Ayahuasca healing beyond the Amazon: the globalization of a traditional indigenous entheogenic practice
Global Networks December 9, 2008 Kenneth W. Tupper 107 citations
Abstract Ayahuasca commonly refers to a psychoactive Amazonian indigenous brew traditionally used for spiritual and healing purposes (that is as an entheogen). Since the late twentieth century, ayahuasca has undergone a process of globalization through the uptake of different kinds of socio‐cultural practices, including its sacramental use in some new Brazilian religious movements and its...