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Authors: Stephan V. Beyer

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Singing to the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon

STEPHAN V. BEYEII

 

A CgUIDE TO MESTIZO SHAMANISM

IN THE UPPER AMAZON

 

 
The plant comes and talks to you, it teaches you to sing.

-DON SOLON TELLO LOZANO

What good do you think my remedies would be if I didn't
sing to them?

-DON MANUEL CORDOVA RIOS

I have become an artist in the music of plants.

-DON JUAN FLORES SALAZAR

 

Acknowledgments
ix

Introduction
xi

PART I

SHAMANIC HEALINCj

CHAPTER 1
Two Healers of the Upper Amazon,
3

CHAPTER 2
The Ayahuasca Ceremony,
16

CHAPTER 3
Shamanic Performance,
25

CHAPTER 4
The Shamanic Landscape,
40

CHAPTER 5
Learning the Plants,
52

CHAPTER 6
Sounds,
63

CHAPTER 7
Phlegm and Darts,
81

CHAPTER 8
Initiation,
89

CHAPTER 9
Sucking and Blowing,
103

CHAPTER 10 Spirits, iio

CHAPTER 11
Protection,
122

CHAPTER 12
Sex,
130

CHAPTER 13
Harming,
132

CHAPTER 14
Healing,
148

CHAPTER 15
Spirit Possession,
158

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