- Description
- 1 online resource (xiv, 364 pages) : illustrations.
- Summary
- "In the last few years there has been a resurgence of interest in psychedelics across a number of fields from anthropology to religion, psychology, philosophy, and neuroscience. Whereas most recent publications have either stressed the potential therapeutic benefits of these powerful mind-altering substances or offered anthropological analyses of how these substances are utilized in different cultural contexts, Liquid Light takes a different approach. Using as a case study the Santo Daime community in Brazil, which practices a religion based on the sacramental use of ayahuasca, a psychedelic brew. Barnard gives readers a vivid, introspectively sophisticated depiction of the dramatic ritual and visionary worlds that appear in the life of a practitioner of this tradition--himself--arguing that careful examination of entheogenic religions, understood not only historically and culturally but also, as it were, "from within," can provide a rich empirical basis for sustained reflection on what psychedelics more generally can tell us about a wide range of key philosophical questions concerning the nature of consciousness, selfhood, and reality"--
- Uniform Title
- Liquid light (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Liquid light (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-351) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- LCCN
- 2021043554
- OCLC
- ssj0002613968
- Author
Barnard, G. William (George William), 1955-
- Title
Liquid light [electronic resource] : Ayahuasca spirituality and the Santo Daime tradition / G. William Barnard.
- Imprint
New York : Columbia University Press, [2022]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-351) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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