Google Tech Talk
January 14, 2010
ABSTRACT
Presented by Paulo Roberto Silva e Souza.
The Amazon rainforest is an ancient and highly diverse ecosystem that provides essential benefits for our entire planet and everything that lives on it, breathes air and depends on water. This ecosystem is being destroyed and its existence is being threatened by unthinking greed in the form of cattle ranchers, the agriculture industry, logging, and the infrastructure required for these encroachments. The talk tells the stories of three communities living in the forest in sustainable ways as stewards with respect and emerging understanding of natures principles using the spiritual teachings transmitted through the use of sacramental plants: the Yawanawa tribe and the Santo Daime communities in Ceu do Mapia and Ceu do Mar. The common thread through the talk is the necessity for the social expansion of environmental consciousness and the ways that this can be facilitated in the minds and hearts of people living in the style of the Western World with its focus on acquisition and domination.
Paulo Roberto Silva e Souza received his degree in psychology from the University Gama Filho in Rio de Janeiro and began his professional carrier as a psychologist at the Pinel Hospital Suicide Prevention Center and the Ana Freud Clinic and Health Center Saint Romain in Rio de Janeiro. In 1976 he had first experiences with Santo Daime in Amazonia and was initiated by Padrinho Sebastiao. In 1982 he founded the first Santo Daime church outside of the Amazon in Rio de Janeiro which he still leads today. In 1985 he organized and led a multidisciplinary commission for the Brazilian government that conducted scientific research on the use of sacramental plants in the Acre and Amazonas states which led to the legalization of the church of Santo Daime in Brazil. As psychotherapist and shaman he introduced Daime ceremonies to 14 countries. In 1989 Paulo worked with IBAMA, the Brazilian Environmental Protection Agency, to preserve 1.6 million acres of national forests in the state of Amazonas, now the National Forests Mapiá, Inauini, and Purus. In conjunction with the UNEP-United Nations Environmental Program he implemented projects of environmental protection, forest extension and development for the Amazon. In 1994 he created the first National Heritage Private Reservation in Rio de Janeiro. He was a guest lecturer at Harvard University on environmental problems and solutions in Amazonia. Since 2008 he has been working on the project Eco Park Topo da Mata in the Natural Heritage Private Reservation.
Duration : 1:4:26
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Too bad the native …
Too bad the native culture is being wiped out as we speak…the Brazil claims they are just going what the Norte Americans did in the 1700-1800′s here in the USA.
I belonged to the Rainforest Action Network for 30 years and the burn continues unabated. They make announcements of “new” reserves being protected, that allows other lands to be developed.
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AT HE BEGINING WHEN …
AT HE BEGINING WHEN HE WAS ATTEMPTIN TO EXPLAIN THAT USING CONVENTIONAL WESTERN SCIENCE METHODS OF LOOKIN AT PSYCADELIX, THAT WE WOULD ONLY REFUSE IT. sIMPLY DO TO THE FACT THAT IT HAS THE POTENTIAL TO CAUSE AN ABNORMAL MENTAL DISORDER. NONE THE LESS, YES ..-PSYCADELIX ARE..GOOD!..NOW AS A, “INTELEGENTE” SCIENTIST WOULD ..HE/SHE’D TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION HIS/HER WELL-BEING..THUS CONTROLING THE EXPERIMENT(KEEPING POINT-DEXTER SAFE FROM ANY HARM)..ULTIMATELY CREATING SMETHNG “SAFE”.-TO USE.
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the website is ceudomar@org
If anyone has his …
If anyone has his email address, I would like to ask him something about his projects for eco-tourism. If anyone can PM it to me, great, thanks!
its too bad he …
its too bad he talked so much about sacramental plants; although its a fascinating subject, unfortunately it usually just distracts people into the old debate of whether psychedelics are good or bad.
this talk was more about the plight of native peoples in south america and their efforts to reclaim their land. if he had focused more on this subject the talk would have been more effective
Excellent …
Excellent presentation. The importance and significance of these issues can’t be stressed enough.
WTF are you talking …
WTF are you talking about? “medically” isn’t a noun. And what do you know about pharmacology? Apparently not much. Stop projecting your biases onto subjects you don’t comprehend. And Christianity is a drug; it’s an escape from reality. Ever heard the phrase, “Religion is the opiate of the masses”? I used to be Christian. I’d rather take mescaline than believe in absurd fairy tales any day.
Who am I “giv[ing] the object to”? I don’t see myself as a witch doctor. What’s wrong with you? Oh yeah.
you would take …
you would take these things without looking at the medically? religion is about other life, not trying to obtain some objhect for yourself. If you look at the Sacramental offering of Bread and Whine in Christianity, it is a symbolic offering. It is not about eating the bread, it is about eating the body of Jeasus. Why, i can explain, it is your ego attached to becoming the neighbourhood witch doctor. You are no just harming yourself, you are harming the people you give the object to.
He sounds like a …
He sounds like a german…
You can’t even …
You can’t even spell yet you’re telling me I’m damaging my mind? Wow.
What would you presume is pharmacologically safer: alcohol or psychedelics? Explain why.
@empbac
… fear …
@empbac
… fear it.
You might just get a look at your own mind to see the damage you are doing to it. Rosponcibly would mean extreme moderate. Zero is a good dosege to start with. What is the next smallest ammount after zero?
Don’t knock it… …
Don’t knock it… This isn’t just spirituality, this is taking substances that alter your perception of reality. This IS exciting.
I’m an atheist yet still support the taking of these substances responsibly. I don’t think there is a god, but I do think these agents illuminate parts of the mind that are otherwise dormant. There’s a lot you can learn about yourself by taking them the way the natives do. I hope to see legalization and support of psychedelic research in the US, but… We’re scared.
@empbac In Brazil …
@empbac In Brazil natives are given huge stretches of land, about as big as Holland (the country) for them to carry on with their traditional way of life (basically hunting, fishing and gathering). However many tribes allow companies to take their trees and minerals and destroy their habitat.
Woo spirituality… …
Woo spirituality…sounds exciting! /sarcasm
volume is quite low
volume is quite low
Thank you Google …
Thank you Google for supporting excellent talks like this!
WowWowWow . . . …
WowWowWow . . . thank you GOOGLE for the boldness and courage to invite such a speaker and to help shed light on how the healing plants can help man be spiritually aligned . . . the part about silencing the mind was so good for me to hear . . . i re.member a man named URANDA speak about “the self.active mind” being problematic and this video shows us what antidotes are available . . . thank you GOOGLE again ~ ~ ~ viva the free press ~ ~ ~ Viva ! ! !
The dude speaking …
The dude speaking on the video sounds like Arnie the Terminator !
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Awesome …
Awesome topic. Go-Go-Gadget: Mescaline!
I don’t know about Brasil, but there are a lot of poor, landless, indigenous people in Mexico and Guatemala. What the governments of those countries do is portion out plots of land to these Indians. The natives then “slash and burn” to make way for their new farm. It’s a too-short solution though. The nutrients burn out after 5 years and the poor are no better off. This isn’t “greed,” this is a complex social problem that governments don’t help.
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And those three …
And those three comments below are real evidence on the role of sacramental plants…