The Ayahuasca Reader Encounters with the Amazon&s Sacred Vine is a panorama of texts translated from nearly a dozen languages on the ayahuasca experience These include indigenous mythic narratives & testimonies & religious hymns as well as stories related by western travelers scientists & writers who have had contact with ayahuasca in different contexts In addition to contributions from Wade Davis Dennis Mc Kenna Gerardo Reichel-Dolmotoff & Richard Spruce the new edition
Includes:: essays from Graham Hancock Alex Grey Jeremy Narby Susana Bustos & a section on Ayahuasca art Ayahuasca Reader remains the most comprehensive collection of authoritative writings on the subject ever published An essential reference for anthropology ethnobotany & Latin American literature studies it will be of intense interest to students of Amazonian indigenous culture Native American spirituality & metaphysical studies