In the Amazon, shamans do not talk about psychotropic plants in terms of hallucinogens but as tools for communicating with other life-forms. Ayahuasca, for example, is first and foremost a means of breaking down the barrier that separates humans from other species, allowing us to communicate with them.
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Intelligence In Nature
Continuing the journey begun in The Cosmic Serpent, anthropologist Jeremy Narby ventures firsthand into traditional cultures and the leading edge of contemporary science to get a handle on nature’s secret ways of knowing.
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Shamans Through Time
This collection of essays traces Western civilization’s struggle to interpret and understand the ancient knowledge of cultures that revere magic men and women—individuals with the power to summon and communicate with spirits.
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Cosmic Serpent
How have Amazonian indigenous peoples figured out some of the exceedingly complex botanical mysteries and mixtures, which become medicines, such as curare? How do they know so much about the properties of the jungle?
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