Ayahuasca:
Liana of Illumination
Where there is no vision, the people perish
---Proverbs xxix, 18
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A. Ayahuasca (Banisteriopsis caapi)
- AYAHUASCA.COM: Ayahuasca.com is a library and community collectively researching the botany, ethnography, mythology, arts, music, therapeutic mechanisms, and phenomenology of the Amazonian Spirit Vine.
- EROWID AYAHUASCA VAULT
- Wikipedia Entry for Ayahuasca
- Ayahuasca [from ibogaine.org]
- ayahuasca [en español]
- ayahuasca [in Portugese]
- national botanical garden data base (audio file on ayahuasca)
- Banisteriopsis Caapi (Spruce ex Grisebach) Morton [auf deutsch]
- ayahuasca [physics.lunet.edu]
- Banisteriopsis caapi [Wikipedia Entry]
- Banisteriopsis caapi /Ayahuasca, yagé [Lycaeum.org]
- Banisteriopsis caapi-By Susan Emmert
- Plants with Soul- [Walrus Magazine]
- AYAHUASCA [Entry from Maya Ethnobotanicals]
- 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 & Albert Hofmann, Chapter on Banisteriopsis from Plants of the Gods
B. Syrian rue (Perganum harmala)
- EROWID SYRIAN RUE VAULT
- Syrian rue (Perganum harmala) [Lycaeum.org]
- Perganum harmala Linnaeus (in German)
C. Chacruna (Psychotria viridis)
- chacruna [biopark.org]
- Psychotria viridis [Vaults of Erowid]
- Psychotria viridis [Wikipedia Entry]
- Psychotria viridis [Lycaeum.org]
D. Chagropanga/Chalipanga (Diplopterys cabrerana)
- changropanga [Entheoogens.com]
- chalipanga [biopark.org]
- Chacruna vs. Changropanga [ayahuasca.com]
- Changropanga [thenook.org]
E. Jurema (Mimosa hostilis)
- Mimosa hostilis- Jurema [maya ethnobotanicals]
A. Ayahuasca
- Ayahuasca [from deoxy.org] --lovely drawings
- Heffter Research Institute
- Ayahuasca Basics [Vaults of Erowid]
B. Harmine & Harmaline
- Harmala Alkaloids [Vaults of Erowid]
- Alexander & Ann Shulgin, "Harmine" (from Tihkal)[Vaults of Erowid]
- Alexander & Ann Shulgin, "Harmaline" (from Tihkal)[Vaults of Erowid]
- Harmala alkaloid [Wikipedia entry]
- HARMALA ALKALOIDS-LINK TO THE ANCIENT SPIRITS
C. DMT (Dimethyltryptamine)
- A.T. Shulgin's summary of information about DMT[Lycaeum.org]
- DMT -- How and Why to Get Off. By Gracie & Zarkov[Lycaeum.org]
- Information on Extracting DMT from Acacia maidenii[Lycaeum.org]
- The Phalaris pages[Lycaeum.org]
- The Arundo donax page [Lycaeum.org]
- The Desmanthus illinoiensis page [Lycaeum.org]
- Mind Food of the Gods is a collection of essays by Terence McKenna, many of which explore aspects of the DMT experience [Lycaeum.org]
- Dimethyltryptamine--[Wikipedia entry]
- Tryptamines and Totality-A talk given by Julian Palmer at The Australian Ethnobotanica conference, Febuary 15th 2002 [lila.info]
- Dennis McKenna, "Ayahuasca: An Ethnopharmacologic History" (1998)
- Peter Stafford, "Ayahuasca, Yagé and Harmaline" [from Psychedelics Encyclopedia]
- Psychedelic Abstracts [Lycaeum.org]
- Experienced Differences Between Rue and Caapi [Vaults of Erowid
- Ayahuasca, Yagé, Caapi, Natema --excellent page from biopark.org
- 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]
- Jonathan Ott, "Pharmahuasca, Anahuasca and Vinho da Jurema: Human Pharmacology of Oral DMT Plus Harmine"(1997/1998) [Santo Daime Library/Italy]
- "Ayahuasca" in The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Substances by Richard Rudgley
- McKenna D, Callaway JC, Grob CSThe Scientific Investigation of Ayahuasca: A Review of Past and Current Research
- Jordi Riba and Manel J. Barbanoj, M.D., Ph.D.--A Pharmacological Study of Ayahuasca in Healthy Volunteers [maps.org]
- New Brain/ New World [pharmacology]
- J.C. Callaway, "Various alkaloid profiles in decoctions of Banisteriopsis caapi" [abstract]
