Hallucinogens Cross Cultural Perspectives

Author : Marlene Dobkin de Rios
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Cross-cultural studies
ISBN : UOM:39015011016428

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Hallucinogens, Cross-cultural Perspectives by Marlene Dobkin de Rios Pdf

This book surveys the use of mind-altering plants in eleven societies in the Americas, Asia, Australia and New Guinea, ranging from the hunter-gatherers to complex ancient civilizations such as the Inca, the Moche, and the Maya. Those interested in rituals and religions of traditional societies and folk medicine will find a great deal of information in this concise, illustrated volume. Several themes emerge from de Rios's cross-cultural examination of sacred plants. She argues convincingly that plant hallucinogens, which have been used from time immemorial, influenced human evolution. She discusses religious beliefs, including those of shamanism, which may have been influenced by the mind-altering properties of particular plants. She also focuses on the ways in which hallucinogens have influenced ethical and moral systems.

Author : Christine Hauskeller,Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350231627

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Philosophy and Psychedelics by Christine Hauskeller,Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes Pdf

What do psychedelics reveal about consciousness? What impact have psychedelics had on philosophy? In this rapidly growing area of study, this is the first volume to explore the philosophy of psychedelic experience, from a range of interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives. In doing so, Philosophy and Psychedelics reveals just why the place of psychedelics in our societies should not be left to medical sciences alone, as psychedelic experience opens up new perspectives on fundamental philosophical questions relating to human experience, ethics, and the metaphysics of mind. Mapping a range of philosophical responses to the surge in studies into psychedelic drugs in the cognitive sciences, this go-to volume examines topics including psychedelics and the role of governance; psychedelics and mysticism; what psychedelics can tell us about dyadic thankfulness; and psychedelics as ways to gain new knowledge. Written by leading international scholars, the essays cover Western and non-Western traditions, from analytic philosophy to Zen Buddhism, and discuss a variety of hallucinogens, such as LSD, MDMA, and Ayahuasca, in order to build a much-needed bridge between the rapidly growing scientific research and the philosophy behind psychedelic experience.

Author : Peter T. Furst
Publisher : San Francisco : Chandler & Sharp
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036666662

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Hallucinogens and Culture by Peter T. Furst Pdf

"This book is an introduction to some of the hallucinogenic drugs in their cultural and historical context, stressing their important role in religion, ritual, magic and curing".--BOOKJACKET.

Author : Marlene Dobkin de Rios
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Cross-cultural studies
ISBN : UCSC:32106015541409

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Hallucinogens, Cross-cultural Perspectives by Marlene Dobkin de Rios Pdf

This book surveys the use of mind-altering plants in eleven societies in the Americas, Asia, Africa, Australia & New Guinea, ranging from the hunter-gatherers to complex ancient civilizations.

Author : Marlene Dobkin de Rios,Oscar Janiger
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003-04-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0892819731

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LSD, Spirituality, and the Creative Process by Marlene Dobkin de Rios,Oscar Janiger Pdf

Between 1954 and 1962 Dr. Oscar Janiger administered LSD to more than 950 people from all walks of life. The data collected from those trials, and from follow-up studies 40 years later, is now available for the first time.

Author : Beatriz Caiuby Labate,Clancy Cavnar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783319767208

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Plant Medicines, Healing and Psychedelic Science by Beatriz Caiuby Labate,Clancy Cavnar Pdf

This is a book about the intersections of three dimensions. The first is the way social scientists and historians treat the history of psychiatry and healing, especially as it intersects with psychedelics. The second encompasses a reflection on the substances themselves and their effects on bodies. The third addresses traditional healing, as it circles back to our understanding of drugs and psychiatry. The chapters explore how these dimensions are distinct, but deeply intertwined, themes that offer important insights into contemporary healing practices. The intended audience of the volume is large and diverse: neuroscientists, biologists, medical doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists; mental health professionals interested in the therapeutic application of psychedelic substances, or who work with substance abuse, depression, anxiety, and PTSD; patients and practitioners of complementary and alternative medicine; ethnobotanists and ethnopharmacologists; lawyers, criminologists, and other specialists in international law working on matters related to drug policy and human rights, as well as scholars of religious studies, anthropologists, sociologists, and historians; social scientists concerned both with the history of science, medicine, and technology, and concepts of health, illness, and healing. It has a potentially large international audience, especially considering the increasing interest in “psychedelic science” and the growing spread of the use of traditional psychoactives in the West.

Author : Marlene Dobkin de Rios
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-09
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781594778919

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The Psychedelic Journey of Marlene Dobkin de Rios by Marlene Dobkin de Rios Pdf

A look inside almost half a century of pioneering research in the Amazon and Peru by a noted anthropologist studying hallucinogens, including ayahuasca • Reveals how ayahuasca successfully treats psychological and emotional disorders • Examines adolescent drug use from a cross-cultural perspective • Discusses the deleterious effects of drug tourism in the Amazon Ayahuasca is an alkaloid-rich psychoactive concoction indigenous to South America that has been employed by shamans for millennia as a spirit drug for divinatory and healing purposes. Although the late Harvard ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes was credited in the early 1950s as being the first to document the use of ayahuasca, other researchers, such as the distinguished anthropologist Marlene Dobkin de Rios, were responsible for furthering his findings and uncovering the curative capabilities of this amazing compound. The Psychedelic Journey of Marlene Dobkin de Rios presents the accumulated experience of de Rios’s 45 years of pioneering field studies in the area of hallucinogens in Peru and the Amazon. Her investigation into ayahuasca--which she undertook in collaboration with more than a dozen traditional Mestizo folk curanderos, shamans, and fellow ethnobotanists--focuses on the use of this revolutionary plant in the treatment of recalcitrant psychological and emotional disorders. She also shares some of her theories that prove that the ancient Maya used psychedelic plants as part of their religious rituals, thereby demonstrating the impact of plant psychedelics on human prehistory. In addition, Dobkin de Rios examines altered states of consciousness derived from the use of biofeedback and hypnosis and discusses her current work on the deleterious effects of drug tourism in the Amazon.

