Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Ganzheitsmedizin / Swiss Journal of Integrative Medicine
2015
Sylvia Linhart
2 citations
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...
Digital Repository at the University of Maryland (University of Maryland College Park)
2015
Benjamin Nye Blocksom
1 citation
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...
Neurologia (Barcelona, Spain)
2015
F J Carod-Artal
112 citations
The American continent is very rich in psychoactive plants and fungi, and many pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures used them for magical, therapeutic and religious purposes. The archaeological, ethno-historical and ethnographic evidence of the use of hallucinogenic substances in Mesoamerica is reviewed. Hallucinogenic cactus, plants and mushrooms were used to induce altered states of...
Inner Asia
December 10, 2014
Ippei Shimamura
In recent years, Mongolia has been enjoying rapid economic growth thanks to the development of its enormous natural resource deposits of copper, coal, gold, petroleum, and so on. However, due to the consequent social instability, the number of shamans has increased dramatically over the last 10 years, especially in the capital city Ulaanbaatar and mining towns. In this paper, I will explore...
Ilha Revista de Antropologia
December 3, 2014
Óscar Calavia Sáez
4 citations
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...
Dreaming
December 1, 2014
Charles D. Laughlin, Adam J. Rock
4 citations
Shamanism is a worldwide social phenomenon consisting of a set of practices (e.g., ritualistic drumming, sensory deprivation, the ingestion of entheogens and dream incubation) designed to obtain knowledge from alternative realities for the purpose of benefiting one's social group. The aim of this paper is to provide a cross-cultural exploration of dreaming in the context of shamanism. We...
June 27, 2014
Alfonso Matas
2 citations
A syncretic religion born in the 1930s in the Amazonian jungle, Santo Daime today is an international flag-bearer in the evolving New Religion Movement (NRM) landscape. Shamanic power, nature veneration, universal love and the quest for a transcendental divine experience thanks to the psychoactive indigenous plant medicine ayahuasca define the Santo Daime allure for a new middle class...
Oxford University Press eBooks
June 18, 2014
Evgenia Fotiou
16 citations
Abstract This chapter examines the cultural constructions of ayahuasca and shamanism, their manifestations in the Western imagination and experience, and their localized experience in the city of Iquitos, Peru, in the context of the phenomenon of shamanic tourism. The chapter argues that shamanic tourism is not an anomaly but is consistent with the nature of shamanism, which has historically...
Oxford University Press eBooks
June 18, 2014
Beatriz Caiuby Labate
16 citations
Abstract This chapter charts the expansion, diversification, and internationalization of Peruvian vegetalismo. Outsiders traveling to Peru in search of ayahuasca, gringos who themselves became curanderos, and Peruvian ayahuasqueros who travel to hold workshops for urban middle-class clients abroad are considered. The study identifies contours of transnational networks and the circuits that...
Oxford University Press eBooks
June 18, 2014
Bernd Brabec de Mori
8 citations
Abstract The experience of indigenous people in their confrontation with the growing interest of people from northern countries in drinking ayahuasca has hitherto received little attention. First a brief historical summary is presented in order to show how the use of ayahuasca had already changed its meaning and value among Shipibo-Konibo around the 1960s. Observing that visitors' interests...