Rastafari, Africa and the Amazon: A Cultural Evolution

A story of how a Rastafari village in Jamaica that always revered cannabis came to incorporate other plant medicine entheogens into their spiritual practice; a reasoning on the meaning of indigeneity, the interweaving of African, Amazonian and Rastafari traditions; the sacramental approach vs. the therapeutic model, the role of personal and social responsibility in the psychedelic experience and more. A focus on the teaching of plants and nature as guiding principles that connect all those who submit to the earth as the ultimate source of existence; an exploration of how nature based values and concepts overcome the disconnection of language and origins.