Ayahuasca Reader: Encounters with the Amazon’s Sacred Vine - Expanded multicultural anthology on ayahuasca myths, rituals, and visions

Ayahuasca Reader: Encounters with the Amazon’s Sacred Vine presents ayahuasca through a multicultural anthology of myths, songs, and stories about the Amazonian spiritual experience. The collection is a five-part anthology that brings together intergenerational accounts from Amazonian healers, personal testimonies from people who had encounters with Amazonian cultures, hymns and sacramental religious texts, writings from prominent literary figures on lasting influence, and visionary color art intended to illuminate the experience. The expanded and updated edition includes translations from nearly a dozen languages representing multiple Amazonian peoples and their approaches to working with ayahuasca. It also gathers contributors such as researchers and scholars of Amazonian plant medicine, indigenous leaders and shamans, and well-known cultural figures, with an emphasis on plant medicine, indigenous cultural context, and the global impact of ayahuasca journeys.