Full Description
This book is a panorama of texts translated from nearly a dozen languages on the ayahuasca experience, including indigenous mythic narratives and testimonies, religious hymns, as well as stories related by western travellers, scientists and writers who have had contact with ayahuasca in different contexts.
In addition to contributions from Wade Davis, Dennis McKenna and Richard Spruce, this new edition includes essays from Graham Hancock, Jeremy Narby, Susana Bustos, Michael Winkelman and a new section on ayahuasca art. This backlist classic, also, includes contributions from leaders of the global ayahuasca movement, making this the most up-to-date collection of authoritative writings on the subject ever published, an essential reference for anthropology, ethnobotany and Latin American literature studies.
Contents
Foreword by Ralph Metzner
Preface to the Second Edition Luis Eduardo Luna and Steven F. White
Introduction
I. AYAHUASCA MYTHS AND TESTIMONIES
Yajé: Myth and Ritual
Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff
The Creation Myth
Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff
A Visit to the Second Heaven: A Siona Narrative of the Yagé Experience
E. Jean Matteson Langdon
Two Ayahuasca Myths from the Cashinahua of Northwestern Brazil
Elsje Maria Lagrou
Mythologies of the Vine
Oscar Calavia Sáez
A Huaorani Myth of the First Miiyabu (Ayahuasca Vine)
Jonathon S. Miller Weisberger
Initiation Experience
Jean-Pierre Chaumeil (as told by Alberto Prohaño)
Light of This World
Don Hilario Peña
Unámarai, Father of Yajé
Hugo Niño
At the End You See God
Fernando Payaguaje
II.AYAHUASCA CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS
On Some Remarkable Narcotics of the Amazon Valley and Orinoco
Richard Spruce
First Known Printed Reference to Ayahuasca (1675)
José Chantre y Herrera
The Drug that Makes Men Brave
Gordon MacCreagh
Discovering the Way
Michael Harner
A Yajé Session
Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff
Yagé Nostalgia
Scott S. Robinson
The Spears of Twilight: Life and Death in the Amazon Jungle
Philippe Descola
One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest
Wade Davis
Becoming-Jaguar
William Torres C.
The Jaguar Who Would Not Say Her Prayers: Changing Polarities in Upper Amazonian Shamanism
Françoise Barbira Freedman
Montage
Michael Taussig
Design Therapy
Angelika Gebhart-Sayer
Healing Icaros in Peruvian Vegetalismo
Susana Bustos
Tracking the River of Change: A Multidimensional Interpretation of Ayahuasca Healing
The Heart: Hungarian Ethnobotanical and Ayahuasca Research Team (Petra Bokor, Ede Frecska, Lajos Horvath, Attila Szabo)
Through the Void: A Cognitive Testimony
Jan Kounen
Twenty Years Later
François Demange
Some Observations on the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience
Luis Eduardo Luna
Ayahuasca as Antidote
Jeremy Narby
III. NEW RELIGIONS: SANTO DAIME, BARQUINHA, AND UNIÃO DO VEGETAL (UDV)
Hymns
Received by Raimundo Irineu Serra
Received by Sebastião Mota de Melo
Received by Alfredo Gregório de Melo
Received by Daniel Pereira de Matos
Received by Francisca Campos do Nascimento
The Book of Visions: Journey to Santo Daime (excerpt)
Alex Polari de Alverga
An Unusual Experience with "Hoasca": A Lesson From the Teacher
Dennis J. McKenna
IV. WRITING AYAHUASCA
The Vortex (excerpt)
José Eustasio Rivera
The Yagé Letters
Allen Ginsberg
Men of Chazúta
F. Bruce Lamb
The Three Halves of Ino Moxo (excerpt)
César Calvo
Ayahuasca, or What There Is at the End
Mario Villafranca Saravia
Returning
Ib Michael
Aerial Waters
Néstor Perlongher
The Mother of the Voice in the Ear (excerpt)
Alfonso Domingo
Rio NAPO
Dale Pendell
From Sworn to the Plants
Steven F. White
Ayahuasca in My Art and Philosophy
Alex Grey
Ayahuasca
Juan Carlos Galeano
The Woman I Could Have Been
Esthela Calderón
Icaro of the Yacumama
Ana Varela Tafur
Rite of Passage
Percy Vílchez Vela
Ayahuasca Gave Me a Story
Graham Hancock
V. AYAHUASCA IN VISUAL EXPRESSION
List of Color Plates, Ayahuasca in Visual Expression
Bibliography, Select Discography and Filmography
Appendix - Selected Works in Their Original Language
Notes on Contributors
General Index
