.600 --> 14:29.170 I knew that drinking ayahuasca 14:29.170 --> 14:31.170 could be a very intense experience 14:31.170 --> 14:33.170 that it tasted foul 14:33.170 --> 14:35.170 and often it made you vomit 14:35.170 --> 14:37.170 I was feeling apprehensive 14:37.170 --> 14:39.170 about how it would affect me 14:39.170 --> 14:48.660 Millions of people take ayahuasca 14:48.660 --> 14:50.660 in the Amazon 14:50.660 --> 14:54.660 It is the largest psychedelic religion on earth 14:54.660 --> 14:58.770 The waking world and the world of the dream 14:58.770 --> 15:00.770 become one 15:00.770 --> 15:07.120 So then it becomes the function of the shaman 15:07.120 --> 15:09.120 the gadfly 15:09.120 --> 15:11.120 the go-between 15:11.120 --> 15:13.120 to carry information back and forth 15:13.120 --> 15:15.120 between these worlds 15:15.120 --> 15:24.520 Everything feels like the whole forest 15:24.520 --> 15:31.760 and everything 15:31.760 --> 15:37.350 I'm seeing iridescent rainbow spiral 15:37.350 --> 15:39.350 feels like I'm being bombarded 15:39.350 --> 15:41.350 by some sort of ancient knowledge 15:41.350 --> 15:43.350 universal consciousness 15:43.350 --> 15:45.350 that I don't understand 15:45.350 --> 15:53.810 Sometimes when you don't see 15:53.810 --> 15:55.810 they kill another person 15:55.810 --> 15:57.810 and you see which person 15:57.810 --> 15:59.810 was killed 15:59.810 --> 16:01.810 So we know 16:01.810 --> 16:03.810 spiritually 16:03.810 --> 16:05.810 The shamans 16:05.810 --> 16:07.810 between the yachaks 16:07.810 --> 16:09.810 they fought a lot 16:09.810 --> 16:11.810 when they had 16:11.810 --> 16:13.810 a friendship 16:13.810 --> 16:15.810 when a son was killed 16:15.810 --> 16:17.810 by another yachak 16:17.810 --> 16:19.810 and the father 16:19.810 --> 16:21.810 killed him too 16:21.810 --> 16:23.810 so they have enemies 16:23.810 --> 16:25.810 so 16:25.810 --> 16:27.810 those are the ones 16:27.810 --> 16:29.810 who put the arrow 16:29.810 --> 16:31.810 pay the other 16:31.810 --> 16:33.810 so that's the arrow 16:33.810 --> 16:35.810 The arrows can go 16:35.810 --> 16:37.810 very far 16:37.810 --> 16:39.810 They are spiritual minds 16:39.810 --> 16:41.810 that walk 16:41.810 --> 16:43.810 between the spirits 16:43.810 --> 16:45.810 of 16:45.810 --> 16:47.810 different kinds 16:47.810 --> 16:49.810 of spirits 16:49.810 --> 16:51.810 in the forest 16:51.810 --> 16:53.810 insects 16:53.810 --> 16:55.810 toads 16:55.810 --> 16:57.810 snakes 16:57.810 --> 16:59.810 toads 16:59.810 --> 17:01.810 toads 17:01.810 --> 17:03.810 toads 17:03.810 --> 17:05.810 toads 17:05.810 --> 17:07.810 toads 17:07.810 --> 17:09.810 toads 17:09.810 --> 17:11.810 toads 17:11.810 --> 17:13.810 toads 17:13.810 --> 17:15.810 toads 17:15.810 --> 17:17.810 toads 17:17.810 --> 17:19.810 toads 17:19.810 --> 17:21.810 toads toads 17:21.810 --> 17:23.810 toads toads 17:23.810 --> 17:25.810 toads 17:25.810 --> 17:27.810 toads 17:27.810 --> 17:29.810 toads 17:29.810 --> 17:31.810 toads 17:31.810 --> 17:33.810 toads 17:33.810 --> 17:35.810 toads 17:35.810 --> 17:37.810 toads 17:37.810 --> 17:39.810 toads 17:39.810 --> 17:41.810 toads 17:41.810 --> 17:43.810 toads 17:43.810 --> 17:45.810 toads 17:45.810 --> 17:47.810 toads 17:47.810 --> 18:01.750 indigenous cosmology, amalulla, amakilla, amashua, not to steal, not to lie, not to be lazy, 18:01.750 --> 18:11.130 to live taking care of nature, always, us and our children, ayahuasca teaches us to love 18:11.130 --> 18:27.320 nature, but to see the spirituality of the earth, to see the Pachamama and the space. 18:27.320 --> 18:31.820 In many countries around the world, people are now running their own unique style of 18:31.820 --> 18:37.080 ayahuasca rituals to open a doorway into this shamanic world. 18:37.080 --> 18:44.420 What you see I think is the morphogenetic field, the invisible world that holds everything 18:44.420 --> 18:45.420 together. 18:45.420 --> 18:52.170 You don't have to spend 20 years around the ashram. 18:52.170 --> 18:56.210 Ayahuasca to me is a very, very feminine spirit, it's a feminine experience. 18:56.210 --> 19:03.490 It's an experience of let go, of surrender, of nurturing, of love, of light, of the heart. 19:03.490 --> 19:10.610 It's a holographic library, it speaks to you in visions, it communicates through pictures. 19:10.610 --> 19:15.310 And also you're very sensitive to sound in ayahuasca, sound can influence wherever you 19:15.310 --> 19:16.310 go. 19:16.310 --> 19:27.760 You use sound as a navigator also, you use your intent and you use sound. 19:27.760 --> 19:33.820 Ayahuasca can be seen as a doorway, a link between the dimensions, it can give you all 19:33.820 --> 19:40.760 kinds of, let's say, shamanic information, it can give you a look into the animal world, 19:40.760 --> 19:47.240 the spirit world, the world of insects, the world of plants, the world of minerals, the 19:47.240 --> 19:50.000 galactic world, the cosmic perspective. 19:50.000 --> 19:51.240 And ayahuasca is like a different world. 19:51.240 --> 19:52.240 It's a different world. 19:52.240 --> 19:53.000 It's a different world. 