The Ali Shungu
Mountaintop Ecolodge
Mountaintop Ecolodge
Otavalo, Ecuador
RECOMMENDED READING
The Way of the Shaman, by Michael Harner, (Bantam). Focuses on
Shamanic practices and beliefs of the Shaur Indians of the Ecuadorian
Amazon.
Hallucinations and Shamanism, edited by Michael Harner, (Oxford Univ.
Press). An excellent compilation of Shamanic practice and Ayahuasca
use.
Wizard of the Upper Amazon, by F. Bruce Lamb, (Houghton Mifflin Co.,
Boston). Account of life among So. Amer. jungle indians who use the
hallucinogenic vine, ayahuasca, for healing.
Rio Tigre and Beyond, by F. Bruce Lamb, (North Atlantic Books,
Berkeley). More about Amazon jungle medicine.
Amazon Beaming, by Petru Popescu, (Penguin). An exploration of
native jungle telepathic way of life.
Healing States, by Alberto Villoldo and Stanley Krippner, (Simon &
Schuster, NY). A journey into the world of spiritual healing and
shamanism.
Visionary Vine, by Marlene Dobkin de Rios, (Waveland Press).
Hallucinogenic healing in the Peruvian Amazon.
Voices from the Amazon, by Binka Le Breton, (Kumarian Press, W.
Hartford, CT). Insight into human and environmental issues of
Amazonia.
True Hallucinations, by Terrence McKenna, (Harper San Francisco).
An account of time spent with Amazon Shamans in pursuit of
hallucinogenic experiences.
Shamanic Voices, by Joan Halifax, Ph.D., (E.P. Dutton, NY). A survey
of worldwide shamanic insights, with a section on South America.
The Yage Letters, by William Burroughs & Allen Ginsberg, (City Lights
Books, San Francisco; probably out of print). A Classic '60s account of
the correspondence of these two greats while visiting a "witch doctor" in
the Colombian Amazon and eating Yage (ayahuasca).
Many of these books can be ordered in the U.S. or bought in Quito at
one of the extensive Libri Mundi Book Stores (Located on Calle Juan
Leon Mera 851 in the new city and with locations in the Hilton Colon
and the Oro Verde Hotels.
In Guayaquil, there is the Libreria Cientifica on Calle Luque 223.
Another place that publishes the best selection of works on the
indigenous people of Ecuador is Abya Yala Press, Ave. 12 of Oct. l430
and Wilson, Tel 562-622 or 506-247. Upstairs is an Amazonic Museum
with real Tsantsas (shrunken heads).
The Abya-Yala Journal of the South and Mero-American Indian Rights
Center (SAIIC), P.O. Box 28703, Oakland, Calif 94604, tel. (510) 834-
4263, email: saiic@igc.apc.org, provides an indigenous perspective on
news and native movements in Latin America. One year of four issues
if $25.
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