Ponto Urbe
December 30, 2014
Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Edilene Coffaci de Lima
6 citations
Desde a metade da última década, em grandes cidades do Brasil, começou a se difundir o uso da secreção da perereca Phyllomedusa bicolor. Um pouco mais tarde, partir da segunda década deste século, tornou-se possível alcançar informações sobre tal difusão em cidades europeias e norte-americanas. Tradicionalmente usada como revigorante e estimulante para caça por grupos indígenas do sudoeste...
Revista de Antropologia
December 19, 2014
Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Tiago Coutinho
20 citations
Este artigo faz uma reflexão sobre a entrada dos índios no circuito urbano da ayahuasca. Descrevemos o processo de contato de diferentes populações indígenas, tais como os Kaxinawa, Guarani, Apurinã, Kuntanawa e Yawanawa com as religiões ayahuasqueiras e os neoayahuasqueiros. Observamos a reivindicação de alguns destes grupos de que teriam sido os responsáveis por introduzir a...
Ilha Revista de Antropologia
December 3, 2014
Óscar Calavia Sáez
4 citations
The use of ayahuasca, even in its original indigenous ground, cannot be described as a culturally variable but culturally bounded body of traditional knowledge, ritual or shamanic technic.This paper describes it rather in the way in which modern science and technology are described, as a network of human and non human actors (spirits, bio-chemical substances, specialists, clients, theories on...
December 1, 2014
G. Chávez, M. Genet
por el otro. En total, 485 paginas en las cuales el lector encontrara un tra-tamiento especializado sobre los diferentes topicos y problematicas en torno al consumo religioso, espiritual, terapeutico y recreacional de la bebida amazonica conocida como ayahuasca y sus variaciones (su significado literal: “el vino de las almas” o “la soga del ahoracado” en lengua quechua, es una decoccion con pro...
November 25, 2014
Willian Melo
de Brasília.
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
October 20, 2014
Rafael Guimarães Dos Santos
19 citations
Ayahuasca is a botanical hallucinogen traditionally used by indigenous groups of the northwest Amazon. In the last decade, the use of ayahuasca has spread from Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru to the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Africa. Despite acute and long-term evidence of good tolerability and safety for ayahuasca administered in the laboratory or ritually consumed in religious contexts,...
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...
Revista Neurociências
September 30, 2014
Janille Santos Corrêa, Vanessa Almeida Amorin, Denismar Alves Nogueira et al.
2 citations
Objetivo. A Ayahuasca, administrada em forma de chá, é resultado da cocção entre Banisteriopsis caapi e Psychotria viridis para fins religiosos, tendo ação psicoativa. O objetivo deste estudo foi analisar quantitativamente corpos celulares no córtex cerebral de camundongos sob o uso do extrato de Ayahuasca. Método. Foram utilizados 15 camundongos, divididos em três grupos: grupo controle...
Behavioural Processes
September 22, 2014
Tathiana A. Alvarenga, Daniel Ninello Polesel, Gabriela Matos et al.
10 citations
The ingestion of the beverage Ayahuasca usually occurs in religious ceremonies that are performed during the night leading to sleep deprivation. The purpose of the present study was to characterize the acute effects of Ayahuasca upon the sexual response of sleep deprived male rats. One group of sexually experienced male Wistar rats were submitted to a paradoxical sleep deprivation (PSD)...
September 19, 2014
Luana Gonçalves Zamarrenho
Efeito do chá de ayahuasca sobre o comportamento de ratos Wistar no campo aberto e labirinto em cruz elevado e sobre a expressão do transportador de EAAC1 no hipocampo e córtex pré-frontal Ribeirão Preto 2014 LUANA GONÇALVES ZAMARRENHO Efeito do chá de ayahuasca sobre o comportamento de ratos Wistar no campo aberto e labirinto em cruz elevado e sobre a expressão de EAAC1 no hipocampo e córtex...
