Handbook of Entheogenic Healing

by Michael J Winkelman (Other)

Overview

Entheogenic Healing describes contemporary psychedelic therapies of indigenous cultures, mestizo adaptations, and emerging global traditions. Analysis of cultural contexts and ritual practices of diverse entheogenic traditions provides an understanding of their individual and common dynamics. A common framework situates the practices in cultural context, describes training of healers, examines preparatory and ritual activities, and analyzes the dynamics of healing. The chapters examine the roles entheogens play in healing, focused on the alterations of consciousness and spirit experiences produced, the forms of illness treated, the nature of the healing processes, and post-session integration practices. Their commonalities provide guidelines for the Psychedelic Renaissance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789004729728
Publisher:	Brill Academic Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	07/24/2025
Series:	Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion
Pages:	675
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 1.50(h) x 9.50(d)

About the Author

Michael J. Winkelman, M.P.H, Ph.D. (1985), is an anthropologist retired from the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. He has engaged in cross-cultural and interdisciplinary research on shamanism, psychedelics, and the alteration of consciousness for 40 years. He is the author of Shamanism: A Biopsychosocial Paradigm of Consciousness and Healing (2nd ed., 2010) and co-editor of Advances in Psychedelic Medicine (2019) and The Supernatural after the Neuroturn (2019).
Contributors are: Michael J. Winkelman, Stanley Krippner, Jacques Mabit, Stacy Schaefer, Joseph Calabrese, Kevin Feeney, Bonnie Glass-Coffin, Anna Waldstein, Marc Blainey, Jesús M. González Mariscal, Osiris Sinuhé González Romero, Antonella Fagetti, Pedro Favaron, Evgenia Fotiou, Jorgelina Reinoso, Alejandro Marin Valencia, Jan M. Keppel Hesselink, F. LeRon Shults, Bruno Gomes, Bruno Rasmussen, Luis Fernando Agreda Muchavisoy, Genaro Guizasola Martínez, Philippe Bandeira de Mello, Chonon Bensho, María del Carmen Macuil García, Frederico Romanoff, Alfredo Narváez, Fanny Charrasse, Cutler Cannon, Bénédicte Mannix, Rita Kocarova, Luisa Procházková, Michaela Plevková, Tristan Kallweit, Saundra Shanti, Martin Polanco, Mia Black, Fabio Friso, Matteo Politi.

Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword
 Stanley Krippner

Preface
 Michael J. Winkelman

Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors

Introduction
 Michael J. Winkelman

Part 1: Traditional Entheogenic Practices

1 Wixárika Mara’akate: Healing with the Powers of Peyote
 Stacy B. Schaefer

2 Contemporary Uses of Psychoactive Mushrooms in the Mazatec Highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico: Diversity, Knowledge and Healing
 Jesús M. González Mariscal and Genaro Guizasola Martínez

3 Healing of the Thunderbolt and Nahua Entheogenic Medicine (Psilocybe aztecorum and Tagetes lucida)
 Osiris Sinuhé González Romero and María del Carmen Macuil García

4 Virgin Seed (Turbina Corymbosa and Ipomoea Tricolor) among Mixtec, Nahuas and Mazatec of Guerrero, Oaxaca and Puebla (Mexico)
 Antonella Fagetti

5 The Sacred Plant of Santa Rosa, Nurse of the World: Narratives of Otomí Emotions from the Sierra Norte of Puebla
 Jorgelina Reinoso Niche

6 Entheogenic Healing among the Kamëntsá Biyá: an Intercultural Dialogue between Tradition and the Post-modern World
 Alejandro Marín Valencia and Luis Fernando Agreda Muchavisoy

7 Merayabo: the Entheogenic Knowledge of the Shipibo-Konibo Nation
 Pedro Favaron and Chonon Bensho

Part 2: Modern Entheogenic Healing

8 Vegetalista Healing Traditions of the Peruvian Amazon
 Evgenia Fotiou

9 Santo Daime Ethnopsychiatry: Psychotherapy & Spiritual Care Implications of a Global Ayahuasca Healing Tradition from Amazonia
 Marc G. Blainey

10 Plants of God?
 The Healing Process with Entheogenic Plants in the Arca da Montanha Azul
 Frederico Romanoff and Philippe Bandeira de Mello

11 The San Pedro Cactus (Equinopsis pachanoi): Symbolic Axis of Ancestral Medical Knowledge in Peru
 Alfredo Narváez and Fanny Charrasse

12 Healing in the Native American Church: Ritual Psychopharmacology and Therapeutic Narrative
 Joseph D. Calabrese

13 Entheogenic Healing in Rastafari: Decolonization through Cannabis, Consciousness, and Collective Ritual
 Anna Waldstein and Cutler Cannon

Part 3: Post-Modern Entheogenic Medicine

14 Treating Childhood Trauma through Psilocybin
 Bénédicte Mannix, F. LeRon Shults and Michael J. Winkelman

15 5-MeO-DMT: a Controversial Part of a Contemporary Psychedelic Scene
 Rita Kočárová, Luisa Procházková and Michaela Plevková

16 Kambo as Entheogenic Therapy: Processes of Physiological, Symbolic, and Transpersonal Healing
 Michael J. Winkelman and Jan M. Keppel Hesselink

17 From “Poison” to Sacrament: Spiritual and Therapeutic Use of Amanita muscaria in the 21st Century
 Kevin Feeney and Tristan T. Kallweit

18 Mama Cannabis and the Embodied Feminine: an Ancient Psychedelic for Modern Times
 Bonnie Glass-Coffin and Saundra Shanti

Part 4: Medical Healing with Entheogens

19 Ibogaine as a Tool in the Process of Overcoming Drug Addiction
 Bruno Ramos Gomes and Bruno Rasmussen Chaves

20 Treating War Trauma with Ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMT
 Martin Polanco and Michelle “Mia” Black

21 Ayahuasca Ritual and Spiritual Practices for Substance Abuse Rehabilitation: the Takiwasi Model and Experience
 Jacques Mabit, Fabio Friso and Matteo Politi

Part 5: The Evolutionary Psychology of Entheogenic Healing

22 The Evolved Psychology of Entheogenic Healing
 Michael J. Winkelman

Conclusions: Comparisons of Contemporary Entheogenic Healing
 Michael J. Winkelman

Index