Entheogenic Shamanism
The Visionary Pharmakon
The Greeks had one word - pharmakon - for both remedy and poison. This dossier takes the plant as an instrument rather than a sacrament or a drug. The plant arranges a condition. Jonathan Ott, who with Ruck, Bigwood, Staples and Wasson coined the word 'entheogen'. Ott had no patience for the phrase psychedelic renaissance: nothing had died, so nothing was being reborn - the practice has been continuous for ten thousand years and is still going strong.
Contents
An Interview with Pablo Amaringo
The late Pablo Amaringo trained as a curandero in the Amazon, healing himself and others from the age of ten, but gave this up in 1977 to become a full-time painter and art teacher at his Usko-Ayar school. Pablo left us this November 2009, and this interview is posted in homage to this great Artist and great Man.
Interview ii
Anadenanthera
By Neil Logan December 1999 Plants containing entheogenic tryptamines are known around the world and are represented in nearly every Family. These plants commonly have an abundance of folk and medicinal history…
Essay iii
Body Signs : Body Decoration and Sensory Symbolism in South America
By : David Howes Sociology and Anthropology Concordia University Montreal . Quebec CANADA H3G 1M8 Westerners are accustomed to seeing photographs of native South Americans with elaborately painted bodies or with lips…
Essay ivCybernetics & Entheogenics
Peter Lamborn Wilson From Cyberspace to Neurospace 1996 The term “Neurospace” I learned from the Kiev artist Vladimir Muzehesky, through Geert Lovink. What I immediately thought he meant by it was a…
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Ritual
By : The Bricoleur Ritual can be described in various ways. Here are the most accurate descriptions I can think of: Mircea Eliade, a pioneer in the study of religion and spirituality,…
Essay vi
Shamanism Versus Capitalism
By Martin A. Lee Wander long enough through the bustling passageways of any crowded village marketplace in the northwest Amazon river basin and youll come upon herbalist stands with dried plants, hanging…
The Visionary Pharmakon
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Contributors
Howard Charing
Howard G. Charing is a director of the Eagle Wing’s Centre for Contemporary Shamanism and has taught at Dr. Michael Harner’s Foundation…