Handbook of Entheogenic Healing

Michael J. Winkelman, M.P.H, Ph.D. (1985), is an anthropologist retired from the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. He has engaged in cross-cultural and interdisciplinary research on shamanism, psychedelics, and the alteration of consciousness for 40 years. He is the author of Shamanism: A Biopsychosocial Paradigm of Consciousness and Healing (2nd ed., 2010) and co-editor of Advances in Psychedelic Medicine (2019) and The Supernatural after the Neuroturn (2019). Contributors are: Michael J. Winkelman, Stanley Krippner, Jacques Mabit, Stacy Schaefer, Joseph Calabrese, Kevin Feeney, Bonnie Glass-Coffin, Anna Waldstein, Marc Blainey, Jesús M. González Mariscal, Osiris Sinuhé González Romero, Antonella Fagetti, Pedro Favaron, Evgenia Fotiou, Jorgelina Reinoso, Alejandro Marin Valencia, Jan M. Keppel Hesselink, F. LeRon Shults, Bruno Gomes, Bruno Rasmussen, Luis Fernando Agreda Muchavisoy, Genaro Guizasola Martínez, Philippe Bandeira de Mello, Chonon Bensho, María del Carmen Macuil García, Frederico Romanoff, Alfredo Narváez, Fanny Charrasse, Cutler Cannon, Bénédicte Mannix, Rita Kocarova, Luisa Procházková, Michaela Plevková, Tristan Kallweit, Saundra Shanti, Martin Polanco, Mia Black, Fabio Friso, Matteo Politi.

• ContentsForewordStanley KrippnerPrefaceMichael J. WinkelmanAcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroductionMichael J. WinkelmanPart 1: Traditional Entheogenic Practices1 Wixárika Mara’akate: Healing with the Powers of PeyoteStacy B. Schaefer2 Contemporary Uses of Psychoactive Mushrooms in the Mazatec Highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico: Diversity, Knowledge and HealingJesús M. González Mariscal and Genaro Guizasola Martínez3 Healing of the Thunderbolt and Nahua Entheogenic Medicine (Psilocybe aztecorum and Tagetes lucida)Osiris Sinuhé González Romero and María del Carmen Macuil García4 Virgin Seed (Turbina Corymbosa and Ipomoea Tricolor) among Mixtec, Nahuas and Mazatec of Guerrero, Oaxaca and Puebla (Mexico)Antonella Fagetti5 The Sacred Plant of Santa Rosa, Nurse of the World: Narratives of Otomí Emotions from the Sierra Norte of PueblaJorgelina Reinoso Niche6 Entheogenic Healing among the Kamëntsá Biyá: an Intercultural Dialogue between Tradition and the Post-modern WorldAlejandro Marín Valencia and Luis Fernando Agreda Muchavisoy7 Merayabo: the Entheogenic Knowledge of the Shipibo-Konibo NationPedro Favaron and Chonon BenshoPart 2: Modern Entheogenic Healing8 Vegetalista Healing Traditions of the Peruvian AmazonEvgenia Fotiou9 Santo Daime Ethnopsychiatry: Psychotherapy & Spiritual Care Implications of a Global Ayahuasca Healing Tradition from AmazoniaMarc G. Blainey10 Plants of God?The Healing Process with Entheogenic Plants in the Arca da Montanha AzulFrederico Romanoff and Philippe Bandeira de Mello11 The San Pedro Cactus (Equinopsis pachanoi): Symbolic Axis of Ancestral Medical Knowledge in PeruAlfredo Narváez and Fanny Charrasse12 Healing in the Native American Church: Ritual Psychopharmacology and Therapeutic NarrativeJoseph D. Calabrese13 Entheogenic Healing in Rastafari: Decolonization through Cannabis, Consciousness, and Collective RitualAnna Waldstein and Cutler CannonPart 3: Post-Modern Entheogenic Medicine14 Treating Childhood Trauma through PsilocybinBénédicte Mannix, F. LeRon Shults and Michael J. Winkelman15 5-MeO-DMT: a Controversial Part of a Contemporary Psychedelic SceneRita Kočárová, Luisa Procházková and Michaela Plevková16 Kambo as Entheogenic Therapy: Processes of Physiological, Symbolic, and Transpersonal HealingMichael J. Winkelman and Jan M. Keppel Hesselink17 From “Poison” to Sacrament: Spiritual and Therapeutic Use of Amanita muscaria in the 21st CenturyKevin Feeney and Tristan T. Kallweit18 Mama Cannabis and the Embodied Feminine: an Ancient Psychedelic for Modern TimesBonnie Glass-Coffin and Saundra ShantiPart 4: Medical Healing with Entheogens19 Ibogaine as a Tool in the Process of Overcoming Drug AddictionBruno Ramos Gomes and Bruno Rasmussen Chaves20 Treating War Trauma with Ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMTMartin Polanco and Michelle “Mia” Black21 Ayahuasca Ritual and Spiritual Practices for Substance Abuse Rehabilitation: the Takiwasi Model and ExperienceJacques Mabit, Fabio Friso and Matteo PolitiPart 5: The Evolutionary Psychology of Entheogenic Healing22 The Evolved Psychology of Entheogenic HealingMichael J. WinkelmanConclusions: Comparisons of Contemporary Entheogenic HealingMichael J. WinkelmanIndex