The Nature of Ayahuasca (2019) Documentary

The Nature of Ayahuasca (2019) Documentary

Gavin Hoffman

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A documentary exploring the use of Ayahuasca as a holistic medicine.

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Ayahausca is a traditional plant medicine from the Amazon used to treat a variety of physical and psychology illnesses and conditions. This film explores the use of the Ayahausca as a holistic medicine, challenging stigmas around its use and helping people become more conscious and ethical consumers of the plant if that's the path they choose.

This documentary doesn't cover everything you need to be aware of if you are considering work with Ayahuasca. Please do your research.

Gavin Hoffman - Director, Cameraman, Writer, Producer, Animator, Editor, Soundman, etc, etc, etc
Liam Grant - Sound Design and Additional Music
Music - Lee Rosevere, Chris Zabriskie, Pipe Choir

Directors note: This note is to address the many comments about the obvious lack of female and indigenous representation in this documentary. I was at this retreat for my own personal development and happened to have my camera with me. Half way through the retreat I made a spontaneous decision to make this documentary during a conversation. I had never made a documentary before, I had never really thought about what goes into making a documentary and I was too caught up in my own process to really think about what I was doing at the time. I asked several people for interviews who all happened to be men and by the time I realized I hadn't asked any women it was too late. I also tried to get an interview with Don Rober but that didn't happen for several reasons. I made this documentary alone, with few resources and no budget and in the interest of getting it finished in this lifetime I went with what I had and finish the film that I had committed to make. I did my best with what I had.
PS. If anyone is willing to translate the subtitles to any other languages please reach out to me!! Thanks so much

AWARDS
Best Cinematographer at the Indo-Global International Film Festival 2019
Documentary of Merit at the Impact Doc Awards July 2019
Finalist in Eurasia International Monthly Film Festival 2019
Finalist in Great Message International Film Festival 2019
Finalist in New York Cinematography Awards July 2019
Best Nature/Travel Film in the European Cinematography Awards Oct 2019
Finalist in PICASSO EINSTEIN BUDDHA International Film Festival 2019

OFFFICIAL SELECTIONS
7 Colors Lagoon Bacalar International Film Festival 2019
Prisma Independent Film Awards - 3rd monthly edition 2019
Cittadella Geo Film Festival Second Edition 2019
Down East Flick Fest 2019
Semi-Finalist in VISUALIS Film Festival 2019
Semi-Finalist in Catharsis Film Festival 2019
Dunedin International Film Festival 2019

Тэги:

#Ayahuasca #medicine #amazon #rainforest #iquitos #ceremony #plant_medicine #retreat #howard_lawler #documentary #Gavin_Hoffman #Healing #Holistic_Medicine #Peru #Psychedelic #Entheogenic #chacruna #best #drugs #psychedelic_drug
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Ben A
Ben A - 23.09.2023 07:02

I'm 33 I done one acid trip at 18 one full tab. Would anyone know why. When I had the trip I decided to go for a wander and not tell anyone. Then found myself walking thru Bush and a friend appeared from nowhere. That's my trip story.

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1-Day Decorating
1-Day Decorating - 21.09.2023 08:17

In 2008 I went to Peru to experience Ayahuasca. it cured me of alcoholism. Amazing stuff.

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Aristotle Olympiada
Aristotle Olympiada - 20.09.2023 12:37

Incredible work and incredible people who are making this a possibility.

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joe jo
joe jo - 16.09.2023 01:01

Old man with grey pony tail smoking weed and suffering from depressioin.......sees himself as a would be shaman......and ends up in Peru.......what a surprise !!

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Melanin AndAura
Melanin AndAura - 13.09.2023 11:19

I just feel like for me I would need to be in an environment that I’m familiar with, with music and people or a person I’m familiar with. I don’t think I can take this dark journey inward through the help of external means whilst surrounded by total strangers and music of another tongue that are chanting things I can’t translate. I just know how I have been just on pot… I’d come out of my skin. It wouldn’t be good for me in that environment. However, this is definitely something I think we should all experience. After all, knowing thyself is the greatest mystery of our existence.

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Jonathan Giannantonio
Jonathan Giannantonio - 12.09.2023 19:55

I just did 4 ceremonies in Pacullpa Peru , went by myself all the way from Buffalo new york, the first 3 were EXTREMELY hard , but the 4th and last experience was the most amazing experience i could have ever imagined, changed me forever! I will be uploading my night vlogs of the whole experience. Drop me a free sub if your interested in what happened. :)

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Kayte Renae
Kayte Renae - 11.09.2023 11:47

Beautiful

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Ana
Ana - 09.09.2023 00:11

The European white men in Canada hate natives European kill our people took our land my people heal white men!

