AYAHUASCA: The Mother Of All The Plants And The Voice Of Pachamama – Hardcover Edition

Description

Based on close to four decades of study, Ayahuasca: The Mother Of All The Plants And The Voice Of Pachamama is a comprehensive guide to the history and use of Ayahuasca from its murky mythological origins up to present day. Beginning with a sampling of prehistoric myths, this book chronicles the first western explorers who came in contact with this magical and controversial plant brew followed by the history and evolution of the first organized religions that have embraced it as a sacrament, and how they have spread throughout the United States and the rest of the world.

This in-depth analysis of Ayahuasca and its companion “teacher plants” also covers the history and present day legalities of this revered plant medicine and the landmark Supreme Court case that made it legal in the United States.

Additionally the text includes an analysis of Ayahuasca’s psychoactive components, its physiological effects, a section on safe practices, dietary restrictions, contraindications, and advice on integrating the life changing experiences that this mythical plant brew engenders.

Lots of Ayahuasca books out there. Mostly personal adventure tales. Good ones, fun to read.

If you want to understand Ayahuasca, its centuries old indigenous use and how it is being taken worldwide, there are a few.

     If you want to truly understand Ayahuasca origins and expansion, and be introduced to other plants that are part of decades long ayahuasquero

training, this is the only book that presents detailed botanical knowledge and profoundly personal descriptions of each one’s effect taken in a strict dieta as part of a serious plant retreat.

      These other plants are rarely even mentioned in non-indigenous Ayahuasca circles run by well-meaning, but often only lightly trained Westerners, and passed over entirely by the fly-in, three-doses-in-a-week and fly out more committed Ayahuasca seekers.

      Over the past several decades Matthew has worked closely with ayahuasca masters , and learned to work with additional plants, each one taken intensively, coupled with a very sparse diet for up to several weeks under the guidance of an Ayahuasca teacher trained in the use of that particular plant as well.

     Ayahuasca is valued for its therapeutic purging and its capacity to open visionary realms that expand your knowledge of the full extent of yourself. Here is the next level of learning,  a book that explores the family of healing and visionary plants valued indigenously for their specific curative effects, as well as the curative effects of Ayahuasca itself.

James Fadiman PhD author of The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide

This book offers a profound and honest exploration of the transformative power of Ayahuasca. Through a blend of personal experience and deep research, Matthew Pallamary illuminates the interactions of consciousness and healing. Anyone seeking insight into shamanic practices or self-discovery will find this work both illuminating and inspiring.

Stanley Krippner, PhD – Research Professor, California Institute for Human Science

Matthew Pallamary is an incarnation of a reasonable-Castaneda explorer of the barely effable on our horizons of perception!

David Brin — Hugo and Nebula Award-Winning author of The Postman