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AYAHUASCA
expansion of the consciousness

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The idea was always to show
the history of the Ayahuasca tea.

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From its origin in the Amazon forest
to its arrival in cities like São Paulo.

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But then I thought...

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Why not experience the real cure?

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They say that when you drink the tea you must
to have a goal in mind

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Among many things that I need to heal
I've chosen one, my relationship with my father

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A relationship that has always been distance
That I haven't had the courage to face.

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It is not easy for a person like you

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to make a documentary like this.

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You have to feel it; you have to live
your spiritual process as well, your cure.

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You have to learn what you do
for it all to make sense..

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You can never talk about
a cure if you have never healed

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You can never say: You have been
through it when you haven't.

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Mainly because you have not
come to make a documentary of...

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You have come to talk
about the medicine, the most sacred.

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It is your responsibility to take

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what people will also see
and feel it as well.

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So what you are doing
is truly embracing this reality

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but in order to do so, you must
experience this reality.

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There is nothing untrue here,
what you see is life

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and everything you are living,
I am not making it up.

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This is the life of my people,
our everyday lives.

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Village Nova Esperança
Yawanawás people

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Putanny and I became
more than a marriage.

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By the way, my marriage with her
was one of the most difficult among the Masters

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Because I come from a
family of arranged marriages

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and Putanny is not my promised one

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So we entered into another
part of this civilization

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Which was the wanting and liking

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and the choice of being a husband and a wife.

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We chose to be just the two of us.

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Yawá Yawanawá
Shaman, dead at 2018

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We are from the wind, magic

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We are from the chant;
That's how our marriages are.

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We do not have many material
objects to symbolize marriage.

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Mainly a paper that has to be signed.

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The greatest pain and regret of your father had
Was that he walked by himself to our wedding

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He wanted his mother present

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my father-in-law said he was going to take her

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But he didn't
because I was pregnant.

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So your father walked into church crying
because he didn't have his mother by his side.

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Your mother and I almost split up several times.

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Your upbringing at home was very bad

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I am sure of that
And I blame myself for that

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I believe that you would have
a much better condition

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if we could have gotten along better
and lived a more normal life.

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I am the feminine leader.

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I am my mother's leadership.
And I honor that with great love.

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Putanny's life represents that to me

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She adds to this moment.

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I always think of my people's spirituality

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as a very sacred ground.

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So it is kind of a spiritual rebirth.

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It's having the privilege to say:

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“If I were to be reborn I would take this or this away,
I would like to be this person”.

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Actually, Putanny wanted to be the
first female shaman of our history

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Because a shaman is the one
who prays for the spiritual guides

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it comes from magic

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I had never heard of a Yawanawa woman

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with the role of a shaman,
with real spiritual leadership.

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In the year of 2005

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My sister and I received a spiritual calling
to come and challenge this ground.

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Until that moment, it was only done by men

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Because a woman had never challenged
spirituality and our tradition

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It is so true that we had never known in our civilization

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that a woman was a spiritual leader

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or that a woman participated in a
cure work in an Ayahuasca ceremony.

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It was very difficult because

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we were breaking a tradition
inside our tradition.

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"What do you want to do?
This is not for women"

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"this is for men,
it cannot be accepted!"

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We were questioned by many people

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Some said no, we couldn't break our tradition
Like it was the rule

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It was as if somebody wrote this
and it has to be this way

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We can't break this.

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When we start the preparation,
when we are going to make Feitío do Uni

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We prepare 2 or 3 days in a week.

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If you are married,
you can't sleep with your wife.

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If you really want to do something, like have a
drink to make you feel good

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you can't eat sweets
until you finished that Feitío de Uni

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because there you will put your
thought and your dedication.

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The word Ayahuasca refers to a vine

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It is a Quechua word

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Which is commonly translated to
the soul vine or the vine of the dead.

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Ayahuasca is used
by about 70 Amazon peoples

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which speak at least
twenty different languages.

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The Ayahuasca plant
is usually cooked

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And transformed into a drink
with the same name.

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So Ayahuasca is a word,
which refers to both the vine,

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as well as the drink,
that is the tea.

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We make it a request

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we speak in our minds
and in our hearts.

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Look, I have planted you,
you've enjoyed

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And know I will harvest you

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so I can drink you,
to find my goals

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The search for peace through you

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because you are a great spirit.

