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The Ayahuasca Diaries

Author : Caspar Greeff
Publisher : Jacana Media
ISBN 13 : 1770097619
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Ayahuasca Diaries written by Caspar Greeff and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2009 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively travelogue, this book follows the author's psycho-spiritual odyssey in search of ayahuasca--a dark, psychedelic brew known as "the vine of the dead." Trekking through the rain forests of Peru, Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela, and Ecuador in search of enclaves where ayahuasca is taken in the dark of night at ceremonies presided over by shamans, the author shares his experiences with otherworldly songs that are both magical and healing and ignite in him a new enchantment with life and a burgeoning sense of connection with the natural world.

The Oshun Diaries

Author : Diane Esguerra
Publisher : Eye Books (US&CA)
ISBN 13 : 1785631489
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book The Oshun Diaries written by Diane Esguerra and published by Eye Books (US&CA). This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High priestesses are few and far between, white ones in Africa even more so.When Diane Esguerra hears of a mysterious Austrian woman worshipping the Ifa river goddess Oshun in Nigeria her curiosity is aroused. It is the start of an extraordinary friendship that sustains Diane through the death of her son and leads to a quest to take part in Oshun rituals. Prevented by Boko Haram from returning to Nigeria, she finds herself at Ifa shrines in Florida amid vultures, snakes, goats' heads, machetes, torrential rain and a cigar-smoking god. Her quest steps up a gear when Beyonce channels Oshun at the Grammys and the goddess goes global.

Fishers of Men

Author : Adam Elenbaas
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110145637X
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Fishers of Men written by Adam Elenbaas and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of memoirs like Daniel Pinchbeck's 2012 and Jim Carroll's The Basketball Diaries, Adam Elenbaas's Fishers of Men chronicles his journey from intense self-destruction and crippling depression to self-acceptance, inner awareness, and spiritual understanding, through participation in mindexpanding-and healing ayahuasca ceremonies in South America and beyond. From his troubled and rebellious youth as a Methodist minister's son in Minnesota, to his sex and substance abuse-fueled downward spiral in Chicago and New York, culminating in a depressive breakdown, Elenbaas is plagued by a feeling of emptiness and a desperate search for meaning for most of his young life. After hitting rock bottom at his grandfather's house in rural Michigan, a chance experience with psychedelic mushrooms convinces him that he must change his ways to achieve the sense of peace that he has always desired. Several subsequent psychedelic experiences inspire him to embark on a quest to South America and take part in a shamanic ceremony, where he consumes ayahuasca, a jungle vine revered for its spiritual properties. Over the course of nearly forty ayahuasca ceremonies during four years, Elenbaas discovers the truth about his own life and past, and begins to mend himself from the inside out. Fishers of Men is the gripping, heartbreaking, and yet ultimately uplifting story of the power to transcend one's past.

The Acid Diaries

Author : Christopher Gray
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1594778884
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book The Acid Diaries written by Christopher Gray and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-09-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the personal and spiritual truths revealed through LSD • Reveals that LSD visions weave an ongoing story from trip to trip • Shows that trips progress through three stages: personal issues and pre-birth consciousness, ego-loss, and on to the sacred • Explores psychedelic use throughout history, including the mass hallucinations common in the Middle Ages and the early therapeutic use of LSD Toward the end of his fifties, Christopher Gray took, for the first time in years, a 100-microgram acid trip. So extraordinary, and to his surprise so enjoyable, were the effects that he began to take the same dose in the same way--quietly and on his own--once every two to three weeks. In The Acid Diaries, Gray details his experimentation with LSD over a period of three years and shares the startling realization that his visions were weaving an ongoing story from trip to trip, revealing an underlying reality of personal and spiritual truths. Following the theories of Stanislav Grof and offering quotes from others’ experiences that parallel his own--including those of Aldous Huxley, Albert Hofmann, and Gordon Wasson--he shows that trips progress through three stages: the first dealing with personal issues and pre-birth consciousness; the second with ego-loss, often with supernatural overtones; and the third with sacred, spiritual, and even apocalyptic themes. Pairing his experiences with an exploration of psychedelic use throughout history, including the ergot-spawned mass hallucinations that were common through the Middle Ages and the early use of LSD for therapeutic purposes, Gray offers readers a greater understanding and appreciation for the potential value of LSD not merely for transpersonal growth but also for spiritual development.