19:53.000 --> 19:54.000 It's a different world. 19:54.000 --> 19:56.420 And at the very beginning of all this, there is a deep immersion into that kind of experiential 19:56.420 --> 19:59.080 understanding of unity. 19:59.080 --> 20:01.780 And this unity is liberating. 20:01.780 --> 20:05.560 It's a transforming experience. 20:05.560 --> 20:08.080 Ayahuasca teaches that we are it. 20:08.080 --> 20:09.080 We are nature. 20:09.080 --> 20:10.580 We are not separate from it. 20:10.580 --> 20:16.340 . 20:16.340 --> 20:17.340 . 20:17.340 --> 20:18.340 . 20:18.340 --> 20:19.340 . 20:19.340 --> 20:20.340 . 20:20.340 --> 20:21.340 . 20:21.340 --> 20:22.340 . 20:22.340 --> 20:23.340 . 20:23.340 --> 20:24.340 . 20:24.340 --> 20:25.340 . 20:25.340 --> 20:26.340 . 20:26.340 --> 20:27.340 . 20:27.760 --> 20:29.760 to live longer. 20:29.760 --> 20:31.760 Yesterday we drank ayahuasca. 20:31.760 --> 20:35.760 In that I saw a very deep vision. 20:35.760 --> 20:40.760 A tree was transformed into a vein. 20:40.760 --> 20:46.760 But in the middle, this big tree had teeth 20:46.760 --> 20:49.760 and it was smiling. 20:49.760 --> 20:55.760 And after smiling, it blew a strong hurricane-like wind 20:55.760 --> 20:58.760 to the south and to the north. 20:58.760 --> 21:06.760 That meant that this jungle was still full of spirit. 21:07.760 --> 21:11.760 All of this belonged to our grandparents. 21:11.760 --> 21:15.760 When the colonization came, 21:15.760 --> 21:22.760 the government forced people to be retired 21:22.760 --> 21:24.760 because of their jobs. 21:24.760 --> 21:25.760 Yes. 21:25.760 --> 21:28.760 In the past, all of this belonged to the indigenous people. 21:28.760 --> 21:37.250 The Amazon Indians have lost more than their claim to ancestral lands. 21:37.250 --> 21:41.250 Military-backed oil companies have pushed roads through their territory 21:41.250 --> 21:45.250 and their land is being invaded by colonists and outsiders. 21:45.250 --> 21:48.250 Their culture is undergoing massive upheavals 21:48.250 --> 21:52.250 and the people look to their shamans for vision and guidance 21:52.250 --> 21:54.250 in these rapidly changing times. 21:54.250 --> 21:58.250 I don't want oil because it's polluting the Amazon. 21:58.250 --> 22:00.250 That's why we don't want it. 22:00.250 --> 22:05.250 We saw that this mountain was full of birds and monkeys. 22:05.250 --> 22:08.250 Now we only see houses and cars. 22:08.250 --> 22:11.250 That's why the indigenous people don't need oil. 22:11.250 --> 22:14.250 It destroys all the rivers and all the fish. 22:14.250 --> 22:16.250 That's why we're here, 22:16.250 --> 22:19.250 to defend our Ecuadorian Amazon 22:19.250 --> 22:23.250 so that our children and future generations can live better. 22:23.250 --> 22:28.820 As threats to the Amazon people change with the times, 22:28.820 --> 22:32.820 the shamans use ayahuasca to gain insights and strategies 22:32.820 --> 22:34.820 to fight new enemies. 22:34.820 --> 22:44.430 That's why we're here in the jungle, 22:44.430 --> 22:47.430 drinking ayahuasca, 22:47.430 --> 22:49.430 to see more visions, 22:49.430 --> 22:52.430 to get more spirit, 22:52.430 --> 22:57.430 to be able to fight and defend territories against oil companies. 22:57.430 --> 23:00.430 Grandparents drank it for war, 23:00.430 --> 23:02.430 to see where the enemy was. 23:02.430 --> 23:07.030 And they killed each other among peoples. 23:07.030 --> 23:09.030 To a psychological war, 23:09.030 --> 23:12.030 they also drank it. 23:12.030 --> 23:15.030 For a psychological war. 23:15.030 --> 23:20.030 Now, we don't want to make a war for violence, 23:20.030 --> 23:22.030 drinking ayahuasca. 23:22.030 --> 23:25.030 We want to see the government, 23:25.030 --> 23:29.370 if they're lying to us 23:29.370 --> 23:34.520 or if they're telling us the truth. 23:34.520 --> 23:37.520 We're at the blockade now. 23:37.520 --> 23:41.520 There's a lot of military going through here. 23:41.520 --> 23:46.520 And the indigenous people are being held off by the military. 23:46.520 --> 23:48.520 I can die against the oil companies. 23:48.520 --> 23:51.520 I will give my life for my territory. 23:51.520 --> 23:53.520 My territory, 23:53.520 --> 23:56.520 what my grandfather left me as a legacy, 23:56.520 --> 23:59.520 I will never surrender. 23:59.520 --> 24:03.830 When we get angry, 24:03.830 --> 24:06.830 we get angry and no one stops us. 24:06.830 --> 24:08.830 And no one will stop us, 24:08.830 --> 24:09.830 not even the military, 24:09.830 --> 24:10.830 not even the missionaries, 24:10.830 --> 24:12.830 not even the government. 24:12.830 --> 24:14.830 We will die together, 24:14.830 --> 24:16.830 the nature. 24:16.830 --> 24:19.830 Why do you want to kill me? 24:19.830 --> 24:21.830 Because you wanted to kill me. 24:21.830 --> 24:22.830 Why? 24:22.830 --> 24:25.830 Because I was attached to Tri Petrol, 24:25.830 --> 24:27.830 to ARCO, 24:27.830 --> 24:32.830 that brother who works with oil companies. 24:32.830 --> 24:34.830 That's why they want to kill me. 24:34.830 --> 24:35.830 Yes. 24:35.830 --> 24:37.830 They want to see me dead 24:37.830 --> 24:40.830 so that they can easily bring oil companies. 