Entheogenic Healing among the Kamëntsá Biyá: an Intercultural Dialogue between Tradition and the Post-modern World
June 16, 2025 Alejandro Marín Valencia, Luis Fernando Agreda Muchavisoy
This chapter reflects on the cultural uses of yajé (ayahuasca) within the ethnomedical system of the Kamëntsá Biyá people in southern Colombia, the expanded states of consciousness produced by the entheogenic mixture, and its relationship with symbolic healing processes. We analyze these phenomena within the cultural history of the Kamëntsá and their eco-cosmology and the elements of mythopoeic...