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Ritualistic uses of ayahuasca in Alagoas, "listening to the heart of things."


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Abstract

This is about addressing the ethnographic film “listening to the Heart of Things”, which is one of the research products financed by the NPq (2009-2011) “I live in the forest learning to cure me”, which has proposed to achieve visual ethnography on ritualistic uses of ayhauasca in Alagoas. In this research, audiovisual and photographic records are being recorded, particularly in contexts of ayahuasquisa religions such as Saint Daime, Divine Essence/CHIED and Plant Union. From visual records during a workshop where the Swiss psychiatrist Samuel Widmer requests Master Andre (head of the Inner Harmonization Centre Divine/CHIED Essence in Alagoas) to perform a ritual, this ethnographic film was edited considering different views on shamanistic experiences experienced by participants through the use of ayahuasca. Thus, there is an approach to urban shamanism practices when Indians (Wassu), Swiss and Brazilian people participate in this ritual that Master André conducts.