Destination: Ayahuasca

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/01/05/ayahuasca-plant-healing-soul/

Yet another uncritical, cheerleading article about ayahuasca has appeared in the mainstream media, this time in the unlikeliest of venues, the website of Fox News. It contains this paragraph:

“For the person who has never participated in an ayahuasca ceremony, it is easy to assume that the brew causes the drinker to hallucinate, and that this explains . . . → Read More: Ayahuasca on Fox News

Fulfilling my obligation to the Cottonwood Research Foundation for a quarterly report as described in our contract for fiscal sponsorship:

November 22, 2010

Since this is my first report to Cottonwood, I’ll tell about what happened from the film project’s inception until now.

Origin of the Film Idea

This spring, I returned from three months in the Amazon. I had . . . → Read More: Quarterly Report to the Cottonwood Research Foundation

I just launched a new crowdfunding campaign at Indiegogo.

The first fundraising goal of $500 by July 31, 2010 is for the inexpensive backup camera and lavalier microphone I’ll be taking to Peru, and a trip to New York City to interview some ayahuasca shamanic apprentices. In case anything happens to the main camera, with the backup . . . → Read More: Crowdfunding

I’m promoting Destination: Ayahuasca on social networking websites. If you belong to one (or more) of these, please give this project a boost by clicking on these links. I even signed up for a Twitter account, which I had promised myself I would never do, but for this movie I’m willing to tweet about my movie-related . . . → Read More: Social Networking

I was hit by a bolt of inspiration that I could do it too, and do it better. I had watched every documentary about ayahuasca that’s available online, and  enjoyed them all. Each in their own way explains the basic facts about ayahuasca: where it’s from, how it’s brewed, why it is consumed, and what ceremonies . . . → Read More: Project Launched, Website Launched!