Medicinal Media LLC announces the publication of Heart Medicine: A True Love Story – One Couple’s Quest for the Sacred Iboga Medicine & the Cure for Addiction, an intimate memoir written by Elizabeth Bast, set to release in August 2015. In Heart Medicine: A True Love Story, author Bast shares the story about iboga as a miraculous treatment for heroin addiction for her husband, acclaimed visionary street artist Chor Boogie. In 2014, Boogie experienced a drug relapse after being clean for over 13 years. The new book follows the couple’s journey in search of the sacred plant medicine iboga, indigenous to Central West Africa, known for its spiritual healing and powerful addiction-breaking effects. Read the rest of this entry »

Devolver Digital Films is proud to announce the digital VOD release of the spiritual adventure, AYA: Awakenings. The new feature-length documentary follows a Western journalist who travels to the jungles of Peru to drink the visionary medicine ayahuasca, on a journey that slowly unravels his cultured mind and reveals the magical landscape of the spirit world. This visually stunning film pulls from Rak Razam’s book, Aya: A Shamanic Odyssey, a travel memoir of Razam’s time with shamans in the Amazon. Razam and Timothy Paris co-directed the new film. The digital VOD (Video on Demand) release is scheduled for July 29, 2014 through Devolver. The film will be available via iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, PlayStation, Xbox, VUDU, Vimeo on Demand, VHX, Google Play, and others. A cable VOD release date is set for September 9, 2014 (check your local listings). Read the rest of this entry »