A Hallucinogenic Tea, Laced with Controversy: Ayahuasca in the Amazon and the United StatesBloomsbury Academic, 30 de jul. de 2008 - 168 páginas One country's sacrament is another's illicit drug, as officials in South America and the United States are well aware. For centuries, a hallucinogenic tea made from a giant vine native to the Amazonian rainforest has been taken as a religious sacrament across several cultures in South America. Many spiritual leaders, shamans, and their followers consider the tea and its main component - ayahuasca - to be both enlightening and healing. In fact, ayahuasca (pronounced a-ja-was-ka) loosely translated means spirit vine. In this book, de Rios and Rumrrill take us inside the history and realm of, as well as the raging arguments about, the substance that seems a sacrament to some and a scourge to others. Their book includes text from the United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances and interviews with shamans in the Amazon. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Native Use of Ayahuasca | 5 |
Drug Tourism | 69 |
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