- J.C. Callaway, "Phytochemical analyses of Banisteriopsis Caapi and Psychotria viridis" [abstract]
- Erik Hoffmann, Jan M. Keppel Hesselink, Yatra-W.M. da Silveira Barbosa, "Effects of a Psychedelic, Tropical Tea Ayahuasca, on the Electroencephalographic (EEG) Activity of the Human Brain During a Shamanistic Ritual" [pdf file][Santo Daime Library/Italy]
- Dr Jan Keppel Hesselink MD (Professor of Pharmacology, The Netherlands), "No Thoughts, Only Pure Awareness"
- Ayahuasca Healing
- Foundation for the Healing Forces of the Amazon
- Jacques Mabit, "Blending Traditions: Using Indigenous Medicinal Knowledge to Treat Drug Addiction," in MAPS, [Bulletin of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, Vol. XII, No. 2, pp. 25-32. Summer 2002]
- Jacques Mabit, "Ritualized Use of Amazonian Psychoactive Plants in the Treatment of Addictions: 7 Years of Experience at Takiwasi Center" [Santo Daime Library/Italy]
- Peruvian journalist & historian Roger Rumrrill interviews Guillermo Arravado, a Shipibo Urban Shaman
- Javier Lizarzaburu, "Peru Seeks Tribal Cure for Addiction," BBC, Nov. 5, 2003.
- Lee Billings, "Hallucinogenic plants might be treatment for alcoholism," [Minnesota Daily Newspaper, May 8, 2003]
- Ayahuasca and Cancer: One Man's Experience --MAPS - Volume 8 Number 3 Autumn 1998 --Donald M. Topping, Ph.D. [biopark.org]
- Dennis McKenna, "Therapeutic Potential of Ayahuasca and Regulatory Challenges"
- "Activities of extract and constituents of Banisteriopsis caapi relevant to parkinsonism" ( Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior/Volume 75, Issue 3, June 2003, pp. 627-633--Plants and the Central Nervous System [abstract]
- My 18 ayahuasca ceremonies
Ayahuasca, Religion, and Nature
Barquinha
- Barquinha (Brazilian)-- Nicholas Saunders and Anja Dashwood (1996)
- Christian Frenopoulo, "The Mechanics of Religious Synthesis in the Barquinha Religion" (2004)
Panentheism & Ayahuasca
The Santo Daime Church
- Edward Macrae, "the Ritual and Religious Use of Ayahuasca in Contemporary Brazil" [biopark.org]
- Diana Rosalind Trimble, M.L.A., Disarming the Dream Police: The Case of the Santo Daime (RELIGION AND DEMOCRACY: AN EXCHANGE OF EXPERIENCES BETWEEN EAST AND WEST/ THE CESNUR 2003 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE organized by CESNUR, Center for Religious Studies and Research at Vilnius University, and New Religions Research and Information CenterVilnius, Lithuania, April 9-12 2003
- Santo Daime: Psychedelic Catholicism from the Rainforest by Charles Winstead & Susan Miller ( The Resonance Project Issue 1, Summer 1997) [Vaults of Erowid]
- Freedom for Santo Daime in Holland
- The Use of Ayahuasca in Brazil by the Santo Daime Religion--Rex Beynon, Friends of the Amazon (MAPS -- Volume 3, Number 4, Winter 1992) [Lycaeum.org]
- Alternative Religions profiles: Santo Daime
- Santo Daime - Wikipedia entry
- SANTO DAIME by Steven Mizrach
- Travels: Sects and drugs-Travels/ Alex Bellos/ Monday 16th October 2006
- What is our religion
- Friends of Santo Daime in Australia
- Santo Daime Church websites
- Forest of Visions
- Das singende Volk von Juramidam -Lieder der brasilianischen und europäischen Santo Daime-Religion
- 4th MEETING OF SANTO DAIME EUROPEAN CHURCHES - Mentrida (Spain) September 2004.(audio files) [scroll to bottom of page] [Santo Daime Library/Italy]
Septrionism, Spiritism, Umbanda & Macumba
- Adherents.com---An amazing website that lists in alphabetical order all the world's religions according to geographical location and the numbers who practice each religion in each location. [There is much on "Spiritism"]
- Robert M. Levine, "The Social Impact of Afro-Brazilian Cult Religion"
- SpiritismOnline.net
