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High Times Interview with Andrew Weil, MD
High Times - January 1996
The interview touches on Spontaneous Healing, the dark potential of mushrooms, hemp seed oil as a dietary supplement, beneficial plants, coca leaf, toad venom, lung care for marijuana smokers, ayahuasca and 2-CB.

International Transpersonal Association is holding their conference in Manaus, Brazil in May of 1996.

Alucinogenos y Shamanismo en el Peru Contemporaneo. Mario Chiappe, Moises Lemlij, Luis Millones. Ediciones El-Virrey. Lima. 1985. 151 pages plus close-up copies of photos. velobound in Ayahuasca Shamanism Anthology. [box v2]

ANDRITZKY, WALTER
Sociopsychotherapeutic functions of ayahuasca healing in Amazonia. Special Issue: Shamanism and altered states of consciousness.
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs; 1989 Jan-Mar Vol 21(1) 77-89
Focuses on the healing functions of drug rituals (DRs) involving the natural hallucinogen ayahuasca (AY) among traditional native peoples of Amazonia and attempts to explain their effectiveness within the approach of Western clinical science. Some structural dimensions of AY DRs are examined in terms of how natives perceive the function and content of the ritual (i.e., an emic point of view). Next, the AY DRs are explored from an etic approach, utilizing concepts from psychoanalysis, transpersonal psychology, and parapsychology. AY DRs, through accessible transcendental experiences, have integrative and cohesive functions for the society.

Ayahuasca Analoges: Pangaen Entheogens. Jonathan Ott. Occidental, CA 1994. 127 pages. paperback. $15.00 [box v4]

Ayahuasca Visions: The Religious Iconography of a Peruvian Shaman. Luis Eduardo Luna and Pablo Amaringo. North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, CA, $60.

Ayahuasca: Etnomedicina y Mitologia. Plutarco Naranjo. Ediciones Libri Mundi. Quito Ecuador. 1983. velobound photocopy. 222 pages. [box v4]

Ayahuasca: Unpublished Manuscript of a Book by Claudio Naranjo. 364 pages. velobound photocopy. [box v2]

Dobkin de Rios, Marlene.
A Note on the Use of Ayahuasca Among Urban Mestizo Populations in the Peruvian Amazon.
AA 72:1419-1422. (1970)

Dobkin de Rios, Marlene.
Ayahuasca -- The Healing Vine.
International Journal of Social Psychiatry 17:256-269. (1971)

DOBKIN DE RIOS, MARLENE
Visionary vine: psychedelic healing in the Peruvian Amazon
Visionary vine: psychedelic healing in the Peruvian Amazon. Chandler [1972] F3429.3.M4
SUBJECTS: Ayahuasca Therapy ritual. Iquitos, Peru. Social life and customs.

JONATHAN OTT: Ayahuasca Analogues An interview with Jonathan, conducted by Roy Tuckman, concentrates on the pharmacology of ayahuasca and related mixtures made from North American as well as synthetic components.
(1)Audio-A874-94,

Katz, Fred & Dobkin de Rios, Marlene.
Hallucinogenic Music: An Analysis of the Role of Whistling in Peruvian Ayahuasca Healing Sessions.
JAFL 84:320-327. (1971)

Kusel, Heinz.
Ayahuasca Drinkers Among the Chama Indians of Northeast Peru.
Psychedelic Review 6:58-66. (1965)

Ott, Jonathon.
Ayahuasca Analogues: Pangaean Entheogens.
Kennewick, WA: Natural Products Co. (1994)