The Superstition Diaries From Ancient Lore to Modern Beliefs

Author : Brenda dunams
Publisher : Pencil
ISBN 13 : 9358834951
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (588 download)

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Download or read book The Superstition Diaries From Ancient Lore to Modern Beliefs written by Brenda dunams and published by Pencil. This book was released on 2023-11-11 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of Fear, Belief, and the Unseen", From ancient civilizations to modern times, this comprehensive exploration uncovers the fascinating stories behind superstitions.

The Toé / Datura Diaries

Author : Javier Regueiro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781950367306
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (673 download)

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Download or read book The Toé / Datura Diaries written by Javier Regueiro and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Ever Account of Dieting the Revered Shamanic Plant Brugmansia aka Toé / Datura A personal account of the use of the Brugmansia plant commonly known as "Toé," is revealed. The plant is native of the Peruvian Amazon and the Andes, where it's highly revered among shamans. Despite its popularity, the ingestion of this plant is surrounded by many justified taboos due to its toxicity and many dangers. Javier Regueiro worked and studied intensively with this unique Plant Teacher in 2005 for five months, deep in the Amazon, and again in 2019. These experiences have been essential in his shamanic apprenticeship, as well as a profound personal healing and spiritual process. In The Toé / Datura Diaries these experiences are shared in great detail through journal entries from both shamanic dietas - or diet regimen in Spanish, - as well as extensive commentary on those experiences. Following his first Toé dieta in 2005, Javier Regueiro began working as a plant medicine person and created the Ayaruna Center in Pisac, Peru. Over the last 10+ years he has been offering healing retreats with Ayahuasca and San Pedro / Huachuma plant medicines, both of which he has published books on. While this book is not intended as a DIY manual for ingesting either the Toé or any other potentially risky plants, it does provide a very detailed overview and intimate glimpse into both the traditional practice of dieting medicinal plants. The commentary and insights provided are designed to avoid common pitfalls and maximize the time and effort invested in the profound healing process plant medicines provide. This captivating tale presents an honest and vulnerable journey into the wisdom and medicines of the Amazon jungle. The many challenges faced by the author along the way ultimately led to a profound healing and expansion from engaging with this powerful Plant Teacher.

The Hedgehog Diaries

Author : Sarah Sands
Publisher : New River
ISBN 13 : 1915780039
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book The Hedgehog Diaries written by Sarah Sands and published by New River. This book was released on 2023-09-14 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If you buy one book this year make sure it's this one... Enchanting." Daily Mail "This charming book weaves hedgehogs into our hearts, our lives and our national identity." John Witherow A few days after her elderly father is admitted to hospital, Sarah Sands and her grandson find a poorly hedgehog in the garden. They name her Peggy, and her fate becomes a matter of pressing concern. There is something about hedgehogs - homely and yet mysterious, prickly and defenceless, wild and tame - that makes us feel deeply sympathetic to them. Having managed to outlive roads, dogs, strimmers and pesticides, hedgehogs are now an endangered species. For Sarah Sands, our failure to protect them is a symptom of our alienation from the living world. But all is not yet lost. In this charming book, Sands explores the meaning and morals of hedgehogs, and finds, in hedgehog world, a source of deep solace and wisdom.

The South American Diaries

Author : John Hopkins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857736655
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book The South American Diaries written by John Hopkins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While writing a novel set in South America, John Hopkins travelled back there to "reacquaint himself with the scene". In 1972-3, he travelled by train, bus and boat from Mexico City to the centre of the continent, through Belize, Guatemala and Nicaragua and on to Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina. Hopkins travelled slowly, deliberately, savouring every experience along the way. But the journey was fraught with his angst-ridden strivings to write his novel and with the troubled love he had for Madeleine, his travelling companion. In these heat-scorched, tequila-infused pages, Hopkins paints a sultry, exquisite portrait of South America and in so doing masters an art that he believed would forever elude him.

