- Das Gesundheitswissen der Alten
Dr. Walter Andritzky

Therapeutischer Gebrauch von Halluzinogenen:

- Seelische Reifung: Meditation und Arbeit mit Entheogenen - Anonymus 2000

- Psychedelische LSD-Psychotherapie: Grofs Topographie des Unbewussten
Silvio Rohde 1995

Rituale:

- Aspekte rituellen Verhaltens am Beispiel eines Heilrituals des brasilianischen Santo Daime Kults.
Silvio Rohde 1997

Religionen:

- Synkretistische Neureligionen in Brasilien: Typen, Ursprünge und eine Skizze der Forschungsgeschichte zum Phänomen der Geist-besessenheit.
Silvio Rohde 2000

- Die Lehre des Buddha
Silvio Rohde 1997

Erfahrungsberichte:

- Santo Daime in Rio Branco.
Louisa Ackermann 2000

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The Psychedelics and Religion - Walter Houston Clark

Zum Begriff des "Entheogens" - CSP

Human Psychopharmacology of Hoasca, A Plant Hallucinogen Used in Ritual Context in Brazil- Charles S. Grob, M.D., Dennis J. Mckenna, Ph.D., James C. Callaway, Ph.D., u.a.
 "A multinational, collaborative, biomedical investigation of the effects of hoasca (ayahuasca), a potent concoction of plant hallucinogens, was conducted in the Brazilian Amazon during the summer of 1993. This report describes the psychological assessment of 15 long-term members of a syncretic church that utilizes hoasca as a legal, psychoactive sacrament as well as 15 matched controls with no prior history of hoasca ingestion. Measures administered to both groups included structured psychiatric diagnostic interviews, personality testing, and neuropsychological evaluation. Phenomenological assessment of the altered state experience as well as semistructured and open-ended life story interviews were conducted with the long-term use hoasca group, but not the hoasca-naive control group. Salient findings included the remission of psychopathology following the initiation of hoasca use along with no evidence of personality or cognitive deterioration. Overall assessment revealed high functional status. Implications of this unusual phenomenon and need for further investigation are discussed."

Ayahuasca in the Santo Daime Religion - Rex Beynon -

Magic to Miracles: Curanderismo - Mestizo Ayahuasca - Alan Shoemaker -

Climbing the Vine of Souls- Steve Mizrach

The Santo Daime- Steve Mizrach
"In this paper, the reader will be introduced to the sect of Santo Daime, a Brazilian religion which combines Christianity with the indigenous practice of using ayahuasca, a native entheogenic plant. This group should be of interest to ethnobotany because they represent a clear case where indigenous religious uses of a psychotropic plant were transferred wholesale to another (mestizo) culture through contact and exchange. The author will use Santo Daime as a case to explore the critical role human-plant relationships may have played in the formation of religious awareness."

Might the Gods be Alkaloids? - Alex Polari de Alverga - "

Santo Daime - Urban Communities - José Murilo C. Carvalho Jr.

Ayahuasca & It's Mechanisms of Healing-   Marlene Dobkin de Rios -

The Ritual Use of Hoasca: Comments and Advice - Francisco Assis de Souza Lima, M.D. -

"The legalization of hoasca (Ayahuasca) for use in religious rituals in Brazil represents a decisive step towards the attainment of religious freedom by the communities which make use of the tea. Brazilian authorities had questioned the tea's psychedelic properties some years ago. This resulted in a temporary prohibition of the use of the tea. There has been a revitalization of religious values, a trend which can be observed through the world with the revival of mystic, healing traditions. Within the new scientific paradigm, there is a growing interest in consciousness-expanding vehicles and their undeniable contribution to the development of humankind's spiritual healing."

The Re-Unification of the Sacred and the Natural - Ralph Metzner -
"I summarize my thesis in two statements: 1) the relentless exploitation and destruction of the biosphere by the capitalist-industrial growth machine around the globe is rooted in a pathological domination complex of "civilized" humans toward the natural world. And 2) the revival of interest in animistic worldviews and in the shamanic practices of traditional peoples, including the intentional use of hallucinogenic sacraments, is among the hopeful signs that the split between the sacred and the natural can be healed again."

Santo Daime - Nicholas Saunders
Can drugs bring you spiritual enlightenment? The people in this church believe they can. Their religion, Santo Daime, already has churched across Europe, and now it's coming to Britain. Nicholas Saunders takes communion...

Pharmacratic Inquisition

Are psychedelics useful in the practice of Buddhism?- Myron J. Stolaroff
 - "In the fall of 1996 issue of the Buddhist magazine Tricycle, various teachers of Buddhist meditation practice commented on the value of psychedelic experiences, with opinions of them ranging from helpful to harmful. Here, the author hopes to explain these conflicting viewpoints by describing important aspects of employing psychedelics that must be taken into account for effective results."