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To make the Ayahuasca you have
to cook it for a long time in water.

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Two plants, a vine with the scientific
name Banisteriopsis Caapi

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and a bush, called Chacrona, Psychotria Viridis
and it can be called Rainha (Queen).

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If you take this quality of leaf
the “mirage” fails, they don't work

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The visions caused by Ayahuasca
happen with eyes closed

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this has a name in the religious traditions of
Ayahuasca and the name is “mirage”.

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We hear a lot of talking in the news about
the tea saying that it is hallucinogenic

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I don't really like this term when
we are talking about Ayahuasca.

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First, the term hallucinogenic is
quite inappropriate even when

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It is applied to the substance that has
the most evident visual effect with eyes open.

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Why am I talking about this?
Because...when you are talking about a hallucination

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you are talking about something
that is seen with your eyes open.

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Even the hallucinogen, they do not cause hallucinations,
they cause visual distortions.

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Ayahuasca has also a characteristic which
is well reinforced in some indigenous traditions

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as well and very reinforced
in Brazilian religious traditions too

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because it brings perceptions on the
conduct of the person who took it.

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About yourself

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As if the person could be
looking at the things they are doing

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With an easiness of realizing that the
things they are doing are not okay

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and that maybe it is time to change.

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A very interesting thing is

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that if you make a separate
tea from both of the plants

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they will not have the same effect.

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The tea made from Psychotria
of the Queen Charona, has no effect

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And the tea made from the vine
seems to have a sedative effect

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it gives a certain drowsiness,
some physical effects

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but it does not bring the
expansion of the consciousness

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and the psychedelic effect that only happens
when both plants are combined.

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And it is here, beating and mentalizing

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talking with medicine:
I am making this to take it you

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to feel good, to be more open
in our thoughts and at our work.

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And we always
do it like that

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There is no rush
because all this force goes into work.

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DMT is Dimethyltryptamine

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a simple molecule
very similar to a neurotransmitter

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which we have in our bodies,
called serotonin.

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The DMT is present in the
metabolism of hundreds of plants

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including the Psychotria viridis,
or the queen, that is used in Ayahuasca.

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DMT is so simple

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that if we ingest a tea or
leaves that contains DMT

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we will not feel any effect
because we digest it

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and before it hits our blood,
it is no longer DMT.

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It was digested in the stomach,
intestine as well as in the liver

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and that is done through an enzyme,
which is monoamine oxidase

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And the Ayahuasca vine inhibits this enzyme

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and the capacity
of the body to digest DMT

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That's why when you combine the plant that
contains DMT and the Ayahuasca vine

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the effects of the DMT will appear
in the brain and in the mind of the person

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because it can go through the digestion.

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When we are outside, in São Paulo,
in many places in Brazil

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I go with an Indian tribe, talk about our peoples,
talk about going to an Indian tribe.

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You never know how it is going to be

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I know that, I have already been
to public schools, studying before

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I saw how the people there are studying,
how they see the Brazilian Indian.

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I have never opened up my heart to say
who I am, or what I think.

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I chose this path, the same path of my ancestors

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my predecessors, my grandparents

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2.700 different species of healing
medicines catalogued

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We are waiting with our arms opened
when it concerns the Brazil that recognizes us

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When the humanity that recognizes us as a nation,
as people capable of joining another science

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When we are treated as Indians, as incompetents

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as the original people of the forest
who do not have feelings

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And that has scientific knowledge that
can help humanity, we will remain in silence.

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The first time I took the medicine

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My father asked Tata to prepare the medicine.

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He prepared it and at night
in a large shohu (very large and open hut)

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with my father sitting in a hammock,
rocking back and forth

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Tatá Yawanawá
Shaman, dead at 2016

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I was thinking, what is going to happen?

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Then I saw that huge cup
I took it and swallowed at once

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and a thought came to give back.

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I took it all, and as I was drinking that cup

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I felt a shiver going through my body

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I was thinking something
was going to happen

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And always that thought telling to give back

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After 5 minutes I felt it...

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I started feeling a reaction in my body

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What is going on?
The first thing was an impulse inside my heart.

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Something said:
Look up, look at me

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- Who is talking to me?
- Look up, look here at me

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I looked up and I saw the moon,
very low, very beautiful.