Music and Consciousness

Author : David Clarke
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191625582
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Music and Consciousness written by David Clarke and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is consciousness? Why and when do we have it? Where does it come from, and how does it relate to the lump of squishy grey matter in our heads, or to our material and social worlds? While neuroscientists, philosophers, psychologists, historians, and cultural theorists offer widely different perspectives on these fundamental questions concerning what it is like to be human, most agree that consciousness represents a 'hard problem'. The emergence of consciousness studies as a multidisciplinary discourse addressing these issues has often been associated with rapid advances in neuroscience-perhaps giving the impression that the arts and humanities have arrived late at the debating table. The longer historical view suggests otherwise, but it is probably true that music has been under-represented in accounts of consciousness. Music and Consciousness aims to redress the balance: its twenty essays offer a timely and multi-faceted contribution to consciousness studies, critically examining some of the existing debates and raising new questions. The collection makes it clear that to understand consciousness we need to do much more than just look at brains: studying music demonstrates that consciousness is as much to do with minds, bodies, culture, and history. Incorporating several chapters that move outside Western philosophical traditions, Music and Consciousness corrects any perception that the study of consciousness is a purely occidental preoccupation. And in addition to what it says about consciousness the volume also presents a distinctive and thought-provoking configuration of new writings about music.

Ayahuasca

Author : Joan Parisi Wilcox
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1594775648
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book Ayahuasca written by Joan Parisi Wilcox and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-10-10 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive autobiographical account of the transforming experiences possible with ayahuasca • Reveals the protocols of a traditional ayahuasca retreat and the importance of its ritual diet, isolation, and sacred songs • Relates an extensive personal account of the traditional indigenous use of ayahuasca for healing and revelation Ayahuasca: The Visionary and Healing Powers of the Vine of the Soul is an autobiographical account of the author’s work with ayahuasca, a potent and sacred plant brew of the Amazon region that is known for its extraordinary visionary and healing powers. As she learned from her experience, with the help of ayahuasca we are able to grasp our paradoxical nature, the first step to acceptance of ourselves in both our glorious and dark aspects. Ayahuasca teaches us how to release the illusions we hold about ourselves and makes it possible to integrate our many diverse aspects to acquire our true power. This book reveals the ritual protocols that must be followed prior to partaking of ayahuasca, including the traditional preparatory “diet”--which requires enduring austere conditions, isolation, and only small amounts of bland food before receiving the powers of the plant spirit from an ayahuasquero, a healing master--and the sacred songs, icaros, that are sung when imbibing the substance. Although the use of ayahuasca is growing among “underground” spiritual seekers and through the burgeoning ayahuasca tourism trade in South America, few of its seekers understand how it is used traditionally and the importance of the rituals the indigenous people follow. With this book, the author hopes to restore the importance of these indigenous practices so that we may truly understand all the gifts of ayahuasca.

The Psychedelic Diaries

Author : Kaitlin Tilotta
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1662472803
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book The Psychedelic Diaries written by Kaitlin Tilotta and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-12-27 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Psychedelic Diaries marries traditional memoir to today's conversations around sex, drugs, and current world events by following 24-year-old Kaitlin Tilotta's adventures as a professional dominatrix on a deliberate five-month experimental psychedelic drug bender. Upon immersing herself in various roleplays and bizarre psychedelic scenarios, she begins to discover an even deeper level of perspective on not only herself, but the true, unspoken nature of our reality as well. The experiences she acquires, along with the friends and clients she meets along the way, provide a range of character traits and perspectives - by design, encouraging readers to keep thinking about the book and the world around them long after it ends.

Ayahuasca

Author : Javier Regueiro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781946697394
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (973 download)

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Download or read book Ayahuasca written by Javier Regueiro and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide offers background about the plant medicine and how to engage with and learn through its use. This guidebook provides clear and practical advice on how to use this therapeutic modality in a fashion that is meaningful to modern people for a maximum of benefit.

The Hobo Diaries

Author : Holly Nadler
Publisher : Ozark Mountain Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hobo Diaries written by Holly Nadler and published by Ozark Mountain Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can idyll for decades on a gorgeous island, comfy, safe and warm, immersed like a Medieval mystic on a life-long spiritual path, and all of a sudden it feels as if you’ve been dumped on a water slide with a sign that reads: This life is out of your price range, sweetheart! Splash!! . . Where ya gonna live? In the spring of 2018 writer / reporter Holly Nadler gave up her year-round apartment on Martha’s Vineyard even as everyone cried out, “Don’t do it! You’ll never find another one!” And they were right! Follow her around the Vineyard with her dear old thug of a Boston terrier as she lodges in a lilac-walled cottage which is enchanting except for the fact that it has no running water. After that come several seasons with her impossible and dementing 98 year-old mother in Palm Desert CA, a month in Edinburgh where she’s banished from a retreat on the Holy Isle, then back on the Vineyard for what she comes to think of as another Summer of Discombobulation. Is it possible to be a hobo and be happy? Well, yeah, as long as you can make people laugh as you write about it. And does it help redefine your spiritual path? Well, sure, because you’re a life-long seeker, and you’ll never lose sight of the Divine . . . see it? It’s just around the next bend in the road. Or the next one?

