ShamansGlobalVillage

A documentary series examining indigenous entheogenic medicines and the modern shamanic resurgence.

Hosted by @rakrazam & directed by @nilesheckman

[ShamansGlobalVillage @ShamansGV]

Episode 2 NOW AVAILABLE @ https://t.co/jk6eXxFaog. Here's the first excerpt https://t.co/ssliHP1lSd and stay healthy out there.

[Kekius Maximus @Kekius_Sage]

Study finds dried psilocybin mushrooms restored speech, memory, and mobility in a late stage Alzheimer’s patient.

This suggests psychedelics can unlock hidden brain functions by rewiring the brain.

[Defiant Ghost @TheDefiantGhost]

Graham Hancock argues that psychedelics and shamanism are the hidden foundation of every civilization and that Ayahuasca delivers a raw moral reckoning most people aren’t ready for.

“All civilizations, including ours, although we may deny it, all of them emerged from shamanism. Shamanism is the essence of the human adventure.”

“Psychedelics are the most efficient way to enter the altered state of consciousness.”

“Ayahuasca is a very clever technology. The Ayahuasca brew contains DMT… The Ayahuasca vine contains a chemical that shuts that enzyme down and allows the DMT to be absorbed orally producing an experience that can last for hours.”

“With experienced use of Ayahuasca, one of the very common reports is this moral dimension that you are presented with your own life… with the pain that you may have caused to others. And suddenly that pain that you caused to another person… You suddenly get it from their point of view. You feel the agony that your words caused that person.”

“You suddenly see what you are. You can’t go back into your own past and change negative and useless and pointless things that you did… but you can avoid repeating them in the future.”

“It’s helped me to come to terms with my tendency to swift anger… I’ve become gentler and softer. Not gentle enough, maybe. It’s a journey. It’s not an overnight transformation. Not a magic pill.”

“The main work with Ayahuasca comes after the medicine. The main work comes with what you do with the experience, how you integrate it into your life.”

[👾 𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐬 & 𝐏𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐬 🌵 @APsychedelics]

Classic Terence McKenna psilocybin quote 🍄‍🟫 Art by Nico Rosenfeld

[Dr Rudolf Steiner @RudolfStein2026]

Spiritual development changes your experience of time itself.

Most people assume time is a fixed river flowing from past → present → future.

Dr Steiner said this is only how ordinary consciousness perceives it.

One of the earliest signs of real spiritual development is not visions or voices, but a shift in how time is lived.

In everyday awareness we experiences "clock-time": a linear sequence imposed by the physical body and nervous system.
The past is gone, the future doesn't exist yet, and the present is a fleeting point between them.

But through meditation, moral development, concentration, and inner work, this rigid structure begins to soften.

Time becomes alive.

Moments are no longer equal.
Some become dense, luminous, saturated with meaning.
Others pass like a breath.
A single instant can feel eternal, while an hour dissolves in minutes.

This is the first hint that consciousness is becoming less bound to the physical body and beginning to awaken higher organs of perception.

Steiner goes further: two currents of time exist simultaneously.

In the physical world, time appears to flow from past to future.
In the etheric world (the realm of life forces) it moves from future toward past.

Normally these streams cancel each other, creating the illusion of a single, neutral flow.

As the soul awakens, the tension between them becomes perceptible.

The future stops feeling like an empty space waiting to arrive.
It feels like a force approaching you.
The past stops feeling dead.
It becomes active, living, present.

This can appear as intuition before events, a sense of being “ahead” of circumstances, or the quiet realization that time itself no longer behaves as it once did.

In The Threshold of the Spiritual World, Steiner describes a deeper stage where time becomes almost space-like.

Past and future can be perceived together.
Instead of being carried by time, consciousness begins to stand within it.

This is why deep meditation can make ten minutes feel like an hour, an hour feel like five minutes, or a single moment feel infinite.

The more conscious we become, the more time shows its hidden architecture.

[Donald Hoffman @donalddhoffman]

“DMT seems to shake the very foundations of reality.”

“Extended DMT trips could help scientists probe a new theory of reality that puts consciousness first”.

https://t.co/9LszaZoTRI

[Night Sky Today @NightSkyToday]

🚨: A Woman With Advanced Alzheimer's Began Holding Conversations 19 Hours After Taking Psilocybin Mushrooms.

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

NEWS🚨: Scientists just discovered that microdoses of Psilocybin can reverse obesity, fatty liver and diabetes

[Latest in Cosmos @latestincosmos]

🚨: Scientists suggest psychedelics may reveal a “Truer” version of reality, while your brain normally blocks it.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

According to a case report published in Frontiers in Neuroscience in May 2026, the Japanese-American woman had been in severe decline for over a decade.

For the previous five years she was mostly non-verbal, incontinent, dependent on caregivers for all mobility and daily care, and showed almost no emotional expression or engagement.

After ingesting 5 grams of a high-potency Enigma strain of psilocybin mushrooms, she went through an intense acute experience followed by deep sleep. Roughly 19 hours later, she spontaneously started speaking in complete sentences, recalling personal memories she had not expressed in years.

In the days and weeks that followed, she regained urinary continence (including at night), began dressing herself, walked with greater independence, made sustained eye contact, displayed humor and emotional warmth, and engaged in meaningful conversations with family and caregivers.

A second 3-gram dose one month later produced similar benefits. The improvements were temporary, lasting several weeks, but remarkable given her advanced condition. The underlying neurodegeneration of Alzheimer’s was not reversed.

