#47 Listening to Ayahuasca with Rachel Harris
Rachel Harris, PhD is the author of Listening to Ayahuasca. She received a National Institutes of Health New Investigator’s Award, has published more than forty scientific studies in peer- reviewed journals, and has worked as a psychological consultant to Fortune 500 companies and the United Nations.
LISTENING TO AYAHUASCA: New Book Offers Hope for Depression, Addiction, PTSD, & Anxiety. Used for thousands of years by indigenous tribes of the Amazon rainforest, the mystical brew known as ayahuasca is now being used by increasing numbers of people in Western countries. The tea, composed of two plants, contains DMT (dimethyltriptamine), a powerful and illegal psychedelic with great therapeutic potential. A growing list of celebrities, including Sting and Chelsea Handler, have shared how their ayahuasca experiences changed their lives. These stories are often dramatic and seemingly miraculous. People in search of ayahuasca tend to be well-educated, sophisticated and are often called cultural creatives. Some are hoping for relief from psychiatric illnesses after failing to find help from Western medicine. Others are seeking personal healing, consciousness exploration or spiritual experience. Some people travel to South America to drink ayahuasca; others find discreet ceremonies in North America. The enclosed advance reading copy of Listening to Ayahuasca: New Hope for Depression, Addiction, PTSD, and Anxiety (New World Library, March 15, 2017) explores how ayahuasca is being used in a Western, psychospiritual context. The book is based on Dr. Rachel Harris’s original research which stands as the largest study to date of the ayahuasca underground in North America. Dr. Harris includes stories from her own journeys with ayahuasca and how she integrated those experiences into her daily life. Chapters explore the shamanic ritual use of ayahuasca, mediumship in the ayahuasca churches from Brazil, the shadow side of the medicine, and the latest research on how the medicine opens the opportunity for therapeutic breakthroughs. The book will help people thinking about exploring ayahuasca to make an informed decision. It will give those who have experienced the medicine creative ways to work therapeutically with their experiences. And it will offer insight to therapists who work with people after their ayahuasca journeys.
In this episode Rachel and I continue the discussion of the many wonders of ayahuasca and specifically how it has the potential to facilitate healing of the heart.
“It is a chance to open up more inner freedom and see things differently. This cannot be underestimated for it can be a major energetic shift. ”
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