“Plantas con madre”: Plants that teach and guide in the shamanic initiation process in the East-Central Peruvian Amazon

Jauregui, X.; Clavo, Z.M.; Jovel, Eduardo; Pardo‐de‐Santayana, Manuel

doi:10.1016/j.jep.2011.01.042

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“…Participants often take the literal sense of what they are told, despite logical incongruencies ("trance logic") and engage in "vivid and seemingly real imaginative experiences" (Hilgard, 1970). It is also interesting to compare this experience with that of indigenous healers around the world, who talk of 'plants that teach', often while in altered states of consciousness (Jaureguia et al, 2011).…”

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A hypnosis framing of therapeutic horticulture for mental health rehabilitation.

Stevens¹

2018

The Humanistic Psychologist

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This article shows how hypnosis can provide a useful framework for understanding therapeutic horticulture. Within this framework, data from in-depth interviews with 12 volunteers attending Cherry Tree Nursery—a sheltered work project for people with severe mental illness—provided conceptual groupings of reported experiences: rapport, induction, change in conscious state, relaxation, a safe place, therapeutic change via reframing and symbolic thinking, and confidence boosting. Natural environments and nature-based activities are thus contextualized as spaces and situations within which therapeutic change is more likely to occur. The concept of the restorative environment therefore becomes one component of the overall process—inducing a mental and physical state which is open to change, less egoistic, and socially oriented—but not in itself sufficient to bring about the effects described in the literature. Longer-lasting beneficial effects also require appropriate client-centered guidance, wherein the client creates an internalized environment which endures when they return to their everyday life. The described framework unifies previously disparate therapeutic domains and suggests more focus is needed on ‘induction’ processes, activities appropriate to the client’s mental state, and the settings within which any therapeutic process occurs. Furthermore, cases in which people do not benefit from being in natural environments may indicate incongruencies in concurrent guidance or merit the consideration of a new concept of “nature-susceptibility.”

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A hypnosis framing of therapeutic horticulture for mental health rehabilitation.

Stevens¹

2018

The Humanistic Psychologist

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“… 9 Moreover, governmental healthcare initiatives may be biased toward more easily accessible, urbanized regions, such as Loreto's capital Iquitos (population of 500,000). 2 Non-governmental healthcare provision in the region includes mobile medical boat clinics, 17 traditional medicine and curanderos (traditional healers), 18 , 19 or a collision of both modern and traditional practices. 20 However, there has been minimal research regarding health, health beliefs, and healthcare access of the local communities.…”

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Health, Healthcare Access, and Use of Traditional Versus Modern Medicine in Remote Peruvian Amazon Communities: A Descriptive Study of Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices

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Ramírez²,

Wingfield³

2015

The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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There is an urgent need for healthcare research, funding, and infrastructure in the Peruvian Amazon. We performed a descriptive study of health, health knowledge and practice, and healthcare access of 13 remote communities of the Manatí and Amazon Rivers in northeastern Peru. Eighty-five adults attending a medical boat service were interviewed to collect data on socioeconomic position, health, diagnosed illnesses, pain, healthcare access, and traditional versus modern medicine use. In this setting, poverty and gender inequality were prevalent, and healthcare access was limited by long distances to the health post and long waiting times. There was a high burden of reported pain (mainly head and musculoskeletal) and chronic non-communicable diseases, such as hypertension (19%). Nearly all participants felt that they did not completely understand their diagnosed illnesses and wanted to know more. Participants preferred modern over traditional medicine, predominantly because of mistrust or lack of belief in traditional medicine. Our findings provide novel evidence concerning transitional health beliefs, hidden pain, and chronic non-communicable disease prevalence in marginalized communities of the Peruvian Amazon. Healthcare provision was limited by a breach between health education, knowledge, and access. Additional participatory research with similar rural populations is required to inform regional healthcare policy and decision-making.

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“…La instancia secundaria o sociocultural se encuentra estrechamente ligada con la primaria, pero contempla asimismo todos los elementos que incluyen la ritualización, tales como los efectos sonoros que se articulan en ella y sus consecuencias en la elaboración subjetiva de la experiencia y, por tanto, en la sanación que de ella emana (32) . Lo secundario de entrada tiene que ver con las visiones o la "pinta" -término utilizado en la cultura cofán-, que quizá sea la particularidad más específica de la experiencia del yagé, se le denominan visiones a la información a la que accede el individuo bajo el efecto del yagé, generalmente de forma visual a ojos cerrados, a menudo descritas como fantásticas o fabulosas (33) .…”

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Yagé: Crisis de occidente y trabajo espiritual

2019

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Introducción: Ante la crisis epistemológica y sistémica que se encuentra en la civilización occidental, el yagé emerge como alternativa que invita a una reponderación axiológica profunda. Asimismo, el ritual del yagé evidencia los límites del conocimiento médico moderno, dando pauta al abordaje transdisciplinario. Por otro lado, se presentan consecuencias de inserción en el libre mercado, implicando problemas de lucro a costa de tradiciones originarias. En este contexto, se explora el concepto «trabajo espiritual» como práctica que busca descolocarse del colonialismo mercantil al tiempo que se aleja del modelo médico moderno. Objetivo: Reflexionar la incorporación del ritual de yagé en Occidente y sus posibilidades como alternativa epistemológica y médica. Materiales y Métodos: Revisión de artículos de la base de datos especializados Web of Science, con la palabra clave: “ayahuasca”. Resultados: Se estructuró la información teniendo en cuenta los aspectos relacionados con: (a) el contexto de incorporación del yagé al occidente, (b) los límites del conocimiento médico moderno y (c) los problemas de inserción al libre mercado. Conclusiones: Se apoya el diagnóstico de la ruptura epistemológica con occidente, pero reconociendo el estado inicial de las investigaciones y la falta de evidencias documentadas para entrar en una etapa más fructífera para el debate.

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“Plantas con madre”: Plants that teach and guide in the shamanic initiation process in the East-Central Peruvian Amazon

Cited by 72 publications

References 34 publications

A hypnosis framing of therapeutic horticulture for mental health rehabilitation.

A hypnosis framing of therapeutic horticulture for mental health rehabilitation.

Health, Healthcare Access, and Use of Traditional Versus Modern Medicine in Remote Peruvian Amazon Communities: A Descriptive Study of Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices

Yagé: Crisis de occidente y trabajo espiritual

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