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Thomas Wendel
Thomas Wendel - 07.09.2023 19:17

As much as I respect the potential therapeutic value of ayahuasca, plant medicines, and psychedelics in general, I feel compelled to comment that this video, like most I’ve seen on the subject, falls into the same category as others heralding new “miracle” breakthroughs of any kind. The overwhelming majority of the comments seem to reflect this view as well.

I was recently curious enough, on the advice of a friend, to go to a well established center in Peru run by a very experienced curandero, where I spent eleven days and attended six ceremonies. When I admitted in integration that didn’t have a “vision”, I was given various advice- drink larger doses, let go of my fears, submit/accept/believe. In other words, there seemed to be a notion that the methods were infallible, and that any failures were accountable to the passenger/visitor/guest.

Maybe I was simply curious and not committed to “the work”. Maybe I just need more experience. Or maybe the emerging science is correct that psychedelics are only one potentially useful tool and not a panacea. This seems especially important in light of the fact that people who are hurting and looking for help need to understand that a non-response is not only not their fault but may be entirely normal.

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BIZF FATAr5
BIZF FATAr5 - 05.09.2023 10:52

I guess I just want somewhere to share my story.

When I was 19 I took shrooms, and it was like I was turned inside out. As a child, I was very extroverted and loved being around people. And after the shrooms, I felt disconnected from everyone and everything around me. I just wanted to alone. I am learning to feel happiness from within myself, not running from myself. It's been a LONG and PAINFUL process but once it's healed, it's healed and beautiful.

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Came2Watch
Came2Watch - 03.09.2023 00:21

I'm in bed for the 5th straight day. How

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Julian Newman
Julian Newman - 02.09.2023 22:35

Ya I hope no one actually goes and takes this shit. It’s wild and not good for your brain lol. Crazy fucking people. Just eat healthy and strive for healthy relationships and not toxic ones. Also don’t do anti depressants or drugs like this . You’ll be fine

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divine.ridiculous
divine.ridiculous - 01.09.2023 01:05

would be nice if it wasn't exclusively white males talking

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Ok
Ok - 31.08.2023 04:25

not everyone

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Sir Delano
Sir Delano - 29.08.2023 01:03

After I'm done acquiring all the money I'll ever need, I want to become a full time shaman. I feel like it's my true calling or at least I feel like I'd enjoy it endlessly.

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NRG
NRG - 27.08.2023 19:38

Just know that everything you experience in a psychedelic experience is projecting out from inside you. Do not make the common mistake of thinking the Spirits or visions are OUT there and “real”. They are real, within you. You can never experience anything outside of the realm of molecular signals in the brain. All forms of psychedelics. You have a crystal and a projector and everything that happens is a result of the content of your being showing itself to itself. From Grandmother to Grandfather, it’s all you. It is only a Christian belief in monotheism that has inserted itself into this natural state of being and forces people to misinterpret the experience. Even the jungle tribes had the Christian’s come and influence their ceremonial practices. Remember the truth, do not BELIEVE in vibratory entities that are part of the illusion

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tanya marie
tanya marie - 24.08.2023 12:12

💗💖💞💝💟❣️💌

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Charu Mohan
Charu Mohan - 24.08.2023 07:37

Do all these stories help scientists create technology?say the iPhone or space tech!! I only hope people actually have a goal in life and are working towards it instead of following a chimera.

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Shamandis
Shamandis - 21.08.2023 17:54

I can tell you that Amanita Muscaria will do the same..

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GodInMe200s
GodInMe200s - 18.08.2023 05:40

Please someone answer to me seriously. Can this heal people with mental disorders? Bad people? Toxic people that cause pain to others? Can this heal someone from afar? I need to heal my sister

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Betty Colombo
Betty Colombo - 16.08.2023 21:39

promise myself I´ll be there once in my life. Amen

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LIselott Nelson
LIselott Nelson - 15.08.2023 23:01

Pharmaceuticals in the western world is unfortunately al about money NOT about helping people.

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Davide Giovanni Poltronieri
Davide Giovanni Poltronieri - 13.08.2023 10:06

Peccato che da metà filmato non ha più funzionato la traduzione in italiano, ma ho cercato di capire lo stesso fino in fondo.......mi viene voglia di andare in peru'.a chi mi devo rivolgere?....ciao

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Dawn Reichart
Dawn Reichart - 12.08.2023 18:11

I would love to know some of the names of these places where people have traveled to receive this beautiful gift. I have been educating myself for years about this amazing plant medicine and would love suggestions on where to go. I appreciate your help ❤

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Ro
Ro - 07.08.2023 16:09

As a Christian Native American I make a coca leaf tea or maybe like my grandparents I would chew the coca leaf . I would use medicinal plants but not witches (Shamans,Yatiris)and their ceremonies. since I don't know which entities they could call.