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When I looked at the moon

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I felt like saying to the moon:
- You are so beautiful

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I want to be your daughter,
I want to meet you

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I want to be like you so bright,
your light radiates the world

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I want to shine, you are so shinny

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But I look at me
and I don't even know who I am.

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I look at myself and see a void

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I wish I could know myself.

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I want to know who I am.
I want to know where I came from.

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How did I come? What am I doing here?
What am I doing?

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Many define as an experience relative to a year’s
therapy done in one afternoon, and one night

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The person is in contact with
so much repressed psychological material.

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It is from the beginning of childhood
and it comes with such a strong emotional power

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with impactful images and complex symbolism

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Not everything is always clear and rational a
s it would be in a verbal psychotherapy.

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It is a shock and at that moment
support and context is fundamental.

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When we talk about psychoactive effects

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and evidently, Ayahuasca is psychoactive

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A question that comes to mind is:
- Is it a drug?

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Are we talking about a drug?

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I think we can answer this question by thinking
what do we mean with the word drug?

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If drug means a substance that causes
an alteration in our organism

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So it is a drug just like any other drug,
like alcohol, Novalgina, penicillin...

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All of these will cause alteration in our organism.

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So in the pharmaceutical and medical point of view

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it induces alterations so we can call it a drug.

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But in this case we are talking
about the pharmaceutical drug

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rather than the crack house drug.

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When my children were younger

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I always told them this one thing.

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You can do anything you want,
but don't do drugs.

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On that fateful day, we knew.

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We had no idea why he took
this path of using cocaine.

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And he immediately said goodbye and left.

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I particularly didn't understand that need
and what the origin of that was.

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That night he told his father

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I tried many times to be close to you.

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I always wanted to talk to you.
then everything goes down the drain.

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Jaime is not the father who goes up to
his children and says, how are you?

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He was always very quiet.
He wouldn't even ask about their occupation.

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The consciousness theme is a
theme that requires a lot of humility.

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The consciousness might be the most
difficult scientific issue of all.

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Because the consciousness is the subjective aspect,
it is our experience of the world

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It is my feeling of seeing the ocean's blue

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Science has had success in looking outside
In eliminating the subjective

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and objectively studying the physical phenomenon
that compose matter and energy.

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Santo Daime is a religious syncretism,
the foundation of the Brazilian culture

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Which is the black, the Indian,
and the White, the colonizer.

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Santo Daime adds to the African culture
And we can see that in the Indians, Barum...

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Signs of the Indian
community, the maracá .

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And also the Christian part
white people's culture, a pure Christianity.

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This syncretism is very important because it is
the authentic cultural manifestation of our country.

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Most of the interviewers
don't want to listen to what you have to say.

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They want you to answer what they
want to research and not in a wider sense.

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They come in the focus they want.

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So people come in the search
of the “getting high” moment

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sometimes they would take
a brother at a given moment

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just to show “look how weird it is”
isn't it true?

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Just completely out of context.

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It doesn't have interest for the interviewers...

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Have you seen any interviews which
proposed to show

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Who in fact is healing?
How are they healing?

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So where are the cures?

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No one has ever come to do a
interview with us like that

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and you end up not knowing
if people were cured or not.

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They come to know about getting high

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about why you have to drink a tea
to be connected with the Divine?

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What is happening with people's lives?

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Master Irineu is from the Northeast

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he came with other northeastern
people who went to cut rubber trees

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with the promise of a new Eldorado.

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On the border of Peru and Bolivia
he got to know the Ayahuasca tea

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and there were two friends
who already knew about the tea

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It was André Costa and Antonio Costa.

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When he took the drink,
he saw a cruise in the sky.

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And this cruise there was a lady
sitting on the moon

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Our Holy Lady of Conceição.
From this view

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He starts receiving lessons from this lady

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And she said:
“Now you are going to sing, sing these lessons”.

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He went through all the initiation
process of the shaman.

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He was isolated in the forest, no women,
sex abstinence, and alcoholic abstinence, a diet

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That was when Master Irineu started
receiving his spiritual lessons in the forest.

