Sexual & Relationship Therapy
January 2, 2014
Yalila Espinoza
14 citations
AbstractThis article explores how women's sexual/spiritual lives were transformed with sacred Amazonian plant teachers (i.e. plants believed to have spirits that communicate with humans). The research was guided by the belief that the practice of vegetalismo (a South American healing tradition that uses plant teachers for healing) holds important lessons for guiding women's sexual/spiritual...
2014
9 citations
Can drugs be used intelligently and responsibly to expand human consciousness and heighten spirituality? This two-volume work presents objective scientific information and personal stories aiming to answer the question. The first of its kind, this intriguing two-volume set objectively reports on and assesses this modern psycho-social movement in world culture: the constructive medical use of...
Ponto Urbe
December 20, 2013
Tiago Coutinho
2 citations
O objetivo deste artigo é apresentar os mecanismos terapêuticos encontrados em um rito de cura oferecidos em grandes cidades brasileiras, como Rio de Janeiro e São Paulo, onde esta é obtida através do consumo ritual da ayahuasca. Os encontros são realizados mensalmente para um público de aproximadamente trinta pessoas que se reúnem para consumir as chamadas “medicinas da floresta” (ayahuasca,...
Religião e Sociedade
September 5, 2013
Isabela Oliveira
3 citations
O artigo analisa a composição do campo religioso daimista na atualidade e como se estruturam os discursos que legitimam as práticas da religião no âmbito dos principais grupos que a compõem, a saber: o conjunto de centros daimistas situados na região do Alto Santo, em Rio Branco, e as igrejas filiadas à Igreja do Culto Eclético da Fluente Luz Universal Patrono Sebastião Mota de Melo (Iceflu)....
Religião e Sociedade
September 5, 2013
Anne‐marie Losonczy, Silvia Mesturini
24 citations
Este texto explora una dimensión particular des las prácticas religiosas en migración. El fenómeno chamánico constituye actualmente un paisaje multipolar, atravesado por desplazamientos regulares de expertos en rituales y de practicantes, a la vez que por la mobilidad y la constante reconfiguración de las prácticas rituales. Estas itinerancias y estancias transcontinentales marcan a las...
Revista Colombiana de Antropología
June 13, 2013
Isabel Santana de Rose, Esther Jean Langdon
5 citations
This paper examines the adoption of ayahuasca and other ritual practices in the Guarani village Mbiguaçu (Santa Catarina, Brazil). This adoption is the productof the dialogue that has emerged in the ritual performances shared with non-Indian groups and the circulation of concepts and discourses present in Brazilian public policies and alternative spiritual movements. The actors involved in the...
March 21, 2013
Cristina Rocha, Manuel Arturo Vasquez
48 citations
The Diaspora of Brazilian Religions explores the global spread of religions originating in Brazil, a country that has emerged as a major pole of religious innovation and production. Through ethnographically-rich case studies throughout the world, ranging from the Americas (Canada, the U.S., Peru, and Argentina) and Europe (the U.K., Portugal, and the Netherlands) to Asia (Japan) and Oceania...
Pharmacognosy Reviews/Bioinformatics Trends/Pharmacognosy review
2013
Milad Moloudizargari, Peyman Mikaili, Shahin Aghajanshakeri et al.
381 citations
Wild Syrian rue (Peganum harmala L. family Zygophyllaceae) is well-known in Iran and various parts of this plant including, its seeds, bark, and root have been used as folk medicine. Recent years of research has demonstrated different pharmacological and therapeutic effects of P. harmala and its active alkaloids, especially harmine and harmaline. Analytical studies on the chemical composition...
Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks
2013
Veronica Davidov
1 citation
Some months into my fieldwork, my colleague and friend carne to visit me. Anya, a fellow anthropologist, was (and is) an ethnographic filmmaker and a scholar of shainanism (although her fieldsite lay far away from mine—she studied shamanic revival in post-Soviet Buryatia). Naturally, her professional curiosity was piqued by my tales of shamanic tourism. She was quite interested in ayahuasca...
Anuário Antropológico
2013
Rosa Virgínia Melo
4 citations
O artigo discute a elaboração simbólica do efeito da ayahuasca na União do Vegetal, denominado burracheira, um transe cuja dinâmica é guiada pelo espírito do Mestre fundador da doutrina, consubstancializado na bebida. A constituição dessa entidade, no sacramento, é interpretada na leitura do mito e do rito udevista por meio de metáforas e metonímias expressivas dos processos orgânico, emotivo e...