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9780199252923 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 23, 2003, cover price $125.00
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9780199252930 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, January 23, 2003, cover price $73.00
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9781620552629 | Reprint edition (Park Street Pr, March 2, 2014), cover price $16.95
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9781560251606 | Running Pr Book Pub, June 2, 1999, cover price $14.95
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9780907791492 | Scb Distributors, July 15, 2016, cover price $38.95
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9780907791591 | 2 reprint edition (Scb Distributors, July 15, 2016), cover price $26.95
9780907791324 | Synergetic Pr, June 1, 2000, cover price $29.95
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9781583947913 | Random House Inc, November 4, 2014, cover price $16.95
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9780892811311 | Park Street Pr, October 10, 2003, cover price $16.95
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.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. Ayahuasca has moved into the United States, causing legal battles in the Supreme Court and rulings from the United Nations. Some U.S. church groups are using the hallucinogen in their ceremonies and have fought for government approval to do so. The sacrament has also drawn American drug tourists to South America to partake, say authors de Rios and Rumrrill. But they warn that these tourists are being put at risk by charlatans who are not true shamans or religious figures, just profiteers.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. Opponents fight its use even as U.S. scientists and psychologists continue investigations of whether ayahuasca has healing properties that might be put to conventional use for physical and mental health. This book includes text from the United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances and interviews with shamans in the Amazon.
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9780313345425 | Praeger Pub Text, July 30, 2008, cover price $55.00
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9781440836169 | Praeger Pub Text, July 30, 2008, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: One country's sacrament is another's illicit drug, as officials in South America and the United States are well aware.
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9781594770531 | 2 edition (Park Street Pr, November 22, 2005), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: 'A compilation of writings on the chemical, biological, psychological, and experiential dimensions of Ayahuasca'--Provided by publisher.
Product Description: A âwhat to expectâ guide for first-time ayahuasca users paired with accounts from the authorâs extensive shamanic experiences in the Amazon ⢠Describes how to prepare for the first ceremony, what to do in the days afterward, and how to maintain a shamanic healing diet ⢠Details some of the authorâs own ayahuasca experiences, including an intensive trip in 2009 when he underwent 17 ceremonies ⢠Explores the many other plants that are part of the ayahuasca healerâs medicine cabinet as well as the icaros, healing songs, of the ayahuasca shaman Since 1999 Jan Kounen has regularly traveled to the Peruvian Amazon to participate in ayahuasca ceremonies...read more
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9781620553459 | 1 edition (Park Street Pr, December 27, 2014), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A âwhat to expectâ guide for first-time ayahuasca users paired with accounts from the authorâs extensive shamanic experiences in the Amazon ⢠Describes how to prepare for the first ceremony, what to do in the days afterward, and how to maintain a shamanic healing diet ⢠Details some of the authorâs own ayahuasca experiences, including an intensive trip in 2009 when he underwent 17 ceremonies ⢠Explores the many other plants that are part of the ayahuasca healerâs medicine cabinet as well as the icaros, healing songs, of the ayahuasca shaman Since 1999 Jan Kounen has regularly traveled to the Peruvian Amazon to participate in ayahuasca ceremonies.
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