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When he goes back to Rio Branco,
approximately in the 50's

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He puts together a small group, because
he received from Our Holy Lady of Conceição

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The drink with the name of Daime for him to give.
He was supposed to give to whoever asked

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(Daime) Give me strength,
give me light, give me peace

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give whatever the person needed.
It is the verb to give.

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Already with the name of Daime,
he returns to Rio Branco and creates a center.

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And it was a Daime center
initially only with black people.

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That center started receiving people
and healing them

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and as time went by,
that small group expanded

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and started receiving people of all
social and economic levels.

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The politicians also,
the politicians from Acre went there

00:28:23.219 --> 00:28:27.511
because the one Master Irineu supported
would always win the election.

00:28:27.803 --> 00:28:31.219
They said Master Irineu never left his chair.

00:28:31.219 --> 00:28:38.095
He would just sit there and with his thoughts
he helped to calm the person down.

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A black man almost 7 foot tall,
wearing 11,5 a size shoe

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who possibly came from those tall, giant black tribes.
So he brings this African culture.

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Making Ayahuasca takes time and dedication

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And in the context of the Brazilian Ayahuasca
religions they are very noble moments.

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Many scholars had already talked about
The expansion of what they called green churches.

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That we could see that go beyond
the Santo Daime there is União do Vegetal

00:29:22.386 --> 00:29:24.678
and the Barquinha and other institutions

00:29:24.928 --> 00:29:30.761
which use the Ayahuasca as a sacrament
of their spiritual works.

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It is not any person who can prepare
a drink like this, there is a ritual

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A harvest, the right moon, there is a diet
that people have to follow

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There is the clean and pure thought
there cannot be a fight or any confusion.

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Master Irineu is like a river that
made several tributaries

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One of them was Godfather Sebastião

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who founded what today is the Céu do Mapiá.

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It is a Daimist community and an important
destination for the followers of the religion.

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With the master's work growing

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and when it came to the 70's,
the history of Godfather Sebastião begins.

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I am the brightness of the sun,
I am the brightness of the moon,

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I am the brightness of the stars
because all accompany me

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I am the brightness of the stars
because all accompany me

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He already had a spiritual work, he already received
the medium surgeon Bezerra de menezes

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and performed the surgeries.

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And he receives people distant from
the rubber plantations, even from Cruzeiro do Sul

00:31:14.386 --> 00:31:18.386
3 days in a boat, and they would go there
to heal themselves with Godfather Sebastião

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Just a reminder that Godfather Sebastião
was the main expander of the Doctrine

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outside the borders of the
Amazon and of Brazil.

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Master Irineu was the founder and
Godfather Sebastião was its expander

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Before Godfather Sebastião, Santo Daime was
very limited to Rio Branco and the neighbor areas

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Godfather Sebastião received many foreigners
So the people who arrived there were amazed

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Because they were young people
in search of some meaning to life,

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something different from that society.

00:32:03.511 --> 00:32:09.511
And they saw that there was a society
that did not have the problems of a capitalist society

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Daime began to spread,
more and more people came

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They were telling each other.
The Godfather gave this trust vow

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so the Daime could reach the entire world.

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Brazil has a somewhat restricted positioning
regarding Ayahuasca therapeutic medical use.

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There is a resolution from the Federal Government

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That was drawn and went through
a wide process of consultancy and studies

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involving anthropologists and psychiatrists,
Church leaders and other members of society

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They concluded that the religious use of
Ayahuasca was not harmful

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That Ayahuasca does not cause
chemical dependency so it was authorized.

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The same resolution says that
the therapeutic use of Ayahuasca

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will only be authorized if scientific research proves

00:33:17.302 --> 00:33:21.344
the therapeutic potential that
people say Ayahuasca has.

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Practically all forbidden drugs have
an undesirable social group

00:33:27.261 --> 00:33:31.219
Right after alcohol was legalized in the USA

00:33:31.469 --> 00:33:36.552
there was a whole police force who where in charge of
the prohibition of alcohol that became unemployed.

00:33:37.011 --> 00:33:41.177
They quickly decided that
marijuana would be the focus

00:33:41.177 --> 00:33:45.594
Because it was this weird drug
smoked by Mexicans or by black people.

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In Brazil, it was smoked by black people
and by people from the northeast

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So there was an undesirable social group

00:33:50.928 --> 00:33:56.344
where it was easy to establish
a social control process.

