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Ayahuasca – From Argentina to Australia, from Israel to Indonesia, a once-obscure Amazonian vine, admixed with a few other plants is now celebrated – and even venerated – as a plant of power knowledge and healing. Ayahuasca – also known as "the vine of the soul." Native to the northwest Amazon and employed by indigenous shamans for therapeutic purposes, this plant has played a fundamental role in the ongoing mainstreaming of hallucinogenic plants into western therapeutic practices. Sources:
Luna, Luis Eduardo, and Steven F. White. Ayahuasca Reader: Encounters with the Amazon's Sacred Vine. Synergetic Press, 2016.
Plotkin, Mark J. Amazon: What Everyone Needs to Know®. Oxford University Press, 2020.
Plotkin, Mark J. Medicine Quest: in Search of Nature's Healing Secrets. Penguin Books, 2001.
Schultes, Richard Evans, and Robert F. Raffauf. Vine of the Soul: Medicine Men,
Their Plants and Rituals in the Colombian Amazonia. Synergetic Press, 2004.
Schultes, Richard Evans., and Albert Hofmann. Plants of the Gods. Vandermarck, 1979.
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Ayahuasca – From Argentina to Australia, from Israel to Indonesia, a once-obscure Amazonian vine, admixed with a few other plants is now celebrated – and even venerated – as a plant of power knowledge and healing. Ayahuasca – also known as "the vine of the soul." Native to the northwest Amazon and employed by indigenous shamans for therapeutic purposes, this plant has played a fundamental role in the ongoing mainstreaming of hallucinogenic plants into western therapeutic practices. Sources:
Luna, Luis Eduardo, and Steven F. White. Ayahuasca Reader: Encounters with the Amazon's Sacred Vine. Synergetic Press, 2016.
Plotkin, Mark J. Amazon: What Everyone Needs to Know®. Oxford University Press, 2020.
Plotkin, Mark J. Medicine Quest: in Search of Nature's Healing Secrets. Penguin Books, 2001.
Schultes, Richard Evans, and Robert F. Raffauf. Vine of the Soul: Medicine Men,
Their Plants and Rituals in the Colombian Amazonia. Synergetic Press, 2004.
Schultes, Richard Evans., and Albert Hofmann. Plants of the Gods. Vandermarck, 1979.

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