We have read with great interest the report by Wiltshire et al.,1 which suggests a possible link between the death of a healthy young man in southwest England in 2008 and the South American botanical hallucinogen ayahuasca. This study is important as it highlights the complex link between life-threatening reactions and the ingestion of ayahuasca.2 However, the study has several important...
Sir, Ms. Sufentanyl, a charming “China girl,” and Ms. Mescaline, the cute Mexican lady, were invited by Mr. Marijuana at a dinner in “Chinese restaurant” in an “angel dusty” evening. Ms. Mescaline felt “ecstatic” and “Echo de la pensee” and on the occasion she “DRESS”ed herself with “heavenly blue” frock and adorned her eyes with mascara of “belladonna.” Ms. Sufentanyl wore a necklace with...
Despite reports of apparent benefits, social and political pressure beginning in the late 1960s effectively banned scientific inquiry into psychedelic substances. Covert examination of psychedelics persisted through the 1990s; the turn of the century and especially the past 10 years, however, has seen a resurgent interest in psychedelic substances (eg, LSD, ayahuasca, psilocybin). This chapter...
Z ayahuasky, klíčového prvku tradiční domorodé medicíny peruánské Amazonie, se stal globální fenomén. Sezení, během něhož je užívána tato psychoaktivní látka, lze v současné době absolvovat nejen v prostředí jihoamerického deštného pralesa, ale také v České republice. Vzhledem k tomu, že je v ČR ayahuasca pro svůj obsah N, N-dimethyltriptaminu dle nařízení vlády č. 463/2013 Sb., O seznamech...
The Root of All Things Nathan Thornburgh (bio) Halfway through our hour-long Skype call, Carlos Tanner warns me that he is going to “cross over.” He means that our conversation is about to leap from things that make sense in this world—how his new baby is sleeping, how many students are enrolling in his school—into things that only make sense if you are very deep in the world of ayahuasca, a...
Hendricks et al. (2015) found that having ever used any classic psychedelic substance—namely, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), ayahuasca, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), mescaline, peyote or San Pedro, or psilocybin—was associated with a significantly reduced likelihood of past month psychological distress (weighted OR = . 81 (. 72–. 91)), past year suicidal thinking (weighted OR = . 86 (. 78–....
In the area of psychotropic drugs, tryptamines are known to be a broad class of classical or serotonergic hallucinogens. These drugs are capable of producing profound changes in sensory perception, mood and thought in humans and act primarily as agonists of the 5-HT2A receptor. Well-known tryptamines such as psilocybin contained in Aztec sacred mushrooms and N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT),...
The paper presents an interview with Herlinda Agustin, a renowned Shipibo-Konibo onaya (“doctor”) and kene artist who died in 2010. It describes the learning path that took her from massages and diets to healing with ayahuasca, after the birth of her last child. Herlinda saw her career as intrinsically related to her desire to look after her children and to generate an income to sustain their...
Existe un debate intenso dentro de la antropología del turismo sobre las consecuencias de que las expresiones culturales se conviertan en artículos de consumo. En un primer momento los antropólogos denunciaron los efectos negativos de su comercialización y espectacularización. Sin embargo, en la actualidad muchos de ellos han tomado distancia frente a estas posiciones argumentando que no es...
Este trabajo se enmarca en los lineamientos del CONSEP, a través del \nproyecto “Sustancias enteógenas en Ecuador. El ritual de la ayahuasca en Zamora Chinchipe”. Esta \ninvestigación pertenece a la Quinta convocatoria interna de proyectos 2015 de la UTPL titulada “Sustancias \nancestrales enteógenas en Ecuador” (PROY_CCCOM_1049).