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Nonka nonpoenare.

Nonka nonpoenare.

Nonka nonpoenare.

Non cano può nare, può nare.

Os povos ancestrais da Amazônia pressentiram a chegada dos invasores.

Prevendo uma ofensiva que devastaria nossa comunidade.

Em preparação a essa grande mudança, eles colocaram os ensinamentos profundos

místicos para dormir, escondendo-os dos invasores para

preservá-los para tempos futuros.

Assim como se enterra uma semente no fundo da terra,

sabendo que chegará o momento em que ela dará fruto novamente.

Assim foi no tempo do meu pai que os anciões indígenas espalharam as

notícias pelas montanhas, através da floresta, que havia chegado o

momento de uma antiga profecia se cumprir.

Essa profecia falava de um tempo que pessoas de duas culturas muito diferentes

se iriam para compartilhar e aprender.

Essa cultura era chamada de Okondô e a águia.

O dom do Okondô é o poder do coração e o poder da águia, o poder da mente.

São duas metades de um todo que

com o tempo se separaram.

Assim, enquanto algum vive intimamente conectado à terra e outro

vive como se a terra não tivesse importância.

A águia deve visitar o condor, o condor deve visitar a águia.

Jesus, I see you.

How are you?

Justin, tell us about your work and what it means to you.

Sure. So I'm Dr. Justin Dwyer.

I work in palliative medicine, dealing with people who are dying,

and it's one of those things where people often wonder, you know,

must be so depressing.

But actually, I have to say, it's the most life-affirming environment

I've ever worked in because it's all about living.

Now, we all know that we're going to die, but actually being told it is happening

now, you have an illness now

that is going to kill you, produces, I think, a much more raw

visceral process of self-examination that normally brings up

a lot of turmoil and despair.

And so we're really trying to find ways for people to hold onto

their identity and their connections as they let this happen to themselves,

because that's all you can do, right?

You can't stop yourself from dying.

How low is that, Tess?

Yes, this is Tess.

Oh, g'day Tess, it's Justin Dwyer and Marg Ross from St Vincent's psilocybin trial.

Hi, Tess.

Yes, our trial through St Vincent's is the first psychedelic-assisted

therapy trial in Australia.

And what we're looking at is how psychological therapy

delivered pretty intensely with a dose of psilocybin as part of the therapy.

We're looking at how that might change people's experience of dying.

Can you do that following week?

Because we could— we've got wriggle room for about 7 days.

I can push.

Mark's someone who's always thought a bit outside the box,

and she went to a conference where this work with peak psychedelic experience was

presented, then came and approached me and asked if I would, you know,

as head of our unit, support a research program examining exactly this.

So psilocybin is a psychedelic compound that is typically found in the psilocybe

genre of magic mushrooms.

And the classic psychedelics seem to be able to occasion

mystical type experience, or quite deeply spiritual type

experiences, or the transcendent, if you like.

So these experiences of awe.

Miquel.

Brian, he cried a lot of tears during it, actually, and mostly there were tears

of joy and awe,

but he also said some of them are regret

at the lack of ability to have seen and to know

the depth of meaning and embedded divinity

that he came to see

through that experience.

And actually what it did was make him absolutely

un-fearful about what came after death.

He will walk across that bridge, I know, with great expectancy and joy.

Yeah.

Ooh.

Ooh.

You know, it really shocked me that what's sort of come out of it is that people feel

as though you know, their whole life has kind of made sense

in the context of knowing that they're going to die.

And even though I've worked in palliative care, you know, cancer now for a good sort

of 15 years, I didn't see that one coming.

Hi.

Hello. Thank you.

I wanted to be part of the trial to

learn how to deal with my own emotions

and that I kind of hope, like, to let go from everything that I'm

holding inside me.

And that includes, like, I don't know, fear of the— I don't know,

just trying to be constantly strong.

How are you feeling today? Are you feeling— Yes, I'm feeling good.

Yes. Yes.

The thing about the psilocybin is that it doesn't actually put

anything in your head.

So it's not like a drug you take and it, you know, inserts experiences.

Everything that comes up for you with the psilocybin, it's yours.

It's all from inside of you.

And it takes you to some extraordinary places.

But we will be with you the whole time.

So we just got everything ready, so headphones, eyeshades,

we've got a nice heated blanket.

That's the psilocybin.

We want it to be easy and we want the pill to simply

fall out straight into their hand.

Um, and it will just tumble down.

And do you need to put your arm back under there?

Okay, here we go.