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The Ayahuasca and the Apple - Amazonian bitter medicine in contemporary European suburban rituals.

Abstract

This interpretative distinction between the intentions of two authors draws to our attention another distinction, much wider and probably less defined in its respective boundaries, such as that between scientific-academic literature concerning Ayahuasca on the one hand and non-academic literature on the same subject on the other, of which at least one part is made fall within a narrative and novel philosophy generically defined as new-age, a complex of texts generally excluded from scientific discourse, generally devalued by scarcity of rigour and rational detachment.