Ayahuasca Reader : Encounters with the Amazon's Sacred Vine.

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword by Ralph Metzner -- Preface To The Second Edition Luis Eduardo Luna and Steven F. White -- Introduction -- I. Ayahuasca Myths and Testimonies -- Yajé: Myth and Ritual -- The Creation Myth -- A Visit to The Second Heaven: A Siona Narrative of The Yagé Experience -- Two Ayahuasca Myths from the Cashinahua of Northwestern Brazil -- Mythologies of The Vine -- A Huaorani Myth of The First Miiyabu (Ayahuasca Vine) -- Initiation Experience -- Light of This World -- Unámarai, Father of Yajé -- At The End You See God -- II. Ayahuasca Cultural Encounters -- On Some Remarkable Narcotics of The Amazon Valley and Orinoco -- First Known Printed Reference to Ayahuasca (1675) -- The Drug that Makes Men Brave -- Discovering The Way -- A Yajé Session -- Yagé Nostalgia -- The Spears of Twilight: Life and Death in The Amazon Jungle -- One River: Explorations and Discoveries in The Amazon Rain Forest -- Becoming-Jaguar -- The Jaguar Who Would Not Say Her Prayers: Changing Polarities in Upper Amazonian Shamanism -- Montage -- Design Therapy -- Healing Icaros in Peruvian Vegetalismo -- Tracking The River of Change: A Multidimensional Interpretation of Ayahuasca Healing -- Through The Void: A Cognitive Testimony -- Twenty Years Later -- Some Observations on The Phenomenology of The Ayahuasca Experience -- Ayahuasca As Antidote -- III. New Religions: Santo Daime, Barquinha, and União Do Vegetal (Udv) -- Hymns -- The Book of Visions: Journey to Santo Daime (excerpt) -- An Unusual Experience with "Hoasca:" A Lesson from The Teacher -- IV. Writing Ayahuasca -- The Vortex (excerpt) -- The Yagé Letters -- Men of Chazúta -- The Three Halves of Ino Moxo (excerpt) -- Ayahuasca, or What There is At The End -- Returning -- Aerial Waters -- The Mother of The Voice in The Ear (excerpt) -- Rio Napo.

From Sworn to The Plants -- Ayahuasca in My Art and Philosophy -- Ayahuasca -- The Woman I Could Have Been -- Icaro of The Yacumama -- Rite of Passage -- Ayahuasca gave me a Story -- V. Ayahuasca in Visual Expression -- List of Color Plates, Ayahuasca in Visual Expression -- Bibliography, Select Discography and Filmography -- Appendix - Selected Works in their Original Language -- Notes on Contributors.

The Ayahuasca Reader is an expansive anthology of texts translated from several different languages covering multiple aspects of the ayahuasca experience. The book is a classic in ayahuasca literature and a must read for those interested in learning more about this sacred plant medicine.

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