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Ayahuasca:

Liana of Illumination

 

 

 

Where there is no vision, the people perish ---Proverbs xxix, 18

 

 

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"Yage is space time travel. The room seems to shake and vibrate with motion. The blood and substance of many races, Negro, Polynesian, Mountain Mongol, Desert Nomad, Polyglot Near East, Indian--new races as yet unconceived and unborn, combinations not yet realized passes through your body. Migrations, incredible journeys through deserts and jungles and mountains (stasis and death in closed mountain valleys where plants sprout out of your cock and vast crustaceans hatch inside and break the shell of the body), across the Pacific in an outrigger canoe to Easter Island. The Composite City where all human potentials are spread out in a vast silent market." -----William S. Burroughs, In Search of Yage (1953) --The Yage Letters "Ayahuasca can be bottled and transported and stay strong, as long as it does not ferment - needs well closed bottle. Drank a cup - slightly old mix, several days old and slightly fermented also - lay back and after an hour . . . - began seeing or feeling what I thought was the Great Being, or some sense of It, approaching my mind like a big wet vagina - lay back in that for a while - only image I can come up with is of a big black hole of God-Nose thru which I peered into a mystery - and the black hole surrounded by all creation - particularly colored snakes - all real." -----Allen Ginsberg (letter to William S. Burroughs, June 10, 1960) --The Yage Letters

 

 

XIII. Online Documentaries (Downloadable)

• Shamanism Documentaries
• Shamans of the Amazon (52 minutes, 17 seconds)
• Jungle Trip - In the Shadow of the Shaman (49 minutes, 22 seconds)
• No Reservations: Anthony Bourdain's Ayahuasca Trip to Peru(40 minutes): Intro./ Part 1/ Part 2/ Part 3/Part 4/Part 5
• Extreme Celebrity Detox (23 minutes, 53 seconds)
• Ecuadorian Shaman Cleansing Ceremony
• A Cofan Shaman Performs a Sample Ceremony
• Rosa Giove --Madre Ayahuasca (Icaro)
• Ramon - last Shuar Shaman
• Ritual Healing in Peruvian Huachuma Curanderismo
• Ayahuasca Ceremony
• visual film on ayahuasca with music
• Ayahuasca - Reportaje Fuego Cruzado - Vieja Vhs (9minutes)
• Luiz Mendes do Nascimento (29minutes)
• Plantas Maestras - Peter Gorman: Part 1 (9 minutes)
• Plantas Maestras - Peter Gorman: Part 2 (6 minutes)
• Plantas Maestras - Peter Gorman: Part 3 (4 minutes)
• Terence McKenna - The Purpose of Psychedelics (2 minutes)
• Terence McKenna - Seeking the Stone - Part One
• Terence McKenna - Seeking the Stone - Part Two
• Peru, Loreto Amazonas (3 minutes)
• ayahuasca music video
• Psychedelic Documentaries (Satori's Psychedelic Blog)
• Halluzinogene und Ecstasy - Angriff aufs Bewusstsein (Hallucinogen and Ecstasy)
• Entheogens (20minutes)
• Entheogens- Awakening the Divine Within (9 minutes)
• Psychoactivity: The Fountain of Culture -- Christian Raetsch/Panel Discussion on Shamanism (51 minutes)
• To Hell & Back --Peruvian Ayahuasca Documentary (National Geographic)
• Ayahuasca: Spirit Vine (Ayahuasca Medicine in Contemporary Human Culture --Film Project)
• Ibogaine: Rite of Passage (50 minutes)
• Iboga & Tribe Babongo (59 minutes)

XIV. Individuals

William S. Burroughs & Allen Ginsberg

• Yage Letters Redux: RealityStudio Reviews the New Edition Prepared by Oliver Harris
• The Yage Letters: Wikipedia Entry
• Burroughs: Jungle Fever [Review of Yage Letters Redux in The Independent]
• Supervert Picks: Yage Letters Redux
• Ginsberg's Writings on Yagé
• Allen Ginsberg & Ayahuasca [Vaults of Erowid]

James C. Callaway

• McKenna D, Callaway JC, Grob CSThe Scientific Investigation of Ayahuasca: A Reviefw of Past and Current Research
• J.C. Callaway, "Various alkaloid profiles in decoctions of Banisteriopsis caapi" [abstract]
• J.C. Callaway, "Phytochemical analyses of Banisteriopsis Caapi and Psychotria viridis" [abstract]
• J.C. Callaway, "The encounter between scientific knowledge and coboclo wisdom..." [Santo Daime Library/Italy]
  

Manuel Córdovo-Rios

• Bruce Lamb, Wizard of the Upper Amazon: Manuel Córdovo-Rios
• WIZARD OF THE UPPER AMAZON: THE STORY OF MANUEL CORDOVA RIOS (Comments by Bob Corbett/September 2005)
• The Three Halves of Ino Moxo: Teachings of the Wizard of the Upper Amazon (Cesar Calvo, 1995).

