Singing to the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon by Stephan V. Beyer

Author:Stephan V. Beyer [Beyer, Stephan V.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Religion & Spirituality, Other Religions; Practices & Sacred Texts, Tribal & Ethnic, Other Practices
Amazon: B005VSL4ME
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2011-10-12T22:00:00+00:00

Entheogens

For the classical psychotropics-LSD, mescaline, psilocybin-jonathan Ott, R. Gordon Wasson, and others coined the term entheogen, intended to mean something like "realizing the divine within" and referring to the primarily cognitive depth- or insight-producing nature of the LSD experience., The term was supposed to apply equally to all the "shamanic inebriants," but, while it may describe at least some of the effects attributed to psychotropic mushrooms and cacti, the substances of most interest to those who coined the term, it seems to me to fit uneasily with the vivid lifelike hallucinations of ayahuasca.

NOTE

1. Ott, 1994, pp. 91-92 n. 1, 1996, PP. 103-105 n. 1; Ruck, Bigwood, Staples, Ott, & Wasson, 1979. See also Perrine, 1996, pp. 255-256; Stevens, 1987, p. 361.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.