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The Lee County Port Authority and the Lee County Alliance for the Arts is sponsoring an exhibit titled, “Children of the Everglades” at Southwest Florida International Airport.
It’s part of the “Art in Flight” program.
The public exhibit includes photographs of Florida’s Seminole-Miccosukee Indians and artifacts on loan from the Hanson Family Archives.
Cumberland County College's One Book-One College 2009-10 reading campaign was launched recently with the selection of "Strong Medicine Speaks: A Native American Elder Has Her Say" by Amy Hill Hearth. Now in its sixth year, the college's One Book-One College concept was designed to get the campus and the community to bond by discussing relevant themes covered in a single book.
Figurines, More Than 30,000-Years-Old, Found In German Cave
Small figurines carved from mammoth ivory more than 30,000 years ago have been discovered in a cave in Germany. Among the earliest undisputed artworks ever found, they are providing new clues into the migration and religious beliefs of early humans.
Flute find suggests early ancestors more culturally sophisticated than thought
The discovery of a cache of prehistoric flutes suggests that music soothed the savage beast in early man as far back as 35,000 years ago.
German paleontologists found the flutes, made of ivory and bones from birds, in a cave in southwestern Germany. They date back to the Middle Paleolithic era and indicate that "early modern man" had more in common with today's humans than scientists realized.
Saturnino Allende crouches beside a mountain path and gently puts his fingers around the stem of a plant with rough, tongue-shaped leaves.
"This is it," he says about the powerful hallucinogen Salvia divinorum, known as "magic mint." In just a few years, it has emerged from Mexico's Indian villages into one of the hottest drugs in the USA and a crucial cash crop for poor farmers here.>>>
A native to the Peruvian Amazon, he was first exposed to ayahuasca at the age of ten. A severe heart illness, along with the treatment of ayahuasca, led Pablo toward the life of a shaman. Eventually, after learning the icaros (healing songs) he became a powerful curandero.
Abandoning his vocation as a shaman, Pablo devoted himself to painting ayahuasca visions in 1977. His books, teachings, and seminars soon became a major force in spreading this plant medicine in the West. Currently, he teaches the art of painting at the Usko-Ayar school to students, free of charge.
Visit:Pablo Amaringo
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Tindall illustrates the shamans’ intimate relationship with plant spirits, and moves beyond the medicinal, scientific approach. Through his exploration of the three pillars of Amazonian shamanism, the subtle inner logic of indigenous healing unfolds for him, including the “miraculous” healing of a woman suffering from a brain tumor. After an enlightening ceremony, Tindall’s journey reveals the crucial component missing from the metaphysics of the West: the understanding and appreciation of the sentience of nature itself.
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Ayahuasca has been used by shamans all over the Amazon for thousands of years, yet Westerners are soon discovering its incredible ability to heal. “Metamorphosis is a powerful, moving, and superbly photographed documentary that follows Westerners through Ayahuasca ceremonies and the inherent gamut of emotions they experience—from utter fear, to outright ecstasy, as well the physical, and spiritual transformations.
We also learn about Hamilton Souther, a man who had no belief of and in spirit. Yet after experiencing a spiritual awaking, Hamilton is led to the Amazon where he apprentices as an Ayahuascero, or person who practices medicine with Ayahuasca. Hamilton and Maestro Don Alberto take us through the ceremonies as well as explain the meaning behind them.
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