Ayagogy: Ayahuasca as a social change agent and learning model

Ayagogy: Ayahuasca as a Social Change Agent and Learning Model explores Westerners increasing use of ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic concoction of Amazon-sourced plants traditionally ingested during spiritual healing ceremonies. While juxtaposing Indigenous values and social systems with Western hegemonic society, Ayagogy builds a framework for curing society s cultural ills with antidotes derived from the experiences of ayahuasca ceremony participants. Ayaygogy includes interviews with world-respected researchers and spiritual leaders, including psychopharmacologist Rick Strassman, African spiritual emissary Sonbonfu Some, Amazonian Shaman Conference founder Alan Shoemaker, indigenous tribal studies expert and social welfare scholar Michael Yellowbird, and Raz Rakam, the experiential journalist who directed the documentary Aya Awakenings.