Ayahuasca Reader
Encounters with the Amazon's Sacred Vine
2nd Edition
Will be published approx. on 17. November 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
456 pages
978-0-907791-59-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book is a panorama of texts translated from nearly a dozen languages on the ayahuasca experience, including indigenous mythic narratives and testimonies, religious hymns, as well as stories related by western travellers, scientists and writers who have had contact with ayahuasca in different contexts.
In addition to contributions from Wade Davis, Dennis McKenna and Richard Spruce, this new edition includes essays from Graham Hancock, Jeremy Narby, Susana Bustos, Michael Winkelman and a new section on ayahuasca art. This backlist classic, also, includes contributions from leaders of the global ayahuasca movement, making this the most up-to-date collection of authoritative writings on the subject ever published, an essential reference for anthropology, ethnobotany and Latin American literature studies.
In addition to contributions from Wade Davis, Dennis McKenna and Richard Spruce, this new edition includes essays from Graham Hancock, Jeremy Narby, Susana Bustos, Michael Winkelman and a new section on ayahuasca art. This backlist classic, also, includes contributions from leaders of the global ayahuasca movement, making this the most up-to-date collection of authoritative writings on the subject ever published, an essential reference for anthropology, ethnobotany and Latin American literature studies.
Reviews / Votes
"Given the plethora of publications on ayahuasca, it is sometimes difficult to know which are the worthiest. That being said, the Ayahuasca Reader is a classic." -Mark Plotkin, PhD, ethnobotanist and director of Amazon Conservation Team"The second edition of Ayahuasca Reader confirms that it is an invaluable resource and a must-read for anybody interested in ayahuasca." -Jeremy Narby, PhD, Amazonian Project Director, Nouvelle Planete
"Gripping myths, rituals, and initiation rites; heavens, hells, and other worlds; healing, therapy, and spiritual growth. With all this as well as the chemistry and biology of this very special brew, this book is everything a 'Reader' should be: broad, comprehensive, and enticing." -Susan Blackmore, psychologist and memeticist
More details
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Santa Fe, NM
United States
Target group
Interest Age: From 16 to 90 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 177 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
907 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-907791-59-1 (9780907791591)
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Luis Eduardo Luna, born in Florenciain 1947, in the Colombian Amazon region, is co-editor with Steven F. White of the Ayahuasca Reader. He received his PhD from the Institute of Comparative Religion at Stockholm University. A Guggenheim Fellow and Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, he is also the author of Vegetalismo: Shamanism among the Mestizo Population of the Peruvian Amazon and, with Pablo Amaringo, Ayahuasca Visions: The Religious Iconography of a Peruvian Shaman, a project that grew from their work to establish the internationally recognized USKO-AYAR Amazonian School of Painting in Pucallpa, Peru. From 1994 to 1998 he was a Professor in Anthropology at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina in Florianopolis, Brazil. He retired from the Swedish School of Economics in Helsinki in 2011. He is the Director of Wasiwaska, Research Center for the Study of Psychointegrator Plants, Visionary Art and Consciousness, based in Florianopolis, southern Brazil. Steven F. White, born in Abington, Pennsylvania in 1955, is co-editor with Luis Eduardo Luna of the Ayahuasca Reader. He received a BA in English from Williams College as well as MA and PhD degrees in Spanish from the University of Oregon. He received support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Lannan Foundation and was the recipient of two Fulbright fellowships. He has lived and worked in many Latin American countries, an opportunity that enabled him to edit bilingual anthologies of poetry from Nicaragua, Chile and Brazil. Recent books have focused on ecology and include El mundo mas que humano en la poesia de Pablo Antonio Cuadra: un estudio ecocritico, Arando el aire: la ecologia en la poesia y la musica de Nicaragua and El consumo de lo que somos: muestra de poesia ecologica hispanica contemporanea. He also co-translated Federico Garcia Lorca's Poet in New York and The Angel of Rain by Gaston Baquero. His published poetry includes Escanciador de pocimas, Bajo la palabra de las plantas (poesia selecta: 1979-2009) and Sworn to the Plants: Selected Poems (1976-2016). He has been teaching at St. Lawrence University since 1987 and is one of the co-founders of its Caribbean and Latin American Studies program.
Content
Foreword by Ralph Metzner
Preface to the Second Edition Luis Eduardo Luna and Steven F. White
Introduction
I. AYAHUASCA MYTHS AND TESTIMONIES
Yaje: Myth and Ritual
Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff
The Creation Myth
Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff
A Visit to the Second Heaven: A Siona Narrative of the Yage Experience
E. Jean Matteson Langdon
Two Ayahuasca Myths from the Cashinahua of Northwestern Brazil
Elsje Maria Lagrou
Mythologies of the Vine
Oscar Calavia Saez
A Huaorani Myth of the First Miiyabu (Ayahuasca Vine)
Jonathon S. Miller Weisberger
Initiation Experience
Jean-Pierre Chaumeil (as told by Alberto Prohano)
Light of This World
Don Hilario Pena
Unamarai, Father of Yaje
Hugo Nino
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)
Jose Chantre y Herrera
The Drug that Makes Men Brave
Gordon MacCreagh
Discovering the Way
Michael Harner
A Yaje Session
Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff
Yage 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
Francoise 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
Francois 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 UNIAO DO VEGETAL (UDV)
Hymns
Received by Raimundo Irineu Serra
Received by Sebastiao Mota de Melo
Received by Alfredo Gregorio 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)
Jose Eustasio Rivera
The Yage Letters
Allen Ginsberg
Men of Chazuta
F. Bruce Lamb
The Three Halves of Ino Moxo (excerpt)
Cesar Calvo
Ayahuasca, or What There Is at the End
Mario Villafranca Saravia
Returning
Ib Michael
Aerial Waters
Nestor 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 Calderon
Icaro of the Yacumama
Ana Varela Tafur
Rite of Passage
Percy Vilchez 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
Preface to the Second Edition Luis Eduardo Luna and Steven F. White
Introduction
I. AYAHUASCA MYTHS AND TESTIMONIES
Yaje: Myth and Ritual
Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff
The Creation Myth
Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff
A Visit to the Second Heaven: A Siona Narrative of the Yage Experience
E. Jean Matteson Langdon
Two Ayahuasca Myths from the Cashinahua of Northwestern Brazil
Elsje Maria Lagrou
Mythologies of the Vine
Oscar Calavia Saez
A Huaorani Myth of the First Miiyabu (Ayahuasca Vine)
Jonathon S. Miller Weisberger
Initiation Experience
Jean-Pierre Chaumeil (as told by Alberto Prohano)
Light of This World
Don Hilario Pena
Unamarai, Father of Yaje
Hugo Nino
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)
Jose Chantre y Herrera
The Drug that Makes Men Brave
Gordon MacCreagh
Discovering the Way
Michael Harner
A Yaje Session
Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff
Yage 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
Francoise 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
Francois 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 UNIAO DO VEGETAL (UDV)
Hymns
Received by Raimundo Irineu Serra
Received by Sebastiao Mota de Melo
Received by Alfredo Gregorio 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)
Jose Eustasio Rivera
The Yage Letters
Allen Ginsberg
Men of Chazuta
F. Bruce Lamb
The Three Halves of Ino Moxo (excerpt)
Cesar Calvo
Ayahuasca, or What There Is at the End
Mario Villafranca Saravia
Returning
Ib Michael
Aerial Waters
Nestor 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 Calderon
Icaro of the Yacumama
Ana Varela Tafur
Rite of Passage
Percy Vilchez 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