Ayahuasca Is

<p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Ayahuasca Is</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> offers a new Proustian approach to the effects of this plant medicine on the mind. The text has a confessional poetic yet philosophic style with insights on art authenticity Christianity and meaning.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I haven't read anyone that has integrated so much introspection and philosophy into a memoir-type book. The world before the word really shines in that for me. I especially enjoyed her talking about the part when her mother goes swimming in the ocean and she and her brother are sitting on the beach. Also how she goes on a little later and talks about the relationship between an individual and one's attempts to get to authentic objectivity by shattering our locked sense of subjectivity through ayahuasca. Very cool. I read Being and Time by Martin Heidegger and there are a lot of passages about authenticity and individualistic subjectivity. Her writing reminded me a lot of those passages. Authenticity is a big area of interest to me in the world of existential thought. - Alexandra Furtado</span></p><p></p>