Author : Charles S. Grob
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:953890282

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Adolescent Drug Use in Cross-cultural Perspective by Charles S. Grob Pdf

Comparison of the role of hallucinogenic drugs in the initiation rites of three indigenous cultures and their abuse in contemporary America; discussion of the use of pituri in Aboriginal culture derived from a limited survey of secondary sources.

Author : Marlene Dobkin de Rios
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Hallucinogenic drugs
ISBN : UOM:39015008913801

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The Wilderness of Mind by Marlene Dobkin de Rios Pdf

Author : Marlene Dobkin de Rios,Roger Rumrrill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780313345432

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A Hallucinogenic Tea, Laced with Controversy by Marlene Dobkin de Rios,Roger Rumrrill Pdf

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.

Author : Jordan Goodman,Andrew Sherratt,Paul E. Lovejoy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134093625

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Consuming Habits: Global and Historical Perspectives on How Cultures Define Drugs by Jordan Goodman,Andrew Sherratt,Paul E. Lovejoy Pdf

Covering a wide range of substances, including opium, cocaine, coffee, tobacco, kola, and betelnut, from prehistory to the present day, this new edition has been extensively updated, with an updated bibliography and two new chapters on cannabis and khat. Consuming Habits is the perfect companion for all those interested in how different cultures have defined drugs across the ages. Psychoactive substances have been central to the formation of civilizations, the definition of cultural identities, and the growth of the world economy. The labelling of these substances as 'legal' or 'illegal' has diverted attention away from understanding their important cultural and historical role. This collection explores the rich analytical category of psychoactive substances from challenging historical and anthropological perspectives.

Author : Leor Roseman,Michael James Winkelman,Katrin H. Preller,Evgenia Fotiou
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889768356

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Psychedelic Sociality: Pharmacological and Extrapharmacological Perspectives by Leor Roseman,Michael James Winkelman,Katrin H. Preller,Evgenia Fotiou Pdf

Author : D. Ladewig,A. Pletscher
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1994-08-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1850705690

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Fifty Years of LSD: Current Status and Perspectives of Hallucinogens by D. Ladewig,A. Pletscher Pdf

This volume is the proceedings of the Symposium of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences held in Lugano-Agno in Switzerland in September 1993. It includes chapters in pharmacological, psychopathological and clinical aspects of LSD and hallucinogenic drug use in medicine, in addition to a personal historical account of the discovery of LSD by Professor Albert Hofmann, as well as social and cultural aspects of LSD.

Author : Ralph Metzner, Ph.D.
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-22
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781594777813

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Sacred Vine of Spirits: Ayahuasca by Ralph Metzner, Ph.D. Pdf

A compilation of writings on the chemical, biological, psychological, and experiential dimensions of Ayahuasca • Includes 24 firsthand accounts of Ayahuasca experiences and resulting life changes, including contributions from J. C. Callaway, Charles S. Grob, and Dennis J. McKenna • Discusses the medical and psychological applications of Ayahuasca Ayahuasca is a hallucinogenic Amazonian plant mixture that has been used for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years by native Indian and mestizo shamans in Peru, Colombia, and Ecuador for healing and divination. Many Western-trained physicians and psychologists have acknowledged that this substance can allow access to spiritual dimensions of consciousness, even mystical experiences indistinguishable from classic religious mysticism. In Sacred Vine of Spirits: Ayahuasca Ralph Metzner, a pioneer in the study of consciousness, has assembled a group of authoritative contributors who provide an exploration of the chemical, biological, psychological, and experiential dimensions of ayahuasca. He begins with more than 20 firsthand accounts from Westerners who have used ayahuasca and then presents the history, psychology, and chemistry of ayahuasca from leading scholars in the field of psychoactive research. He concludes with his own findings on ayahuasca, including its applications in medicine and psychology, and compares the worldview revealed by ayahuasca visions to that of Western cultures.

Author : Michael J. Winkelman,Ben Sessa MD
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-22
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781440864117

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Advances in Psychedelic Medicine by Michael J. Winkelman,Ben Sessa MD Pdf

Researchers, program administrators, and practicing clinicians explain the most recent developments in using psychedelic substances to treat psychological, physiological, and social problems. More than a decade ago, the U.S. government lifted its ban on all testing of psychedelic substances. Winkelman and Sessa now provide updated scientific research and applications of these substances, now moving into approved categories of medicine. The text is an up-to-date assessment of the latest advances in the field of psychedelic medicine, covering the use of LSD, psilocybin, MDMA, ayahuasca, and other substances to augment psychotherapies for a range of disorders. It discusses medical and psychiatric concerns, clinical efficacy and safety, ethical considerations, and neuroscience findings regarding the psychedelic compounds. Topics covered include an overview of psychiatric applications of psychedelics; treatments for addictions and depressive disorders; effects of psychedelics on inflammation and neuroplasticity; evidence for clinical applications of DMT, ayahuasca, and cannabidiol; psychedelic treatment of sociopathic disorders; microdosing psychedelics; training psychedelic therapists; and community-based harm reduction approaches to managing psychedelic crises.