Knowledge:
Between the limits of a “drug”
user o a “drug” addict.
Ayahuasca
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“Liane of the spirits”
“The wine of the
dead”
Schultes and Hofman:
“The web of the soul”
“The rope of the
strangled”
Ayahuasca
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Prepared and
consumed within
sacred ritual context
Chamans posses the
knowledge of its
preparation.
Banisteriopsis caapi
Chacruna
Chamanism
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Xaman: root scha, which
means Knowledge.
Chaman: The one who
knows. His wisdom
comes from the world of
the spirits, of the plants.
Existence of another
dimension full of beauty
and harmony that gives
us knowledge.
Chaman
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Ecstatic mystic,
curandero, spiritual guide,
carrier of myths, know
about the history and
culture of his tribe.
Knowledge on the
preservation of the
environment and plants.
Chamanic sessions have a
public character.
Takiwasi
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“The house that sings”
Jacques Mabit (1992).
Research and use of
traditional medicine and
the modern medicine
techniques in addiction
treatments.
Therapy: Ayahuasca as
principal tool and a
Chaman directs the
ingestion.
Takiwasi
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An addict is a person in
search for answers about
the “being”. The objective
is to guide that spiritual
search.
“An addict is a believer
and what he/she needs is
someone to guide his/her
experience.”
Chaman–Psychotherapy –
Psychoanalysis.
“The solitary drug use of
capitalism” Vs. “The collective ways
as in chamanism” (Guattari)
Ranciere: The ignorant
Schoolmaster
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Knowledge is not necessary to teaching.
Aesthetics is an immanent dimension of knowledge.
Judgments of taste are in fact incorporated social
judgments.
New kinds of artwork create new communities and ways
for people to relate to one another. This gives them a
possible relation to politics.
It would be necessary another act of faith on the
thought’s of “another”, of that which represents a
“theoretical fiction”.
Ranciere:
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“Drugs” as the emancipator master.
It is possible to teach the democracy that we
ignore to create conditions so that others can
learn what we don’t know.
Question: How do we teach addicts what we
don’t know?
Storytelling presumes an equality of intelligence
rather than an inequality of knowledge.
The circle of power, on the other hand, can only
take effect by being made public.
Emancipation:
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From being an addict to being a poet.