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

Author : John Perkins
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1576755126
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man written by John Perkins and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2004-11-09 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perkins, a former chief economist at a Boston strategic-consulting firm, confesses he was an "economic hit man" for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinationals cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business.

Indigenous Peoples and Borders

Author : Sheryl Lightfoot
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478027606
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Indigenous Peoples and Borders written by Sheryl Lightfoot and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legacies of borders are far-reaching for Indigenous Peoples. This collection offers new ways of understanding borders by departing from statist approaches to territoriality. Bringing together the fields of border studies, human rights, international relations, and Indigenous studies, it features a wide range of voices from across academia, public policy, and civil society. The contributors explore the profound and varying impacts of borders on Indigenous Peoples around the world and the ways borders are challenged and worked around. From Bangladesh’s colonially imposed militarized borders to resource extraction in the Russian Arctic and along the Colombia-Ecuador border to the transportation of toxic pesticides from the United States to Mexico, the chapters examine sovereignty, power, and obstructions to Indigenous rights and self-determination as well as globalization and the economic impacts of borders. Indigenous Peoples and Borders proposes future action that is informed by Indigenous Peoples’ voices, needs, and advocacy. Contributors. Tone Bleie, Andrea Carmen, Jacqueline Gillis, Rauna Kuokkanen, Elifuraha Laltaika, Sheryl Lightfoot, David Bruce MacDonald, Toa Elisa Maldonado Ruiz, Binalakshmi “Bina” Nepram, Melissa Z. Patel, Manoel B. do Prado Junior, Hana Shams Ahmed, Elsa Stamatopoulou, Liubov Suliandziga, Rodion Sulyandziga, Yifat Susskind, Erika M. Yamada

The Antipodes of the Mind

Author : Benny Shanon
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780199252923
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book The Antipodes of the Mind written by Benny Shanon and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a pioneering cognitive psychological study of Ayahuasca, a plant-based Amazonian psychotropic brew. Benny Shanon presents a comprehensive charting of the various facets of the special state of mind induced by Ayahuasca, and analyzes them from a cognitive psychological perspective. He also presents some philosophical reflections. Empirically, the research presented in this book is based on the systematic recording of the author's extensive experiences with the brew and on the interviewing of a large number of informants: indigenous people, shamans, members of different religious sects using Ayahuasca, and travellers. In addition to its being the most thorough study of the Ayahuasca experience to date, the book lays the theoretical foundations for the psychological study of non-ordinary states of consciousness in general.

Global Ayahuasca

Author : Alex K. Gearin
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503639843
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Global Ayahuasca written by Alex K. Gearin and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ceremonies of drinking the psychoactive brew ayahuasca have flourished across the planet in recent decades. Emerging from Indigenous roots in the Amazon rainforest, the brew is now envisaged by many as the spiritual gateway to archaic and primordial worlds, with reports of healing, spiritual insight, and awe-inspiring visions placing ayahuasca among the burgeoning field of psychedelic medicines. Astonished and allured by descriptions of ayahuasca experiences, researchers in psychology, anthropology, and philosophy have attempted to define the shared properties of the visions. In this book, Alex Gearin challenges this simplified obsession with universal truth and explores the embodied practices of contemporary ayahuasca drinkers to reveal how the brew has conjured contradictory experiences across the globe. These range from urban disenchantment and capitalist mastery to competitive sorcery and ecological harmony, wherein the plant-induced visions embody different attitudes towards capitalist modernity. Based upon ethnographic research among Shipibo healers in remote Peru, alternative medicine groups in urban Australia, and entrepreneurs and corporate managers in mainland China, Global Ayahuasca examines how the wondrous visions of ayahuasca are entangled within the social and economic realities that they illuminate, revealing different tensions, fears, and hopes of everyday modern life.