The Amsterdam Psychedelic Research Association presents: "Ayahuasca Month", a series of online academic lectures on Ayahuasca, presented by interdisciplinary researchers.
In these talks we explore ayahuasca use and healing from the perspectives of experts in psychiatry, neuroscience, bioethics and anthropology and the potential collaborations and dialogues that may contribute to developing ethical research and high quality clinical practices with Ayahuasca. After providing insights and concerns from their respective fields, experts are invited to explore how their different perspectives may inform or complement each other’s work.
This talk by Luis Eduardo Luna (PhD) is titled "Ayahuasca as a Plant Teacher: Epistemological Considerations” and took place on Wednesday September 8th, 2021, 19pm CEST.
Abstract:
"While doing fieldwork in the early 1980’s among mestizo vegetalistas of the Peruvian Amazon, Don Emilio Andrade Gómez, who lived about twelve kilometers from Iquitos, told me that ayahuasca is a doctor, and so are other plants, some used as ayahuasca additives, such as toé (Brugmansia suaveolens), tobacco, or bobinzana (Calliandra angustifolia), but also many other plants, which he said have strong dueños, o madres. These ideas were confirmed by other practitioners of the area. As a result, I made a film Don Emilio y sus Doctorcitos (1981), and wrote a paper “The Concept of Plants as Teachers Among Four Mestizo Shamans of Iquitos, Northeast Peru” (Journal of Ethnopharmacology 11:135-156, 1984). I encountered later similar ideas in the Sibundoy Valley in Colombia among the Ingano and Kamsá, and other researchers found confirmation among indigenous as well as mestizo practitioners all over the Upper Amazon. My intention here is dive into in what sense ayahuasca and these plants may be considered teachers, the radical epistemology implicit in the idea of identification or transformation into animals or other beings, and the assumptions of such ideas in terms of inter-subjectivity relationships between human and non-human persons."
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