AYAHUASCA READER
Encounters with the
Amazon's Sacred Vine

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part One: AYAHUASCA MYTHS AND TESTIMONIES:

A Visit to the Second Heaven: A Siona Narrative of the Yagé Experience
E. Jean Matteson Langdon

TWO AYAHUASCA MYTHS FROM THE CASHINAHUA OF NORTHWESTERN BRAZIL
Elsje Maria Lagrou

MYTHOLOGIES OF THE VINE
Oscar Calavia Sáez

A HUAORANI MYTH OF THE FIRST MIIYABU (AYAHUASCA VINE)
Jonathon S. Miller-Weisberger

YAJÉ: MYTH AND RITUAL
Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff

INITIATION EXPERIENCE
Jean-Pierre Chaumeil (as told by Alberto Prohaño)

LIGHT OF THIS WORLD
Don Hilario Peña
AT THE END YOU SEE GOD
Fernando Payaguaje

Part Two: AYAHUASCA CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS

ON SOME REMARKABLE NARCOTICS
OF THE AMAZON VALLEY AND ORINOCO
Richard Spruce

A YAJÉ SESSION
Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff

YAGÉ NOSTALGIA
Scott S. Robinson

DISCOVERING THE WAY
Michael Harner

THE SPEARS OF TWILIGHT:
Life and Death in the Amazon Jungle
Philippe Descola

ONE RIVER: EXPLORATIONS AND DISCOVERIES IN THE AMAZON RAIN FOREST
Wade Davis

JAGUAR-BECOMING
William Torres C.

THE JAGUAR WHO WOULD NOT SAY HER PRAYERS:
CHANGING POLARITIES IN UPPER AMAZONIAN SHAMANISM
Françoise Barbira Freedman

MONTAGE
Michael Taussig

DESIGN THERAPY
Angelika Gebhart-Sayer

Part Three: NEW RELIGIONS: SANTO DAIME, BARQUINHA, AND        

                    UNIÃO DO VEGETAL (UDV)

HYMNS -

Received by Raimundo Irineu Serra

Received by Sebastião Mota de Melo

Received by Alfredo Gregório de Melo

Received by Daniel Pereira de Matos

Received by Francisca Campos do Nascimento

THE BOOK OF VISIONS: JOURNEY TO SANTO DAIME (excerpt)
Alex Polari de Alverga

AN UNUSUAL EXPERIENCE WITH "HOASCA" : A LESSON FROM THE TEACHER
Dennis J. McKenna

Part Four: WRITING AYAHUASCA

THE YAGÉ LETTERS
Allen Ginsberg

AT PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF THE LORD (excerpt)
Peter Matthiessen

TEN POEMS ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON
Luis Eduardo Luna

MEN OF CHAZÚTA
F. Bruce Lamb

THE THREE HALVES OF INO MOXO (excerpt)
César Calvo

THE REAL WORLD OF MANUEL CÓRDOVA
W.S. Merwin

AYAHUASCA, OR WHAT THERE IS AT THE END
Mario Villafranca Saravia

THE STORYTELLER
Mario Vargas Llosa

RETURNING
Ib Michael

AERIAL WATERS
Néstor Perlongher

THE MOTHER OF THE VOICE IN THE EAR (excerpt)
Alfonso Domingo

RIO NAPO

Dale Pendell

LAST RIVER (AND OTHER POEMS)
Steven F. White

BIBLIOGRAPHY, Notes on Contributors, INDEX

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