Acta Brasiliensis
January 20, 2018
Darliane Freire Almeida, Thais Josy Castro Freire de Assis, Ana Ligia Pereira Silva
4 citations
Plantas alucinógenas são bastante utilizadas em rituais e cultos religiosos. O chá de Ayahuasca e o vinho da Jurema preta, bebidas alucinógenas, apresentam o alcalóide dimetiltriptamina (DMT), responsável pelo efeito alucinógeno devido a interação com receptores serotoninérgicos no sistema nervoso central (SNC). O objetivo da pesquisa foi esclarecer os mecanismos de ação e os efeitos da DMT...
Anthropological Forum
January 3, 2018
Dena Sharrock
6 citations
As more Westerners travel to the Amazon jungle to seek healing through the increasingly popular plant medicine, ayahuasca, they are exposed to an environment pervaded by the use of tobacco smoke. Mapacho is the name of the potent jungle tobacco that is central to the shamanic practices of Amazonian plant medicine healing, regarded locally not as a pathogen but rather as a potent ally: a spirit...
Case Reports in Emergency Medicine
2018
Matthew H. Bilhimer, Rachel F. Schult, Kristan V. Higgs et al.
26 citations
Ayahuasca is a hallucinogenic tea that is most commonly comprised of the vine Banisteriopsis caapi alone or in combination with other plants such as Psychotria viridis . This concoction results in an orally active form of dimethyltryptamine (DMT), a hallucinogenic amine. Despite use in South America as a medicinal agent and component in religious ceremonies, interest in its recreational use and...
Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change
December 30, 2017
María Albert Rodrigo
In this article, we explore the penetration of different shamanic currents in the new millennium in Spain, with a particular focus on the Region of Valencia. The traditions in this area differ from the shamanic traditions that had been previously adopted in two aspects: they are different shamanic currents and they follow their own settlement dynamics. By using a qualitative methodology based...
Conceição|Conception
December 12, 2017
Bya Braga, Patrícia Miranda Pinheiro
1 citation
O artigo nasce de pesquisa em andamento no PPGArtes (Doutorado interinstitucional) da Escola de Belas Artes da UFMG, sobre o ato poético performativo realizado por Tereza de Colares, no Chão de Tupinambá, em Colares-Pará, utilizando o Chá Sagrado com a Ayahuasca. Segue-se a busca de uma cartografia poética no campo das artes da cena, desenhada em práticas orais, corporais e improvisações...
Revista VIS Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Arte
December 2, 2017
Matheus Moura Silva
Este artigo descreve parte da investigação de doutoramento desenvolvida no PPGACV-FAV-UFG, na linha de pesquisa Poéticas Visuais e Processos Criativos. A linha de pesquisa possui como característica a criação plástica e desenvolvimento de saber teórico, em formato tradicional de tese. O que acaba por gerar uma tese-criação calcada na Arts Based Research, por esta ser uma das metodologias...
Drogues santé et société
November 13, 2017
Graham St John
4 citations
La DMT (N,N-diméthyltryptamine) est une puissante tryptamine à effet de courte durée qui a gagné en popularité au cours de la dernière décennie, indépendamment de l’ayahuasca, un breuvage visionnaire d’Amazonie dont elle est un des principaux ingrédients actifs. Réputée pour sa capacité à déclencher des expériences extracorporelles et de profondes modifications de la perception sensorielle, de...
Psychologia Hungarica Caroliensis
November 1, 2017
Károli Gáspár Református Egyetem- Bölcsészettudományi Kar, Noémi Lipták
Jelen tanulmány a shuar samanikus hagyomány kortárs gyakorlatát vizsgálja.A shuarok Ecuador délkeleti részén élnek az amazonasi esőerdőben.Tradíciójuk az ember és a transzcendens ősi kapcsolatát őrzi.A shuar gyógyászatban a sámáni praktikák pontos ismerete és gyakorlása mellett kiemelt szerepet játszanak a Tanító Növények, mint a dohány és az ayahuasca.A növények tanítóként, orvosként élnek...
CRC Press eBooks
October 6, 2017
Ephraim Shmaya Lansky, Shifra Lansky, Helena Maaria Paavilainen
1 citation
Entheogenesis may be both literally and liberally defined as "the creation, or invocation, of the deity, or Deity, within". It is a very ancient quest, and in one way or another, the basis of shamanism, animism, healing, and likely, according to numerous theoretical and scientific works, at the core of religion itself. The anxiety of humankind may be founded in awareness of the impending demise...
October 2, 2017
Yalila Espinoza
This 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 lives and...