SPIRIT-VINE

☉ WHERE THE PROFITS GO ☉

100% of the profit goes to the Yawarani village of the Yawanawá tribe in the Brazilian Amazon to help support with basic supplies and medical aid (both western and indigenous) with the overall aim of reaching sustainability in isolation from the current Brazilian government.

☉ WHY ITS IMPORTANT ☉

During the most recent pandemic, it is essential that industrial societies bear witness to their inbuilt capacity for destruction. As a growing body of research shows, virus outbreaks and natural habitat destruction are inextricably linked.

Ayahuasca (literally meaning Spirit Vine) plays a key role in the Yawanawa cosmology, medicine and art. By preserving their cultural heritage, their accumulated botanical knowledge is not only kept alive for future generations, it is also prevented from becoming further marginalised within current socio-economic models of industrialised society.

☉ ABOUT THE DESIGN ☉

It is a strongly held belief, across many indigenous cultures, that the emergent patterns and motifs contained within the Ayahuasca vision are the underlying connective geometries that unite nature with mind and body. This archetypal symbolism (found across all continents and encoded within all ancient mythology and religions) has demonstrated a living knowledge of molecular and biological processes, often later forming a basis for modern medicinal research, whilst generating insights into the structure of DNA (known mythically as the Cosmic Serpent).

As well as having the ability to treat psychological and physiological illnesses, Ayahuasca has also been used for centuries by experienced, indigenous shamans as a way of communicating with ancestral spirits. As early as 1905, the active alkaloid present in the plant was given the name ‘telepathine’ because of it’s noted ability to affect group mind and open dialogue directly with the environment.

When asked how they attained this sacred knowledge, indigenous shamans often reply, “The plants told us”.

☉ FURTHER LISTENING & READING ☉

- Podcast with Yawanawa leader, Shaneihu (www.wildalchemylab.com/radio).

- The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and The Origins of Knowledge, by Jeremy Narby.

- Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge, by Terrence McKenna.

- Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers, by Albert Hofmann & Richard Evans Schultes.