Handbook of Entheogenic Healing - (Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion) (Hardcover)

About the Book

Entheogenic Healing describes and analyses twenty contemporary indigenous traditional practices, mestizo adaptations, and recently emerging global traditions, illustrating the ritual and cultural contexts and the commonalities of these psychedelic therapeutic practices as guidelines for enhancing clinical approaches of the Psychedelic Renaissance.

Book Synopsis

Entheogenic Healing describes contemporary psychedelic therapies of indigenous cultures, mestizo adaptations, and emerging global traditions. Analysis of cultural contexts and ritual practices of diverse entheogenic traditions provides an understanding of their individual and common dynamics. A common framework situates the practices in cultural context, describes training of healers, examines preparatory and ritual activities, and analyzes the dynamics of healing. The chapters examine the roles entheogens play in healing, focused on the alterations of consciousness and spirit experiences produced, the forms of illness treated, the nature of the healing processes, and post-session integration practices. Their commonalities provide guidelines for the Psychedelic Renaissance.