Review of the 'Ayahuasca Reader'

Originally published in 2000 'Ayahuasca Reader -- Encounters with the Amazon's sacred vine' is one of the finest selections of psychedelic literature currently available on the market. Edited by Luis Eduardo Luna and Steven F. White, the reader manages to skilfully portray the ayahuasca experience in all its many dimensions.

Popular interest in ayahuasca has blossomed over the last twenty years, however, research, writing and oral poetry on the topic dates from a far earlier period of time. This reader brings those threads together in a manner that beautifully caters for the new position ayahuasca finds itself in: "The general objective of this anthology is to provide the reader with a panorama of texts from nearly a dozen languages that, collectively, treat the ayahuasca experience from what might be called an "anthropoliterary" perspective." The originality of this method immediately lends itself to an exciting literary prospect...