What is Ayahuasca? - by Diego Palma
Diego Palma, Peruvian ayahuasquero writes a beautiful and concise essay in english about the spanish book "El Ayahuasca - La medicina del alma" (Ayahuasca – The medicine of the soul).
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Ayahuasca and Human Destiny - by Dennis McKenna, Ph.D.
Dennis McKenna is one of the leading figures in the global ethnobotanical community, through his research investigating plant entheogens and indigenous plant medicines. He was involved with the “Hoasca Project” studying ayahuasca usage by members of the Church de Vegetal and issued the manifesto “Ayahuasca and Human Destiny”. He co-authored and was the subject of research in many books with his late brother Terence, where they reveal evolutionary encounters with plant medicines.
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Preparation for the Ayahuasca Experience - by Howard Charing
Howard Charing is a author, healer, facilitator, and the director of a center for contemporary Shamanism. Charing's article is a complete overview, from the origins of ayahuasca to medical precautions when approaching the sacred plant and traditional ceremony experience.
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What Foods and Drugs Need to be Avoided?
A summary of specific foods and pharmaceutical drugs that are advised to be avoided before taking ayahuasca.
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Ayahuasca Healing Beyond the Amazon - by Ken Tupper
Kenneth W. Tupper is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia. In this article he reviews the globalization of a traditional indigenous entheogenic practice, ayahuasca.
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Ayahuasca and Cancer - by Steven Bayer
What is the proper balance between head and heart on the medicine path? Shaman and author, Steve Bayer, has written an insightful essay discerning what medicine to take for healing. In the context of shamanism he discusses cancer, ayahuasca, and the beliefs that are at the foundation of healing.
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Ayahuasca and Shamanism in Addiction Therapy - by Michel Mabit
In a newsletter for the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), Michel Mabit, outlines the work of Takiwasi, a drug addict rehabilitation center in Peru. The scientific work has become a learning journey, bringing traditional knowledge of medicinal plants, especially the amazonian sacrament ayahuasca, to the treatments and cures of all kinds of physical and psychological illnesses including addiction.
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Psychotherapeutic Employment of Sacred Plants - by Silvia Polivoy
Silvia Polivoy, is a psychologist graduated from Belgrano University of Buenos Aires, with a Master's degree in clinical psychology. She has intensive training in transpersonal therapies and drug abuse rehabilitation. Silvia has also carried out field research in Mexico with Mazatec shamans, as well as worked extensively in Brazil with ayahuasca and in the Peruvian Amazon where she's been initiated and also trained in shamanism and in the ritual and healing use of San Pedro and ayahuasca.
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The San Pedro Cactus - by Howard Charing and Peter Cloudsley
Howard Charing and Peter Cloudsley talks with Maestro Juan Navarro, a re-known shaman of Northern, Peru. Shamans from different cultures and traditions have been using psychoactive plants since the dawn of human emergence. These plants have been used traditionally for guidance, divination, healing, maintaining a balance with the spirit or consciousness of the living world. In this interview, Juan explains the effects of San Pedro working through various stages, beginning with an expanded physical awareness in the body.
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Divining Ayahuasca - by Stephen R. Saklad
Richard Doyle writes and teaches in the esoteric traditions of rhetoric, science fiction and emerging technoscience. Doyles has written an essay on his ayahuasca experience, that has led to a new book about the history of archaic and contemporary ecstatic practices and their role in the biological and technological evolution of human beings. Doyle is interested, in the role archaic information technologies – including ayahuasca – have played in the evolution of mind.
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Ayahuasca and Creativity - by Benny Shanon, Ph.D.
Benny Shanon, is a cognitive psychologist who is studying the phenomenology of the ayahuasca experience. This essay is based on extended firsthand experience as well as on the interviewing of a great number of persons in different places and contexts. He has recently published a book, The Antipodes of the Mind: Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience.
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