Une famille aisée vivant à Los Angeles fait appel à deux jeunes chamans pour sauver leur nouveau-né après avoir été victime d'une série d'événements paranormaux.
Walt Disney Animation Studios s'est inspiré de la vie extraordinaire et de l’esprit indomptable de l’héroïne amérindienne pour raconter l'histoire de Pocahontas. Cette aventure musicale allie les faits historiques et la légende pour raconter l’histoire d’une jeune femme courageuse, pleine de compassion et d’énergie. Elle doit "écouter son cœur" pour choisir sa voie, guidée par la sagesse de sa bien-aimée Grand-mère Feuillage et par son amitié avec le capitaine John Smith.
Un homme s'installe tranquillement en bord de lac pour une partie de pêche. Le soir venu, une traction sur sa ligne en sort le corps d'une femme.
Les plus grands chamans se réunissent dans un village pour pratiquer un exorcisme contre un mauvais esprit célèbre. Le journaliste Chan Young est envoyé pour couvrir cet événement. L'exorcisme débute, réveillant le mauvais esprit qui lance alors plusieurs attaques répétées. La plupart des chamans présents décident d'abandonner. Seuls les cinq meilleurs chamans et le journaliste restent. Ces six personnes découvrant que tout le village est concerné par de très lourds secrets, se préparent à livrer une bataille épique...
A personal, scientific, mystical exploration of Amazonian curanderismo, focus on Ayahuasca and Master Plants, their healing and visionary properties and risks, along with the Shipibo people and their songs.
Quel est le sens de notre existence ? Qu’est-ce que l’âme ? Quels sont les pouvoirs de l’esprit, de la conscience ? Quel est notre rapport à la nature ? En posant ces questions, le film nous invite à découvrir une sagesse universelle à travers la rencontre de chamans, de guérisseurs, de yogis, mais aussi de philosophes, de médecins. Des plaines de Mongolie aux forêts d’Amazonie, ce film nous amène bien plus loin que nous ne l’aurions imaginé.
Mystical, ephemeral and nearly lost to time, alchemy was a "magical theory of nature" widely held in pre-Enlightenment Europe. Author Terence McKenna portrays John Dee, court magician to Queen Elizabeth I, in this history of the discipline. McKenna discusses the role of the science as he travels to key sites in alchemic lore throughout Eastern Europe, including Heidelberg, home to the world's only contemporary alchemy lab.
On a quest for emotional healing and spiritual awakening, a naturopathic doctor and an accountant join others in the Peruvian Amazon to drink a psychedelic brew called ayahuasca.
An examination of occultism as practiced in different parts of the world.
Our hero is Umbi (an acronym for emissary of the bishop), sent by him to undertake an important investigation at Snæfell-glacier. In particular he is to look into the conduct and behavior of Jón Prímus, the old pastor at Snæfell. Fantastic rumors are rife: amongst other things it is said that a corpse is lodged in the glacier! Armed with his tape recorder and notebook, Umbi embarks upon his mission. He tries to question the weird locals, a weird lot, but gets evasive answers. Slowly he is dragged into a quagmire of strange happenings and his efforts to understand only make him confused. If at the beginning he is a chipper, a mere device, by the end of the story he is inextricably involved, a committed participant in the bizarre events.
During the Cultural Revolution in China in the late 20th century, ethnic Manchu people were persecuted and forced to give up such cultural traditions as the shaman dance (tiao tchin, meaning "spirit-jumping" or "god's dance"). However, on Changbai Mountain in Northeast China, a farmer named Guan Yunde decided to start designing and building traditional Manchu shaman drums. At age 70, he is one of a minority of ethnic Manchu people in China's Jilin province, and one of the few people keeping the Manchu shamanic tradition alive.
Cheong, a Chinese man, falls sick after a row with his neighbour. His wife Yan is desperately looking for a remedy to cure her husband. Throughout the journey, Yan endures strange encounters and unearthly experiences. Finally, Yan is convinced that she should seek help from the village shaman. Mysteries, legends and shamanism surround Yan with unknowns yet to be solved.
This documentary examines ayahuasca shamanism near Iquitos (a metropolis in the Peruvian Amazon), and the tourism it has attracted. The filmmakers talk with two ayahuasqueros, Percy Garcia and Ron Wheelock, as well as ayuahuasca tourists and local people connected with the ayahuasca industry.
Aya: Awakenings' is an experiential journey by journalist Rak Razam into the world and visions of ayahuasca, a powerful hallucinogenic plant medicine from the Amazon, capturing the experience and the western dynamic around it in unprecedented detail.
In these interviews, Dennis McKenna, Alex Grey, Rick Strassman, and other champions of psychedelics share their views on the value of psychedelic medicine, and its neglect in Western society.
Desperate to recover from his depression, Dave travels from his home in British Columbia, Canada to Peru in order to experience the healing effects of the sacred medicine ayahuasca. After Dave spends some time in the country, a Shipibo healer begins to teach him how to work with the medicine more deeply.
In 1971, graduate student Gloria Orenstein received a call from Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington that sparked a lifelong journey into art, ecofeminism and shamanism. This short film uses art, animation and storytelling to celebrate this wild adventure. Now more than 40 years later, award-winning Dr. Gloria Feman Orenstein is a feminist art critic and pioneer scholar of women in Surrealism and ecofeminism in the arts. Her delightful tale brings alive an often unseen history of women in the arts.
Here in the Amazon jungle, where the spirit world and the natural world merge, Shake has reached the highest honor a Yanomamö shaman can attain. Shake has possession of many spirits, but the Spirit most feared by all Yanomamö, is one they call Yai Wanonabälewä – The Enemy God. Shake is a powerful shaman of the Yanomamo people. His desire is to use his power to heal and protect. Tracing his life and the life of his community over 40 years of their history, Shake tells how he and his people grapple with new ideas from the outside world and the challenging decisions they make to maintain their identity and survive as a people.
Herlinda Augustin is a Shipibo healer who lives with her family in Peruvian Amazonia. Will she and other healers be able to maintain their ancient tradition despite Western encroachment?