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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Ayahuasca"”.
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A ayahuasca modula a resiliência? Uma avaliação em modelo animal primata não-humano de depressão maior
… against the emergence of some mental diseases. Ayahuasca (AYA) is a traditional beverage from the Amazon Forest that acts on the serotonergic system, and in addition to psychedelic effects has shown an antidepressant action. Considering that from an economic, social and psychological point of …
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Ayahuasca’s Religious Diaspora in the Wake of the Doctrine of Discovery
<p>‘Ayahuasca’ is a plant mixture with a variety of recipes and localized names native to South America. Often, the woody ayahuasca vine (<em>Banisteriopsis caapi</em>) is combined with <em>chacruna</em> leaf (<em>Psychotria viridis</em>) in a tea, inducing psychedelic effects among its users. …
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Sending out Your Soul: An Entheogenic Forum Community Explored through Language
… centered on an entheogenic medicine called ayahuasca. Ayahuasca is an indigenous brew made out of two hallucinogenic plants used by shaman of the upper Amazon regions of South America to send their souls to the supernatural world. The purpose of taking ayahuasca is to receive guidance and …
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The Scientist and the Jaguar: Sacred Plants and the Politics of Knowledge in the northwestern Amazon, 1849 - 2023
… of psychedelics in the Americas by focusing on ayahuasca, a plant derivative native to the Amazonian lowlands that I describe as a “plant-being.” The project traces how a transnational network life and human scientists sought to transform ayahuasca from a sacred being into a scientific object …
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Supporting the Multiple Sclerosis Healing Journey with Transpersonal Therapy: An Autoethnographic Reflection and Analysis of Ayahuasca's Transpersonal Wisdom and Transformative Healing Abilities.
… Self. The transpersonal benefits facilitated by Ayahuasca showed to be a liberating process that allowed me explore the mind-body connection of dis-ease, support my MS healing journey, and in becoming a more efficient social worker as I experienced an increased awareness of the interconnectedness …
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Os trajetos do êxtase dissidente no fluxo cognitivo entre homens, folhas, encantos e cipós: uma etnografia ayahuasqueira nordestina
O fenômeno ritual da bebida xamânica ayahuasca revela inúmeras potencialidades místicas, afetivas e culturais. Nossas urbes contemporâneas elaboram distintas configurações diante do alcance divinal promovido pela ingestão de tal infusão, oriunda dos antigos povos andinos. O uso do chá expandiu-se …
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Shaman as Saviour? The Trope of the Amazonian Shaman in Recent Latin American Literature and Film
… Chapter 1 analyzes the influence of shamanic ayahuasca tourism and desires for reconciliation with Indigenous peoples over the abuses of colonialism in the film El abrazo de la serpiente (2015). Chapter 2 addresses how the film Ícaros: A Vision (2016) undermines the drama of shamanic miracle …
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When Movements Fail: Drug Policy and Popular Participation in Brazil
… Brazilian anti-prohibitionism into four units: Ayahuasca Movement; Cannabis Movement; Harm Reduction Movement; and NGO-led Advocacy. Collectively, these four units form a comprehensive picture of the civil society-driven drug policy reform efforts in Brazil in the past four decades. The thesis …
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An interdisciplinary study of an aesthetic particularism: the ‘Split representation in the Art of Asia and America’
… Peruvian Amazonia and their ritualistic use of Ayahuasca as a case study. I continue by providing dedicated inter-disciplinary case studies on the specific patterns of each populations from the Split Representation groups using up to date researches results in the fields of Art theory, …