Festival in the state of Bahia, a Umbanda terreiro in Pernambuco and a Catimbó ritual in Rio Grande do Norte. The first experience was provided by a smokable version known as changa that became popular among psychonauts. Changa is supposed to have been invented in Australia, but using acacia instead of jurema as the source of DMT, a preparation also referred to as “aussiewaska,” according to...
AbstractThis chapter delves into the meandrous trajectory of DMT extracted from Mimosa tenuifora (black jurema) along traditional, scientific, and neo-shamanic uses. Chemist Jonathan Ott popularized a recipe of anahuasca (sometimes called juremahuasca or pharmahuasca) mixing the root bark powder from the tree that grows in semi-arid regions of tropical America with Syrian rue as a source of...