Revista Neurociências
September 1, 2014
Janille Santos Corrêa, Vanessa Almeida Amorin, Denismar Alves Nogueira et al.
2 citations
Objective. Ayahuasca, administered as infusion (tea), is the result of Banisteriopsis caapi and Psychotria viridis boiling for religious rites, and has psychoactive action. This study aimed to quantify the number of neuron cell bodies of cerebral cortex in mice under the use of Ayahuasca extract. Method. 15 mice were divided into 3 groups: G1 (control), treated with saline solution for 15...
August 15, 2014
Lidiane Silva Tavares
nos momentos de angústia e desespero;
The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology
August 1, 2014
Maurizio S Riga, Guadalupe Soria, Raúl Tudela et al.
75 citations
5-Methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT) is a natural hallucinogen component of Ayahuasca, an Amazonian beverage traditionally used for ritual, religious and healing purposes that is being increasingly used for recreational purposes in US and Europe. 5MeO-DMT is of potential interest for schizophrenia research owing to its hallucinogenic properties. Two other psychotomimetic agents,...
June 27, 2014
Alfonso Matas
2 citations
A syncretic religion born in the 1930s in the Amazonian jungle, Santo Daime today is an international flag-bearer in the evolving New Religion Movement (NRM) landscape. Shamanic power, nature veneration, universal love and the quest for a transcendental divine experience thanks to the psychoactive indigenous plant medicine ayahuasca define the Santo Daime allure for a new middle class...
Oxford University Press eBooks
June 18, 2014
Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen
6 citations
Abstract This chapter looks at ritual spaces of ayahuasca shamanism in western Brazil, organized by indigenous people to be shared purposefully with other indigenous and non-indigenous participants. This usually occurs in the evenings of political and cultural meetings, training courses, and cultural festivals. They allow identifying people with whom to cooperate, exchange substances, and share...
Oxford University Press eBooks
June 18, 2014
Glenn H. Shepard
11 citations
Abstract The ayahuasca brew (Banisteriopsis caapi and Psychotria viridis) was introduced very recently among the Matsigenka and Yora (Nahua) indigenous people of southern Peru. The Matsigenka used Banisteriopsis liana previously, however they did not learn to add the potent Psychotria admixture in preparing the brew until the 1950s. Introduction of ayahuasca to the Yora (Nahua) was even more...
Oxford University Press eBooks
June 18, 2014
Daniela M. Peluso
13 citations
This chapter provides an overview of the predicaments of ayahuasca tourism in Puerto Maldonado, a regional Amazonian capital (Peru) and its environs, as a contribution toward understanding how ayahuasca tourism affects the localities in which such encounters take place. Through an analysis of local and global narratives, the chapter engages with Amerindian epistemologies and perspectivism to...
Oxford University Press eBooks
June 18, 2014
Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Clancy Cavnar, Françoise Barbira Freedman
7 citations
Abstract The introduction provides an overview of the expansion of ayahuasca shamanism, and places it in the context of its interactions with Western therapies and the New Age movement. It also contemplates the role of shamanism as a mediator in contemporary indigenous ethnic relationships. The introduction reviews the existing field of research and offer a comment that gives context and...
Oxford University Press eBooks
June 18, 2014
164 citations
This book discusses how Amerindian epistemology and ontology, related to certain indigenous shamanic rituals of the Amazon, spread to Western societies, and how indigenous, mestizo, and cosmopolitan cultures have dialogued with and transformed these forest traditions. Special attention is given to the hallucinogenic brew ayahuasca. Chapters reflect on how displaced indigenous people and rubber...
NeuroQuantology
June 2, 2014
H. Umit Sayin
7 citations
Psychoactive plants have been consumed by many cultures, cults and groups during religious rituals and ceremonies for centuries and they have been influential on the eruption of the many images, secret and religious symbols, esoteric geometrical shapes, archetypes, religious figures, philosophy of religions since the dawn of Homo sapiens. Some of the psychoactive plants used for religious...