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'How it started:
I was sent to the cancer specialist by my neurologist as he had to check my blood levels every 6 months because I was taking Dilantin to control seizures as I have epilepsy. My neurologist told me in his office that he had been watching my blood, and that over the last ten years my white count has been rising every year, and that it was finally so high that he was sending me to a cancer specialist at Erlanger in Chattanooga, Tn. I went to the cancer specialist. He ran several blood tests, told me I had leukemia and that I would need chemo treatments. He told me to come back in two weeks.'Read more...
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'It was my search for a cure for Parkinson’s that led me to the Amazon and Ayahuasca. I got a whole lot more than I had bargained for! In searching the Internet I found that Banisteriopsis caapi was used in the 1920’s as a cure for Parkinson’s Disease but never made it to market because the pharmaceutical company could not figure out how to patent and profit from a vine. Further research revealed that this vine, combined with a psychoactive leaf (Psychotria viridis), were the two key ingredients in a healing brew that has been used for tens of thousands of years by Peruvian shamans. So I traveled to the Amazon to try the healing brew Ayahuasca (pronounced Aya-wass-ka) and made a film and published a book, The Shaman and Ayahuasca: Journeys into Sacred Realms, based upon this adventure.'Read more...