The Psychedelic Journey of Marlene Dobkin de Rios: 45 Years by Marlene Dobkin de Rios

a glance within nearly part a century of pioneering examine within the Amazon and Peru through a famous anthropologist learning hallucinogens, together with ayahuasca

• finds how ayahuasca effectively treats mental and emotional problems

• Examines adolescent drug use from a cross-cultural point of view

• Discusses the deleterious results of drug tourism within the Amazon

Ayahuasca is an alkaloid-rich psychoactive concoction indigenous to South the US that has been hired through shamans for millennia as a spirit drug for divinatory and therapeutic reasons. even if the past due Harvard ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes used to be credited within the early Fifties as being the 1st to rfile using ayahuasca, different researchers, resembling the prestigious anthropologist Marlene Dobkin de Rios, have been accountable for furthering his findings and uncovering the healing services of this extraordinary compound.

The Psychedelic trip of Marlene Dobkin de Rios provides the gathered event of de Rios’s forty five years of pioneering box reviews within the zone of hallucinogens in Peru and the Amazon. Her research into ayahuasca--which she undertook in collaboration with greater than a dozen conventional Mestizo people curanderos, shamans, and fellow ethnobotanists--focuses at the use of this progressive plant within the therapy of recalcitrant mental and emotional issues. She additionally stocks a few of her theories that turn out that the traditional Maya used psychedelic crops as a part of their spiritual rituals, thereby demonstrating the effect of plant psychedelics on human prehistory. additionally, Dobkin de Rios examines altered states of attention derived from using biofeedback and hypnosis and discusses her present paintings at the deleterious results of drug tourism within the Amazon.