Wade Davis

• Wade Davis, ONE RIVER --reviews/excerpts [Lycaeum.org]
• Peter Gorman interview with Wade Davis
• Wade Davis, "PLANTS OF THE GODS" a chapter in the book: SHADOWS IN THE SUN: TRAVELS TO LANDSCAPES *OF SPIRIT AND DESIRE*.
• Wade Davis--[Wikipedia entry]
• The Shaman from Harvard - Wade Davis in interview by Andrew Lawless (May, 2004)

Marlene Dobkin de Rios

• Hallucinogens: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. [from Council on Spiritual Practices]
• "The Role of Music in Healing with Hallucinogens: Tribal and Western Studies"
• Vaults of Erowid: Marlene Dobkin de Rios
• "What We can Learn From Shamanic Healing: Brief Psychotherapy with Latino Immigrant Clients"
• "Ayahuasca & Its Mechanisms of Healing" (excerpt from Visionary Vine, 1972) [Vaults of Erowid]
• "Amazon Healing Sessions" (excerpt from Visionary Vine, 1972) [Vaults of Erowid]
• "Ayahuasca Visions" (excerpt from Visionary Vine, 1972) [biopark.org]

Charles Grob

• Charles Grob et al., "Human Psychopharmacology of Hoasca, a Plant Hallucinogen Used in Ritual Context in Brazil" [Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases, vol. 184 (2), Feb. 1996, pp. 86-94][Santo Daime Library/Italy]
• Conversation with Albert Hofmann [maps.org]
• The Hoasca Project [maps.org]
• Charles Grob Bibliography [Lycaeum.org]
• Charles Grob - bibliography [Heffter.org]

Michael Harner

• Michael Harner, "The Sound of Rushing Water," Natural History, (July 1968)
• Michael J. Harner, "Common Themes in South American Indian Yagé Experiences"[biopark.org]

Louis Lewin & Kurt Beringer

• Louis Lewin, "Hallucinating Substances--Indian Hemp: Cannabis Indica" from Phantastica (From the 1931 translation by P.H.A. Wirth)
• Louis Lewin, On Banisteriopsis caapi--from Phantastica (trans. by S.J. Thompson) [forthcoming]
• Kurt Beringer, On Banisteriopsis caapi (1928) (trans. by S.J. Thompson) [forthcoming]

Luis Eduardo Luna

• Luis Eduardo Luna [wasiwaska.org]
• Luis Eduardo Luna [wikipedia entry]
• Luis Eduardo Luna, "Shamanic Death Song," [deoxy.org]
• Luis Eduardo Luna, "Amazon SpiritQuest: The Icaros or Magical Melodies excerpted from The Concept of Plants as Teachers among  four Mestizo Shamans of Iquitos, Northeastern Perú [biopark.org]
• Luis Eduardo Luna, "The Traditional Ayahuasca Diet," (Excerpted from Ayahuasca Visions: The Iconography of a Peruvian Shaman, by Luis Eduardo Luna and Pablo Amaringo, 1991, North Atlantic Books) [biopark.org]
• Margot Williams, "A Brazilian Ayahuasca Intensive at Wasiwaska (House of the Vine) Research Center for the Study of Psychointegrator Plants, Visionary Art and Consciousness" [maps.org]
• Luis Eduardo Luna, "The Ayahuasca - Alien Connection" [Santo Daime Library/Italy]

Dennis McKenna

• Dennis McKenna, "Ayahuasca: An Ethnopharmacologic History" (1998)
• Dennis McKenna: NIDA article
• Dennis McKenna, "Therapeutic Potential of Ayahuasca and Regulatory Challenges"
• Dennis McKenna, "Ayahuasca and Human Destiny"

Terence McKenna

• Hyperborea
• Mind Food of the Gods --Terence McKenna page at Lycaeum.org (excellent)

