Shamanism - Other Worlds

Ayahuasca is an ethnogen used by Shamans in Latin America to heal people. Sickness is often mental or spiritual, because people get cut off from the source. Ayahuasca finds he cause so the shaman can find the cure.

Interestingly, ayahuasca does not cause addiction, leaves no sign of toxic poisoning in the system, and causes serotonin levels to rise. Most drugs reduce the levels of serotonin in the brain. Of course, this medicine should only be taken if you are ill, it's not something you take for a mental vacation, to escape your everyday life.

Much of the documentary is in French and Spanish with subtitles. The experience of the Frenchman who takes the medicine seems typical for modern western culture. We fear death so badly that we forget to live. We make ourselves ill, calling death closer with our screams of fear.