CODES of NATURE SEASON 1 "MASTER PLANST" has commitment to real impact revolves around these main objectives:
Yawanawá elder, Nainawá, serving Rapé (pronounced Hapeh) medicine.
HEALING POTENTIAL
Plant medicines are powerful catalysts for self healing and inner discovery.
Indigenous Nations have been in relationship with these plants for thousands of years and have established protocols and processes for healing many different types of physical, emotional and spiritual illness.
Modern Medicine has finally understood the importance of integrating this relationship to optimize healing and treatments. Currently, there are several researches around the world with high rate of success.
BIO-CULTURAL CONSERVATION
Culture and its heritage reflect and shape values and, beliefs, and aspirations, thereby defining a nation’s identity. Culture keeps our integrity as people.
We find ourselves in the midst of a psychedelic renaissance, and interest in the therapeutic potentials of visionary plants continues to grow. Such “psychedelic tourism” has inevitably impacted the indigenous groups.
Through collaboration, we want to share the unique sacred arts of indigenous nations working and preserving these powerful plants and knowledge and also share their perspectives on how we can have appreciation for different cultures without appropriating or destroying their ancient ways of being.
Youth Yawanawá leader Isku Kuá at their bi-annual Yawanawá Festival in Acre, Brazil.
Samaúma or Ceiba tree, considered a sacred tree of the Amazonian Forest.
SUSTAINABILITY
Corporate industrial development, illegal poaching and unsustainable harvesting practices put these plants and its stuarts in danger.
The exploitation of these plant medicines presents ecological challenges such as the risk of becoming endangered species.
As part of the global action movement, we work to preserve the natural balance of the planet by communicating the social, natural and political reality of the plants, and by creating partnerships with leading grass roots organizations already working on sustainability programs.
DECRIMINALIZATION
Some of these plants that create altered states of consciousness and the cultures related to them, have been victims of the so called “War on Drugs”.
The psychoactive components of some of these plant medicines have been grouped as Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act and are treated as having no therapeutic potential, as being highly addictive and being a public health hazard, therefore severely prohibited under the law.
When we look at these plants from an intercultural perspective, we can see the potential uses of these codes of nature as vehicles for social connecting, spiritual development and self healing.
