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...
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...
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...
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,...
O presente artigo resulta de uma composição dos autores. Os desenhos realizados pelos MAHKU – Movimento dos Artistas Huni Kuin – a partir dos cantos huni meka, cantos do nixi pae (ayahuasca), são motivos para o comentário de Ibã Huni Kuin e sua forma de tradução da linguagem dos cantos que ele denomina “pôr ou colocar no sentido”. Na primeira parte faz-se uma breve apresentação da trajetória do...
Peganum harmala L. is a medicinal plant from the Mediterranean region and Asia currently used for recreative psychoactive purposes (Ayahuasca analogue), and increasingly involved in toxic cases. Its psychopharmacological and toxicological properties are attributed to quinazoline and β-carboline alkaloids. In this work three major quinazoline alkaloids were isolated from P. harmala extracts and...
Fondée en 1992 par un médecin français, Takiwasi est à la fois une clinique de traitement des addictions et l’un des principaux centres du « tourisme chamanique » en Amazonie péruvienne. Depuis sa création, l’institution a développé un dispositif à visée thérapeutique caractérisé par la réappropriation d’éléments de la pharmacopée indigène (quechua Lamista), tels que les plantes émétiques ou...
Background. The new psychoactive drugs (NPD) are those that represent a danger to public health and are not prohibited by conventions on international narcotics. The concept also includes new contexts and new routes of consumption as well as novel ways of distribution, notably Internet. The risks associated with NPD consumption are largely unknown to users and to health care providers....
There has been ongoing scholarly debate concerning whether New Age spirituality may be defined by individualistic more than collectivistic values, beliefs and behaviours. Most scholars have answered in the positive and indicated how New Age beliefs and techniques emphasise the importance of the self and self-interests of the practitioner. This article contributes to debates on New Age...
Abstract Dimethyltryptamines are hallucinogenic serotonin-like molecules present in traditional Amerindian medicine (e.g. Ayahuasca) recently associated with cognitive gains, antidepressant effects and changes in brain areas related to attention. Historical and technical restrictions impaired understanding how such substances impact human brain metabolism. Here we used shotgun mass spectrometry...