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Aya awakenings: a Shamanic odyssey

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: North Atlantic Books 2013 BerkeleyDescription: xix, 491 p. Includes bibliographical referencesISBN:
  • 9781583948002
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 299.8142 R2A9
Summary: Experiential journalist Rak Razam sets out to document the thriving business of 21st-century hallucinogenic shamanism starting with a trip to the annual Amazonian Shaman Conference in Iquitos, Peru, where he meets a motley crew of “spiritual tourists,” rogue scientists, black magicians, and indigenous and Western healers and guides, all in town to partake of the ritual–and the medicine–of ayahuasca, “the vine of souls.” Combining his personal story with the history of Amazonian shamanism, Razam takes the reader along on an entertaining, enlightening adventure. In areas of Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru, the traditional herbal brew known as ayahuasca or yajé is legally used to heal physical ailments and to cleanse and purify the spirit by connecting it to the web of life. Sting and Tori Amos have admitted sampling it in Latin America, as has Paul Simon, who chronicled the experience in his song “Spirit Voices.” Aya Awakenings works as a cautionary tale, a travelogue, and a memoir, but primarily acts as a portal through which readers are able to gain more information about the perils and the promise of spiritual reconnection through ayahuasca. “A memorable–and deeply personal–journey into the hearts and minds of those who carry on the shamanic traditions of ayahuasca.”–Rick Doblin, founder of the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/235834/aya-awakenings-by-rak-razam/
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Table of Contents

Departure
1.Seekers of the Mystery
2.Wheel of Fortune
3.Jungle Fever
4.Space Cadets
5.Cosmovision
6.Hamburger Universe
7.Surfing
8.Ayahuasca Disco
9.Logos
10.Night of the Black Puma
11.Downtime
12.Seeds
13.Beasts

Initiation
14.Shaman School
15.Snakes and Ladders
16.Heart of Darkness
17.Return to the Source
18.The Love Creek Session
19.The High Frontier
20.Stairway to Heaven
21.Down to the River to Pray
22.The Hero's Journey

Return
23.Secret Women's Business
24.The Prime Directive
25.Up River
26.When Stones Dream
27.Paying the Earth
28.Talking with Kevin
29.Illuminated
30.Final Flight.
Notes

Experiential journalist Rak Razam sets out to document the thriving business of 21st-century hallucinogenic shamanism starting with a trip to the annual Amazonian Shaman Conference in Iquitos, Peru, where he meets a motley crew of “spiritual tourists,” rogue scientists, black magicians, and indigenous and Western healers and guides, all in town to partake of the ritual–and the medicine–of ayahuasca, “the vine of souls.” Combining his personal story with the history of Amazonian shamanism, Razam takes the reader along on an entertaining, enlightening adventure.

In areas of Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru, the traditional herbal brew known as ayahuasca or yajé is legally used to heal physical ailments and to cleanse and purify the spirit by connecting it to the web of life. Sting and Tori Amos have admitted sampling it in Latin America, as has Paul Simon, who chronicled the experience in his song “Spirit Voices.” Aya Awakenings works as a cautionary tale, a travelogue, and a memoir, but primarily acts as a portal through which readers are able to gain more information about the perils and the promise of spiritual reconnection through ayahuasca.

“A memorable–and deeply personal–journey into the hearts and minds of those who carry on the shamanic traditions of ayahuasca.”–Rick Doblin, founder of the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/235834/aya-awakenings-by-rak-razam/

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