Dr. Joe Tafur graduated from the University of California - San Diego Medical School before beginning his career as both a Physician and Professor. He has taught at prestigious institutions such as The University of Arizona - Integrative Medicine, Yale, USC, and The Pacific College of Oriental Medicine.

Being that his family is from South America, Dr. Joe was introduced to the idea of plant medicine very young as a known cultural tradition of the tribes of his ancestors. So when he faced a devastating string of depressions in Medical School, he looked towards healing his entire being more than just his mind.

In his home state of Arizona was a church that had religious exemption for peyote ceremonies caught Joe’s intrigue. The profound experience and positive affect overnight awestruck him. He couldn’t believe the stigma that surrounded something so powerful and truly capable of healing human beings.

In 2007, Dr. Tafur went down to Peru for the first time to do an Ayahuasca ceremony. By 2009, he became so close with the Shamans of the Shipibo Culture that Joe and Maestro Ricardo, one of the most knowledgeable Shamans in the Amazon, started a retreat facility called Nihue Rao. Although Dr. Tafur bowed out of ownership in 2017 and gave it over completely to Ricardo, he still frequently brings groups down there to heal. His mission is to teach the world that spiritual practice is spiritual healing, and that spiritual healing is spiritual practice. He believes that Trauma accumulates within society and that the only way one can heal and spiritually grow is if they face their trauma head on and resolve it.

Through the years as a Medical Doctor, Joe has seen the long-term effects unresolved trauma has on the mind and body, especially in America and Europeans. He wanted to find tangible evidence demonstrating why people were coming all the way down into the jungle to get a type of healing that wasn’t being offered in Western Medicine.

His current project is called Modern Spirit where he is attempting to integrate Modern Medicine with ancient ancestral traditions. He is currently Crowdfunding $250,000 for his Modern Spirit Epigenetics project which aims to study the effects that these sacred plant ceremonies physically have on people.

Dr. Joe’s theory is that by healing the trauma, we are healing the DNA, and he wants to validate the medicinal effects these ancient traditions have on the health and the overall well-being of any and all humans. We may be closer to becoming SuperHuman than ever before, but we’re going to have to heal our way through to Human first.

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Show Notes & Time Stamps

• 03:00 -- Medical school depression



• 05:00 -- Major experience with ayahuasca



• 08:50 -- Opens up Shamanic retreat in the Amazon



• 11:00 -- Western medicine is missing the mark



• 13:00 -- Different philosophies



• 14:00 -- The Flexner Report



• 15:20 -- Alternative medicine



• 16:20 -- Bridge back to the soul



• 17:54 -- Soul loss



• 18:45 -- Soul retrieval



• 20:15 -- Natural default network



• 23:30 -- Selling the experience



• 25:50 -- Traditional practice



• 26:45 -- Ayahuasca experience walkthrough



• 32:10 -- Doing the work



• 34:10 -- Seeking something deeper



• 35:30 -- From Shock to Awe



• 38:50 -- Clinical Research



• 40:30 -- Healing without labels



• 41:00 -- Hope for mankind



• 43:00 -- Universal spirituality



• 45:00 -- Bridging the health & spirituality gap



• 45:45 -- Repository for trauma



• 47:05 -- Life happens & then we die



• 48:45 -- Spiritual practice is spiritual healing



• 49:45 -- A sacrament and a medicine



• 51:20 -- Contact info



• 57:30 -- Fellowship of the River



• 59:20 -- Psyche = Soul



• 1:00:00 -- Outro

MORE KNOWLEDGE & WISDOM:

JOE TAFUR

• https://www.drjoetafur.com 

FELLOWSHIP OF THE RIVER:

• https://www.drjoetafur.com/the-fellowship-of-the-river 

NIHUE RAO:

• https://www.nihuerao.com/ 

MODERN SPIRIT PROJECT:

• https://www.modernspirit.org 



• https://charity.gofundme.com/o/en/campaign/modern-spirit-epigenetics-project 

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Thanks to Adam T. Cummings of “Podcasting Completely” for assisting with this episode.