- The Malign Spirits
- Spiritism 101 --An Introduction to the Spiritist Doctrine Codified by Alan Kardec
- Septrionismo
- Septrionismo
- Macumba, Umbanda & Orishas in Brazil
- Macumba [Wikipedia entry]
- Macumba [Encyclopedia Britannica]
- Umbanda [Wikipedia entry]
South American Shamanism
- shamanism -deoxy.org
- Ayahuasca and shamanic song-visions
- Steve Mizrach, "Ayahuasca, shamanism, and curanderismo in the Andes"
Soma & Haoma
- SOMA & HAOMA [CHOAM INFO]
- Robert Bedrosian, Soma Among the Armenians & Soma Footnotes
- SOMA: Divine Mushroom of Immortality
- David S. Flattery & Martin Schwartz, Haoma and Harmaline: The Botanical Identity of the Indo-Iranian Sacred Hallucinogen "Soma" and Its Legacy in Religion, Language and Middle Eastern Folklore (U.C.Press, 1989) [abstract]
- SOMA [reference.com/wikipedia]
- Richard Rudgley, "Soma" from the Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Substances (1998)
Syrian rue in the Ancient World
- MOLY - [Online Encyclopedia]
Uniao do Vegetal (UDV)
- União do Vegetal
- União do Vegetal [uniaodevegetal.org]
- UDV
- UDV- History and Structure
- UDV - Wikipedia entry
- Anthony Richard Henman, "USO DEL AYAHUASCA EN UN CONTEXTO AUTORITARIO. EL CASO DE LA UNIAO DO VEGETAL EN BRASIL" [Santo Daime Library/Italy]
- UDV Wins Supreme Court Decision on Preliminary Injunction - Feb. 21,2006 [Santo Daime Library/Italy]
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.
Zend Avesta & Haoma
- M.N.Dhalla, "History of Zoroastrianism" (1938)
- Zoroastrianism [Wikipedia entry]
- Zoroasvtrianism - Historical Review
- http://www.iranica.com/newsite/articles/v7f2/v7f263.html
- The Vedic Religion of Ancient Iran and Zarathustra
- Zoroastrianism- Religion and Ethics (BBC)
- Ahuramazda and Zoroastrianism
- Avesta - Zoroastrian Archives
- Haoma Plant
- Haomoa Ritual (Prof. Mary Boyce)
- Zoroastrian.org - ARTICLES
- Fezana - Federation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America
- Haoma [Wikipedia entry]
- The True Spiritual Power of Haoma (from the Hom Yasht)
- Haoma
- Harmel and Yage
- Haoma and Harmaline - Book Info [Vaults of Erowid]
- The Holy Zend Avesta
- Zoroastrianism, Judaism & Christianity
Shamanic Plants in the Biblical Era
- The Burning Bush in the Bible
- What Type of Plant was the Burning Bush?
- The Dead Sea Scrolls Online
- Clark Heinrich, "The Hidden Symbols" (Excerpt from MAGIC MUSHROOMS IN RELIGION & ALCHEMY)
- Angels in the Old Testament
- Angels [from the Catholic Encyclopedia]
- Angelology [from JewishEncyclopedia.com]
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)
- Indigenous Peoples of Latin America [Univ. of Texas]
- Rachel Pritzker, "Ayahuasca in the Peruvian Amazon: From Anthropology to Pharmacology"[Santo Daime Library/Italy]
- Charles Kidder, "Vine of the Souls"[Santo Daime Library/Italy]
- Charles Kidder, "Vine of the Souls" [@angelfire]
- Ayahuasca Tourism in South America: From the Newsletter of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS - Volume 8 Number 3, Autumn 1998 - pp. 59-62)
- Alberto Groisman, "Ayahuasca in Europe" ---MAPS Newsletter, Vol. 8, No.3, Autumn 1998
- Hallucinogens and Religious Identity in the Brazilian Amazon-Christine Mavrick/Senior ThesisAnthropology Program/ Illinois State University/Fall 2000
- Versuch einer Bestandsaufnahme und ersten Orientierung über rituellen Ayahuasca-Gebrauch in ausgewählten stammeskulturellen Arealen und sozioökonomischen Umwelten Südamerikas--Silvio Rohde 1996
- Carsten Balzer, 2003: Wege zum Heil: Die Barquinha. Eine ethnologische Studie zu Transformation und Heilung in den Ayahuasca-Ritualen einer brasilianischen Religion. (Institut für Brasilienkunde, Bd. 26, 222 S.
