Sacred Vine of Spirits: Ayahuasca

Sacred Vine of spirits: AYAHUASCA......Page 1
Copyright......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Introduction: Amazonian Vine of Visions......Page 9
1. Ayahuasca: An Ethnopharmacologic History......Page 48
2. The Psychology of Ayahuasca......Page 71
3. Phytochemistry and Neuropharmacology of Ayahuasca......Page 102
4. The Experience of Ayahuasca: Teachings of the Amazonian Plant Spirits......Page 125
Initiation into Ancient Lineage of Visionary Healers......Page 126
We Are Experiencing the Joyful Phenomenon of Re-creation......Page 137
Having So Recently Experienced My Death, It Felt Miraculous to Be Alive......Page 143
Breaking from the Bondage of the Mind......Page 150
A Vision of Sekhmet......Page 154
The Pieces of My Life Fell Together in a More Meaningful Pattern......Page 163
Knowledge Was Graciously Invoked in Meby the Plant Teacher......Page 168
Here Began a Series of Teachings about the Natureof the Heart......Page 173
A Vision of the Fabric That Is Woven by Us All......Page 179
Ethereal Serpents Held Me in Thrall......Page 182
I Was Exploring Being with Greenness......Page 186
Liquid Plum\'r for the Soul......Page 189
The Plant Spirits Help Me to Heal Myself and Others......Page 196
The Great Serpentine Dance of Life......Page 201
A Most Palpably Buddhist-like Experience......Page 204
Journey to the Emerald Forest......Page 207
The Long, Multifaceted Journey of Jewish Experience......Page 214
Teaching the Body Its Relationship to the Spirit......Page 220
Ancient Augury of My Resurrection......Page 225
An Entirely New World of Spirit Beings......Page 228
Death and Rebirth in Santo Daime......Page 233
Nature Has Embraced Me, Blown the Breath of Life into Me......Page 237
The Buddha, the Christ, and the Queen of the Jungle......Page 245
Agony and Rapture with Santo Daime......Page 248
5. Conclusions, Reflections, and Speculations......Page 255
Notes on Contributors......Page 270