He seems a very interesting fellow!!!!!




Award-winning investigative journalist (and dad) Peter Gorman has spent more than 20 years tracking down stories from the streets of Manhattan to the slums of Bombay. Specializing in Drug War issues, he is credited as a primary journalist in the medical marijuana and hemp movements, as well as in property forfeiture reform. His work has appeared in over 100 national and international magazines and newspapers. Peter Gorman's love affair with the Amazon jungle is well-known to people in the field. Since 1984, Mr. Gorman has spent a minimum of three months annually there generally using Iquitos, Peru as his base. During that time he has studied ayahuasca, the visionary healing vine of the jungle, with his friend, the curandero Julio Jerena. He has collected artifacts for the American Museum of Natural History, botanical specimens for Shaman Pharmaceuticals and herpetological specimens for the FIDIA Research Institute of the University of Rome. His description of the indiginous Matses Indians’ use of the secretions of the phyllomedusa bicolor frog has opened an entire field devoted to the use of amphibian peptides as potential medicines in Western medicine.

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The Fossil Bed Expedition—In 1997 Peter Gorman and his wife Gilma discovered the first fossil bed ever found in the lowlands of northwest Peru. Paleontologists at the American Museum of Natural History in New York estimated that the fossils brought back by the Gormans represented at least seven different species with a range of from 3-30 million years old. The Gormans are searching for sponsors to fund a return expedition to the fossil bed during which a proper dig—under the direction of a paleontologist—can commence.

Pyramids of Parataori Expedition—Deep in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon, in territory so remote as to be nearly inaccessible, lies a formation of pyramids that have yet to be breached. The formation is of two rows of six pyramids each. The largest is estimated to be 450 feet tall. No one knows yet whether they are a unique geological formation or man made structures. It is known that the formation figures into the lore of the indigenous communities of the region. Sponsors are being sought for a survey expedition—with the help of an anthropologist and archaeologist—which would determine the worth of more extensive future expeditions.

Headwaters of the Jivari Expedition—Few people have ever put together an Amazon boat expedition up the Jivari river, the border between Peru and Brazil. Peter Gorman has done it twice, collecting medicinal plants for Shaman Pharmaceuticals in 1993 and 1994. But Gorman’s expeditions were limited by their scope. The Matses Indians of the region claim that the river remains navigable by smaller craft for nearly two weeks further upriver than Gorman went, and that the jungle of the remote area contains many secrets important to their oral history. "