ANT 4461 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Banisteriopsis Caapi, Psychotria Viridis, Peganum Harmala
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Ayahusaca: vine of the soul: ayahuasca is really two species takin in conjunction by the indigenous peoples of the. But dmt is normally not orally active as it doesn"t cross the blood-brain barrier. The vine, though, contains mao inhibitors which enable the. Indeed, the climbing vine of caapi is linked to the milky road in the sky: the belief that the milky way (the band of our galaxy we see in the sky) is the. She is the central figure of the religion, a syncretism of the virgin mary with indian deities. She told him that his mission was to save the dying rainforest: queen of the forest, rainmundo irineu serra, an afro-brazilian rubber tapper, first drank ayahuasca in the 1920s. William burroughs in the 1950s: the yage letters is a 1953 novelization of letters burroughs wrote to fellow beat. Allen ginsberg about his experiments with yaje in the amazon, where he called it.