24:40.830 --> 24:42.830 Son of a bitch! 24:42.830 --> 24:43.830 Yes? 24:43.830 --> 24:44.830 Give me the gun 24:44.830 --> 24:47.830 or give me the arrow right now, damn it! 24:47.830 --> 24:57.680 We're going to drink ayahuasca 24:57.680 --> 24:59.680 to have a vision, 24:59.680 --> 25:02.680 to get to know 25:02.680 --> 25:05.680 bad spirits, 25:05.680 --> 25:08.680 to get to know the family, 25:08.680 --> 25:10.680 how the family is doing, 25:10.680 --> 25:12.680 to take care of them a lot, 25:12.680 --> 25:14.680 now that the company is here. 25:14.680 --> 25:17.680 So we're going to control 25:17.680 --> 25:19.680 how long we're going to be well 25:19.680 --> 25:22.680 and how long we're not going to be well. 25:22.680 --> 25:28.500 I'm convinced that in its native setting 25:28.500 --> 25:31.500 ayahuasca is a telepathic drug. 25:31.500 --> 25:35.500 I mean, small groups of tribal people 25:35.500 --> 25:38.500 are taking this thing and making group decisions 25:38.500 --> 25:42.500 based on group hallucinations, 25:42.500 --> 25:43.500 based on 25:43.500 --> 25:47.500 the collective database of the tribal group. 25:47.500 --> 25:49.500 They're seeing the information 25:49.500 --> 25:51.500 from a higher dimensional space. 25:52.500 --> 25:54.500 On this ayahuasca journey 25:54.500 --> 25:57.500 I was given deeper insights into the shaman's world 25:57.500 --> 26:00.500 and their intimate relationship with nature. 26:00.500 --> 26:02.500 I saw how the shamans, 26:02.500 --> 26:03.500 through their visions, 26:03.500 --> 26:05.500 were able to communicate with the planet 26:05.500 --> 26:08.500 as if it were a conscious living entity. 26:08.500 --> 26:10.500 Spiritually, 26:10.500 --> 26:12.500 the sangai was the eye, 26:12.500 --> 26:15.500 the eye of the Amazon. 26:15.500 --> 26:17.500 It's a volcano 26:17.500 --> 26:20.500 that maintains the entire Amazon. 26:20.500 --> 26:22.500 It's in danger 26:22.500 --> 26:25.500 in case they take out the oil 26:25.500 --> 26:30.880 and reactivate the sangai. 26:30.880 --> 26:32.880 In 1971, 26:32.880 --> 26:35.880 largely in response to the popularisation of psychedelics 26:35.880 --> 26:37.880 in the United States in the 60s, 26:37.880 --> 26:41.880 such as LSD, magic mushrooms and marijuana, 26:41.880 --> 26:43.880 the United Nations drafted 26:43.880 --> 26:45.880 the Narcotics Convention, 26:45.880 --> 26:47.880 which was signed by all of its members 26:47.880 --> 26:50.880 prohibiting hallucinogenic plants and chemicals. 26:51.880 --> 26:53.880 Without any real scientific research, 26:53.880 --> 26:55.880 DMT and other hallucinogens 26:55.880 --> 26:58.880 were placed in the Schedule I category 26:58.880 --> 27:00.880 along with heroin and cocaine. 27:01.880 --> 27:02.880 Dealers in these substances 27:02.880 --> 27:05.880 face between seven years and life in prison 27:05.880 --> 27:10.120 and in some countries even death. 27:10.120 --> 27:12.120 Except in Brazil and Peru, 27:12.120 --> 27:14.120 ayahuasca rituals are now banned 27:14.120 --> 27:17.120 in every United Nations country on Earth. 27:19.120 --> 27:21.120 In Brazil, 80 years ago, 27:21.120 --> 27:24.120 an Amazonian shaman introduced rubber-tapper 27:24.120 --> 27:27.120 Raimando Sierra to ayahuasca. 27:27.120 --> 27:30.120 Raimando became a shamanic healer 27:30.120 --> 27:33.120 and later established the Santa Dami religion, 27:33.120 --> 27:35.120 which is an unusual combination 27:35.120 --> 27:39.120 of Christianity, ayahuasca rituals and nature worship. 27:39.120 --> 27:42.120 Today, the Santa Dami Church 27:42.120 --> 27:45.120 has over 15,000 members in Brazil 27:45.120 --> 27:47.120 and many centers around the world. 27:47.120 --> 27:50.720 The Netherlands is a signatory 27:50.720 --> 27:52.720 to the Narcotics Convention 27:52.720 --> 27:54.720 and in October 1999, 27:54.720 --> 27:57.720 the government raided a Santa Dami service 27:57.720 --> 27:59.720 with 70 people in the congregation 27:59.720 --> 28:02.720 and arrested the two spiritual leaders. 28:02.720 --> 28:05.720 I went to the Netherlands to meet Brazilian 28:05.720 --> 28:07.720 Yatra Silveira de Barbosa, 28:07.720 --> 28:10.720 who established a number of Santa Dami centers in Europe. 28:11.720 --> 28:12.720 In my country, 28:12.720 --> 28:13.720 it is legal. 28:13.720 --> 28:15.720 Ayahuasca in South America 28:15.720 --> 28:18.720 is being taken in the same way, 28:18.720 --> 28:19.720 a ritualistic way, 28:19.720 --> 28:20.720 for healing, 28:20.720 --> 28:24.720 for spirituality, 28:24.720 --> 28:28.720 back to 500 years before Christ, 28:28.720 --> 28:30.720 that we know as a fact. 28:30.720 --> 28:32.720 I cannot understand 28:32.720 --> 28:34.720 this way of thinking. 28:34.720 --> 28:36.720 You're going to jail for seven years 28:36.720 --> 28:37.720 or 15 years 28:37.720 --> 28:40.720 because you are running a ritual. 28:40.720 --> 28:42.720 It's just too much. 28:42.720 --> 28:48.720 So this is going to be our first ritual 28:48.720 --> 28:50.720 with our doors closed. 