When Plants Dream: Ayahuasca, Amazonian Shamanism and the Global Psychedelic Renaissance

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Daniel Pinchbeck Sophia Rokhlin

When Plants Dream

Ayahuasca, Amazonian Shamanism and the Global Psychedelic Renaissance

Daniel Pinchbeck, Sophia Rokhlin

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Watkins Publishing
05 January 2022

Social & cultural anthropology; Traditional medicine & herbal remedies; Shamanism, paganism & druidry

Ayahuasca is a powerful tool for transformation, that more and more Westerners are flocking to drink in a quest for greater self-knowledge, healing and reconnection with the natural world. This formerly esoteric, little-known brew is now a growth industry. But why?

Ayahuasca is a psychoactive brew that has a long history of ritual use among indigenous groups of the Upper Amazon. Made from the ayahuasca vine and the leaves of a shrub, it is associated with healing in collective ceremonies and in more intimate contexts, generally under the direction of specialist - anayahuasquero. These are experienced practitioners who guide the ceremony and the drinkers' experience. Ayahuasca has gained significant popularity these days in cities around the world. Why? What effect might ayahuasca be having on our culture? Does the brew, which seems to inspire environmental action, simplified lifestyles and more communitarian behaviour, act as an antidote to frenzied consumerist culture? InWhen Plants Dream, Pinchbeck and Rokhlin explore the economic, social, political, cultural and environmental impact that ayahuasca is having on society. Part 1 covers the background; what ayahuasca is, where it is found, and its cultural origins. Part 2 explores the role and practices of theayahuasqueroin both Amazonian and Western cultures. Part 3 examines the medicinal plants of the Amazon, looking particularly at the ingredients in ayahuasca and their therapeutic qualities, covering the most up-to-date biomedical research, psychedelic science and psychopharmacology. It also covers all the legal aspects of ayahuasca use. Lastly in Part 4 Pinchbeck and Rokhlin question the future of ayahuasca. When Plants Dreamis the first book of its kind to look at the science and expanding culture of ayahuasca, from its historical use to its appropriation by the West and the impact it is having on cultures beyond the Amazon.

By: Daniel Pinchbeck
With: Sophia Rokhlin
Imprint: Watkins Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781786785459
ISBN 10: 1786785455
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 05 January 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Daniel Pinchbeck is the bestselling author of Breaking Open the Head and 2012-TheReturn of the Quetzalcoat!. He co-founded the web magazine Reality Sandwich and theonline platform Evolver.net. His essays and articles have appeared in a vast range ofpublications, including The New York Times, Esquire, Rolling Stone, and ArtForum, and hehas been a columnist for Dazed & Confused. Sophia Rokhlin is an anthropologist and nonprofit organizer working with human and environmental rights organizations. She coordinates a permaculture program with the Chaikuni Institute and directs the regenerative ayahuasca initiative at the Temple of the Way of Light in the Peruvian Amazon.

Reviews for When Plants Dream: Ayahuasca, Amazonian Shamanism and the Global Psychedelic Renaissance

"""When Plants Dream offers a standout survey of the accompanying quest for knowledge and transformation that this plant and others promise."" - California Bookwatch ""When Plants Dream, by Daniel Pinchbeck and Sophia Rokhlin is the first book to set the Ayahuasca phenomenon in its proper context... All in all a tour de force. Highly recommended."" - Graham Hancock"