00:33:56.678 --> 00:34:03.511
The hippies from the 60's were anti-warfare
and against the Vietnam war

00:34:03.886 --> 00:34:07.678
It was easier controlling the drugs they used
than controlling someone against war.

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In the case of the Ayahuasca,
there is no undesirable social group

00:34:14.053 --> 00:34:17.636
and that was mainly the process
in which it was regulated.

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A democratic process of social inclusion
that included Ayahuasca drinkers.

00:34:23.928 --> 00:34:26.427
All this process was inclusive.

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Social factors are important to us
to understand why Ayahuasca is legal in Brazil

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and legal for ritual use.

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Religion does not depend on Science to exist

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We don't have to justify each of the effects
of the Ayahuasca scientifically

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for people to have transforming
experiences in their lives.

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This is an essentially personal
element for each individual.

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I think there is a personal path

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For those who are going to die
and have this in their minds.

00:35:17.177 --> 00:35:23.344
They are looking for answers in order
to survive the awareness of this fact.

00:35:23.344 --> 00:35:29.928
And why part of this discovery process
cannot be as well a discovery of how the world works?

00:35:30.135 --> 00:35:35.636
How do molecules interact?
How do animals behave?

00:35:35.636 --> 00:35:40.095
How is it that we are such complex
animals and behave so well?

00:35:40.386 --> 00:35:44.302
For me, one thing does not exclude the other.
There has to be the precision of science in science.

00:35:44.719 --> 00:35:49.970
But we don't need science to prove religion
or science to disapprove it.

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I have always imagined God as a figure of a man

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A figure of a father

00:37:09.723 --> 00:37:11.796
A very punishing father

00:37:14.168 --> 00:37:17.890
I think that was the reason I was never
really able to speak to my father.

00:37:21.411 --> 00:37:25.657
I really wanted for Ayahuasca to solve
all the issues I have with my father

00:37:26.931 --> 00:37:30.127
The entire cowardliness I have of not being
able to speak to my father

00:37:30.402 --> 00:37:33.045
of not feeling comfortable in his presence.

00:37:33.974 --> 00:37:38.369
But Ayahuasca made it clear
that it wouldn't do that for me.

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I didn't know how to give you
the love you needed

00:37:46.135 --> 00:37:53.427
I feel that when you get close to me,
there is a fear that I also have.

00:37:53.427 --> 00:37:56.719
It is a fear we have of one another
I don't know why.

00:37:57.427 --> 00:38:02.053
It was the way you were raised
and how I was raised

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and we unfortunately
couldn't make it right in time

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But I never had my father's support

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I don't want to crucify him,
But he was always a step back,

00:38:15.844 --> 00:38:20.053
he wanted us to study at any cost

00:38:20.053 --> 00:38:23.177
But without to spending money on our education.

00:38:23.552 --> 00:38:35.636
After all the difficulties I went through
with graduation, my marriage,

00:38:36.552 --> 00:38:43.844
after all that, I wanted perfection with you guys.
I wanted you to be perfect

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But I didn't have my father's support.
He didn't even go to my wedding.

00:38:49.344 --> 00:38:50.678
Why did he not go to your wedding?

00:38:51.177 --> 00:38:52.386
He didn't want to.

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– Is this a weight?
– It meant a lot.

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He didn't let my mother go

00:39:12.261 --> 00:39:13.761
I feel so sorry about that

00:39:14.761 --> 00:39:16.427
It meant a lot to me

00:39:18.970 --> 00:39:21.719
So, I was alone in that period

00:39:22.636 --> 00:39:28.053
Greice was born and right after
we went on with life.

00:39:28.511 --> 00:39:34.177
We worked a lot
and then you came.

00:39:35.427 --> 00:39:40.261
I remember that when you were little
I was able to hug you

00:39:44.302 --> 00:39:47.469
and kiss you.

00:39:48.636 --> 00:39:52.011
When you grew up
I couldn't anymore

00:39:52.678 --> 00:39:55.636
That was a huge weight in my life.

00:39:56.886 --> 00:39:59.511
Ah, but it's okay

00:40:00.803 --> 00:40:03.552
It's life.
Life is not only joy.

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The Shamanism is not only indigenous people.

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It goes through them as well,
but I am talking about the time men were nomads.

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It is important to say that
Shamanism is not a religion.

