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Handbook of Entheogenic Healing
Series: - Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion, Volume: 23
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Entheogenic Healing describes contemporary psychedelic therapies of indigenous cultures, mestizo adaptations, and emerging global traditions. Analysis of cultural contexts and ritual practices of diverse entheogenic traditions provides an understanding of their individual and common dynamics. A common framework situates the practices in cultural context, describes training of healers, examines preparatory and ritual activities, and analyzes the dynamics of healing. The chapters examine the roles entheogens play in healing, focused on the alterations of consciousness and spirit experiences produced, the forms of illness treated, the nature of the healing processes, and post-session integration practices. Their commonalities provide guidelines for the Psychedelic Renaissance.
Michael J. Winkelman, M.P.H, Ph.D. (1985), is an anthropologist retired from the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. He has engaged in cross-cultural and interdisciplinary research on shamanism, psychedelics, and the alteration of consciousness for 40 years. He is the author of Shamanism: A Biopsychosocial Paradigm of Consciousness and Healing (2nd ed., 2010) and co-editor of Advances in Psychedelic Medicine (2019) and The Supernatural after the Neuroturn (2019).
Contributors are: Michael J. Winkelman, Stanley Krippner, Jacques Mabit, Stacy Schaefer, Joseph Calabrese, Kevin Feeney, Bonnie Glass-Coffin, Anna Waldstein, Marc Blainey, Jesús M. González Mariscal, Osiris Sinuhé González Romero, Antonella Fagetti, Pedro Favaron, Evgenia Fotiou, Jorgelina Reinoso, Alejandro Marin Valencia, Jan M. Keppel Hesselink, F. LeRon Shults, Bruno Gomes, Bruno Rasmussen, Luis Fernando Agreda Muchavisoy, Genaro Guizasola Martínez, Philippe Bandeira de Mello, Chonon Bensho, María del Carmen Macuil García, Frederico Romanoff, Alfredo Narváez, Fanny Charrasse, Cutler Cannon, Bénédicte Mannix, Rita Kocarova, Luisa Procházková, Michaela Plevková, Tristan Kallweit, Saundra Shanti, Martin Polanco, Mia Black, Fabio Friso, Matteo Politi.
Contributors are: Michael J. Winkelman, Stanley Krippner, Jacques Mabit, Stacy Schaefer, Joseph Calabrese, Kevin Feeney, Bonnie Glass-Coffin, Anna Waldstein, Marc Blainey, Jesús M. González Mariscal, Osiris Sinuhé González Romero, Antonella Fagetti, Pedro Favaron, Evgenia Fotiou, Jorgelina Reinoso, Alejandro Marin Valencia, Jan M. Keppel Hesselink, F. LeRon Shults, Bruno Gomes, Bruno Rasmussen, Luis Fernando Agreda Muchavisoy, Genaro Guizasola Martínez, Philippe Bandeira de Mello, Chonon Bensho, María del Carmen Macuil García, Frederico Romanoff, Alfredo Narváez, Fanny Charrasse, Cutler Cannon, Bénédicte Mannix, Rita Kocarova, Luisa Procházková, Michaela Plevková, Tristan Kallweit, Saundra Shanti, Martin Polanco, Mia Black, Fabio Friso, Matteo Politi.
Contents
Foreword
Stanley Krippner
Preface
Michael J. Winkelman
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Michael J. Winkelman
1 Wixárika Mara’akate: Healing with the Powers of Peyote
Stacy B. Schaefer
2 Contemporary Uses of Psychoactive Mushrooms in the Mazatec Highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico: Diversity, Knowledge and Healing
Jesús M. González Mariscal and Genaro Guizasola Martínez
3 Healing of the Thunderbolt and Nahua Entheogenic Medicine (Psilocybe aztecorum and Tagetes lucida)
Osiris Sinuhé González Romero and María del Carmen Macuil García
4 Virgin Seed (Turbina Corymbosa and Ipomoea Tricolor) among Mixtec, Nahuas and Mazatec of Guerrero, Oaxaca and Puebla (Mexico)
Antonella Fagetti
5 The Sacred Plant of Santa Rosa, Nurse of the World: Narratives of Otomí Emotions from the Sierra Norte of Puebla
Jorgelina Reinoso Niche
6 Entheogenic Healing among the Kamëntsá Biyá: an Intercultural Dialogue between Tradition and the Post-modern World
Alejandro Marín Valencia and Luis Fernando Agreda Muchavisoy
7 Merayabo: the Entheogenic Knowledge of the Shipibo-Konibo Nation
Pedro Favaron and Chonon Bensho
8 Vegetalista Healing Traditions of the Peruvian Amazon
Evgenia Fotiou
9 Santo Daime Ethnopsychiatry: Psychotherapy & Spiritual Care Implications of a Global Ayahuasca Healing Tradition from Amazonia
