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Hey everybody! Episode 186 of the show is out. In this episode, I spoke with Luis Eduardo Luna. Luis is one of the luminaires in the field of plant medicine as has a career that spans nearly seven decades. He has worked alongside and learned from some of the greats such as Richard Evans Schultes, R. Gordon Wasson, Albert Hoffman, Pablo Amaringo, the McKenna’s, Dolmatoff, and many more. We spoke about his life growing up in Colombia, his early years in a Catholic monastery, how a chance encounter with Terrance McKenna and ingesting yagé changed the course of his life and work, and the extraordinary life he lived and created as one of the pioneers of researching the idea of plant intelligence and how indigenous groups of the Americas used plants to shape their cosmosvisions. It was a fascinating conversation and I was very happy and honored to have Luis on. As always, to support this podcast, get early access to shows, bonus material, and Q&As, check out my Patreon page below. Enjoy!

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“Luis Eduardo Luna has a Ph.D. from the Department of Comparative Religion of Stockholm University, and Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa, from St. Lawrence University, New York. His publications include Vegetalismo: Shamanism among the Mestizo Population of the Peruvian Amazon, Ayahuasca Visions: The Religious Iconography of a Peruvian Shaman (with Pablo Amaringo), and Ayahuasca Reader: Encounters with the Amazon’s Sacred Vine, co-edited with Steven White. He is the Director of Wasiwaska Research Center, Florianópolis, Brazil, and an Honorary Research Fellow of the University of Exeter.”

To learn more about or contact Luis Eduardo Luna, visit his website at: https://www.wasiwaska.org

For informaiton about Luis’ upcoming October seminar, visit: https://www.wasiwaska.org/seminar/amazonia-an-anthropogenic-rainforest-biological-diversity-cultural-plurality-and-indigenous-consciousness-exploration//

For information about Luis’ personal collection of Pablo Amaringo’s artwork: visit: https://trueamaringos.com

To see Luis’ documentary Don Emilio y sus Doctorcitos, visit: https://youtu.be/2NJBnCKSjmM?si=5AyqkaJhjkavnhj7

To view the recent documentary, Sacred Tobacco, about my work, visit: https://youtu.be/KB0JEQALI_w

I will be guiding our next plant medicine dietas with my colleague Merav Artzi (who I interviewed in episode 28) in:

February 15-March 15: Sacred Valley of Peru

June 7-14: Remote Online Dieta

July 10-27: Westport, Ireland

November 2-30: Sacred Valley of Peru

If you would like more information about joining us and the work I do or about future retreats, visit my site at: https://NicotianaRustica.org

Integration/Consultation call: https://jasongrechanik.setmore.com