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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)
Contents
Foreword by Dennis McKenna Preface by Rak Razam
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 Going Down to the River to Pray; 22 The Hero's Journey
Return
23 Secret Women's Business; 24 The Prime Directive; 25 One River; 26 When Stones Dream; 27 Paying the Earth; 28 Talking with Kevin; 29 Illuminated; 30 Final Flight Index Bibliography
Author's Note
In The Press
"A memorable—and deeply personal—journey into the hearts and minds of
those who carry on the shamanic traditions of ayahuasca."—Rich Doblin,
founder of MAPS, the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic
Studies
“An excellent work! This is definitely the best
thing I've read on ayahuasca tourism, and beyond that, the whole
apparent reemergence of shamanic consciousness as a force for change
and evolution on a global scale.”—Ethnopharmacologist
Dennis McKenna, PhD, author of
The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss
“As Razam so aptly demonstrates, a new kind of traveler is
emerging—one that embarks into the mysterious and uncharted domain
within, where they aim to conquer their own hearts. Written in the
tradition of a great adventure narrative, Aya Awakenings is a
timely story for a new emerging era.”—Yossi Ghinsberg, author of Lost in the Jungle
“The best Canterbury Tales of the modern pilgrimage to
Iquitos.”—Richard Meech, filmmaker, director of the documentary
Vine of the Soul: Encounters with Ayahuasca
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