Ayahuasca Reader: Encounters with the Amazon's Sacred Vine
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Ayahuasca Reader: Encounters with the Amazon's Sacred Vine
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Overview
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.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780907791591 |
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| Publisher: | Synergetic Press |
| Publication date: | 10/01/2016 |
| Edition description: | New Edition |
| Pages: | 464 |
| Product dimensions: | 8.90(w) x 7.00(h) x 1.20(d) |
| Age Range: | 16 - 18 Years |
About the Author
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 más que humano en la poesía de Pablo Antonio Cuadra: un estudio ecocrítico, Arando el aire: la ecología en la poesía y la música de Nicaragua and El consumo de lo que somos: muestra de poesía ecológica hispánica contemporánea. He also co-translated Federico García Lorca’s Poet in New York and The Angel of Rain by Gastón Baquero. His published poetry includes Escanciador de pócimas, Bajo la palabra de las plantas (poesía selecta: 1979-2009) and Sworn to the Plants: Selected Poems (1976-2016). He has been teaching at St. Lawrence Universitysince 1987 and is one of the co-founders of its Caribbean and Latin American Studies program.
Table of Contents
Foreword Ralph Metzner i
Preface to the Second Edition Luis Eduardo Luna Steven F. White v
Introduction 1
I Ayahuasca Myths and Testimonies
Yajé: Myth And Ritual Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff 38
The Creation Myth Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff 42
A Visit to the Second Heaven: A Siona Narrative of the Yagé Experience E. Jean Matteson Langdon 46
Two Ayahuasca Myths from the Cashinahua of Northwestern Brazil Elsje Maria Lagrou 60
Mythologies of the Vine Oscar Calavia Sáez 68
A Huaorani Myth of the First Muyabu (Ayahuasca Vine) Jonathon S. Miller Weisberger 75
Initiation Experience Jean-Pierre Chaumeil (as told by Alberto Prohano) 82
Light of This World Don Hilario Peña 94
Unámarai, Father of Yajé Hugo Nino 100
At the End You See God Fernando Payaguaje 107
II Ayahuasca Cultural Encounters
On Some Remarkable Narcotics of the Amazon Valley and Orinoco Richard Spruce 136
First Known Printed Reference to Ayahuasca (1675) José Chantre y Herrera 142
The Drug That Makes Men Brave Gordon MacCreagh 145
Discovering the Way Michael Harner 152
A Yajé Session Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff 159
Yagé Nostalgia Scott S. Robinson 169
The Spears of Twilight: Life and Death in the Amazon Jungle Philippe Descola 178
One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest Wade Davis 182
Becoming-Jaguar William Torres C. 186
The Jaguar Who Would Not Say Her Prayers: Changing Polarities in Upper Amazonian Shamanism Francoise Barbira Freedman 193
Montage Michael Taussig 205
Design Therapy Angelika Gebhart-Sayer 217
Healing Icaros in Peruvian Vegetalismo Susana Bustos 224
Tracking the River of Change: A Multidimensional Interpretation of Ayahuasca Healing 232
The Heart: Hungarian Ethnobotanical and Ayahuasca Research Team Petra Bokor Ede Frecska Lajos Horvath Attila Szabo
Through the Void: A Cognitive Testimony Jan Kounen 243
Twenty Years Later François Demange 248
Some Observations on the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience Luis Eduardo Luna 251
Ayahuasca as Antidote Jeremy Narby 280
III New Religions: Santo Daime, Barquinha, and União Do Vegetal (UDV)
Hymns 296
Received Raimundo Irineu Serra
Received Sebastiao Mota de Melo
Received Alfredo Gregório de Melo
Received Daniel Pereira de Matos
Received Francisca Campos do Nascimento
The Book of Visions: Journey to Santo Daime (excerpt) Alex Polari de Alverga 305
An Unusual Experience with "Hoasca:" A Lesson From the Teacher Dennis J. McKenna 320
IV Writing Ayahuasca
The Vortex (excerpt) José Eustasio Rivera 330
The Yagé Letters Allen Ginsberg 332
Men of Chazúta F. Bruce Lamb 336
The Three Halves of Ino Moxo (excerpt) César Calvo 344
Ayahuasca, or What There is at the End Mario Villafranca Saravia 358
Returning Ib Michael 364
Aerial Waters Néstor Perlongher 368
The Mother of the Voice in the Ear (excerpt) Alfonso Domingo 375
Rio NAPO Dale Pendell 384
From Sworn to the Plants Steven F. White 386
Ayahuasca in My Art and Philosophy Alex Grey 394
Ayahuasca Juan Carlos Galeano 396
The Woman I Could Have Been Esthela Calderón 397
Icaro of the Yacumama Ana Varela Tafur 400
Rite of Passage Percy Vílchez Vela 401
Ayahuasca Gave Me a Story Graham Hancock 404
V Ayahuasca in Visual Expression
List of Color Plates, Ayahuasca in Visual Expression 408
Bibliography, Select Discography and Filmography 409
Appendix - Selected Works in Their Original Language 433
Notes on Contributors 443
General Index 457