SCHULTES R E; HOFMANN A
Vine of the Soul
Plants of the Gods: Origins of hallucinogenic use; p 120
Ayahuasca has many native names: Caapi, Dapa, Mihi, Kahi, Natema, Pinde, Yaje. The drink, employed for prophecy, divination, sorcery, and medical purposes, is so deeply rooted in native mythology and philosophy that there can be no doubt of its great age as a part of aboriginal life. Two closely related species of the malpighiaceous genus Banisteriopsis - B. caapi and B. inebrians - are the most important plants used in preparing Ayahuasca. But other species are apparently used locally on occasion: B. quitensis; Mascagnia glandulifera, M. psilophylla var. antifebrilis; Tetrapteris methystica and T. mucronata. All of these plants are large forest lianas of the same family. Banisteriopsis caapi and B. inebrians are frequently cultivated in order to have a supply close at hand for use. Many plants of diverse families are often added to the basic drink to alter the intoxicating effects. The most commonly used admixtures are leaves of B. rusbyana and of the rubiaceous Psychotria carthaginensis or P. viridis. Other known psychoactive plants, such as Brugmansia suavolens, Brunfelsia chiricaspi, and B. grandiflora, may also be added. Among the many other plants employed are Tobacco; Malounetia tamaquarina and a species of Tabernaemontana of the Apocynaceae; the acanthaceous Teliostachya lanceolata var. crispa or Toe Negra; Calathea veitchiana of the Maranthaceae; the amaranthaceous Alternaria lehmannii and a species of Iresine; several ferns including Lygodium venustum and Lomariopsis japurensis; Phryglanthus eugenoides of the Mistletoe family; the mint Ocimium micranthum; a species of the sedge genus Cyperus; several cacti including species of Opuntia and Epiphylum; and a member of the genus Clusia of the Guttiferae.

SCHULTES R E; HOFMANN A
The Chemistry of Ayahuasca
Plants of the Gods: Origins of hallucinogenic use; p 123
In the belief that they were new discoveries, the first alkaloids isolated from Banisteriopsis were called telepathine and banisterine. Further chemical investigations revealed that these preparations were identical with the alkaloid harmine, previously isolated from Syrian Rue, Peganum harmala. Furthermore, the secondary alkaloids of Peganum, harmaline and tetryhydroharmine, also occur in Banisteriopsis. The active principles are indole alkaloids found in several other halluconogenic plants.

SCHULTES, RICHARD EVANS; HOFMANN A
Ayahuasca, Caapi, Yaje
Plants of The Gods: Origins of hallucinogenic use. (1979) p 66
COMMON NAME: Ayahuasca, Caapi, Yaje'. BOTANICAL NAME: Banisteriopsis caapi, B. inebrians, B. rusbyana. USAGE HISTORY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: Used in the western half of the Amazon Valley and by isolated tribes on the Pacific Slopes of the Colombian and Ecuadorian Andes. USAGE CONTEXT AND PURPOSE: Usually drunk in religious ceremonies. In the famous Tukanoan Yurupari ceremony in Colombia - an adolescent initiation for boys. The Jivaro believe that Ayahuasca makes possible communication with ancestors and that, under its influence, a man's soul may leave the body and wander free. PREPARATION: The bark, prepared in cold or boiling water, may be taken alone or with additives - especially the leaves of B. rusbyana and of Psychotria viridis - which alter the effects. The bark can also be chewed. Recent evidence from the northwestern Amazon suggests that the plants are also used in the form of snuff. CHEMICAL COMPONENTS AND EFFECTS: The hallucinogenic activity is primarily due to harmine, the major beta-carboline alkaloid in the plants. Effects of taking the bitter and nauseating drink range from pleasant intoxication with no hangover to violent reactions with sickening after-effects. Usually, visual hallucinations in color occur. The intoxication ends with a deep sleep and dreams.

The Four Winds: A Shaman's Odyssey into the Amazon. Alberto Villoldo and Erik Jendressen. Harper & Row Publishers. San Francisco. 1990. 265 pages. velobound in "Ayahuasca Shamanism Anthology". [box v2]

The Marriage of the Sun and the Moon: A Quest for Unity in Consciousness. Andrew Weil. Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston. 1980. 289 pages. paperback. $6.95. Discusses datura, ayahuasca, mushrooms, marijuana, etc. [box 1m]

The World of the Visionary Vine: A Cultural Analysis of Yaje Experiences of the Tukano Indians of the Columbian Upper Amazon. Scott M. O'Hearn. B.A. Thesis of Religion- Dept. of Religion. Princeton University. 1990. 110 pages. ( research drawn from previously published sources) photocopy velobound in MDMA Anthology. [box v4] photocopy velobound in Ayahuasca Shamanism Anthology volume two. [box v4]

Vegetalismo: Shamanism Among the Mestizo Population of the Peruvian Amazon. Luis Eduardo Luna. Stockholm Studies in Comparative Religion #27. ACTA Universitatis Stockholmiensis. Almqvist & Wiksell International. Stockholm. 1986. 200 pages, plus 15 pages of close-up copies of photos. velobound in Ayahuasca Shamanism Anthology. [box v2]