This article offers critical sociological and philosophical reflections on ayahuasca and other psychedelics as objects of research in medicine, health and human sciences. It situates 21st century scientific inquiry on ayahuasca in the broader context of how early modern European social trends and intellectual pursuits translated into new forms of empiricism and experimental philosophy, but...
Ayahuasca wurde schon in präkolumbianischer Zeit eingenommen, als indigene Völker die psychoaktive Wirkung des Tranks auf Körper und Geist entdeckten. Hergestellt aus zwei im Amazonas-Regenwald wachsenden Pflanzen, der Liane <i>Banisteriopsis caapi</i> und Blättern von <i>Psychotria viridis</i>, wird Ayahuasca bis heute nicht nur von Schamanen am Amazonas für Heilrituale und schamanische...
This thesis illuminates the core values within Santo Daime communities and how these are transmitted and practiced during rituals. Santo Daime, a Brazilian Ayahuasca Religion originating in the western Amazon state of Acre, is practiced both inside and outside its urban Amazonian roots, including most Brazilian states and smaller communities in a handful of Western countries, such as the United...
New World indigenous peoples are noted for their sophisticated use of psychedelic plants in shamanic and ethnomedical practices. The use of psychedelic plant preparations among New World tribes is far more prevalent than in the Old World. Yet, although these preparations are botanically diverse, almost all are chemically similar in that their active principles are tryptamine derivatives, either...
Tetrapterys mucronata Cav. (Malpighiaceae) is a plant used in some regions of Brazil in the preparation of ayahuasca. To determine the content of the main tryptamine alkaloids in the stem bark of T. mucronata Cav. and assess their possible toxic and hallucinogenic properties based on the doses found in a water decoction that mimics the ayahuasca preparation. Four alkaloids previously described...
Este artigo faz uma reflexão sobre a entrada dos índios no circuito urbano da ayahuasca. Descrevemos o processo de contato de diferentes populações indígenas, tais como os Kaxinawa, Guarani, Apurinã, Kuntanawa e Yawanawa com as religiões ayahuasqueiras e os neoayahuasqueiros. Observamos a reivindicação de alguns destes grupos de que teriam sido os responsáveis por introduzir a...
The use of ayahuasca, even in its original indigenous ground, cannot be described as a culturally variable but culturally bounded body of traditional knowledge, ritual or shamanic technic.This paper describes it rather in the way in which modern science and technology are described, as a network of human and non human actors (spirits, bio-chemical substances, specialists, clients, theories on...
por el otro. En total, 485 paginas en las cuales el lector encontrara un tra-tamiento especializado sobre los diferentes topicos y problematicas en torno al consumo religioso, espiritual, terapeutico y recreacional de la bebida amazonica conocida como ayahuasca y sus variaciones (su significado literal: “el vino de las almas” o “la soga del ahoracado” en lengua quechua, es una decoccion con pro...