Periferia
December 26, 2011
Kenneth W. Tupper
1 citation
"A partir de recentes mudanças nas legislações em relação às drogas em diferentes países, investiguei o potencial dos enteóg enos (i.e., plantas psicoativas usadas como sacramentos espiritua is) como instrumentos para favorecer a inteligência existencial. Plantas Mestres das Américas como a ayahuasca, os cogumelos de psilocibina, o peiote e o soma indo-ariano da Eurásia , são alguns dos...
American Ethnologist
July 5, 2011
Michael Winkelman
Singing to the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon . Stephan V. Beyer . Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2009 . 544 pp . Beyer's book developed from trips to the Amazon out of an interest in jungle survival that extended to a personal absorption with Amazonian spirituality. Although purportedly about “mestizo shamanism of the upper Amazon” (p. xi), it covers a...
May 19, 2011
Cícero Guella Fernandes
This is a research on the personal transformations in the religious institution of ayahuasca users CEBUDV, through the perspective of Cultural Psychology. The study aimed to build an ethnographic description of UDV and investigate the meanings of such transformations in CEBUDV's teachings, as well. Although prior research referred to such transformations, no efforts were made in order to...
Dusunen Adam: The Journal of Psychiatry and Neurological Sciences
April 21, 2011
Gökhan Umut, İlker Küçükparlak, Güliz Özgen et al.
2 citations
A mood disorder episode with an onset under chronic cannabis consumption and accompanied with psychotic features immediately after N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) use: case report N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is a serotonin agonist hallucinogen, similar to lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD).Synthetic production of DMT as well as extraction from several plants of South American flora is possible.DMT...
Cambridge University Press eBooks
January 6, 2011
Wesley J Wildman
INTRODUCTION Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness, and Culture was recently launched with great fanfare, thanks to a controversial article in its very first issue. Benny Shanon, a Professor of Psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, published a speculative hypothesis about “biblical entheogens” (Shanon 2008). This hypothesis involves Moses ingesting mind-altering...
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
2011
Bruna Oliveira Hartz
O presente trabalho tem o objetivo de fazer uma investigação dos aspectos jurídicos das tradições culturais amazônicas relativas ao consumo da ayahuasca e sua proteção jurídica. Serão também levantados aspectos intrínsecos relativos a esses povos, o modo de fazer e viver dessas comunidades.
Americanae (AECID Library)
2011
Jimmy Weiskopf
Narrative about two Jews who go to an Amazonian Maloca to drink ayahuasca (Banisteriopsis caapi) with a Christian Indian.
Archives of Clinical Psychiatry (São Paulo)
2011
Suely Mizumoto, Dartiu Xavier Da Silveira, Paulo César Ribeiro Barbosa et al.
14 citations
BACKGROUND: There is a growing scientific interest in the effects of hallucinogens in general and the religious use of psychoactive brew ayahuasca in Brazil in particular. However, there is not yet a standard instrument used in Brazil to evaluate the effects of hallucinogens. The Hallucinogen Rating Scale (HRS) is a questionnaire widely used in the U.S. and Europe to evaluate the effects of...
Ponto Urbe
December 1, 2010
Beatriz Caiuby Labate
2 citations
Em abril de 2010, a Assembleia Legislativa do Acre concedeu os títulos de cidadão do Acre a Raimundo Irineu Serra (fundador do Santo Daime), Daniel Pereira de Mattos (fundador da Barquinha) e José Gabriel da Costa (fundador da União do Vegetal) (ALEAC, 2010). Três anos antes, em abril de 2008, essas três vertentes religiosas haviam entrado com um pedido de reconhecimento da ayahuasca como...
The University of Queensland
August 1, 2010
Samuel Burch
This thesis is comprised of two distinct but related components; a novel-length work of magical/shamanic realist fiction entitled The Naked Vine, and a critical exegesis entitled Return to the Theophanic Theatre: Shamanism, Magical Realism and the Ontology of the Imaginal Realm. Set in a contemporary Australian environment, the major component of my dissertation, The Naked Vine, explores issues...