Ayahuasca Reader

by Luna, Luis Eduardo; White, Steven F.

• ISBN13: 9780907791324
• ISBN10: 0907791328
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: Synergetic Pr

Summary

Ayahuasca is a sacred drink used for millennia by numerous indigenous groups primarily in the Upper Amazon and Orinoco basins for divination, healing, and other cosmogonic/shamanic purposes.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Ayahuasca Myths and Testimonies	p. 19
A Visit to the Second Heaven: A Siona Narrative of the Yage Experience	p. 21
Two Ayahuasca Myths from the Cashinahua of Northwestern Brazil	p. 31
Mythologies of the Vine	p. 36
A Huaorani Myth of the First Miiyabu (Ayahuasca Vine)	p. 41
Yaje: Myth and Ritual	p. 46
The Creation Myth	p. 48
Unamarai, Father of Yaje	p. 51
Initiation Experience	p. 55
Light of This World	p. 63
At the End You See God	p. 67
Ayahuasca Cultural Encounters	p. 81
On Some Remarkable Narcotics of the Amazon Valley and Orinoco	p. 83
A Yaje Session	p. 87
Yage Nostalgia	p. 93
Discovering the Way	p. 98
The Spears of Twilight: Life and Death in the Amazon Jungle (excerpt)	p. 102
One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest (excerpt)	p. 105
Jaguar-Becoming	p. 107
The Jaguar Who Would Not Say Her Prayers: Changing Polarities in Upper Amazonian Shamanism	p. 113
Montage	p. 120
Design Therapy	p. 127
New Religions: Santo Daime, Barquinha, and Uniao do Vegetal (UDV)	p. 133
Hymns	p. 135
Received by Raimundo Irineu Serra	p. 135
Received by Sebastiao Mota de Melo	p. 139
Received by Alfredo Gregorio de Melo	p. 141
Received by Daniel Pereira de Matos	p. 142
Received by Francisca Campos do Nascimento	p. 144
The Book of Visions: Journey to Santo Daime (excerpt)	p. 145
An Unusual Experience with "Hoasca": A Lesson from the Teacher	p. 154
Writing Ayahuasca	p. 159
The Yage Letters (excerpt)	p. 161
At Play in the Fields of the Lord (excerpt)	p. 164
Ten Poems on a Sunday Afternoon	p. 172
Men of Chazuta	p. 178
The Three Halves of Ino Moxo (excerpt)	p. 183
The Real World of Manuel Cordova	p. 191
Ayahuasca, or What There is at the End	p. 198
The Storyteller (excerpt)	p. 203
Returning	p. 208
Aerial Waters (excerpt)	p. 211
The Mother of the Voice in the Ear (excerpt)	p. 214
Last River (and Other Poems)	p. 219
Rio Napo	p. 222
Bibliography	p. 223
Selected Works in Their Original Languages	p. 231
Notes on Contributors	p. 242
Index	p. 249
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