There’s a fascinating post in the Well section of the New York Times by Tara Parker-Pope about how difficult it can be to maintain a plant-based diet, especially if you are trying to be truly vegan. In the related Room For Debate section of the Times, various experts (well you can decide for yourself if [...]
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Amazonia Director Miguel Heded Abraham Discusses His Experiences Making The Film
[Miguel Heded Abraham lives with his family in Chile, where he handled pre-production (and later post) on Amazonia: Healing With Sacred Plants, before heading off to the Amazon watershed with Alberto Villoldo to direct the film. Here he writes about the experience.] As a filmmaker, directing Amazonia was a unique experience. Spending time on [...]
Alberto Villoldo on Ayahuasca
Dr. Alberto Villoldo has written to us about his film Amazonia, which is now available on DVD: I started out in the brain laboratory at San Francisco State University – literally surrounded by hundreds of formaldehyde preserved brains. We were studying how we develop psychosomatic disease, and how we could create psychosomatic health. One day [...]
Planeat
Have you heard the buzz about plant-based diets being the answer to preventing heart disease and some cancers? Doctors T. Colin Campbell and Caldwell Esselstyn have been featured on every medical TV show you can think of, from Dr. Oz to Sanjay Gupta on CNN, telling people how they discovered that heart disease can be [...]
Alberto Villoldo’s ‘Amazonia’
We’re really pleased to announce our third True Mind release, Amazonia: Healing With Sacred Plants. The star of the film, Alberto Villoldo, and his wife Marcela Lobos were kind enough to invite my family to come and visit them in Chile, where I also got to know the director, Miguel Heded Abraham. We talked a [...]