A Hallucinogenic Tea, Laced with Controversy: Ayahuasca in the Amazon and the United States
by Marlene Dobkin de Rios
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One country's sacrament is another's illicit drug, as officials in South America and the United States are well aware. For centuries, a hallucinogenic tea made from a giant vine native to the Amazonian rainforest has been taken as a religious sacrament across several cultures in South America. Many spiritual leaders, shamans, and their followers consider the tea and its main component - ayahuasca - to be both enlightening and healing. In fact, ayahuasca (pronounced a-ja-was-ka) loosely show more translated means spirit vine. In this book, de Rios and Rumrrill take us inside the history and realm of, as show lessTags
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Marlene Dobkin De Rios, PH.D., is a medical anthropologist, associate clinical professor of psychiatry and human behavior at the University of California, Irvine, and professor emerita of anthropology at California State University, Fullerton, where she taught cultural anthropology from 1969-2000. She is the author of seven books and several show more hundred professional articles. show less
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