Handbook of entheogenic healing

"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"-- Provided by publisher Wixárika Mara'akate : healing with the powers of peyote / Stacy B. Schaefer -- Contemporary uses of psychoactive mushrooms in the Mazatec highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico : diversity, knowledge and healing / Jesús M. González Mariscal and Genaro Guizasola Martínez -- Healing of the thunderbolt and Nahua entheogenic medicine (Psilocybe aztecorum and Tagetes lucida) / Osiris Sinuhé González Romero and María del Carmen Macuil García -- Virgin seed (Turbina corymbosa and Ipomoea tricolor) among Mixtec, Nahuas and Mazatec of Guerrero, Oaxaca and Puebla (Mexico) / Antonella Fagetti -- The sacred plant of Santa Rosa, nurse of the world : narratives of Otomí emotions from the Sierra Norte of Puebla / Jorgelina Reinoso Niche -- Entheogenic healing among the Kamëntsá Biyá : an intercultural dialogue between tradition and the post-modern world / Alejandro Marín Valencia and Luis Fernando Agreda Muchavisoy -- Merayabo : the entheogenic knowledge of the Shipibo-Konibo Nation / Pedro Favaron and Chonon Bensho -- Vegetalista healing traditions of the Peruvian Amazon / Evgenia Fotiou -- Santo Daime ethnopsychiatry : psychotherapy & spiritual care implications of a global ayahuasca healing tradition from Amazonia / Marc G. Blainey -- Plants of God? The healing process with entheogenic plants in the Arca da Montanha Azul / Frederico Romanoff and Philippe Bandeira de Mello -- The San Pedro cactus (Equinopsis pachanoi) : symbolic axis of ancestral medical knowledge in Peru / Alfredo Narváez and Fanny Charrasse -- Healing in the Native American Church : ritual psychopharmacology and therapeutic narrative / Joseph D. Calabrese -- Entheogenic healing in Rastafari : decolonization through cannabis, consciousness, and collective ritual / Anna Waldstein and Cutler Cannon -- Treating childhood trauma through psilocybin / Bénédicte Mannix, F. LeRon Shults and Michael J. Winkelman -- 5-MeO-DMT : a controversial part of a contemporary psychedelic scene / Rita Kočárová, Luisa Procházková and Michaela Plevková -- Kambo as entheogenic therapy: processes of physiological, symbolic, and transpersonal healing / Michael J. Winkelman and Jan M. Keppel Hesselink -- From "poison" to sacrament : spiritual and therapeutic use of Amanita muscaria in the 21st Century / Kevin Feeney and Tristan T. Kallweit -- Mama cannabis and the embodied feminine : an ancient psychedelic for modern times / Bonnie Glass-Coffin and Saundra Shanti -- Ibogaine as a tool in the process of overcoming drug addiction / Bruno Ramos Gomes and Bruno Rasmussen Chaves -- Treating war trauma with ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMT / Martin Polanco and Michelle "Mia" Black -- Ayahuasca ritual and spiritual practices for substance abuse rehabilitation : the Takiwasi model and experience / Jacques Mabit, Fabio Friso and Matteo Politi -- The evolved psychology of entheogenic healing / Michael J. Winkelman -- Conclusions. Comparisons of contemporary entheogenic healing / Michael J. Winkelman