podcast Posts

Jungle Fever

We’re 45 kilometres out of Iquitos, deep in the Peruvian Amazon, in the great green web of nature with our native Shaman, Percy Garcia. He has the boyish enthusiasm of a physical education teacher, which is reinforced by his western garb.

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Blotter Art

Mark McCloud is the Doctor Strange of the art world. Most days he can be found pottering about in his Sanctum Sanctorum, up on the top floor of his old Victorian house in the Mission district of San Francisco, a curio sanctuary deposit of times past.

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Surfing

Ron Wheelock stares at me with cloudy gray-blue eyes ringed with hardship. He’s practically bald on top with a shiny forehead, just a light scalping of thinning hair and long side hair that falls down past his ears.

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Reefer Madness

In the classic 1936 propaganda movie ‘Reefer Madness’, a good young man is seduced into the ways of “marihuana… the new drug menace which is destroying the youth of America”,

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Still Seeking: 50 Years of the ‘Magic’ Mushroom

May 13, 1957, during the height of the post-war Eisenhower years, an article written by the influential banker and amateur mycologist R. Gordon Wasson, ‘Seeking the Magic Mushroom’ , was published in the seminal Life magazine.

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The Song that Wants To be Sung

An interview with Rak Razam and Niles Heckman, co-creators of Shamans of the Global Village.