European Psychiatry
2010
Evelyn Doering-Silveira, Enrique Lopez, Charles S. Grob et al.
Introduction The use of psychoactive substances has been frequently associated with cognitive impairment. More and more people, including adolescents, use the plant hallucinogen beverage “ayahuasca” throughout the world. Long-term ayahuasca use by adolescents might eventually result in impaired cognitive performance. Objective The objective of this study is to assess neuropsychological...
Revista Internacional Interdisciplinar INTERthesis
2010
Isabela Lara Oliveira
1 citation
A Ayahuasca é um chá com propriedades psicoativas, utilizado milenarmente pela população nativa amazônica. A partir do início do século XX, a população não índia passou a ter contato com a bebida e formaram-se novos contextos de utilização desse chá, além de novos significados para ele. Entre esses contextos encontra-se a religião Santo Daime, uma religião brasileira, cristã, de cultura...
Revista de Antropologia da UFSCar
December 1, 2009
Marcelo S. Mercante
1 citation
Este artigo apresenta o universo cultural e simbólico da Barquinha, religião ayahuasqueira brasileira localizada em Rio Branco (Acre), que realiza, entre outros tipos de rituais, trabalhos de “cura.” O foco central da investigação é o papel das visões obtidas pelo uso ritual da Ayahuasca em processos de conscientização em situações de enfermidades. Tais visões são conhecidas pelos...
Revista de Antropologia da UFSCar
December 1, 2009
Beatriz Caiuby Labate
3 citations
Recentemente, a Revista Isto É publicou uma reportagem de capa sobre o uso da ayahuasca1 no país, intitulada “As Encruzilhadas do Daime.” 2 O texto noticia que o uso da ayahuasca teria sido “liberado pelo governo federal,” denotando complacência com um “quadro de desorganização e alto risco,” um alarmante “tráfico de ayahuasca” e uma “série de mortes” associadas ao consumo do perigoso “chá...
Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture
July 20, 2009
Lisa Maria Madera
3 citations
In the Amazon, under the influence of ayahuasca, eco revolutionary Christian visions describe how Christ’s power takes root in the Amazonian ground. The article explores the “Gospel”—the story of Christ’s life and teachings—according to ayahuasca as told by the Quichua Aguarico Runa, a native people of the Ecuadorian upper Amazon and then traces local phrasings of the Gospel according to Santo...
March 20, 2009
Sioui Maldonado Bouchard
1 citation
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Definitions Three Indigenous Peoples' Medicinal Plants: Quinine, Coca and Ayahuasca Legal Issues Conclusion Notes References
Fieldwork in Religion
November 27, 2008
Christian Frenopoulo
1 citation
The article focuses on the healing service offered by Barquinha churches. The Barquinha religion is an Amazonian form of Christianity, with syncretic elements. The article surveys three recurrent methodological and theoretical approaches found in anthropological works on healing in the Barquinha religion, to which the author contributes with his own ethnographic research and analysis. On the...
Fieldwork in Religion
November 27, 2008
Edward Macrae
11 citations
The article deals with the different effects of tolerant and prohibitionist policies associated with psychoactive substance use in Brazil. Whereas the licit use of ayahuasca has been successfully incorporated into mainstream Brazilian society, the ritual use of cannabis by one of the Santo Daime religious groups has never been fully accepted and remains a constant source of problems for the...
Psychopharmacology
November 1, 2008
Adam L. Halberstadt, Mahalah R Buell, Virginia L Masten et al.
46 citations
The hallucinogenic tea known as ayahuasca is made from a combination of psychoactive plants that contribute the active components N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) and 5-methoxy-DMT (5-MeO-DMT), as well as the monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitors (MAOIs) harmine and harmaline for oral activity. The present study examined the effects of 5-MeO-DMT in combination with MAOIs in rats using the behavioral...
Time and Mind
2008
Benny Shanon
43 citations
A speculative hypothesis is presented according to which the ancient Israelite religion was associated with the use of entheogens (mind-altering plants used in sacramental contexts). The hypothesis is based on a new look at texts of the Old Testament pertaining to the life of Moses. The ideas entertained here were primarily based on the fact that in the arid areas of the Sinai peninsula and...