This is a single case report, not a clinical trial, so larger controlled studies are needed. Researchers note that high-dose psilocybin may temporarily enhance brain connectivity and help access remaining cognitive functions in some patients, but it is not a cure and carries risks in elderly individuals with advanced dementia.

[Lago, M., et al. (2026). "Transient multidomain functional improvement in advanced Alzheimer’s disease following high-dose psilocybin-containing mushroom administration: a case report." Frontiers in Neuroscience. DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2026.1813281]

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

“Psilocybin, the psychedelic component of magic mushrooms, has previously been touted as an effective treatment for depression, anxiety, addiction, and PTSD — but now researchers say it has the potential to be used in Alzheimer’s intervention as well.

In this case study, published in Frontiers in Neuroscience, researchers focused on an 80-year-old Japanese American woman with Alzheimer’s. She had declined over the previous decade and was reduced to urinary incontinence, speaking in single syllables, and dependence on caregivers for mobility support and daily living.

She was then given a 5g dose of magic mushrooms.

During the initial phase, she was agitated, sweated profusely and entered a prolonged sleep state that suggested unconsciousness. But around hour 19, she began speaking in full autobiographical sentences, recalling life events she had been unable to articulate for years.

In the days and weeks that followed, more incredible changes emerged. She regained urinary continence, even in the evenings, and began dressing herself. She was able to make and maintain eye contact, remember social interactions, emotionally respond to others, and hold lucid conversations.”

[Krishna Dharma @KrishnaDharma]

"Curses, blessings, heaven, hell, and any material happiness or distress are all the same to one who knows the true self, which is never affected by any of these. Everything is controlled by God who is equal to all living beings. No one is his friend or enemy and he has no interest in worldly enjoyment. He places us in happy or miserable conditions according to our own desires and karma." - Sage Narada

[Latest in Cosmos @latestincosmos]

🚨: Scientists confirm a single mushroom can "rewire" the human brain to fight depression.

NGF, BDNF, Hericenones & Erinacines. Four bio-compounds in one mushroom that trigger neural regeneration.

[Julie Holland, MD @BellevueDoc]

Treatment of major depressive disorder and treatment resistant depression with 5-MeO-DMT: Impact of 25 years of non-traditional public scientific communication and education on clinical development and commercialization

https://t.co/6gJ3JLv682

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

🚨: A single dose of psilocybin, the compound in magic mushrooms, may physically change the brain for weeks after the experience.

[Robin Carhart-Harris @RCarhartHarris]

https://t.co/qGtKztJ24D

[Paul Brown @0xQuasark]

The oldest naturally preserved human body ever found on Earth.

Ötzi, the Iceman.

In his leather pouch:
𝗧𝘄𝗼 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗺𝘀.

One for making fire.
The other for parasites.

Medicine & Fire.
5,300 years before PubMed.

Mushrooms have been helping us since before we had the wheel or toilets.

We just chose to ignore them.

[ShamansGlobalVillage @ShamansGV]

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[Paul Brown @0xQuasark]

NASA found the molecule that makes DMT on an asteroid that's older than Earth.

𝘛𝘳𝘺𝘱𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘯.
The chemical building block of psilocybin, DMT, and serotonin.

Floating on a 4.5-billion-year-old rock.
𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲.

Back in 2023, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission brought back rocks from asteroid Bennu.

Scientists found:

tryptophan
14 other amino acids and
all 5 DNA building blocks.

The ingredients for consciousness.
For psychedelics.
For life itself.

All made naturally in space before...

𝗘𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱.

Which means: asteroids crashed into early Earth and seeded it with everything needed to create life (and the compounds that let us explore it.)

We're not just made of stardust.
Our psychedelics are too.

[Tiny Buddha @tinybuddha]

“Not everything ahead will be easy, but some of it will be unexpectedly beautiful.”

[Robin Carhart-Harris @RCarhartHarris]

On the meaning of ‘plasticity’ in neuroscience and mental health research and its relation to the action of psychedelic therapy https://t.co/63C34zf6mn via @OsfFramework

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A study shows psilocybin works by scrambling your sense of self.

A groundbreaking study from Washington University followed healthy volunteers who received a single high dose of psilocybin while researchers monitored their brain activity before, during, and for weeks afterward. The results were striking.

Rather than simply changing perception, psilocybin profoundly desynchronized the default mode network (DMN)—a key brain system responsible for self-reflection, memory, and our sense of identity.

During the peak experience, this network essentially fell apart. Remarkably, subtle alterations in its functioning continued for up to three weeks afterward. The stronger a participant’s psychedelic experience—marked by awe, ego dissolution, and feelings of connectedness—the longer these brain changes persisted.

Scores from a standardized questionnaire assessing the depth of the mystical-type experience aligned closely with the degree of DMN disruption observed in brain scans, confirming that psilocybin’s transformative effects are rooted in measurable neurological shifts.

This temporary “unplugging” of the default mode network may explain why psilocybin shows therapeutic potential for conditions like depression and PTSD, where the DMN is often rigidly overactive. By breaking entrenched patterns—even briefly—the brain appears to gain an opportunity to rewire itself in healthier ways.

Researchers emphasize, however, that these findings come from controlled clinical settings. Psilocybin remains unapproved by the FDA for general use and carries real risks when taken recreationally or without medical supervision.

["Researchers Uncover How Psilocybin Works in the Brain." Psychiatrist, 2024]