Ayahuasca Reader
Encounters with the Amazon's Sacred Vine
2nd Edition
Published on 2. January 2018
464 pages
978-0-907791-60-7 (ISBN)
Description
The Ayahuasca Reader: Encounters with the Amazon's Sacred Vine, is a panorama of texts translated from nearly a dozen languages on the ayahuasca experience. These include indigenous mythic narratives, testimonies, and religious hymns, as well as stories related by Western travelers, scientists, and writers who have had contact with ayahuasca in different contexts.
In addition to contributions from Wade Davis, Dennis McKenna, Gerardo Reichel-Dolmotoff and Richard Spruce, the new edition includes essays from Graham Hancock, Alex Grey, Jeremy Narby, Susana Bustos, and a section on Ayahuasca art. The Ayahuasca Reader remains the most comprehensive collection of authoritative writings on the subject ever published. An essential reference for anthropology, ethnobotany and Latin American literature studies, it will be of intense interest to students of Amazonian indigenous culture, Native American spirituality, and metaphysical studies.
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Content
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- 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
- The Creation Myth
- A Visit to The Second Heaven: A Siona Narrative of The Yagé Experience
- Two Ayahuasca Myths from the Cashinahua of Northwestern Brazil
- Mythologies of The Vine
- A Huaorani Myth of The First Miiyabu (Ayahuasca Vine)
- Initiation Experience
- Light of This World
- Unámarai, Father of Yajé
- At The End You See God
- II. Ayahuasca Cultural Encounters
- On Some Remarkable Narcotics of The Amazon Valley and Orinoco
- First Known Printed Reference to Ayahuasca (1675)
- The Drug that Makes Men Brave
- Discovering The Way
- A Yajé Session
- Yagé Nostalgia
- The Spears of Twilight: Life and Death in The Amazon Jungle
- One River: Explorations and Discoveries in The Amazon Rain Forest
- Becoming-Jaguar
- The Jaguar Who Would Not Say Her Prayers: Changing Polarities in Upper Amazonian Shamanism
- Montage
- Design Therapy
- Healing Icaros in Peruvian Vegetalismo
- Tracking The River of Change: A Multidimensional Interpretation of Ayahuasca Healing
- Through The Void: A Cognitive Testimony
- Twenty Years Later
- Some Observations on The Phenomenology of The Ayahuasca Experience
- Ayahuasca As Antidote
- III. New Religions: Santo Daime, Barquinha, and União Do Vegetal (Udv)
- Hymns
- The Book of Visions: Journey to Santo Daime (excerpt)
- An Unusual Experience with "Hoasca:" A Lesson from The Teacher
- IV. Writing Ayahuasca
- The Vortex (excerpt)
- The Yagé Letters
- Men of Chazúta
- The Three Halves of Ino Moxo (excerpt)
- Ayahuasca, or What There is At The End
- Returning
- Aerial Waters
- The Mother of The Voice in The Ear (excerpt)
- Rio Napo
- From Sworn to The Plants
- Ayahuasca in My Art and Philosophy
- Ayahuasca
- The Woman I Could Have Been
- Icaro of The Yacumama
- Rite of Passage
- Ayahuasca gave me a Story
- 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
