Jeremy Narby

Jeremy Narby, Phd., is an anthropologist and author. While doing work cataloging indigenous uses of rainforest resources to help combat ecological destruction, he asked one of his guides how they knew so much about the plants around them. Narby was informed that the plants themselves tell people how to use them, particularly through the drinking of ayahuasca, an indigenous hallucinogen Image File history File linksMetadata Photo_Narby1. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Photo_Narby1. ... See Anthropology. ... The term indigenous peoples has no universal, standard or fixed definition. ... The Daintree Rainforest in Queensland, Australia. ... The widely used Quechua name ayahuasca has two highly interrelated yet distinct meanings and referents: 1) an Amazonian giant vine native to the rainforest containing various harmala alkaloids, generally Banisteriopsis caapi, and, by extension, 2) pharmacologically complex infusions prepared from it for shamanic, folk-medicinal, and religious purposes. ... Certain drugs can affect the subjective qualities of perception, thought or emotion, resulting in altered interpretations of sensory input, alternate states of consciousness, or hallucinations. ...

Since then, Narby has written three books, as well as sponsored an expedition to the rainforest for biologists and other scientists to examine indigenous knowledge systems and the utility of Ayahuasca in gaining knowledge. Since 1989 he has been working for Nouvelle Planète and has spent several years living with the Ashaninca in the Peruvian Amazon. The widely used Quechua name ayahuasca has two highly interrelated yet distinct meanings and referents: 1) an Amazonian giant vine native to the rainforest containing various harmala alkaloids, generally Banisteriopsis caapi, and, by extension, 2) pharmacologically complex infusions prepared from it for shamanic, folk-medicinal, and religious purposes. ... Nouvelle Planète is a non-profit organization founded on Albert Schweitzer’s examples, ideas and ethics; it is strictly neutral in religion and politics, and works to support small practical projects in countries in the southern hemisphere, setting up direct relations between people in the North and the South... A river in the Amazon rainforest The Amazon Rainforest is a term widely used to describe the moist broadleaf forests of the Amazon Basin. ...

See also

• Shamanism
• Ayahuasca

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Books

• The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge (1998) ISBN 0874779111
• Shamans Through Time: 500 Years on the Path to Knowledge (2001) edited by Narby and Francis Huxley ISBN 1585420913
• Intelligence in Nature (2005) ISBN 1585423998