Ayahuasca reader
Subtitle: encounters with the Amazon's sacred vine
By: Luis Eduardo Luna & Steven F. White, editors.
Contributors: Luna, Luis Eduardo.; White, Steven F., 1955-
Publisher: Synergetic Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Santa Fe, N.M
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780907791324
Subjects: Indians of South America -- Ethnobotany -- Amazon River Region; Ayahuasca -- Therapeutic use -- Amazon River Region; Ayahuasca -- In literature; Indians of South America -- Drug use -- Amazon River Region; Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience -- South America -- Amazon River Region; Shamanism -- Amazon River Region; Hallucinogenic drugs -- Amazon River Region
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-230) and index.
Table of contents: title: A visit to the second heaven / E. Jean Matteson Langdon; title: Two Ayahuasca muths from the Cashinahua of northwestern Brazil / Elsje Maria Lagrou; title: Mythologies of the vine / Oscar Calavia Sáez; title: A Huaorani myth of the first miiyabu / Jonathon S. Miller-Weisberger; title: Yajé / Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff; title: The creation myth / Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff; title: Unámarai / Hugo Niño; title: Initiation experience / Jean-Pierre Chaumeil (as told by Alberto Prohaño); title: Light of this world / Don Hilario Peña; title: At the end you see God / Fernando Payaguaje; title: On some remarkable narcotics of the Amazon Valley and Orinoco / Richard Spruce; title: A yajé session / Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff; title: Yagé nostalgia / Scott S. Robinson.