Gnostic Media 2 shows Dark Shamans&Psychedelics Nov 2008

Gnostic Media Podcast #6. Dark Shamanism w/ prof Neil Whitehead. Nov 23 2008.

In this show we take a journey to the dark side - the dark side of shamanism - in our interview with Prof. Neil Whitehead, who was the victim of a Kanaima, or dark shaman attack in Guyana.
This show focuses on countering the New Age presentations of "shamanism" in western culture, and seeks to create balance, as well as educate about the dangers of dark shamanism - and the ignorance thereof.
Neil Whitehead is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He graduated from Oxford University in 1984 with a Ph.D. in Anthropology.

His books include:

Hans Staden’s True History: An Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil ed. By Neil Whitehead and Michael Harbsmeier, June 2008
Terror and Violence - Anthropological Approaches (ed with Andrew Strathern and Pamela Stewart, Pluto Press), 2005.
In Darkness and Secrecy. The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia. (ed. with Robin Wright) Duke University Press, 2004.
Dark Shamans. Kanaima and the Poetics of Violent Death. Duke University Press, 2002

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Gnostic Media Podcast #5. Psychedelics, the Scientific Evidence w/ doctor Charles Grob. Nov 17 2008.

Charles S. Grob, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the UCLA School of Medicine and Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He conducted the first government-approved study of MDMA, and was the principal investigator of an international biomedical psychiatric research project in the Brazilian Amazon of the brew, ayahuasca. He is currently conducting an investigation of the effects of psilocybin on anxiety in cancer patients. Dr. Grob has published numerous articles in medical and psychiatric journals and collected volumes, and is the editor of Hallucinogens: A Reader. He is a founding board member of the Heffter Research Institute.

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