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Psychobrani
Beyond Ayahuasca
Susana Buscos
Plant diets in Peruvian Vegetalismo
Sharing of perspectives completely different then we are accustomed to...
Topic: 2 focuses of psychotherapeutic work:
1) sitter, during healing sessions in jungle ...
2) interesting when one comes back to civ. - the PST approach changes
Fieldwork last 15years: area of Tarapoto, Pucallpa
Icaros - medicinal songs
Mestizo shamanistic tradition
modern origin during rubbertree boom. Also sharing knowledge in addition to harvesting wood logs...
= indigenous Amazonian cosmologies and practices permeated by western elements
The animiatic view: also the immaterial aspect of nature. If we are out of balance sickness emerges. Connecting to the spirit world to find out what was trespassed, so the balance can be restored...
No idealization, also evil things happen there.
15 years ago care in outskirts of cities vegetalismo was present...dev'd into functional medical system
susto (fear) - stuck system... ways how through icaros, perfumes, smoke... to restore equilibrium. Nicotiana rustica for smoke (without inhaling). Opening paths and opening to the spirit world
Vegetalismo is a cultural bridge bw indigenous culture and life in city. If you come to city from the jungle you prefer going to a curandero not a western doctor...
(?)
syndrome of emptiness, losses in family
looks like woman is pregnant, big belly, pulses
Pillars:
purges
plant diets
aya ceremonies
and secondary practices: icaradas, sopladas, plant baths, steam baths, massages, invocations, sucking out of sicknes...)
Local variances and emphases
"sucking is very much like sucking" :-)))
Curandero must not keep bad things in his/her body.
Special technique of using)g tobacco... no transmission how...sorry
all this happens in Takiwasi
Pst and physicians and curanderos together. A pilot project developed by French physician "Jacques", from MSF... vision to work with addicts during a ceremony. A physician from Lima called him next day h)... to help an addict :)
First few years costs paid by some agencies, incl. the pan-american health org.
Normally success if no relapse in 2 years, complete 5 years
Problem of repeating relapses, low efficiency of rehab.
Numbers from Takiwasi are maybe inflated... above 60% no relapse within 5 years - this is significant!
"Takiwasi needs your hands". Working there 24/7 and at the same time trying to do research... learn Spanish and go there
9 month training programme at Takiwasi
8 months of purging... dozen of techniqurs. Many baed on diff.plants
Diff.plants for diff.parts of body, and the energetic aspects (cellular memory)
3 purgas even more per week at the beginning
(Asusena) detoxes all the sexual genital area
Invitjng he spirits of the plant before using it
Vomiting for more than hour
other plants... vomiting for 5 hours
sweating
diarrhea
etc.
after that feeling like newborn
Purgas and emotional memory:
Case: guy early 40s, from Spain, cocaine, 4th treatment program, before T. no success
withdrawal s. from cocaine. anxious, hyperactive, restless...
Healing: tobacco juice, tincturen(lowes levels of anxiety) ... slowing reducing doses
Alcoholic father, bad family dynamics, root cause of problem? this was in his head
Received a series of 4 tobacco purges
Tobacco is a male, solar plant, vwry strong, helps in energ. cleansomg, protects and fortifies the person
drinking juice from tobacco or other use
cleaning the paternal, masculine lineage
The patient was teling stories of his grandfather... revealing memories that were not accessible consciously before the tobacco sessions
T. opens to expanded soc, dep. on the dose. If drinking concentrated you have it. Scope of perc. opens...not necessarily visu exp. But strong intern visions whats going on...through use of the pyrga
Psychotherapy afterwards of such exp, is necessary so the contents of itare not lost
ad PLANT DIETS
Isolating person from social contact
Plantain, rice, the plant selected
putting the person to an open hut in a jungle
Minimum of 8 days of a strict plant diet
Takiwasi knowledge of psychol. relationships of diff.plants. Cca 15 plants for psychological purposes
Case: new dreams appearing, posotive experiences from childhood w/ parents... psychotherapeutic reframing of his path
emancipating
ad AYAHUASCA ceremonies)
once per week
Difficult-to accompany ppl and also participating directly
Boundaries bw/ client/therapist blurredcompletely
Lot of burn-out happening at Takiwasi
chakruna bush, vine, other mixtures-harmaline etc... effects notjust from DMT
studied by C.Naranjo .et alli
IMAO allows DMT to freely flow in the system
Whathappens to clients?
Full confrontationwith Self
in ritual context!! (also mushrooms, iboga etc) - INTEGRATES, not just deconstructs. Notjust SEEING it, it root into your body,Earth...at experiential level
"Deconstructor of the mind" when using LSD etc, particularly outside ritual context
Dialogical phenomenology of experience
"To all my relations". Seeing aspects of yourself anf theweb of relationships
Interest in spirituality in general_- finding meaning, purpose in life
Felt but not much shared
maybe more than I know after month in CZ
prevalent in california: "weare allone",,going to to unity...
before a recognition of the Other as other !!
Surrounded by othersful of conscience
Interdependence w/other things beyond our control
The ELDERS incl. the nature sustaining our life (trees, rocs). In thewest we consider them as mere OBJECTS
"Just a suggestion" :)))
Transpersonal approach
Too many things in one bag :)
(Story from CGJung and an alcoholic, need of exp.of conversion - later the founder of A.A.) First principle of the 12 steps : "I surrender"
PSychotherapist in Takiwasi needs to becomeopen to something bigger... day after aya session better to ground the client by a curandero, and do pst next day