28:50.720 --> 28:52.720 So there is a risk 28:52.720 --> 28:55.720 that the police might come here. 28:55.720 --> 28:58.720 The doors downstairs are totally locked. 28:58.720 --> 29:01.720 It's like you put the lights on. 29:01.720 --> 29:03.720 Everything that's in the darkness 29:03.720 --> 29:04.720 will show up 29:04.720 --> 29:06.720 and you can work with that. 29:06.720 --> 29:10.720 So actually makes you closer to yourself. 29:10.720 --> 29:11.720 It brings you in contact 29:11.720 --> 29:14.720 with God within you. 29:14.720 --> 29:18.720 It brings you back into your heart space. 29:18.720 --> 29:23.040 It's impossible to use as a recreational. 29:23.040 --> 29:25.040 First because you throw up like crazy. 29:25.040 --> 29:27.040 You know what I mean? 29:27.040 --> 29:29.040 You don't really enjoy every moment. 29:29.040 --> 29:31.040 It's not something that you take 29:31.040 --> 29:32.040 and you go to a party 29:32.040 --> 29:34.040 because when you drink ayahuasca, 29:34.040 --> 29:36.040 you really come in touch 29:36.040 --> 29:37.040 with your inner most 29:37.040 --> 29:39.040 and it's not all the time flowers. 29:39.040 --> 29:41.040 There is a lot of thorns. 29:41.040 --> 29:45.920 We've been healing people 29:45.920 --> 29:47.920 of physical diseases 29:47.920 --> 29:48.920 like cancer, 29:48.920 --> 29:50.920 psychosomatic diseases, 29:50.920 --> 29:51.920 depressions, 29:51.920 --> 29:52.920 drug addiction, 29:52.920 --> 29:53.920 heroin, 29:53.920 --> 29:54.920 cocaine. 30:03.920 --> 30:05.920 I've been addicted to cocaine and heroin 30:05.920 --> 30:07.920 since I was 16 30:07.920 --> 30:09.920 and went through many, 30:09.920 --> 30:11.920 many different treatment programs 30:11.920 --> 30:13.920 and none of them worked. 30:13.920 --> 30:14.920 Basically, 30:14.920 --> 30:17.920 it just helped me go inside myself 30:17.920 --> 30:21.920 and look at why I was using. 30:21.920 --> 30:23.920 People need to know about it 30:23.920 --> 30:25.920 and it needs to be legal. 30:25.920 --> 30:27.920 It needs to be able to go on 30:27.920 --> 30:28.920 and happen 30:28.920 --> 30:30.920 because without it, 30:30.920 --> 30:32.920 I would be dead right now 30:32.920 --> 30:34.920 and I know many, many more people 30:34.920 --> 30:36.920 would be dead right now. 30:36.920 --> 30:38.920 We understand the problem 30:38.920 --> 30:40.920 and it's not the case 30:40.920 --> 30:41.920 to send people to jail 30:41.920 --> 30:43.920 but to send people into treatment. 30:44.920 --> 30:46.920 The Narcotics Convention 30:46.920 --> 30:48.920 also banned virtually 30:48.920 --> 30:49.920 all scientific research 30:49.920 --> 30:50.920 into psychedelics 30:50.920 --> 30:51.920 and their possible 30:51.920 --> 30:53.920 clinical applications. 30:53.920 --> 30:54.920 Before the ban, 30:54.920 --> 30:56.920 some psychologists 30:56.920 --> 30:57.920 such as author 30:57.920 --> 30:58.920 Stanislav Grof 30:58.920 --> 30:59.920 were using psychedelics 30:59.920 --> 31:01.920 as a therapeutic tool 31:01.920 --> 31:02.920 accessing deeper levels 31:02.920 --> 31:03.920 of consciousness 31:03.920 --> 31:04.920 to unlock traumas 31:04.920 --> 31:06.920 with very positive results. 31:06.920 --> 31:10.160 I think it's a great tragedy 31:10.160 --> 31:12.160 of 20th century science 31:12.160 --> 31:15.160 that the original excitement 31:15.160 --> 31:17.160 about exploring consciousness 31:17.160 --> 31:18.160 and mental illness 31:18.160 --> 31:21.160 generated by the discovery of LSD 31:21.160 --> 31:25.160 gave way to establishment paranoia 31:25.160 --> 31:31.160 and repression of drug-using populations. 31:31.160 --> 31:33.160 Drugs might actually cause people 31:33.160 --> 31:36.160 to wake up to some of the abuses 31:36.160 --> 31:38.160 and scams that were being run 31:38.160 --> 31:42.160 by late modernism and capitalism. 31:42.160 --> 31:46.150 We are supposed to live 31:46.150 --> 31:47.150 in an environment 31:47.150 --> 31:51.150 with a narrow canyon of consciousness 31:51.150 --> 31:54.150 walled in between a wake and a sleep. 31:54.150 --> 32:03.800 This is the dump square in Amsterdam 32:03.800 --> 32:05.800 the site of many protests 32:05.800 --> 32:07.800 and the protest behind me 32:07.800 --> 32:09.800 is one to try and get 32:09.800 --> 32:25.150 ayahuasca legalized. 32:25.150 --> 32:38.440 As we enter the new millennium 32:38.440 --> 32:40.440 we shouldn't have to be dealing with 32:40.440 --> 32:43.440 religious and spiritual persecution. 32:43.440 --> 32:45.440 It's something we should have left behind 32:45.440 --> 32:46.440 in the dark ages 32:46.440 --> 32:47.440 but unfortunately 32:47.440 --> 32:49.440 the dark ages are still with us 32:49.440 --> 32:51.440 so we have to make a stand. 32:51.440 --> 32:53.440 We have fundamental law 32:53.440 --> 32:55.440 and we have also 32:55.440 --> 32:57.440 the European Convention on Human Rights 32:57.440 --> 32:59.440 which says that people have 32:59.440 --> 33:03.440 liberty to have freedom of religion. 