- Marcelo Ayres Camurça, Book Review of "A reinvenção do uso da ayahuasca nos centros urbanos."[The reinvention of the use of Ayahuasca in urban centers.] by Beatriz Caiuby Labate/2004
- Michael Harner, "The Sound of Rushing Water," Natural History, (July 1968)
- Michael J. Harner, "Common Themes in South American Indian Yagé Experiences"[biopark.org]
- The Ayahuasca Phenomenon --Jungle Pilgrims: North Americans Participating in Amazon Ayahuasca Ceremonies [maps.org]
- The Use of Psychoactive Plants Among the Hupda-Maku--by Pedro/translated to english by Joshua Callaghan and Cynthia Simss [Lycaeum.org]
- GLENN H. SHEPARD JR, A Sensory Ecology of Medicinal Plant Therapy in Two Amazonian Societies [abstract] [National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA), Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil]
- Marlene Dobkin de Rios, Hallucinogens: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. [from Council on Spiritual Practices]
- Marlene Dobkin de Rios, "The Role of Music in Healing with Hallucinogens: Tribal and Western Studies"
- Vaults of Erowid: Marlene Dobkin de Rios
- Marlene Dobkin de Rios, "What We can Learn From Shamanic Healing: Brief Psychotherapy with Latino Immigrant Clients"
- Marlene Dobkin de Rios, "Ayahuasca & Its Mechanisms of Healing" (excerpt from Visionary Vine, 1972) [Vaults of Erowid]
- Marlene Dobkin de Rios, "Amazon Healing Sessions" (excerpt from Visionary Vine, 1972) [Vaults of Erowid]
- Marlene Dobkin de Rios, "Ayahuasca Visions" (excerpt from Visionary Vine, 1972) [biopark.org]
Brazil
- Wasiwaska Center
- Antonio Bianchi, Review of The Ritual Use of Ayahuasca (O Uso Ritual da Ayahuasca) by Beatriz Caiuby Labate and Wladimyr Sena Araújo, Eds. (Translated to English by Jacqueline Knowles)
- Ayahuasca--A consciência da expansão--DOMINGOS BERNARDO GIALLUISI DA SILVA SÁ [Santo Daime Online Library/Italy]
- Edward MacRae, "The ritual use of ayahuasca by three Brazilian religions" [Santo Daime Online Library/Italy]
- Beatriz Caiuby Labate, "Un panorama del uso ritual de la ayahuasca en el Brasil contemporáneo"
Colombia
- Jason Webb, "Ancient Amazon Brew Comes to Colombia's Cities" (Reuters News Service/ January 2, 2003)[maps.org]
- Yajé - The New Purgatory [Jimmy Weiskopf's New Book on Yajé]
- Jimmy Weiskopf, Yajé - El Nuevo Purgatorio
- JIMMY WEISKOPF, MARCELA - A TALE OF THE URBAN CULT OF YAJÉ (originally published in Ecstacy, issue no. 2)
- Jimmy Weiskopf, ¿ A USTED LE PINTA LA PINTA O LA PINTA LE PINTA A USTED ? Reflexiones sobre las tomas de yajé con Taita Pacho Piaguaje, Buenavista, Putumayo
Equador
Peru
- About Iquitos, Peru - The Floating City of Belén [biopark.org]
- More about Iquitos, Peru [biopark.org]
- Iquitos, Peru
- Hotels in Iquitos, Peru
- Ayahuasca-Wasi: Transpersonal Shamanism Research Project: Workshops in Peru
- AYAHUASCA ODYSSEY
- Peter Gorman, Sacred Medicines, Sacred Ceremonies, Sacred Sites Tour to Peru, January 7 - 28, 2006 (the Great Rethinking)
- AYAHUASCA TRADITIONAL MEDICINAL-The Amazon - Peru
- Ralph Metzner, "Molecular Mysticism: The Role of Psychoactive Substances in Shamanic Transformations of Consciousness" (Shaman's Drum, Spring 1988) [Santo Daime Library/Italy]
- Ralph Metzner, Amazonian Vine of Visions, Intro taken from Ayahuasca - Human Consciousness and the Spirit of Nature [Lycaeum.org]
- 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]
- John Horgan, "Mapping Out the Ayahuasca Netherworld: Review of Benny Shannon's Antipodes of the Mind [maps.org]
- About Benny Shanon
- Stanley Krippner & Joseph Sulla, "Identifying Spiritual Content in Reports from Ayahuasca Sessions"