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Conchita Anaktototij
Conchita Anaktototij - 31.07.2023 14:59

Where is this place I wanna go there!

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Tomescu Petrisor
Tomescu Petrisor - 30.07.2023 22:55

Can someone please suggest me a shaman that I can get contact with ?

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Mike Neidlinger
Mike Neidlinger - 30.07.2023 22:05

I cured my PTSD by taking massive doses of Psilocybin Mushrooms. I don't have the night terrors any more. Also, I've been sober 20 years. No one wants this medicine.

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Theowlhawk
Theowlhawk - 26.07.2023 22:08

A woman I know went on a ayahuasca retreat , she said it was amazing. Yet she returned, her behaviour has intensified as superior to others, grandiose, all about her, very selfish, no empathy or compassion to others.
Very stern, cold, with a smile.
Just wondering if these retreats can bring out the worst in some people????

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priorww1
priorww1 - 26.07.2023 08:34

Husband, father of 3, engineer at the top of my field. Was called to visit Shanti Wasi in Costa Rica and sat for 2 ceremonies. This medicine broke me free of so much cynicism. It was indeed grueling as I fought to resist the embrace of the divine but once I “gave in” it was one of the most tender moments of my life. I am forever indebted to this plant and it’s practitioners for reconnecting me to unconditional love.

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Rod Johnon
Rod Johnon - 24.07.2023 01:33

Witchcraft

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G S
G S - 22.07.2023 02:35

Such a bullshit documentary. Clowns and scammers

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Paulina Kazarinov
Paulina Kazarinov - 20.07.2023 07:34

This concoction killed my friend. Beware. She ingested two doses. Couldn't vomit. It burned her liver and pancreas. She died only 4 months after ingesting it. She died in great suffering. It traumatised all people who watched her go. People who gave her this mind altering concoction didn't take any responsibility.

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Robbie Clymore
Robbie Clymore - 16.07.2023 02:45

I keep hearing all this BS about, “even if you are scared, let it play out.” Psychologically, this can intensify trauma in the unconscious mind, and quite frankly, there’s absolutely no evidence and data to prove that this is effective.

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Wendy - Dr Podd
Wendy - Dr Podd - 16.07.2023 01:17

Anyone know where this place is?

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Jeremy
Jeremy - 13.07.2023 16:30

These plants truly are sacraments. And intention is everything going into the experience. It needs to be protected. It taught my westernized mind that I am more than a bag of meat and bones. I am soul. And soul can be separate from the body or outside of it. Which I had never experienced before. Outside of the first time I smoked dmt

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Daniel Johansson
Daniel Johansson - 12.07.2023 15:51

So brave of you to take that journey. Now I feel that I should really take that journey to.

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Tim Hackney
Tim Hackney - 12.07.2023 05:27

im ready to go

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Robin
Robin - 11.07.2023 19:50

Anyone know the song that the documentary ends on?

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Eldon Davidson
Eldon Davidson - 11.07.2023 13:46

A little boy had a dream just the other day, his mind fell through his face, and the wind blew it away.

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Yassir Lakhmir
Yassir Lakhmir - 04.07.2023 16:45

I'm really thankful for cheering yours experience with as i'm from Morocco a🇲🇦 and i love u from Heart to the limit of sky's

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Elizabeth_T_Reed_1982
Elizabeth_T_Reed_1982 - 03.07.2023 15:40

❤❤

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Guinea Pigs and Bunny Friends
Guinea Pigs and Bunny Friends - 01.07.2023 22:02

I want to do this so bad, but I guarantee its expensive as hell.

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carmen m
carmen m - 28.06.2023 17:44

Foarte interesant .
Pacat ca traducerea in romana nu e de calitate si lipseste in diferite momente...🤔

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george clinton
george clinton - 27.06.2023 00:52

I was about to write some joke but then started to read the comments. I am a pharmacist, I meet people with all the kinds of anxiety or depression, reading all the good comments here from people who feel "cured" is quite impressive. It changed my mind.

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Mark miths
Mark miths - 25.06.2023 00:08

amazing watching this. sending love and truth

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OcotilloDavid
OcotilloDavid - 23.06.2023 04:55

What a sad commentary on where western life sits. The whack jobs who think they form reality through toxic capitalism need to have this experience as a mental/psychiatric enema to get their heads screwed on straight. Pray for conversion of the fat cats.

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72 Capital
72 Capital - 22.06.2023 10:04

Peru has the most safe and eenuine ceremony practiced for tribals. The Peruvian Amazon has the most genuine connection to mother nature and universe. Ayahuasca and other traditional plants has been found in the rainforest or amazon of Peru. It is a shame that Pharmaceutical companies are not giving credit to these indigeneoius caring people The Amazon is the lung of the world and we must take care of it!

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