33:03.440 --> 33:05.440 And we have seen this also 33:05.440 --> 33:06.440 in the United States 33:06.440 --> 33:08.440 where they gave the freedom 33:08.440 --> 33:10.440 to the Native American church 33:10.440 --> 33:13.440 to use the peyote cactus. 33:13.440 --> 33:15.440 In my country, in Brazil 33:15.440 --> 33:17.440 we had the same thing happened 33:17.440 --> 33:20.440 in a case that lasted for eight years 33:20.440 --> 33:23.440 but not a case as the police 33:23.440 --> 33:25.440 the investigators were scientists 33:25.440 --> 33:27.440 anthropologists, doctors 33:27.440 --> 33:30.440 and after eight years 33:30.440 --> 33:32.440 we won the jury by unanimity 33:32.440 --> 33:34.440 so they took ayahuasca 33:34.440 --> 33:36.440 out of the open law 33:36.440 --> 33:38.440 and we want to have the same here 33:38.440 --> 33:40.440 because we really have the right 33:40.440 --> 33:42.440 to have our own religion. 33:42.440 --> 33:44.440 There's a lot of international pressure 33:44.440 --> 33:46.440 on the Dutch government 33:46.440 --> 33:49.440 to conform in the drug policy 33:49.440 --> 33:51.440 with the other European countries 33:51.440 --> 33:53.440 and the United States. 33:53.440 --> 33:55.440 The big war on drugs. 33:55.440 --> 33:57.440 Due to the war on drugs 33:57.440 --> 33:59.440 in America alone 33:59.440 --> 34:00.440 there are currently 34:00.440 --> 34:02.440 three quarters of a million people 34:02.440 --> 34:04.440 spending around five million years 34:04.440 --> 34:06.440 behind bars 34:06.440 --> 34:11.080 costing over 60 billion US dollars. 34:11.080 --> 34:13.080 America spends more on its prisons 34:13.080 --> 34:15.080 than it does on its schools. 34:15.080 --> 34:19.760 The so-called war on drugs 34:19.760 --> 34:21.760 which is really a war against 34:21.760 --> 34:23.760 other people's values. 34:23.760 --> 34:25.760 It's a continuation 34:25.760 --> 34:26.760 of cultural genocide 34:26.760 --> 34:28.760 and all the other efforts 34:28.760 --> 34:31.760 made by the phenomenal success 34:31.760 --> 34:32.760 of capitalism 34:32.760 --> 34:33.760 to shove its agenda 34:33.760 --> 34:35.760 down other people's throats. 34:36.760 --> 34:38.760 People's minds 34:38.760 --> 34:40.760 like their bodies 34:40.760 --> 34:41.760 must be a domain 34:41.760 --> 34:43.760 free from government control. 34:45.760 --> 34:47.760 It is a civil war 34:47.760 --> 34:54.280 and a civil rights issue. 34:54.280 --> 34:57.280 This psychedelic dimension 34:57.280 --> 35:00.280 is part of the human birthright. 35:00.280 --> 35:03.280 No plant should be illegal. 35:03.280 --> 35:04.280 These things should not even 35:04.280 --> 35:08.820 be talked about as drugs. 35:08.820 --> 35:10.820 The big drug and biotech companies 35:10.820 --> 35:12.820 have been sending their bio-pirates 35:12.820 --> 35:14.820 to the Amazon for years 35:14.820 --> 35:15.820 to steal and patent 35:15.820 --> 35:17.820 shamanic medicinal knowledge. 35:17.820 --> 35:19.820 And in 1988 35:19.820 --> 35:21.820 a variety of ayahuasca was patented. 35:21.820 --> 35:23.820 The patent was challenged 35:23.820 --> 35:25.820 by a coalition of Amazon tribes. 35:35.820 --> 35:36.820 The Supreme Court ruled 35:36.820 --> 35:38.820 that you can't patent a plant, 35:38.820 --> 35:41.820 that a plant is not an invention. 35:41.820 --> 35:43.820 One of the active ingredients 35:43.820 --> 35:45.820 in the ayahuasca brew, DMT, 35:45.820 --> 35:47.820 is found in many species of plants 35:47.820 --> 35:49.820 throughout the world. 35:49.820 --> 35:50.820 In the Amazon, 35:50.820 --> 35:52.820 shamans have used DMT 35:52.820 --> 35:53.820 in their snuff rituals 35:53.820 --> 35:55.820 for thousands of years. 35:56.820 --> 35:58.820 The shamans derive the DMT 35:58.820 --> 35:59.820 from the hakula beans 35:59.820 --> 36:01.820 and the verola tree 36:01.820 --> 36:02.820 and absorb it through 36:02.820 --> 36:04.820 the nasal passages. 36:04.820 --> 36:05.820 The snuff is used 36:05.820 --> 36:07.820 to induce a trance, 36:07.820 --> 36:08.820 to see visions, 36:08.820 --> 36:10.820 to communicate with the spirit world 36:10.820 --> 36:12.820 and drive away evil spirits. 36:12.820 --> 36:16.070 There is an ancient Amazon legend 36:16.070 --> 36:17.070 about DMT 36:17.070 --> 36:18.070 which says 36:18.070 --> 36:19.070 in the beginning 36:19.070 --> 36:21.070 the sun created various beings 36:21.070 --> 36:23.070 to serve as intermediaries 36:23.070 --> 36:24.070 between him and earth 36:24.070 --> 36:26.070 and created the DMT snuff powder 36:26.070 --> 36:28.070 so that man could contact 36:28.070 --> 36:30.070 these supernatural beings. 36:30.070 --> 36:36.130 The national symbol of Australia 36:36.130 --> 36:38.130 is the wattle. 36:38.130 --> 36:39.130 It's an acacia. 36:39.130 --> 36:43.130 The acacia ecology of Australia 36:43.130 --> 36:47.130 is jammed with DMT. 36:47.130 --> 36:49.130 And then of course the question was 36:49.130 --> 36:51.130 well do the aboriginals 36:51.130 --> 36:53.130 know about this? 36:53.130 --> 37:01.720 Ask Paul Dillon 37:01.720 --> 37:03.720 from the Australian National Drug 37:03.720 --> 37:05.720 and Alcohol Research Centre 37:05.720 --> 37:07.720 about the dangers of DMT 37:07.720 --> 37:09.720 and other hallucinogens. 