Mundo Amazónico
April 4, 2024
Jimmy Weiskopf
The Word, as the creative principle of life, is a concept found in many cultures, from the Hebraic to the Uitotos (or Murui) of the Colombian Amazon. The author finds parallels between the immersion of Joyce´s Finnegans Wake in the Word as the key to unlocking different but interrelated dimensions of reality, and the cosmo-vision of the Murui. Finnegans Wake presents a panoptic view of...
Mundo Amazónico
July 10, 2023
Flávia Cristina Araújo Lucas, Antônio da Conceição Lobato Neto, Ulliane de Oliveira Mesquita et al.
The study assessed the interaction between people and therapeutic plants in the traditional pharmacopoeia in different contexts of healing and religiosity. Homegardens in the towns of Abaetetuba and Vigia, and stands at the market, Feira da 25 de Setembro, in the city of Belém, PA, were investigated. The methodology included conducting semi-structured interviews and photographic records to...
Mundo Amazónico
June 2, 2022
Jimmy Weiskopf
Ayahuasca has spread from indigenous Amazonia to the industrialized world, in the form of ceremonies catering to Westerners, a corpus of academic studies and personal accounts and depictions of it in novels and films. Considering that its original users were zealous about revealing it to outsiders and their traditional cultures were being eroded by the mainstream’s society’s colonization, its...
Mundo Amazónico
July 7, 2021
Jimmy Weiskopf
The use certain writers make of “substances”, like coffee, tobacco, or alcohol, to inspire themselves is an intriguing subject. Does dependence on such stimulants necessarily harm a writer´s judgment and ruin him in the end? Is it valid to condemn it as “addiction” when it is he or she who writes the book, not the bourbon or marijuana and what counts is its quality, not the writer´s character?...
Mundo Amazónico
2020
Jimmy Weiskopf
1 citation
This is the final episode of a three-part story about a visit to Iquitos at the time of the new millennium by the narrator, who lives in Colombia and has been drinking yajé (ayahuasca) with its indigenous shamans. For a book he is writing about the subject, decides to investigate its uses in Iquitos, where his host and guide to the rituals there is “Zappa”, an American expatriate who exports...
Mundo Amazónico
July 1, 2018
Jimmy Weiskopf
2 citations
This is the second of a three-part account of a visit to Iquitos at the time of the New Millennium by the narrator, who lives in Colombia and has been drinking yajé (ayahuasca) with its indigenous shamans. For a book he is writing about the subject, decides to investigate the rituals in Peru. It is in the form of a travelogue divided into vignettes: his voyage upriver from Leticia to Iquitos,...
Mundo Amazónico
July 1, 2017
Jimmy Weiskopf
3 citations
This is the first of a three-part account of a visit to Iquitos at the time of the New Millennium by the narrator, who lives in Colombia, has been drinking yajé (ayahuasca) with its indigenous shamans and for a book he is writing about the subject, decides to investigate the rituals in Peru. It is in the form of a travelogue divided into vignettes: his voyage upriver from Leticia to Iquitos,...
Mundo Amazónico
September 30, 2014
Paolo Del Aguila
Para Paolo del Águila, descendiente del pueblo asháninka, la creatividad es un don de las plantas. Durante su primera experiencia visionaria, la ayahuasca personificada en el cuerpo de anciana le entregó unos pinceles y un estilo propio, liberándolo de las disputas y los convencionalismos que había encontrado en la escuela de arte en Pucallpa. Desde entonces, pintura y vida son indisociables y...
Mundo Amazónico
2011
Luisa Elvira Belaúnde
4 citations
Amazonian shamanic painting is a hybrid art born from the coming together of Western figurative techniques, indigenous body painting and visionary shamanic experiences. It is a testimonial art by which painters express their visionary experiences to a foreign public aiming to understand the Amazonian universe. In his watercolors and drawings, the Asháninka healer Noé Silva Morales bears witness...