Cradled by the spirits - Experiences with Ayahuasca and with the pleasure of living #835485

Two premises organize the release of this book which the author wishes to give to readers by allowing them to download it freely.
In April 2019, the Imperial College in London inaugurated the first research center dedicated to the relationship between psychedelics and mental health, investing 17 million pounds. In the same year, the John Hopkins University in Baltimore (USA) also invested 3 and a half million dollars. Since then research is furthering and investments are made regularly. Depression, addictions and anorexia, but also Alzheimer's could - the researchers hypothesize - benefit from Ayawaska and hallucinogenic mushrooms. Current research challenges the cartel on banned substances and studies how psilocybin, LSD and other similar substances can help the mind: a British study claims that an acid contained in 200 species of hallucinogenic mushrooms could cure depression.
Cradled by the spirits tells the author's experiences with shamans around the world and specifically with the Shipibo shamans of the Peruvian Amazon forest. The use of a medicine that produces awareness and allows a spiritual journey is described: Ayahuasca, which the author has taken several times guided by shamans in several places. This experience "teaches you how to live" and the book also talks about how to learn to take life in the right direction.
Since the author is a health psychologist and a systemic psychotherapist, the different care skills in the different settings, the forest and the therapy room, are brought into relation. You open the book with a letter from Raimondo Bultrini, journalist from the well-known Italian newspaper La Repubblica; you close the book with a rich reflection by Cristina Koch, a systemic thinker and friend.

Umberta Telfener is a psychologist and systemic psychotherapist, President of the European Family Therapy Association (EFTA), teacher of the Milan Center for Family Therapy. Has written six books on love for the larger public and clinical ones on the work as psychotherapist and systemic practitioner, including a dictionary on systemic epistemology: Systemics, voices and paths in complexity, Bollati Boringhieri 2003.