00:42:12.886 --> 00:42:15.135
But it is a set of religious practices

00:42:15.427 --> 00:42:17.469
Not an institutionalized religion

00:42:17.844 --> 00:42:22.386
like Christianity, which has a master, Christ.

00:42:22.386 --> 00:42:26.011
Buddhism has Buddha
Taoism has Lao-Tse.

00:42:26.177 --> 00:42:31.803
Shamanism has the sun, the moon,
stars, wind, earth, fire, water and air.

00:42:32.344 --> 00:42:36.761
It is common in all these people
that made these earth medicines

00:42:36.844 --> 00:42:40.719
The mastery of fire,
the flight of the soul,

00:42:40.719 --> 00:42:45.552
the altered states of consciousness
and the lucid dreams.

00:42:45.552 --> 00:42:47.427
This is all part of the Shamanism world

00:42:47.552 --> 00:42:51.219
there is no point in limiting
something that is extremely broad.

00:42:51.636 --> 00:42:55.599
We are talking maybe about the
cell matter of medicine.

00:42:57.110 --> 00:43:00.235
There a very important theme in psychiatry.

00:43:00.235 --> 00:43:07.694
Psychiatry still views mental disorder almost exclusively
as concerning the patient as individual.

00:43:08.110 --> 00:43:11.652
In Shamanism, the native american cultures

00:43:11.736 --> 00:43:20.861
Their conceptions of a mental disorder is a problem
of the collective that affects the community.

00:43:20.861 --> 00:43:26.653
They conceive all of this as evil spirits,
spirits that bring illnesses and that affect everything

00:43:26.819 --> 00:43:29.028
If we stop to think carefully

00:43:29.153 --> 00:43:33.362
when a person has depression,
the family is affected

00:43:33.570 --> 00:43:37.945
marriage is affected, children are affected,
the community is affected.

00:43:37.945 --> 00:43:41.445
It affects the person's life in their company,
the company can suffer

00:43:41.528 --> 00:43:44.862
Because the patient is not being productive,
is not handling it.

00:43:44.904 --> 00:43:47.446
So it is in fact a collective issue.

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The great truth is that...

00:43:53.613 --> 00:43:59.404
I am sorry by whoever is touched
by these words, but the system...

00:43:59.404 --> 00:44:04.238
we have today and which we live in,
is not made for people to be happy.

00:44:04.821 --> 00:44:08.322
The system was made for
some people to be happy, not for all.

00:44:08.946 --> 00:44:13.405
Few people can say I am thoroughly happy.

00:44:14.113 --> 00:44:21.322
Aristotle said: the authentic happiness
comes from an individual

00:44:21.447 --> 00:44:27.822
who can put into practice and
express the totality of your gifts and talents

00:44:27.822 --> 00:44:29.822
or in other words,
the person does what she wants.

00:44:29.822 --> 00:44:31.822
And likes to do.

00:44:44.406 --> 00:44:50.698
Ayahuasca at this table

00:44:53.281 --> 00:44:58.990
Add all fragrances

00:45:01.907 --> 00:45:07.199
And the ancestral chants

00:45:10.324 --> 00:45:16.574
Going on showing the wonders

00:45:20.741 --> 00:45:26.991
But it also shows the shadows

00:45:31.033 --> 00:45:35.991
It is the power to transform

00:47:23.205 --> 00:47:25.412
We have a very cool relationship

00:47:26.038 --> 00:47:29.163
It is a father-son relationship, you know?

00:47:29.246 --> 00:47:35.871
But I have this problem of holding him
and giving him love and everything.

00:47:36.121 --> 00:47:40.705
I have already studied a lot and searched
a lot to understand these issues with you and your son.

00:47:40.914 --> 00:47:43.288
he must be feeling this difficult you know?

00:47:43.538 --> 00:47:47.413
And you have seen that it
goes from generation to generation.

00:47:47.622 --> 00:47:50.455
Do you think your father didn't want
to live with affection Fausto?

00:47:50.497 --> 00:47:53.164
Don't continue what we have
already seen in the past

00:47:53.206 --> 00:47:57.414
If you have seen a mistake in the relationship
you had with your father.

00:47:57.414 --> 00:48:00.623
Make the difference, change,
make your history.

