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Concert review: Paul Simon is as polished � and restless � as always, mixing old and new

Edit The Miami Herald 03 Jun 2016
There must be 50 ways to play "Homeward Bound," and on Wednesday night, Paul Simon demonstrated two of them ... Simon was singing about longing for the comforts of familiarity ... He told some funny stories, as before "Spirit Voices," which he said had been inspired by an encounter with a South American medicine man who invited him to try ayahuasca. "I'm up for that," he recalled saying in his signature deadpan....

the story of a natural burial

Edit Vox 29 May 2016
He tried chemo, he tried radiation, and then he tried ayahuasca, a plant native to Peru that is used in traditional healing ceremonies. In addition to making you violently ill, ayahuasca gives you visions — wild, spectacular visions. Jake had taken ayahuasca a few years before, after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, and he attributed his recovery to the plant ... Treating cancer with ayahuasca made sense for Jake....

5 things to know today, and let's have dinner in Hanoi

Edit Business Journal 25 May 2016
Happy Wednesday, Sacramento. Can you imagine spending $6 for dinner with a buddy in midtown? If it's midtown Hanoi, than it's doable ... Obama was there on a state visit, but hey, what's more fun. securing an arms deal to contain China or catching a bite with a guy who once tripped on ayahuasca in Peru? Good luck finding a $6 meal in midtown Sacramento.… ... ....

Brazil: 'there's a surprise around every corner'

Edit The Guardian 13 May 2016
Carnival parades and spiritualists, ayahuasca ceremonies and barbecue restaurants ... Brazil is a constant source of fascination for writer Fran Bryson ... Twitter ... Twitter ... Ayahuasca, a hallucinogen, is the central tool of certain Brazilian cults ... Ayahuasca, the drinking of which is compulsory for all ceremony attendees, is supposed to heighten your senses, sometimes provide telepathic abilities and bring you closer to God and the spirits ... ....

Michelle Rodriguez Coped With Paul Walker’s Death With Psychedelics And Fast Cars

Edit Inquisitr 12 May 2016
Michelle Rodriguez is famous for playing tough, independent women in a number of successful action films. Her enthusiasm, sense of humor and kindness has made her a popular celebrity ... Michelle Rodriguez resorted to taking a Peruvian psychedelic drug called ayahuasca which she says helped her to fully grieve the death of Paul Walker. According to the actress, her ayahuasca trip made her accept the fact of Paul Walker’s death....

WONKchannel: the 'new Spitting image' is a nightmarish mess

Edit The Guardian 10 May 2016
A new online show from the Spitting Image team is so bad it’s like a series of placeholder demos. Isn’t it time we let animated satire die with dignity?. @stuheritage ... In retrospect, it’s weird we ever even tried ... It looks – and this cannot possibly be intentional – like one of the Taiwanese news animators from a few years ago fell into a tub of ayahuasca then tried to depict their abstract internal nightmare using only a ZX Spectrum ... ....

Can the World Get Any Smaller for Today's Digital Nomads?

Edit Huffington Post 04 May 2016
You've heard the one about Maslow's hierarchy of needs, right? There are a couple of different riffs on the same joke but the punchline is always the same. Humans need Wi-Fi to survive now. It's coming up to ten years since the introduction of the first iPhone and the beginning of the smartphone revolution ... In the US today, 30% of workers are freelance ... Run a global online retail business from an Ayahuasca retreat in the rainforest....

Despite risks, Americans flock to Amazon for Ayahuasca ritual and spiritual awakening

Edit Fox News 29 Apr 2016
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‘Furious 7’ Star Michelle Rodriguez Admits To Feeling Jealous That Paul Walker Went First

Edit Inquisitr 25 Apr 2016
@vanityfair @lorraineschwartz #OscarWeekend ... Ms. Rodriguez recently participated in The Reality of Truth(produced by Adam Singer), a controversial documentary in which its interviewees are administered Ayahuasca, a highly hallucinogenic psychotropic drug often used by Native American shamans to induce visions ... “I’ll tell you that my Ayahuasca trip made me sad that he left me here,” says Furious 7‘s Rodriguez....

Psychedelic Advocates Take Their Case for Freedom of Consciousness to the U.N.

Edit Alternet 21 Apr 2016
As the UNGASS on Drugs is underway at U.N ... At Dag Hammerskjold Plaza, in the very shadow of U.N ... Another speaker, also citing problems with depression, said that he used ayahuasca to break free ... "Psychedelics can help shake you free of your shit," said another speaker, who identified as a shamanic practitioner who worked with ayahuasca, before playing a trippy ode to the powerful herbal concoction on a very strange drum-like instrument....

Michelle Rodriguez: 'No one will ever fill Paul Walker's shoes'

Edit Belfast Telegraph 15 Apr 2016
The actress is looking forward to working with Charlize Theron on the new Fast 8 ... Share Go To ... That's one talented woman!". Fast 8, directed by F ... Meanwhile, Michelle recently stirred controversy after admitting she turned to psychedelics to help her cope with the loss of Paul, and, while under the influence of psychedelic plant Ayahuasca, she confessed she was "jealous" the actor had died before her ... © Cover Media. ....

Ayahuasca therapy boom: Risky or life-changing?

Edit CNN 13 Apr 2016
Tonight an ayahuasca session will take place and, with uncontrollable vomiting invariably part of the proceedings, the buckets are a necessary precaution. Ayahuasca, also known as "yage," is a mind-altering concoction made from two Amazonian plants ... However, outside of the Amazon ayahuasca has an ambiguous legal status ... Alberto Jose Varela founded Ayahuasca International in 2013 ... Go inside an ayahuasca ceremony....

LSD has improved my life, so why should the state decide whether I can take it or not?

Edit The Guardian 13 Apr 2016
I have some helpful things to say if you are thinking about taking LSD. Do it somewhere nice. A safe space, if you like ... But to explore one’s consciousness, to feel synaesthesia, to feel a union with all living things, the pulse of the cosmos, why is this such a bad thing? Sure, the copious vomiting involved in the fashionable Ayahuasca ceremonies (why go to the Amazon when you can get a shaman in East Sussex?) is a bit of a bore ... ....
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