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RFK Jr Podcast

Ayahuasca and The Amazon with Wade Davis

RFK Jr Podcast

Robert Kennedy Jr

Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.82.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Wade Davis and RFK Jr discuss The Amazon River Basin and Ayahuasca, a psychoactive brew used both socially and as spiritual medicine among the indigenous peoples of the region.  Haiti and the Caribbean are also discussed in this episode.

Wade Davis is an ethnobotanist. Davis came to prominence with his 1985 best-selling book The Serpent and the Rainbow about the zombies of Haiti. His photographs have appeared in some 20 books and more than 80 magazines, journals, and newspapers, including National Geographic. 

Davis and Kennedy are featured in the MacGillivray Freeman IMAX film Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk, released in the spring of 2008.

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0:00.0

Wade Davis, my guess, one of my best friends

0:02.9

and one of the most interesting people that I know.

0:05.4

And I first met Wade when I was in college

0:08.9

and we were in anthropology class with,

0:12.0

I think, David, neighborhood Lewis was the professor

0:15.8

and we were studying the Yanomami,

0:17.6

which is a very interesting group in northern Brazil

0:22.4

and southern Venezuela.

0:24.0

And Wade went on to have its extraordinary life,

0:29.4

which has brought him to be

0:32.0

Explorer and Residence National Geographic.

0:36.0

You've written how many a dozen more books.

0:39.6

We do three, 23 actually.

0:41.8

And Wade went on to live when he became an ethnobot,

0:45.3

and it's which is somebody who studies the relationship

0:49.8

between indigenous plants and local people

0:52.6

and he has a kind of a specialty in hallucinogenic plants

0:55.9

and psychoactive plants.

0:58.0

I would say correct me if anything, I'd say it's wrong.

1:01.1

He's lived with indigenous people

1:03.1

in Peru and Colombia and Tibet and Australia.

1:07.0

And I think Molly and Kenya and Borneo

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