37:09.720 --> 37:12.720 We did a call out to DMT users 37:12.720 --> 37:14.720 asking them for their experiences. 37:14.720 --> 37:15.720 Interestingly, 37:15.720 --> 37:17.720 every single caller we had 37:17.720 --> 37:19.720 emphasised that it was a drug 37:19.720 --> 37:21.720 that they were not going to use again. 37:21.720 --> 37:22.720 They found it very intense, 37:22.720 --> 37:24.720 quite unpleasant 37:24.720 --> 37:26.720 and they really weren't prepared 37:26.720 --> 37:27.720 for the experience at all. 37:27.720 --> 37:29.720 The most harmful drugs in society 37:29.720 --> 37:30.720 are definitely 37:30.720 --> 37:32.720 the legal ones. 37:32.720 --> 37:33.720 Alcohol and tobacco. 37:33.720 --> 37:34.720 Tobacco kills almost 37:34.720 --> 37:36.720 20,000 Australians every year 37:36.720 --> 37:40.720 and alcohol is up around 4,000. 37:40.720 --> 37:41.720 And the hallucinogen drugs, 37:41.720 --> 37:43.720 none to my knowledge. 37:43.720 --> 37:45.720 But I suppose they're drugs 37:45.720 --> 37:47.720 that we do need to know more about. 37:47.720 --> 37:48.720 We need to know about 37:48.720 --> 37:50.720 the psychological effects. 37:50.720 --> 37:52.720 I think more research needs to be done. 37:52.720 --> 37:55.720 The only legal scientific research 37:55.720 --> 37:57.720 into psychedelics and DMT 37:57.720 --> 37:59.720 since the narcotics convention 37:59.720 --> 38:01.720 was conducted by psychologist 38:01.720 --> 38:02.720 Dr. Rick Straussman 38:02.720 --> 38:05.720 in New Mexico in 1990. 38:05.720 --> 38:06.720 He concludes, 38:06.720 --> 38:07.720 amongst other things, 38:07.720 --> 38:09.720 that DMT is naturally released 38:09.720 --> 38:11.720 from the pineal gland 38:11.720 --> 38:13.720 during birth, death 38:13.720 --> 38:17.720 and other naturally occurring psychedelic states. 38:17.720 --> 38:19.720 The strongest drugs 38:19.720 --> 38:21.720 are the ones most like 38:21.720 --> 38:23.720 ordinary brain chemistry. 38:23.720 --> 38:26.720 The most extreme case being DMT. 38:26.720 --> 38:28.720 DMT only lasts 38:28.720 --> 38:30.720 seven to ten minutes. 38:30.720 --> 38:32.720 And yet it's the most profound 38:32.720 --> 38:35.720 dislocation of reality 38:35.720 --> 38:37.720 that you can undergo. 38:37.720 --> 38:53.230 A lot about psychedelics 38:53.230 --> 38:56.230 before I encountered DMT 38:56.230 --> 38:58.230 and it showed me 38:58.230 --> 39:02.230 that I knew virtually nothing. 39:02.230 --> 39:06.700 And I took four 39:06.700 --> 39:09.700 very large inhalations. 39:09.700 --> 39:11.700 My impression was of 39:11.700 --> 39:14.700 falling forward 39:14.700 --> 39:19.080 through some kind of 39:19.080 --> 39:24.550 that was fluctuating space. 39:24.550 --> 39:28.550 It was filled with beings. 39:28.550 --> 39:32.550 Entities of some sort. 39:32.550 --> 39:36.550 Creatures made of light. 39:36.550 --> 39:37.550 And they were jumping 39:37.550 --> 39:39.550 in and out of my chest. 39:39.550 --> 39:43.550 And I thought I must have died. 39:43.550 --> 39:45.550 It meant this couldn't happen 39:45.550 --> 39:46.550 to somebody 39:46.550 --> 39:51.400 and come back. 39:51.400 --> 39:54.400 You cannot go further than this 39:54.400 --> 39:56.400 into the bardo 39:56.400 --> 39:58.400 and return. 39:59.400 --> 40:01.400 The shaman is someone 40:01.400 --> 40:03.400 who has seen the beginning 40:03.400 --> 40:05.400 and the end. 40:05.400 --> 40:07.400 It's the most challenging, 40:07.400 --> 40:08.400 enlightening, 40:08.400 --> 40:10.400 astonishing, 40:10.400 --> 40:11.400 terrifying, 40:11.400 --> 40:12.400 joyous, 40:12.400 --> 40:17.800 strange thing in the world. 40:17.800 --> 40:19.800 I don't mean to scare anyone off, 40:19.800 --> 40:21.800 but these are bizarre dimensions 40:21.800 --> 40:24.800 of extraordinary power and beauty. 40:26.800 --> 40:32.700 People should be very careful. 40:32.700 --> 40:34.700 The shaman offers an immense 40:34.700 --> 40:36.700 example of courage. 40:37.700 --> 40:39.700 While I was making this film, 40:39.700 --> 40:40.700 Terence was diagnosed 40:40.700 --> 40:45.900 with terminal cancer. 40:45.900 --> 40:47.900 I asked if he had one message to share 40:47.900 --> 40:49.900 from all his experiences, 40:49.900 --> 40:51.900 what would it be? 40:51.900 --> 40:53.900 Sheer curiosity 40:53.900 --> 40:56.900 is the thing that I've always 40:56.900 --> 40:58.900 let carry me along. 40:58.900 --> 41:01.900 And I have no regrets 41:01.900 --> 41:03.900 about any of this. 41:03.900 --> 41:07.900 I think it's worth the life 41:07.900 --> 41:10.900 to put these issues 41:10.900 --> 41:27.300 in front of people. 41:27.300 --> 41:28.300 Willow was now nearly 41:28.300 --> 41:29.300 eight months pregnant 41:29.300 --> 41:30.300 and suffering from dizzy spells 41:30.300 --> 41:31.300 and headaches. 41:31.300 --> 41:33.300 So we searched out a shaman 41:33.300 --> 41:34.300 named Enrique 41:34.300 --> 41:36.300 who lived by the Amazon River, 41:36.300 --> 41:38.300 who we heard used ayahuasca, 41:38.300 --> 41:41.300 mainly as a tool to heal people. 