Healing and health management practices around the world.
Join us for our fourth installment in the ‘Actions to Decolonising Development’ video series, where our Research and Policy Analyst, Sena Voncujovi, and Economist Consultant, Rugare Mukanganga, sit down with Dr. Lili Lai, Associate Professor of Anthropology at PKU, and Dr. Diarra Boubacar, a medical doctor with a Ph.D. in…
Hello my beloved Suga Honey Dumplings! Today I am circling back to a subject I spoke about a while ago. Let’s talk about my personal recommendations when it comes to choosing the right spiritual guide, guru, and teacher for you. Today we are going to get into my first three…
Bewitching and beautiful, spiritual and sparkling – colourful stones, crystals and gems have been used throughout human history for devotion and decoration. For centuries, these natural curiosities have been gathered from the landscape and crafted into intimate objects which often have amuletic (protective), or healing properties when worn, carried, or…
Psychedelics have been recognized as model interventions for studying altered states of consciousness. However, few empirical studies of the shamanic state of consciousness, which is anecdotally similar to the psychedelic state, exist. We investigated the neural correlates of shamanic trance using high-density electroencephalography (EEG) in 24 shamanic practitioners and 24…
If you come back with a messiah complex you did it wrong and your guides were probably not Indigenous trained. One of the big tasks I believe people have post-ceremony, is to rigorously challenge our assumptions about self, ego mind, what may be an insight during ceremony, and what may…
An important question and discussion. Urusula and her guests talk about the stigma of mental issues and illness, combined with mistrust for often hostile systems, that keeps Africans from seeking help even in the Motherland. They also go into mental health support options that are more attractive than talk therapy,…
