Ayahuasca and The Amazon with Wade Davis
August 20, 2021
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Episode 36 · August 20, 2021
Ayahuasca and The Amazon with Wade Davis
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Summary
<p>Wade Davis and RFK Jr discuss The Amazon River Basin and Ayahuasca, a psychoactive brew used both socially and as spiritual medicine among the indigenous peoples of the region. Haiti and the Caribbean are also discussed in this episode.</p>
<p>Wade Davis is an ethnobotanist. Davis came to prominence with his 1985 best-selling book <em>The Serpent and the Rainbow</em> about the zombies of Haiti. His photographs have appeared in some 20 books and more than 80 magazines, journals, and newspapers, including <em>National Geographic. </em></p>
<p>Davis and Kennedy are featured in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGillivray_Freeman" title="MacGillivray Freeman">MacGillivray Freeman</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMAX" title="IMAX">IMAX</a> film <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canyon_Adventure:_River_at_Risk" title="Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk"><em>Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk</em></a>, released in the spring of 2008.</p>
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