Ponto UrbeDecember 1, 2009Aline Ferreira Oliveira1 citation
Este artigo traz uma reflexão sobre um movimento espiritual conhecido como Fogo Sagrado e tem por objetivo delinear alguns elementos desse fenômeno, considerando suas práticas rituais (com o uso do tabaco, da ayahuasca, de saunas, danças e retiros em jejum) em termos do que Vargas (1998) chama de “corpos intensivos”. Segundo Vargas, a busca por experiências de corporalidades intensivas...
In the Upper Amazon, mestizos are the Spanish-speaking descendants of Hispanic colonizers and the indigenous peoples of the jungle. Some mestizos have migrated to Amazon towns and cities, such as Iquitos and Pucallpa; most remain in small villages. They have retained features of a folk Catholicism and traditional Hispanic medicine, and have incorporated much of the religious tradition of the...
Recollections of humanistic and transpersonal psychology's origin's morph into the pros and cons of humanistic/transpersonal oriented schools developing APA accredited clinical programs.This discussion dovetails with the question will ATP ever become an APA division, raising an interesting alternative for those of us considering a career in counseling: becoming a spiritual coach.Enter the issue...
Recollections of humanistic and transpersonal psychology’s origin’s morph into the pros and cons of humanistic/transpersonal oriented schools developing APA accredited clinical programs. This discussion dovetails with the question will ATP ever become an APA division, raising an interesting alternative for those of us considering a career in counseling: becoming a spiritual coach. Enter the...
Randomized clinical trials support the efficacy of MDMA in the treatment of PTSD and psilocybin in the treatment of depression and cancer-related anxiety. The research to support the use of LSD and ayahuasca in the treatment of psychiatric disorders is preliminary, although promising. Overall, the database is insufficient for FDA approval of any psychedelic compound for routine clinical use in...
This issue of Fieldwork in Religion is comprised of original and translated articles about a collection of related Brazilian religions that all utilize the consciousness changing substance named ayahuasca.The ayahuasca religions have been the object of systematic research in Brazil at least since 1983 when Clodomir Monteiro da Silva presented his MA dissertation on the role played by the Santo...
Beta-carboline alkaloids harmine, harmaline, and tetrahydroharmine can stimulate the central nervous system by inhibiting the metabolism of amine neurotransmitters, or by direct interaction with specific receptors; they are found in numerous plants, including Peganum harmala, Passiflora incarnata and Banisteriopsis caapi, and in the entheogen preparation Ayahuasca, which is traditionally brewed...
In recent years, urban consumption of the Indian vine Ayahuasca or Yaje has become quite popular in Colombia amongst a population of urban middleclass people –college students, professional, houseviwes, clerical, whitecollar people, artists, and people of the cultural establishment–. To a great extent, the rise of urban yaje, quite visible in the media, magazines and periodicals for the general...
One country's sacrament is another's illicit drug, as officials in South America and the United States are well aware. For centuries, a hallucinogenic tea made from a giant vine native to the Amazonian rainforest has been taken as a religious sacrament across several cultures in South America. Many spiritual leaders, shamans, and their followers consider the tea and its main component -...
A pesar de su reciente asentamiento en un poblado permanente, los nahua, perteneciente a la familia lingüística pano del Perú, tienen dificultades en quedarse quietos. Su estilo de vida móvil no se limita a jornadas en la selva sino que incluye viajes a los centros urbanos locales y distantes, ambulaciones de sus weroyoshi (espíritus del ojo) cuando beben ayahuasca, y travesías épicas de sus...