41:41.300 --> 41:42.300 Enrique and his family 41:42.300 --> 41:43.300 have established 41:43.300 --> 41:45.300 an indigenous foundation 41:45.300 --> 41:46.300 to help preserve 41:46.300 --> 41:48.300 his ancestral territory. 41:48.300 --> 41:49.300 Part of the finances needed 41:49.300 --> 41:51.300 to run the foundation 41:51.300 --> 41:52.300 he gets from offering 41:52.300 --> 41:53.300 ayahuasca rituals 41:53.300 --> 41:55.300 for eco-tourists. 41:55.300 --> 41:57.300 Doctor Ecuador, 41:57.300 --> 41:58.300 Blanco, 41:58.300 --> 41:59.300 here in Puyo, 41:59.300 --> 42:01.300 they already know the shaman. 42:01.300 --> 42:03.300 That's why when they can't 42:03.300 --> 42:05.300 get an injection 42:05.300 --> 42:06.300 on the shaman, 42:06.300 --> 42:07.300 they just go 42:07.300 --> 42:09.300 and clean it up. 42:09.300 --> 42:11.300 The bark 42:11.300 --> 42:13.300 for when they have 42:13.300 --> 42:14.300 the flu. 42:14.300 --> 42:15.300 The flu. 42:15.300 --> 42:16.300 The flu. 42:16.300 --> 42:17.300 To do that, 42:17.300 --> 42:18.300 you have to absorb it. 42:21.300 --> 42:22.300 You know all the bad stuff. 42:22.300 --> 42:23.300 Yes, yes. 42:23.300 --> 42:24.300 It's better. 42:24.300 --> 42:25.300 Yes. 42:26.300 --> 42:27.300 Against the snake, 42:27.300 --> 42:29.300 the potato 42:29.300 --> 42:31.300 is scraped, 42:32.300 --> 42:34.300 with warm water, 42:34.300 --> 42:35.300 it's taken. 42:35.300 --> 42:37.300 When the snake bites, 42:37.300 --> 42:38.300 it's taken. 42:38.300 --> 42:39.300 This is ayahuasca? 42:39.300 --> 42:40.300 Yes, ayahuasca. 42:40.300 --> 42:41.300 Yes. 42:41.300 --> 42:42.300 All the time 42:42.300 --> 42:43.300 in Ecuador, 42:43.300 --> 42:44.300 it's legal 42:44.300 --> 42:45.300 to heal. 42:45.300 --> 42:46.300 But another person 42:46.300 --> 42:47.300 in particular, 42:47.300 --> 42:48.300 as a hobby, 42:48.300 --> 42:49.300 that's not. 42:49.300 --> 42:50.300 Because it's a thing 42:50.300 --> 42:51.300 that has to be done 42:51.300 --> 42:52.300 as a ritual 42:52.300 --> 42:53.300 and all 42:53.300 --> 42:54.300 through a shaman. 42:54.300 --> 42:55.300 Yes, it's not legal. 42:55.300 --> 42:56.300 Other gringos 42:56.300 --> 42:57.300 take ayahuasca 42:57.300 --> 42:58.300 in other countries. 42:58.300 --> 42:59.300 It's good or bad? 42:59.300 --> 43:00.300 It's good. 43:00.300 --> 43:01.300 It's good. 43:01.300 --> 43:02.300 It's good. 43:02.300 --> 43:03.300 It's good. 43:03.300 --> 43:04.300 It's good. 43:04.300 --> 43:05.300 It's good. 43:05.300 --> 43:06.300 It's good. 43:06.300 --> 43:07.300 It's good. 43:07.300 --> 43:08.300 It's good. 43:08.300 --> 43:09.300 It's good. 43:09.300 --> 43:10.300 It's good. 43:10.300 --> 43:11.300 It's good. 43:11.300 --> 43:12.300 It's good. 43:12.300 --> 43:13.300 People want to know 43:13.300 --> 43:14.300 that 43:35.300 --> 43:36.300 Usually the shaman 43:36.300 --> 43:37.300 and the patient 43:37.300 --> 43:41.610 drink ayahuasca. 44:10.120 --> 44:12.120 When that happens, he takes it out. 44:12.120 --> 44:15.120 Then the sick will heal. 44:55.160 --> 45:05.780 Before, there were no doctors or pharmacies, nothing. 45:05.780 --> 45:08.780 This Amazon didn't know anyone. 45:08.780 --> 45:14.780 Only with this ayahuasca, the shaman continued to heal. 45:14.780 --> 45:20.780 I want to learn shamanism when you are a young man. 45:20.780 --> 45:23.780 And there was just that shaman who healed me. 45:23.780 --> 45:26.780 At the age of 12, he stung me with a snake. 45:26.780 --> 45:31.780 So there I, until now powerful, 45:31.780 --> 45:33.780 I learned. 45:33.780 --> 45:39.780 The shaman told me that my power wants this young man. 45:39.780 --> 45:42.780 For a year I was on a diet. 45:42.780 --> 45:46.780 I only crushed bananas. 45:46.780 --> 45:49.780 When he is drugged with this liquid, 45:49.780 --> 45:52.780 he is directly talking to the spirit. 45:52.780 --> 45:55.780 And through this intermediate of the spirit, 45:55.780 --> 45:58.780 the shaman has the power. 45:58.780 --> 46:01.780 But in the water too. 46:01.780 --> 46:05.780 I have entered like an anaconda. 46:05.780 --> 46:11.780 Also, I have looked like a shaman. 46:11.780 --> 46:13.780 A great one. 46:13.780 --> 46:17.780 In anaconda, I made a wheel. 46:17.780 --> 46:21.780 I was there, sitting. 46:21.780 --> 46:23.780 Another shaman wants to do harm. 46:23.780 --> 46:25.780 They... 46:25.780 --> 46:27.780 Over here... 46:27.780 --> 46:29.780 Over here too. 46:29.780 --> 46:31.780 They are guardians. 46:31.780 --> 46:36.510 I felt that when these shamanic planets 46:36.510 --> 46:38.510 were used with correct preparation, 46:38.510 --> 46:40.510 guidance and ritual, 46:40.510 --> 46:42.510 they could be powerful tools for healing 46:42.510 --> 46:44.510 and personal transformation. 46:44.510 --> 46:46.510 Without light, I can look. 46:46.510 --> 46:48.510 This is without light. 