Welcome to Ayahuasca.com
Ayahuasca.com is a research project devoted to the botany, ethnography, mythology, arts, music, therapeutic mechanisms, and phenomenology of the Amazonian Spirit Vine Ayahuasca (aya-soul/dead, wasca-vine/rope); the jungle vine Banisteriopsis Caapi, and the medicinal tea prepared from it.The Banisteriopsis vine is a Malpighiaceous jungle liana found in the tropical regions of South America. The vine constitutes the primary ingredient of the Ayahuasca tea which is used widely used throughout the Amazon for healing and spiritual development.
Culture & Creativity
Jay Michaelson
The ayahuasca trip is not especially unitive: indeed, one of its hallmarks is the sense of communication with other life forms or consciousnesses. And while a sense of “all is One” is sometimes reported in the midst of the ayahuasca experience, it’s more common to read reports of visions of phenomena – manifestation, not essence.
Benny Shanon
Apparently, ayahuasca can push the human mind to heights of creativity that by far exceed those encountered ordinarily. I myself have realized this in conjunction with a vision in which I was guided through an exhibition displaying the works of an entire culture.
An Invitation to participate creatively in Ayahuasca.com»
Image by Pablo Amaringo
Exploring the role of Ayahuasca in supporting the development of creative abilities.
Nectarian Art - Deep Ecological Visions»
Proposing a new art term to describe deep ecological and entheogenically inspired nature visions…
News
New Book on Brazilian Ayahuasca Religions»This book presents the bibliographical state of the art of the Brazilian ayahuasca religions, Santo Daime, Barquinha, the União do Vegetal, and their multiple offshoots.
Ayahuasca in the Supreme Court»By Steve Beyer
There has been a lot of confusion about the current legal status of ayahuasca in the United States since the Supreme Court decided the União do Vegetal case two years ago. This post attempts to shed some light on the subject in the context of earlier cases involving peyote, the Native American Church, and other claims of religious exemption from the Controlled Substances Act.
Ayahuasca Overviews
Mestizo Shamanism and Vegetalistas»What is mestizo shamanism?
The Loreto province of northeastern Peru (and to a lesser extent to Ucayali province south of it) is virtually unique in Latin America in that indigenous shamanic practices have been adopted and adapted by the mestizo population, and become a part of the mestizo culture.
While mestizo curanderismo is not unknown elsewhere in […]
The earliest Europeans to mention Ayahuasca were Jesuits travelling in the Amazon. One of the earliest such reports of this “diabolical potion,” written in 1737, describes it as: “an intoxicating potion ingested for divinatory and other purposes and called ayahuasca, which deprives one of his senses and, at times, of his life.”
Science
Mestizo Shamanism and Vegetalistas»What is mestizo shamanism?
The Loreto province of northeastern Peru (and to a lesser extent to Ucayali province south of it) is virtually unique in Latin America in that indigenous shamanic practices have been adopted and adapted by the mestizo population, and become a part of the mestizo culture.
While mestizo curanderismo is not unknown elsewhere in […]
Daniel Mirante
A hypothesis suggesting Ayahuasca may be growing healthier brains…
Spirit & Healing
Ayahuasca and Kabbalah»Jay Michaelson
The ayahuasca trip is not especially unitive: indeed, one of its hallmarks is the sense of communication with other life forms or consciousnesses. And while a sense of “all is One” is sometimes reported in the midst of the ayahuasca experience, it’s more common to read reports of visions of phenomena – manifestation, not essence.
Daniel Mirante
A hypothesis suggesting Ayahuasca may be growing healthier brains…
