Ayahuasca Reader

Encounters with the Amazon's Sacred Vine
Herausgeber: Luna, Luis Eduardo; White, Steven F

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Produktbeschreibung

The Ayahuasca Reader is an expansive anthology of texts translated from several different languages covering multiple aspects of the ayahuasca experience. The book is a classic in ayahuasca literature and a must read for those interested in learning more about this sacred plant medicine.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Synergetic Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 177mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 907g
• ISBN-13: 9780907791591
• ISBN-10: 090779159X
• Artikelnr.: 43854033

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Ralph Metzner
Preface to the Second Edition Luis Eduardo Luna and Steven F. White
Introduction
 
I. AYAHUASCA MYTHS AND TESTIMONIES
Yajé: Myth and Ritual
Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff
 
The Creation Myth
Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff
 
A Visit to the Second Heaven: A Siona Narrative of the Yagé Experience
E. Jean Matteson Langdon
 
Two Ayahuasca Myths from the Cashinahua of Northwestern Brazil
Elsje Maria Lagrou
 
Mythologies of the Vine
Oscar Calavia Sáez
 
A Huaorani Myth of the First Miiyabu (Ayahuasca Vine)
Jonathon S. Miller Weisberger
 
Initiation Experience
Jean-Pierre Chaumeil (as told by Alberto Prohaño)
 
Light of This World
Don Hilario Peña
 
Unámarai, Father of Yajé
Hugo Niño
 
At the End You See God
Fernando Payaguaje
 
II.AYAHUASCA CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS
On Some Remarkable Narcotics of the Amazon Valley and Orinoco
Richard Spruce
 
First Known Printed Reference to Ayahuasca (1675)
José Chantre y Herrera
 
The Drug that Makes Men Brave
Gordon MacCreagh
 
Discovering the Way
Michael Harner
 
A Yajé Session
Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff
 
Yagé Nostalgia
Scott S. Robinson
 
The Spears of Twilight: Life and Death in the Amazon Jungle
Philippe Descola
 
One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest
Wade Davis
 
Becoming-Jaguar
William Torres C.
 
The Jaguar Who Would Not Say Her Prayers: Changing Polarities in Upper
Amazonian Shamanism
Françoise Barbira Freedman
 
Montage
Michael Taussig
 
Design Therapy
Angelika Gebhart-Sayer
 
Healing Icaros in Peruvian Vegetalismo
Susana Bustos
 
Tracking the River of Change: A Multidimensional Interpretation of
Ayahuasca Healing
The Heart: Hungarian Ethnobotanical and Ayahuasca Research Team (Petra
Bokor, Ede Frecska, Lajos Horvath, Attila Szabo)
 
Through the Void: A Cognitive Testimony
Jan Kounen
 
Twenty Years Later
François Demange
 
Some Observations on the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience
Luis Eduardo Luna
 
Ayahuasca as Antidote
Jeremy Narby
 
III. NEW RELIGIONS: SANTO DAIME, BARQUINHA, AND UNIÃO DO VEGETAL (UDV)
Hymns
Received by Raimundo Irineu Serra
Received by Sebastião Mota de Melo
Received by Alfredo Gregório de Melo
Received by Daniel Pereira de Matos
Received by Francisca Campos do Nascimento
 
The Book of Visions: Journey to Santo Daime (excerpt)
Alex Polari de Alverga
 
An Unusual Experience with “Hoasca”: A Lesson From the Teacher
Dennis J. McKenna
 
IV. WRITING AYAHUASCA
The Vortex (excerpt)
José Eustasio Rivera
 
The Yagé Letters
Allen Ginsberg
 
Men of Chazúta
F. Bruce Lamb
 
The Three Halves of Ino Moxo (excerpt)
César Calvo
 
Ayahuasca, or What There Is at the End
Mario Villafranca Saravia
 
Returning
Ib Michael
 
Aerial Waters
Néstor Perlongher
 
The Mother of the Voice in the Ear (excerpt)
Alfonso Domingo
 
Rio NAPO
Dale Pendell
 
From Sworn to the Plants
Steven F. White
 
Ayahuasca in My Art and Philosophy
Alex Grey
 
Ayahuasca
Juan Carlos Galeano
 
The Woman I Could Have Been
Esthela Calderón
 
Icaro of the Yacumama
Ana Varela Tafur
 
Rite of Passage
Percy Vílchez Vela
 
Ayahuasca Gave Me a Story
Graham Hancock
 
V. AYAHUASCA IN VISUAL EXPRESSION
List of Color Plates, Ayahuasca in Visual Expression
 
Bibliography, Select Discography and Filmography
Appendix – Selected Works in Their Original Language
Notes on Contributors
General Index