Jeremy Narby

• JEREMY NARBY & FRANZ TREICHLER (long interview)
• Review of the Cosmic Serpent -Christian de Quincey
• On the Cosmic Serpent
• Cosmic Serpent [deoxy.org]
• Jeremy Narby & The Cosmic Serpent [fusionanomaly.net]
• Cosmic Serpent -review [Vaults of Erowid]
• Ben Sumrall interview with Jeremy Narby: The Man Behind "The Cosmic Serpent"
• Amazonia Ambient Project -The Young Gods & Jeremy Narby
• Review of: Intelligence in Nature
  

Richard Evans Schultes

• Richard Evans Schultes, "The Plant Kingdom and Hallucinogens (Part III)" (1970)
• Richard Evans Schultes, "An Ethnobotanical Perspective on Ayahuasca"[Santo Daime Library/Italy]
• Richard Evans Schultes, "Antiquity of Use of New World Hallucinogens" [Heffter Institute]
• Richard Evans Schultes, "Recognition of Variability in Wild Plants by Indians of the Northwest Amazon: An Enigma" [From: Journal of Ethnobiology 6(2):229-238 - Winter 1986] [Lycaeum.org]
• Richard Evans Schultes: Golden Guide to Hallucinogenic Plants (pages 91 to 100)

Benny Shanon

• Benny Shanon, "A Cognitive-Psychological Study of Ayahuasca" [Santo Daime Online Library/Italy]
• Benny Shanon, "Ideas and Reflections Associated with Ayahuasca Visions"[Santo Daime Online Library/Italy]
• Benny Shanon, "Ayahuasca and Creativity"[Santo Daime Online Library/Italy]
• Benny Shanon, "The Divine Within: Review of Huston Smith's Cleansing the Doors of Perception"[Santo Daime Online Library/Italy]
• About Benny Shanon

Richard Spruce

• Richard Spruce (UDV)
• INTRODUCTION TO "NOTES OF A BOTANIST ON THE AMAZON AND ANDES," EDITED BY ALFRED RUSSELL WALLACE 1908
• Richard Spruce Collection

Earl Vickers

• Earl Vickers, "the Vision Vine"

Yatra

• Yatra-W.M. da Silveira Barbosa
• Jurema Ritual in Northern Brazil [maps.org]
• Iboga/ayahuasca
• Ayahuasca retreat in Brazil
• Friends of the Forest
• Ayahuasca Path (Autumn '98/Winter '99)
• Treatment for drug addiction with Ayahuasca --Psychoactive forest alkaloids
• Ayahuasca Legalization Demonstration
  

XV. Marketplace

Books

• Three New Books on Ayahuasca & Power Plants [Consciousness Cafe - Chicago]
• Benny Shanon, Antipodes of the Mind
• The Yage Letters Redux: City Lights Books Ordering Information
• Luis Eduardo Luna, Ayahuasca Visions [Vaults of Erowid]
• Luis Eduardo Luna, Ayahuasca-Reader
• Ralph Metzner, Sacred Vine of Spirits: Ayahuasca
• O Uso Ritual da Ayahuasca (The Ritual Use of Ayahuasca)by Beatriz Caiuby Labate and Wladimyr Sena Araújo (Eds.) [Vaults of Erowid]
• Ayahuasca: Hallucinogens, Consciousness, and the Spirit of Nature, Metzner, Ralph. (editor) (1999) [abstract - council on spiritual practices]
• Marlene Dobkin de Rios, Visionary Vine [amazon]
• Alex Polari de Alverga, Forest of Visions: Ayahuasca, Amazonian Spirituality & the Santo Daime Tradition [amazon]
• Synergetic Press-Ethnnobotany titles
• Peter Stafford, Heavenly Highs: Ayahuasca, Kava-Kava, Dmt, and Other Plants of the Gods

Music

• Luis Panduro Vasquez, Ayahuasca Songs from the Peruvian Amazon

Plants

Banisteriopsis caapi - ayahuasca

• ayahuasca --sales [psychoactiveherbs.com]
• Ayahuasca Vine [bouncing bear botanicals]
• Banisteriopsis Caapi seeds [shamanic-extracts.com]
• Banisteriopsis caapi (White) Peru [shamanic-extracts.com]
• Banisteriopsis caapi [shamanic-australis.com]
• Banisteriopsis caapi (Ayahuasca)
• Banisteriopsis caapi
• Banisteriopsis caapi, Ayahuasca
• Banisteriopsis Caapi Vine [herbalfire.com]
• Banisteriopsis Caapi (Peru) - Powdered Yellow [iamshaman.com]
• Banisteriopsis Caapi [cielo-ethnobotanicals.com]
• Banisteriopsis caapi "Ayahuasca" Vine [basementshaman.com]
• Banisteriopsis Caapi (Caapi Vine, Ayahuasca) [ethnogens.com]
• Ayahuasca Banisteriopsis caapi

