Ceasefire Now: Ayahuasca and Imagined Paths to Peace

In this podcast episode, listeners will learn about the potential and limitations of psychedelics for addressing world conflict and injustice. Through the stories of Palestinians and Israelis who took ayahuasca together, particularly an IDF elite force veteran and a formerly self-hating Palestinian raised in Israel, we will dive deeper into this topic and how insights may affect the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Host Kaleb Graves staunchly condemns antisemitism in all its forms, particularly conflation between Jews or Judaism with the authoritarian Israeli regime. Hamas is not representative of the Palestinian people, its actions on October 7th were abhorrent, and its government should be overthrown by the Gazan people. Pro-Palestinian activism which targets synagogues and other Jewish institutions because of their ethnic or religious affiliation should be rejected wholeheartedly. Following the stance of the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, a free Palestine is a necessary step toward a world safe for Jews and free of antisemitism. 

 

Solidarity Fast for Palestine is an interfaith movement of ministers, seminarians, and young people of faith and conscience. We will be going on hunger strike from March 18-22 to help pressure religious leaders and politicians to bring an end to the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the occupation of Palestine as a whole. Support us @Solidarity.Fast.For.Palestine on Instagram or Facebook.

 

Sources used for this podcast include:

“The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine” by Ilan Pappe.

“Except for Palestine” by Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Phitnick.

“All That Remains” by Walid Khalidi.

“A Palestinian Theology of Liberation” by Naim Ateek.

“The Wall and the Gate” by Michael Sfard.

“Relational Processes in Ayahuasca Groups of Palestinians and Israelis,” published in Frontiers in Pharmacology and written by Leor Roseman et al, 2021.

“On Revelations and Revolutions: Drinking Ayahuasca Among Palestinians Under Israeli Occupation,” published in Frontiers in Psychology and written by Leor Roseman and Nadeem Karkabi, 2021.

“The UN Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2018 Gaza protests,” United Nations, 2019. ( https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/co-iopt/report2018-opt )

B’Tselem - The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories 

( https://www.btselem.org/ ).