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By Benny Shanon

This can be a pioneering cognitive mental examine of Ayahuasca, a plant-based Amazonian psychotropic brew. Benny Shanon offers a finished charting of some of the aspects of the distinctive frame of mind precipitated through Ayahuasca, and analyzes them from a cognitive mental viewpoint. He additionally offers a few philosophical reflections. Empirically, the examine provided during this booklet is predicated at the systematic recording of the author's huge stories with the brew and at the interviewing of a giant variety of informants: indigenous humans, shamans, contributors of other non secular sects utilizing Ayahuasca, and visitors. as well as its being the main thorough research of the Ayahuasca adventure up to now, the ebook lays the theoretical foundations for the mental research of non-ordinary states of attention as a rule.

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