Perganum harmala - Syrian rue

Psychotria viridis - chacruna

• Chacruna, Psychotria viridis [psychoactiveherbs.com]
• chacruna [basementshaman.com]
• chacruna [ethnogarden.com]

Diplopterys cabrerana - chalipanga

• Diplopterys cabrerana [maya botanicals]
• Chaliponga--Diplopterys cabrerana [bouncing bear botanicals]
• chalipanga [shamansden.com]
• chagropanga [ethnogens.com]

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Research in Psychopharmaka

Additional WWW Resources Journal of Cognitive Liberties [Essential On-line texts] The Fitz Hugh Ludlow Hypertext Collection Lycaeum.org Drugwar Archives The Vaults of Erowid The Heffter Institute MAPS [Multidisciplinary Assoc. of Psychedelic Studies] DRC Network Online Library of Drug Policy German Psychopharmacological Research Before 1945 Bibliography (in progress). Werner Pieper and the Grüne Kraft Ancient Greece--Ethnobotany & Ethnopharmacology: The Road to Eleusis: by R.Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann and Carl A.P.Ruck Has the Mystery of the Eleusinian Mysteries been solved? Psychedelic Abstracts On-line: Ethnobotany & Ethnopharmacology: Currently one of the largest databanks of abstracts on all aspects of psychotropic plants, with a large section on the role these plants have played in ancient religions.

 

Pharmacology & Psychopharmacology

• Edward M. Brecher & Editors of Consumer Reports, Licit & Illicit Drugs, Boston & Toronto, Little, Brown and Company, 1972, 623 pp.

Ethnopharmacology, Entheogens / Psychedelics Research & Entheobotany

• Albert Hofmann, LSD: My Problem Child: Reflections on Sacred Drugs, Mysticism, and Science, trans. Jonathan Ott, Los Angeles, J.P.Tarcher, Inc., 1983, 209 pp.
• Michael Hollingshead, The Man Who Turned On the World, London, Blond & Briggs, 1973, 255 pp.
• Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception/ Heaven & Hell, London, HarperCollins (TriadGrafton), 1977, 143 pp.
• Jonathan Ott, Pharmacotheon: Entheogenic Drugs, Their Plant Sources and History, Kennewick, Washington, Natural Products Co., 1993, 639 pp. [On-line version of the Proemium via the Lyceum]
• R.Gordon Wasson, Carl A.P. Ruck, Albert Hofmann, The Road to Eleusis Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries, New York & London, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978, 126 pp.
• Alan W. Watts, The Joyous Cosmology, foreword by Timothy Leary & Richard Alpert, New York, Random House (Vintage Books),101 pp.

Cannabis

• Walter Benjamin: On Hashish [Über Haschich] by Walter Benjamin (published Frankfurt a.M., Suhrkamp Verlag, 1972); translated into English by Scott J. Thompson (1996).
• Fitz Hugh Ludlow, "The Apocalypse of Hasheesh," [orig. in Putnum's Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science and Art, Vol. VIII, December, 1856, No. XLVIII.] [The Fitz Hugh Ludlow Hypertext Collection]
• Fitz Hugh Ludlow, The Hasheesh Eater [on-line version of the text from Dave Gross's excellent site at Lyceum.org]
• Charles T. Tart, On Being Stoned: The Psychology of Marijuana Intoxication, Palo Alto, California, Science and Behavior Books, 1971 [On-line version via the Lyceum]

Opium & Narcotics

• Thomas de Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium Eater [on-line version of the text from Dave Gross's Fitz Hugh Ludlow site at lyceum.org]

Psychopharmaka, Addiction & Society

• Dana Beale & Paul De Rienzo, The Ibogaine Story: A Report on the Staten Island Project [online version of the whole text]

The War on Drugs, C.I.A. Narcotics Trafficking & Mind Control

• Dan Baum, Smoke and Mirrors, 1996 [Online excerpt]
• John Marks, The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control, New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1980, 242 pp.
• David F. Musto, The History of Legislative Control over Opium, Cocaine, and their Derivatives [Schaffer Library of Drug Policity]

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