the screening
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Edge Of Life
Palace Cinemas Como
host: Exit International - Victorian Chapter
where: Wednesday 9th September, 6:30 pm Palace Cinemas Como
Level 2, 299 Toorak Rd South Yarra
$28.00 AUD Admission + $2.00 booking fee = $30.00
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the film
We start our film in a Melbourne hospital room and end deep in the Brazilian Amazon following our two pioneering doctors as they introduce psilocybin to patients confronting the imminent end-of-life. Their patients, Flavia and Ros, reveal the radically transformative effect of the ‘treatment’ which opens them up to an expanded sense of reality but in doing so raises many questions. The psilocybin experience, the doctors find, cannot easily be corralled into a Western medical mindset. Knowing they have been working with medicines that indigenous cultures have long used, the Dr’s seek help elsewhere, which sets them on a path to connect with Indigenous knowledge holders such as Mayan Shaman Danil Pech Cetz and Yawanawa Shaman Muka Yawanawa to try and understand what may have been lost from our culture when we professionalised death and why that loss causes so many to die afraid, missing perhaps, an opportunity for revelation offered at the edge of human existence, it’s ending?
But this visioning tool of psilocybin, like other plant medicines, is not new; it comes from ancient traditions. When the doctors journey to the Amazon to experience traditional medicines for themselves, they are confronted by realisations they have no explanation for. Is it possible the world’s oldest cultures have something important to teach us, not just about traditional medicines, but about death itself?
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