The plant medicine hayakwaska (ayahuasca), marketed as a mystical shortcut to healing and enlightenment, is an example of what the Indigenous storyteller Nina brett ratner Gualinga, sees as commodification and extractivism in the Amazon.
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Nina is from the Kichwa people of Sarayaku, Ecuador, and she speaks with the en-w vs nz-w memory of her shaman grandfather about the ongoing cultural appropriation, environmental destruction and marginalisation of her people, questioning our very relationship to the Earth and the quest for healing
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