Sacred Vine of the Spirits: Ayahuasca Book

Introduction: Amazonian Vine of Visions

RALPH METZNER, PH.D.

1. Ayahuasca: An Ethnopharmacologic History

DENNIS J. MCKENNA, PH.D.

2. The Psychology of Ayahuasca

CHARLES S. GROB, M.D.

3. Phytochemistry and Neuropharmacology of Ayahuasca

J. C. CALLAWAY, PH.D

4. The Experience of Ayahuasca: Teachings of the Amazonian Plant Spirits

Initiation into Ancient Lineage of Visionary Healers

RAOUL ADAMSON

We Are Experiencing the Joyful Phenomenon of Re-creation

CRISTINA SANTOS

Having So Recently Experienced My Death, It Felt Miraculous To Be Alive

STEFAN C.

Breaking from the Bondage of the Mind

KATE S.

A Vision of Sekhmet

GANESHA

The Pieces of My Life Fell Together in a More Meaningful Pattern

AVA S.

Knowledge Was Graciously Invoked in Me by the Plant Teacher

OREGON T.

Here Began a Series of Teachings about the Nature of the Heart

JOSEPH S.

A Vision of the Fabric That Is Woven by Us All

CAROLINE S.

Ethereal Serpents Held Me in Thrall

SHYLOH RAVENSWOOD

I Was Exploring Being with Greenness

PAMELA C.

Liquid Plum’r for the Soul

I. M. LOVETREE

The Plant Spirits Help Me to Heal Myself and Others

EUGENIA G.

The Great Serpentine Dance of Life

RAIMUNDO D.

A Most Palpably Buddhist-like Experience

RENATA S.

Journey to the Emerald Forest

RICHARD N.

The Long, Multi-faceted Journey of Jewish Experience

ABRAHAM L.

Teaching the Body Its Relationship to the Spirit

WAHTOLA H.

Ancient Augury of My Resurrection

BARRY F.

An Entirely New World of Spirit Beings

FRANK OWINGS

Death and Rebirth in Santo Daime

MADALENA FONSECA

Nature Has Embraced Me, Blown the Breath of Life into Me

STEFAN C.

The Buddha, the Christ, and the Queen of the Jungle

GANESHA

Agony and Rapture with Santo Daime

RAOUL ADAMSON

5. Conclusions, Reflections, and Speculations

RALPH METZNER, PH.D.

Notes on Contributors