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If recreational and medical use of marijuana is becoming accepted, can the spiritual use as well? Experiential journalist Rak Razam interviews Hamilton Souther, one of the more prominent Western ayahuasca shamans and the founder of the Blue Morpho lodge outside Iquitos. He is also pioneering ‘Cannabis Shamanism’ using the songs and structure of his ayahuasca lineage with cannabis as the active sacrament. Cannabis has been revered as sacred by Hindus, Rastafarians and others, and with Souther’s ‘420 Shamanism’ movement there is the opportunity to resacralize the West’s dominant recreational drug into something more, at the same time as marijuana legalisation sweeps America. Is this the start of a cannabis-shamanism revival, as the modality of shamanism itself crosses the tipping point into the mainstream? A provocative interview that will challenge your conceptions of what shamanism is, and how it can be integrated into the West…

The 420 Cannabis Shamanism Movement launches April 20th, 2014. For more information, see: http://www.hamiltonsouther.org

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