- Sociopsychotherapeutic Functions of Ayahuasca Healing in Amazonia
- Aplicaciones del uso de ayahuasca en la psicoterapia occidental
- Considerações a respeito do Parecer Ayahuasca, da Associação Brasileira de Psiquiatria / Associação Brasileira de Estudos em Álcool e Drogas (ABP/ABEAD) [in Portugese]
- CIIS ayahuasca conference (San Francisco, 2000)
- Diana Trimble--Bay Guardian review of ayahuasca conference
- Review of 2000 ayahuasca conference [Vaults of Erowid]
- Patricia Savant, Review of the First International Conference on Ayahuasca, Amsterdam 2002 [maps.org]
- The Effectiveness of the Subculture in Developing Rituals and Social Sanctions for Controlled Drug Use (1977) Wayne Harding & Norman E. Zinberg [from: Drugs, Rituals and Altered States of Consciousness, Brian M. DuToit, editor. ©1977, A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam] [Santo Daime Online Library/Italy]
- Henry Shukman, "Ayahuasca and problem solving,"[The Guardian/ March 12, 2005]
- Jacob Sullum, "Psychedelic Tea-Drugs and religious freedom," (March 2005) [reason.com]
- Daniel Pinchbeck -Breaking Open the Head [excerpt]
- "Ayahuasca Plants Seized by DEA: Caapi, D. Cabrerana and Tobacco Seized by DEA and Importer Charged with Crime" [Vaults of Erowid]
- Chacruna (Psychotria viridis) - Its Legal Status [Vaults of Erowid]
- Santo Daime Church Wins Court Case
- Some Legal Decisions About Santo Daime
- Freedom of Religion versus the Psychotropic Substance Treaty: Notes on the Ayahuasca Court Case in Holland-- By Arno Adelaars
- Santo Daime Ruling in Holland (The Journal of Cognitive Liberties, Vol. 3, No. 1, 51-61) [Journal of Cognitive Liberties]
- Santo Daime Church Wins Court Case
- Court decision in the Netherlands now effective under law - 06/05/2001
- Part of the verdict in de courtcase of the Santo Daime-church
- Ayahuasca: From the Amazon to the Urban Jungle --Excerpted from the final 1999 annual report of the Observatoir Geopolitique des Drogues (Geopolitical Drug Watch) based in France. [biopark.org]
- Legal Status of Ayahuasca in Brazil- March 2001 [Vaults of Erowid]
- Richard Glen Boire, Federal Court Rules in Favor of Ayahuasca-using Church--August 13, 2002 [cognitiveliberty.org]
- Ethical Boundaries - Biopiracy in the Amazon - Loren Miller Case
- U.S. Patent Office Cancels Patent on Sacred "Ayahuasca" Plant AUTHOR: Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) PUBLICATION: CIEL Press Release DATE: 4 November 1999
- Supreme Court Rules Unanimously in Favor of Church's Right to use Ayahuasca as Sacrament - Drug Policy Alliance Applauds Court for Protecting Religious Freedom
X. Politics ("Plan Colombia", War on Drugs, etc.)
- Martin Lee, "Vision Quest: Shamanism vs. Capitalism. The Politics of Ayahuasca" [biopark.org]
- "The U.S. Has Lost the War on Drugs": Luis A Gómez, Interview with Róger Rumrrill [NarcoNewsBulletin: May 8, 2002]
- Cecilia Remón, "Will Drug Crop Eradication Spark Conflict in Peru?" (Colombia Journal Online), Nov. 4, 2002.
- Eric J. Lyman, "U.S. Accused of Creating Blight Killing Coca Plants and Harming Other Crops," in San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 4, 1999.
- Abraham Lama, "Road Integration Plan Puts Amazon on Alert" (Tierramérica, 2006)
- Roger Rumrrill, Peru Coca (Part One) [12/4/00]
- Roger Rumrrill, Peru Coca (Part Two) [12/5/00]
- Plant Imperialism
- Bibliography for Ayahuasca: Liana of Illumination (in progress)
- Online Ayahusaca Library [Italy's Santo Daime Library - excellent]
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