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Liquid light : Ayahuasca spirituality and the Santo Daime tradition / G. William Barnard.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2022]Copyright date: �2022Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 364 pages) illustrations, mapContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780231546720
  • 0231546726
Other title:
  • Ayahuasca spirituality and the Santo Daime tradition
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Liquid lightDDC classification:
  • 299/.93 23/eng/20211116
LOC classification:
  • BL2592.S25 B37 2022eb
  • BL2592.S25
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- 1. First encounter with the Daime -- 2. Initial philosophical reflections -- 3. Next steps on the path -- 4. C�eu do Mapi�a : Beginnings -- 5. Feitio : The ritual of making the Daime -- 6. Early works in C�eu do Mapi�a -- 7. Mira�c�oes : Visionary/mystical experiences in the Santo Daime -- 8. Mediumship in the Santo Daime -- 9. The holy house in C�eu do Mapi�a : Rosary works -- 10. Final days in C�eu do Mapi�a -- 11. Post-Mapi�a ponderings : Divinization.
Summary: "In the last few years there has been a resurgence of interest in psychedelics across a number of fields from anthropology to religion, psychology, philosophy, and neuroscience. Whereas most recent publications have either stressed the potential therapeutic benefits of these powerful mind-altering substances or offered anthropological analyses of how these substances are utilized in different cultural contexts, Liquid Light takes a different approach. Using as a case study the Santo Daime community in Brazil, which practices a religion based on the sacramental use of ayahuasca, a psychedelic brew. Barnard gives readers a vivid, introspectively sophisticated depiction of the dramatic ritual and visionary worlds that appear in the life of a practitioner of this tradition--himself--arguing that careful examination of entheogenic religions, understood not only historically and culturally but also, as it were, "from within," can provide a rich empirical basis for sustained reflection on what psychedelics more generally can tell us about a wide range of key philosophical questions concerning the nature of consciousness, selfhood, and reality"-- Provided by publisher
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Introduction -- 1. First encounter with the Daime -- 2. Initial philosophical reflections -- 3. Next steps on the path -- 4. C�eu do Mapi�a : Beginnings -- 5. Feitio : The ritual of making the Daime -- 6. Early works in C�eu do Mapi�a -- 7. Mira�c�oes : Visionary/mystical experiences in the Santo Daime -- 8. Mediumship in the Santo Daime -- 9. The holy house in C�eu do Mapi�a : Rosary works -- 10. Final days in C�eu do Mapi�a -- 11. Post-Mapi�a ponderings : Divinization.

"In the last few years there has been a resurgence of interest in psychedelics across a number of fields from anthropology to religion, psychology, philosophy, and neuroscience. Whereas most recent publications have either stressed the potential therapeutic benefits of these powerful mind-altering substances or offered anthropological analyses of how these substances are utilized in different cultural contexts, Liquid Light takes a different approach. Using as a case study the Santo Daime community in Brazil, which practices a religion based on the sacramental use of ayahuasca, a psychedelic brew. Barnard gives readers a vivid, introspectively sophisticated depiction of the dramatic ritual and visionary worlds that appear in the life of a practitioner of this tradition--himself--arguing that careful examination of entheogenic religions, understood not only historically and culturally but also, as it were, "from within," can provide a rich empirical basis for sustained reflection on what psychedelics more generally can tell us about a wide range of key philosophical questions concerning the nature of consciousness, selfhood, and reality"-- Provided by publisher

G. William Barnard is a professor of religious studies at Southern Methodist University.

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