00:48:18.457 --> 00:48:20.123
Everyone has a guiding voice.

00:48:20.499 --> 00:48:22.915
In the strength of Ayahuasca
it becomes clear.

00:48:24.165 --> 00:48:28.457
It asked me if I was really ready
for this new consciousness

00:48:29.248 --> 00:48:33.415
It told me I would have problems,
maybe even bigger ones than before.

00:48:33.791 --> 00:48:37.582
So it told me I had become
a master of my experiences.

00:48:37.832 --> 00:48:42.749
And that I would have to choose between
continuing to be a master of everything I saw

00:48:43.291 --> 00:48:45.333
or an apprentice of what is yet to come.

00:48:53.500 --> 00:48:56.666
I think it's important that my
father is more loving.

00:48:56.875 --> 00:49:01.792
Because then I will be more loving
and we can go on our journey.

00:49:02.583 --> 00:49:05.666
New stuff like that.
Leave the shallowness.

00:49:11.917 --> 00:49:14.292
The expansion of the consciousness
is something that...

00:49:14.709 --> 00:49:18.292
Frightens a lot the society
and the way it is established.

00:49:19.417 --> 00:49:22.918
thats why they banned psychedelics in the 70's
they were not illegal

00:49:23.001 --> 00:49:26.001
they were substances that were there

00:49:26.001 --> 00:49:32.001
set out to be worked by humanity
in the best possible before the prohibition.

00:49:33.043 --> 00:49:36.251
They were not banned for no reason.

00:49:36.543 --> 00:49:43.210
In a society that is still much focused
in who is better than the other is.

00:49:43.377 --> 00:49:46.710
The one who wins is good,
not the one who cooperates.

00:49:46.794 --> 00:49:48.502
There is still too much focus on this idea.

00:49:48.543 --> 00:49:53.335
It brought us to a place where we are now
We are living an existential crossroad

00:49:54.919 --> 00:50:01.086
Our conflicts, at home, with our relatives
as well as between nations.

00:50:01.544 --> 00:50:04.002
They are connected to our mental models.

00:50:04.211 --> 00:50:09.461
So these are the signs that his
mental model is exhausted

00:50:09.503 --> 00:50:11.586
I went to Acre, I am from Rio

00:50:11.628 --> 00:50:14.419
Because I thought I was going
to participate in the armed revolution.

00:50:14.419 --> 00:50:18.920
I was going to work with communities
and when I first got to know the Daime

00:50:18.920 --> 00:50:22.170
I realized that the great revolution
is your own evolution.

00:50:22.544 --> 00:50:26.711
Do you know who you are? What you are doing here?
What is your mission?

00:50:28.295 --> 00:50:31.379
Of everything I live,
everything I see.

00:50:31.796 --> 00:50:34.796
I would like to be like the sun,
I would like to be like the moon

00:50:34.796 --> 00:50:38.796
I would like to be like this wish
I have made to the moon, I want to shine

00:50:39.462 --> 00:50:41.462
I want to be eternal as the moon

00:50:41.462 --> 00:50:45.171
I want to shine, and I want to be great.

00:50:45.504 --> 00:50:51.505
Great in a good sense,
great in the sense of light, great in love

00:50:52.754 --> 00:50:57.505
There goes the rich guy there: I want love,
how much can I take from love?

00:50:57.505 --> 00:51:02.171
You do not take from love, you have to live love,
you have to deserve love.

00:51:03.421 --> 00:51:12.005
And in this path, spirituality
gives you people, feelings, charm

00:51:12.005 --> 00:51:14.005
it gives life, the world to you.

00:51:21.798 --> 00:51:25.172
There are people who have material assets.

00:51:25.172 --> 00:51:30.464
I have this, I have that, but the person is
afraid of lightning, afraid of the dark.

00:51:30.464 --> 00:51:35.006
Weren't you great? Weren't you powerful?
Weren't you handsome?

00:51:35.298 --> 00:51:36.756
Where is your courage?

00:51:39.631 --> 00:51:43.673
It is amazing how we can feel the love passing

00:51:43.673 --> 00:51:47.173
when you have your channels opened it

00:51:49.882 --> 00:51:53.256
is a lot of peace, it is a lot of love.

00:51:57.423 --> 00:52:03.132
Script and Direction - Fausto Noro