Joe Tafur, M.D., is a Colombian-American family physician originally from Phoenix, Arizona. After completing his family medicine training at UCLA, Dr. Tafur spent two years in academic research at the UCSD Department of Psychiatry in a lab focused on mind-body medicine. After his research fellowship, over a period of six years, he lived and worked in the Peruvian Amazon at the traditional healing center Nihue Rao Centro Espiritual. There he worked closely with master Shipibo shaman Ricardo Amaringo and trained in ayahuasca shamanism. In his new book “The Fellowship of the River: A Medical Doctor’s Exploration into Traditional Amazonian Plant Medicine,” through a series of stories, Dr. Tafur shares his unique experience and integrative medical theories. To learn more about his work. Check out his website at https://www.drjoetafur.com/ and https://www.modernspirit.org/ ***TIMESTAMPS*** 5:52 - Dr. Joe Tafur and getting into Peyote ceremonies and integrating his MD degree and using psychedelic treatments 14:56 - Current Western Medicine and where these discrepancies split and were herbal and traditional medicines (plant medicine); working in Peru at the Nihue Rao Centro Espiritual doing Ayuaschsa ceremonies 28:00 - How one walks through someone through an Ayuaschsa ceremony and through a trip; what key THINGS to be aware of when helping someone and aftermath of a trip 33:10 - Take on BIG PHARMA and the issues with the current Western Medicine treatment in the psychiatry setting 38:00 - Is technology helping or keeping us back? Yes, we have people like Elon Musk and social media creators but what is happening with us on an emotional level? 52:00 - The lack of discipline and easy blame of technology and culture saying why you are obese, unhealthy, sad, etc. and how much of it is just having the discipline to get up and change; PORN ADDICTION DATA ~ YouTube EPISODES & CLIPS: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyLKzv5fKxGmVQg3cMJJzyQ/videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_2mktRli1yyQ1mBNB_7PXg ~Song provided by: Ooyy, Come 2gether