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Ayahuasca:

Liana of Illumination

 

 

 

 Where there is no vision, the people perish

---Proverbs xxix, 18

 

 


 

"Any person from whose soul the rain forest once rose in luxuriant growth is aware of what it means to get tangled in the lianas and the orchids of the subconscious once he has left the well-trodden paths of civilization and then realizes how difficult it is to find his way back. And if unexpectedly he then finds himself once more on this side of the fence, he is no longer who he was before. His home will have lost much of its homeliness. But just as a world taken for granted is not a world understood, he will now understand much of his own world for the first time, even if from then on he will at times experience what it is like to tell the blind what 'red' is."

-----H.P. Duerr, Dreamtime: Concerning the Boundary between Wilderness and Civilization (trans. Felicitas Goodman)

 

These pages are dedicated to Yatra, Angel of the Vine

 


 

The Lycaeum

source of information on plants and chemicals

The Vaults of Erowid

Documenting the complex relationship between humans & psychoactives

Santo Daime

Ayahuasca

Online Library 

 


 

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 "YAGÉ" &

"MOROCCAN CHOCOLATE"

by

Jesús Sepúlveda

 

I. Botany

A. Ayahuasca (Banisteriopsis caapi)

B. Syrian rue (Perganum harmala)

C. Chacruna (Psychotria viridis)

D. Chagropanga/Chalipanga (Diplopterys cabrerana)

E. Jurema (Mimosa hostilis)

II. Chemistry

A. Ayahuasca

B. Harmine & Harmaline

C. DMT (Dimethyltryptamine)

III. Ethnopharmacology

IV. Medicine

V. Religion

Ayahuasca, Religion, and Nature

Barquinha

Panentheism & Ayahuasca

The Santo Daime Church

Septrionism, Spiritism, Umbanda & Macumba

South American Shamanism

Soma & Haoma

Syrian rue in the Ancient World

Uniao do Vegetal (UDV)

 

 Religious Freedom, the United States Supreme Court

and the União do Vegetal--

On February 21st, 2006 the Supreme Court of the United States issued a unanimous decision affirming Religious Liberty in the case of Gonzales vs. O Centro Espirita Beneficente União do Vegetal.

For the previous six years, the United States government had attempted to prohibit a small religious organization and its members from practicing their religion.

To Read the Court Decision and the Facts of the Case

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Zend Avesta & Haoma

Shamanic Plants in the Biblical Era

 

Hallucinogenic Ritual and Theater

An Excerpt from Hallucinogens: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (1984)

by Marlene Dobkin de Rios

(reprinted with permission of the author)

 

VI. Anthropology (Ethnology & Travel also)

Brazil

Colombia

Equador

Peru

VII. Psychology

 

VIII. Philosophy

 

IX. Law

 

X. Politics ("Plan Colombia", War on Drugs, etc.)

XI. Bibliography

XII. Online Libraries

 

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