46:48.510 --> 46:51.510 I can look at who you are. 46:51.510 --> 46:54.510 But with light I can't. 46:54.510 --> 47:01.190 I didn't take any ayahuasca, 47:01.190 --> 47:04.190 but I had a healing from him. 47:04.190 --> 47:06.190 I've been having a lot of movement 47:06.190 --> 47:08.190 and a lot of pain 47:08.190 --> 47:09.190 and a lot of faintness. 47:09.190 --> 47:13.190 And he said that I need lots of minerals and vitamins. 47:13.190 --> 47:16.190 I wanted to see if this baby is a boy or a girl. 47:16.190 --> 47:19.190 And he says it's definitely a boy. 47:21.190 --> 47:22.190 With an ayahuasca, 47:22.190 --> 47:24.190 when I was looking at you, 47:24.190 --> 47:27.190 I saw in this, 47:27.190 --> 47:29.190 in your body, 47:29.190 --> 47:30.190 in this. 47:30.190 --> 47:32.190 In your central column. 47:32.190 --> 47:34.190 In the nerves too. 47:34.190 --> 47:38.190 Parasites. 47:38.190 --> 47:40.190 After returning to Australia, 47:40.190 --> 47:42.190 we all became quite sick. 47:42.190 --> 47:45.190 We tested positive for amoebas and parasites. 47:45.190 --> 47:47.190 I also spent four days in hospital, 47:47.190 --> 47:50.190 unable to walk due to a problem in my spine. 47:50.190 --> 47:53.190 Oh yeah, and we did have a baby boy. 47:53.190 --> 47:57.200 We named him Shaman. 47:57.200 --> 48:00.200 In Ecuador, thousands of people were evacuated 48:00.200 --> 48:04.200 as a number of volcanoes began to violently erupt. 48:06.200 --> 48:07.200 At that time, 48:07.200 --> 48:09.200 when the first eruption of Pichincha, 48:09.200 --> 48:10.200 or Pichincha, 48:10.200 --> 48:13.200 I was drinking ayahuasca with some Quito people. 48:13.200 --> 48:15.200 We were talking in vision 48:15.200 --> 48:19.200 when this volcano is sacred. 48:19.200 --> 48:22.200 When the oilfields are bothering, 48:22.200 --> 48:23.200 it's... 48:23.200 --> 48:24.200 It's... 48:24.200 --> 48:25.200 It's angry 48:25.200 --> 48:27.200 because these oilfields are 48:27.200 --> 48:29.200 blowing up the soil inside. 48:29.200 --> 48:32.200 So the volcano is angry 48:32.200 --> 48:35.200 because they are not treating nature well. 48:35.200 --> 48:37.200 I don't want them to come and destroy me. 48:37.200 --> 48:39.200 People from the United States, 48:39.200 --> 48:42.200 for sucking the blood 48:42.200 --> 48:44.200 of our ancestors, 48:44.200 --> 48:45.200 the black gold, 48:45.200 --> 48:48.200 that is created with the technology of tips, 48:48.200 --> 48:50.200 made by the smart people. 48:50.200 --> 48:51.200 No. 48:51.200 --> 48:53.200 Here we are, the smart people, 48:53.200 --> 48:56.200 the ones who defend the lung of the world, 48:56.200 --> 48:58.200 the jungle, 48:58.200 --> 48:59.200 the pure air, 48:59.200 --> 49:00.200 the pure water. 49:00.200 --> 49:04.200 What it brings is an empathy 49:04.200 --> 49:07.200 to the destruction of the planet. 49:07.200 --> 49:11.200 You know, the cutting of a rainforest 49:11.200 --> 49:14.200 is suddenly no longer completely abstract. 49:14.200 --> 49:18.200 It's actually something you can feel and relate to. 49:18.200 --> 49:21.200 And all political change begins 49:21.200 --> 49:24.200 with a change of feeling and value. 49:26.200 --> 49:28.200 We have become a toxic force 49:28.200 --> 49:30.200 in planetary biology. 49:32.200 --> 49:33.200 There is going to have to be 49:33.200 --> 49:36.200 a radical transformation. 49:37.200 --> 49:40.200 Human future will be designed 49:40.200 --> 49:42.200 on how conscious 49:42.200 --> 49:44.200 we are able to make ourselves. 49:45.200 --> 49:47.200 If we can change our minds, 49:47.200 --> 49:50.200 we can take hold of this process 49:50.200 --> 49:51.200 and halt it. 49:52.200 --> 49:55.200 And I call on all the yachaks, 49:55.200 --> 49:57.200 all the shamans of the world, 49:57.200 --> 49:59.200 to unite, 49:59.200 --> 50:01.200 to spread in the world 50:01.200 --> 50:02.200 and say, 50:02.200 --> 50:05.200 no destruir la naturaleza, 50:05.200 --> 50:08.200 no destruir las raíces de los árboles. 50:11.320 --> 50:13.320 My journey into this mysterious world 50:13.320 --> 50:15.320 of the shamans of the Amazon 50:15.320 --> 50:17.320 lasted three years. 50:18.320 --> 50:19.320 I'm left wondering 50:19.320 --> 50:22.320 whose interests are really being served 50:22.320 --> 50:25.320 by keeping illegal these shamanic plants 50:25.320 --> 50:27.320 that can help you connect with yourself 50:27.320 --> 50:29.320 and the natural world. 50:30.320 --> 50:32.320 And how is it that humanity 50:32.320 --> 50:34.320 is allowing such unprepared, 50:34.320 --> 50:40.070 unprecedented destruction of nature? 50:40.070 --> 50:41.070 Meeting the shamans 50:41.070 --> 50:43.070 and taking ayahuasca 50:43.070 --> 50:44.070 opened me to a world 50:44.070 --> 50:46.070 I never imagined. 50:47.070 --> 50:48.070 A world that challenged 50:48.070 --> 50:50.070 my current concepts of reality 50:50.070 --> 50:53.070 and made me question my life's purpose 50:53.070 --> 50:55.070 and my relationship with everything. 50:57.380 --> 51:04.880 Materialism is ending our world. 51:05.880 --> 51:07.880 Our world is the spirit 51:07.880 --> 51:08.880 of the trees, 51:08.880 --> 51:10.880 of the magical leaves.