Luis Eduardo Luna – författare

The Ayahuasca Reader: Encounters with the Amazon’s Sacred Vine, is a panorama of texts translated from nearly a dozen languages on the ayahuasca experience. These include indigenous mythic narratives, testimonies, and religious hymns, as well as stories related by Western travelers, scientists, and writers who have had contact with ayahuasca in different contexts.

In addition to contributions from Wade Davis, Dennis McKenna, Gerardo Reichel-Dolmotoff and Richard Spruce, the new edition includes essays from Graham Hancock, Alex Grey, Jeremy Narby, Susana Bustos, and a section on Ayahuasca art. The Ayahuasca Reader remains the most comprehensive collection of authoritative writings on the subject ever published. An essential reference for anthropology, ethnobotany and Latin American literature studies, it will be of intense interest to students of Amazonian indigenous culture, Native American spirituality, and metaphysical studies.

An investigation into experiences of other realms of existence and contact with otherworldly beings • Examines how contact with alien life-forms can be obtained through the “inner space” dimensions of our minds • Presents evidence that other worlds experienced through consciousness-altering technologies are often as real as those perceived with our five senses • Correlates science fiction’s imaginal realms with psychedelic research For thousands of years, voyagers of inner space--spiritual seekers, shamans, and psychoactive drug users--have returned from their inner imaginal travels reporting encounters with alien intelligences. Inner Paths to Outer Space presents an innovative examination of how we can reach these other dimensions of existence and contact otherworldly beings. Based on their more than 60 combined years of research into the function of the brain, the authors reveal how psychoactive substances such as DMT allow the brain to bypass our five basic senses to unlock a multidimensional realm of existence where otherworldly communication occurs. They contend that our centuries-old search for alien life-forms has been misdirected and that the alien worlds reflected in visionary science fiction actually mirror the inner space world of our minds. The authors show that these “alien” worlds encountered through altered states of human awareness, either through the use of psychedelics or other methods, possess a sense of reality as great as, or greater than, those of the ordinary awareness perceived by our five senses.

Under tusentals år har resenärer i den inre rymden – andliga sökare, schamaner och användare av psykoaktiva droger – återvänt från sina inre resor med rapporter om möten med främmande intelligenser. Inre vägar till yttre rymden presenterar en innovativ undersökning av hur vi kan nå dessa andra existensdimensioner och kontakta varelser från andra världar.

Grundad på deras mer än 60 års sammanlagda forskning kring hjärnans funktion, avslöjar författarna hur psykoaktiva substanser som till exempel dmt gör det möjligt för hjärnan att kringgå våra fem grundläggande sinnen för att öppna en multidimensionell existensvärld där överjordisk kommunikation sker. De hävdar att vårt sökande sedan sekler tillbaka efter främmande livsformer har varit missriktat, och att de främmande världar som avspeglas i visionär science fiction i själva verket speglar vårt sinnes inre rymdvärld.

Författarna visar att de ”främmande” världar som påträffas till följd av förändrade medvetandetillstånd hos människor, antingen genom användning av psykedelika eller genom andra metoder, äger en verklighetskänsla som är lika stor som, eller större än, den värld som det vardagliga medvetandet uppfattar med våra fem sinnen.

This book is a panorama of texts translated from nearly a dozen languages on the ayahuasca experience, including indigenous mythic narratives and testimonies, religious hymns, as well as stories related by western travellers, scientists and writers who have had contact with ayahuasca in different contexts. In addition to contributions from Wade Davis, Dennis McKenna and Richard Spruce, this new edition includes essays from Graham Hancock, Jeremy Narby, Susana Bustos, Michael Winkelman and a new section on ayahuasca art. This backlist classic, also, includes contributions from leaders of the global ayahuasca movement, making this the most up-to-date collection of authoritative writings on the subject ever published, an essential reference for anthropology, ethnobotany and Latin American literature studies.