Marc G. Blainey
10 Plants of God?
The Healing Process with Entheogenic Plants in the Arca da Montanha Azul
Frederico Romanoff and Philippe Bandeira de Mello
11 The San Pedro Cactus (Equinopsis pachanoi): Symbolic Axis of Ancestral Medical Knowledge in Peru
Alfredo Narváez and Fanny Charrasse
12 Healing in the Native American Church: Ritual Psychopharmacology and Therapeutic Narrative
Joseph D. Calabrese
13 Entheogenic Healing in Rastafari: Decolonization through Cannabis, Consciousness, and Collective Ritual
Anna Waldstein and Cutler Cannon
14 Treating Childhood Trauma through Psilocybin
Bénédicte Mannix, F. LeRon Shults and Michael J. Winkelman
15 5-MeO-DMT: a Controversial Part of a Contemporary Psychedelic Scene
Rita Kočárová, Luisa Procházková and Michaela Plevková
16 Kambo as Entheogenic Therapy: Processes of Physiological, Symbolic, and Transpersonal Healing
Michael J. Winkelman and Jan M. Keppel Hesselink
17 From “Poison” to Sacrament: Spiritual and Therapeutic Use of Amanita muscaria in the 21st Century
Kevin Feeney and Tristan T. Kallweit
18 Mama Cannabis and the Embodied Feminine: an Ancient Psychedelic for Modern Times
Bonnie Glass-Coffin and Saundra Shanti
19 Ibogaine as a Tool in the Process of Overcoming Drug Addiction
Bruno Ramos Gomes and Bruno Rasmussen Chaves
20 Treating War Trauma with Ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMT
Martin Polanco and Michelle “Mia” Black
21 Ayahuasca Ritual and Spiritual Practices for Substance Abuse Rehabilitation: the Takiwasi Model and Experience
Jacques Mabit, Fabio Friso and Matteo Politi
22 The Evolved Psychology of Entheogenic Healing
Michael J. Winkelman
Conclusions: Comparisons of Contemporary Entheogenic Healing
Michael J. Winkelman
Index
Foreword
Stanley Krippner
Preface
Michael J. Winkelman
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Michael J. Winkelman
Part 1: Traditional Entheogenic Practices
1 Wixárika Mara’akate: Healing with the Powers of Peyote
Stacy B. Schaefer
2 Contemporary Uses of Psychoactive Mushrooms in the Mazatec Highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico: Diversity, Knowledge and Healing
Jesús M. González Mariscal and Genaro Guizasola Martínez
3 Healing of the Thunderbolt and Nahua Entheogenic Medicine (Psilocybe aztecorum and Tagetes lucida)
Osiris Sinuhé González Romero and María del Carmen Macuil García
4 Virgin Seed (Turbina Corymbosa and Ipomoea Tricolor) among Mixtec, Nahuas and Mazatec of Guerrero, Oaxaca and Puebla (Mexico)
Antonella Fagetti
5 The Sacred Plant of Santa Rosa, Nurse of the World: Narratives of Otomí Emotions from the Sierra Norte of Puebla
Jorgelina Reinoso Niche
6 Entheogenic Healing among the Kamëntsá Biyá: an Intercultural Dialogue between Tradition and the Post-modern World
Alejandro Marín Valencia and Luis Fernando Agreda Muchavisoy
7 Merayabo: the Entheogenic Knowledge of the Shipibo-Konibo Nation
Pedro Favaron and Chonon Bensho
Part 2: Modern Entheogenic Healing
8 Vegetalista Healing Traditions of the Peruvian Amazon
Evgenia Fotiou
9 Santo Daime Ethnopsychiatry: Psychotherapy & Spiritual Care Implications of a Global Ayahuasca Healing Tradition from Amazonia
Marc G. Blainey
10 Plants of God?
The Healing Process with Entheogenic Plants in the Arca da Montanha Azul
Frederico Romanoff and Philippe Bandeira de Mello
11 The San Pedro Cactus (Equinopsis pachanoi): Symbolic Axis of Ancestral Medical Knowledge in Peru
Alfredo Narváez and Fanny Charrasse
12 Healing in the Native American Church: Ritual Psychopharmacology and Therapeutic Narrative
Joseph D. Calabrese
13 Entheogenic Healing in Rastafari: Decolonization through Cannabis, Consciousness, and Collective Ritual
Anna Waldstein and Cutler Cannon
Part 3: Post-Modern Entheogenic Medicine
14 Treating Childhood Trauma through Psilocybin
Bénédicte Mannix, F. LeRon Shults and Michael J. Winkelman
15 5-MeO-DMT: a Controversial Part of a Contemporary Psychedelic Scene
Rita Kočárová, Luisa Procházková and Michaela Plevková
16 Kambo as Entheogenic Therapy: Processes of Physiological, Symbolic, and Transpersonal Healing
Michael J. Winkelman and Jan M. Keppel Hesselink
17 From “Poison” to Sacrament: Spiritual and Therapeutic Use of Amanita muscaria in the 21st Century
Kevin Feeney and Tristan T. Kallweit
18 Mama Cannabis and the Embodied Feminine: an Ancient Psychedelic for Modern Times
Bonnie Glass-Coffin and Saundra Shanti
Part 4: Medical Healing with Entheogens
19 Ibogaine as a Tool in the Process of Overcoming Drug Addiction
Bruno Ramos Gomes and Bruno Rasmussen Chaves
20 Treating War Trauma with Ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMT
Martin Polanco and Michelle “Mia” Black
21 Ayahuasca Ritual and Spiritual Practices for Substance Abuse Rehabilitation: the Takiwasi Model and Experience
Jacques Mabit, Fabio Friso and Matteo Politi
Part 5: The Evolutionary Psychology of Entheogenic Healing
22 The Evolved Psychology of Entheogenic Healing
Michael J. Winkelman
Conclusions: Comparisons of Contemporary Entheogenic Healing
Michael J. Winkelman
Index
A reference for psychedelic therapists and researchers; a textbook for psychedelic medicine, psychedelic sitters, medical anthropology, and comparative religion classes; and a trade book for a growing public interested in the personal and therapeutic potentials of psychedelics.