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.

About the Author

Michael J. Winkelman, M.P.H, Ph.D. (1985), is an anthropologist retired from the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. He has engaged in cross-cultural and interdisciplinary research on shamanism, psychedelics, and the alteration of consciousness for 40 years. He is the author of Shamanism: A Biopsychosocial Paradigm of Consciousness and Healing (2nd ed., 2010) and co-editor of Advances in Psychedelic Medicine (2019) and The Supernatural after the Neuroturn (2019).

Contributors are: Michael J. Winkelman, Stanley Krippner, Jacques Mabit, Stacy Schaefer, Joseph Calabrese, Kevin Feeney, Bonnie Glass-Coffin, Anna Waldstein, Marc Blainey, Jesús M. González Mariscal, Osiris Sinuhé González Romero, Antonella Fagetti, Pedro Favaron, Evgenia Fotiou, Jorgelina Reinoso, Alejandro Marin Valencia, Jan M. Keppel Hesselink, F. LeRon Shults, Bruno Gomes, Bruno Rasmussen, Luis Fernando Agreda Muchavisoy, Genaro Guizasola Martínez, Philippe Bandeira de Mello, Chonon Bensho, María del Carmen Macuil García, Frederico Romanoff, Alfredo Narváez, Fanny Charrasse, Cutler Cannon, Bénédicte Mannix, Rita Kocarova, Luisa Procházková, Michaela Plevková, Tristan Kallweit, Saundra Shanti, Martin Polanco, Mia Black, Fabio Friso, Matteo Politi.