Interview with Guillermo Arrévalo, a Shipibo Urban Shaman, by Roger Rumrrill
| Autor: | Marlene Dobkin de Rios |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Psychoactive Drugs. 37:203-207 |
| ISSN: | 2159-9777 0279-1072 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/02791072.2005.10399802 |
| Popis: | Roger Rumrrill, a journalist headquartered in Lima, Peru who is a noted expert on the Peruvian Amazon, interviewed Guillermo Arrevalo, a Shipibo urban shaman in Pucallpa, who utilizes ayahuasca in curing rituals. Sr. Arrevalo comments on the phenomenon known as drug tourism, where urban men and women provide tours for foreigners, for a price, to experience drug-induced mystical experiences in urban settings like lquitos and Pucallpa, Peru, as well as in Brazil, Bolivia and Ecuador. Arrevalo distinguishes between folkloric shamanism and touristic practices which are currently in vogue and, in his opinion, are the result of people trying to resolve personal problems. Arrevalo sees a spiritual and psychological crisis in Europe and North American society. The Shipibo shaman laments the misuse of toxic plants as additives to the ayahuasca potion and the damage that these plants cause to the unsuspecting tourist who doesn't really get his money's worth from shamans without experience, people who are l... |
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