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Winona LaDuke: “Thinking Beyond Empire”

By Winona LaDuke — 2011

Winona LaDuke, Picard lecturer at United Theological Seminary’s Spring Convocation 2011 delivers the first of a two day series of lectures.

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The Psychotropic Mind: The World according to Ayahuasca, Iboga, and Shamanism

In the Amazon, shamans do not talk in terms of hallucinogens but of tools for communicating with other life-forms. Ayahuasca, for example, is first and foremost a means of breaking down the barrier that separates humans from other species, allowing us to communicate with them.

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Jeremy Narby, Jan Kounen, and Vincent Ravalec
2024
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The Colonization of the Ayahuasca Experience

The growing popularity of "authentic" ayahuasca rituals in Western circles can present multiple problems, including indigenous fetishization, a lack of cultural context for traditional ceremonies, and potential abuse from untrustworthy shamans, all of which can be problematic or sometimes even...

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Mark Hay
2020
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The Ayahuasca Reader: Encounters with the Amazon’s Sacred Vine

The Ayahuasca Reader: Encounters with the Amazon’s Sacred Vine, is a panorama of texts translated from nearly a dozen languages on the ayahuasca experience.

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Luis Eduardo Luna (editor), Steven F. White (editor), Ralph Metzner (foreword), Alex Grey (contributor)
2016
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Ayahuasca Visions: The Religious Iconography of a Peruvian Shaman

The mythologies and cosmology of Amazonian shamanism materialize in fantastic color and style in this unique, large-format volume, representing the fruit of several years of collaboration between a Peruvian folk artist/shaman and a Colombian anthropologist/filmmaker.

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Pablo Amaringo, Luis Luna
1999
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Ayahuasca Shamanism in the Amazon and Beyond

Beatriz Caiuby Labate and Clancy Cavnar offer an in-depth exploration of how Amerindian epistemology and ontology concerning indigenous shamanic rituals of the Amazon have spread to Western societies, and of how indigenous, mestizo, and cosmopolitan cultures have engaged with and transformed these...

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Beatriz Caiuby Labate (editor), Clancy Cavnar (editor)
2014
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The Shaman & Ayahuasca: Journeys to Sacred Realms

Internationally respected Peruvian Shaman Don José Campos illuminates the practices and benefits of Ayahuasca with grace and gentleness and much respect and gratitude for the gifts Ayahuasca has bestowed on him throughout the 25 years he has been a practicing shaman.

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Don Jose Campos
2011
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Science, Spirituality and Ayahuasca: Interview with Joe Tafur, MD

In this recent conversation we had with Dr. Tafur, he shares his perspective on what the materialistic West stands to learn from the mystical side of spirituality, emotions, and mental health.

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Wesley Thoricatha
2017
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