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"Long before ayahuasca tourism became a pastime for rich gringos, Peter Gorman was knocking around Iquitos and the Amazon. He's traveled the rivers and quaffed the brew with the best (and the worst) of them and been way, way beyond the chrysanthemum on many a dark jungle night. This is the intensely personal story of an old-school jungle rat for whom ayahuasca is not just a hobby, but a life-long quest." - Dennis McKenna, Ph.D, co-author of The Invisible Landscape, "Unlike many writing about ayahuasca, Peter Gorman knows this plant and these forests long and well. Explorer, ethnobotanist, writer and raconteur - Gorman is uniquely qualified to tell this incredible tale. A wild mixture of adventure, horror, spirituality, tenderness, and insight, Ayahuasca in My Blood is most highly recommended!" Mark J. Plotkin, Ph.D, author of Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice.
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Peter Gorman has been medicine dreaming with ayahuasca for 25 years. He is also an award-winning investigative journalist who has covered stories from the streets of Manhattan and the slums of New Delhi to Peru's Amazon.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Peter Gorman is both a journalist and an ayahuasca enthusiast of some 25 years standing. This puts him in a strong position to write one of the better books on Ayahuasca. (Mentioning no names but there are quite a few books out there that lack the depth, readability and cultural understanding that Gorman's work has in spades).
My only slight criticism (and it is slight) is that the book does in places come across as a series of trip reports in chapters, I suspect due to the fact that some of these chapters started out life as previously published articles. That said, there are threads that bind it all together.. his relationship with his Peruvian wife and family as well as his main ayahuasca maestro Don Julio feature, plus his own development in healing others and the visions themselves all serve to provide a sense of cohesion and over-arching narrative. Also of interest is the perplexing issue of brujeria in the context of Amazonian curranderismo.
All in all a very readable book thats a great page-turner and a good purchase.
Other books I would recommend would be... (i) The Jaguar that Roams the Mind. (ii) Singing to the Plants. (iii) Wizard of the Upper Amazon. (iv) Yage: Adventures in the New Purgatory. (iv) Ayahuasca Visions.
My only slight criticism (and it is slight) is that the book does in places come across as a series of trip reports in chapters, I suspect due to the fact that some of these chapters started out life as previously published articles. That said, there are threads that bind it all together.. his relationship with his Peruvian wife and family as well as his main ayahuasca maestro Don Julio feature, plus his own development in healing others and the visions themselves all serve to provide a sense of cohesion and over-arching narrative. Also of interest is the perplexing issue of brujeria in the context of Amazonian curranderismo.
All in all a very readable book thats a great page-turner and a good purchase.
Other books I would recommend would be... (i) The Jaguar that Roams the Mind. (ii) Singing to the Plants. (iii) Wizard of the Upper Amazon. (iv) Yage: Adventures in the New Purgatory. (iv) Ayahuasca Visions.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Peter Gorman's book about his time in the amazon is a must read for everyone interested in Shamanism, sacred medicine and soul healing.
His honest, fearless and riveting account of his inner journeys with ayahuasca not only helps to put one's own experiences into context but also gives encouragement to continue one's inner journey.
His work with the people from the amazon is a vital contribution to a world that's lost it's magic and respect for spirit.
Once started I couldn't put this book down......
His honest, fearless and riveting account of his inner journeys with ayahuasca not only helps to put one's own experiences into context but also gives encouragement to continue one's inner journey.
His work with the people from the amazon is a vital contribution to a world that's lost it's magic and respect for spirit.
Once started I couldn't put this book down......
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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful
Real People doing Incredible Things
13 Jun 2010
Format:Paperback
I could not put this book down! Peter Gorman isn't just writing about ayahuasca experiences -- he's telling tales of 25 years of traveling and living in the Amazon. The chapter "Chepa and the Pirates" alone is worth the price of admission. He explains how ayahuasca is used to treat physical ailments as well as psychic ones. One thing is missing from the book: any trace of ego. Quite the contrary, the writer is quite willing to reveal his fear, weakness, uncertainty. This serves him well. I just wish he had 50 years of experience so that he would write a sequel. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the Amazon, native healing, mind-expanding plants. And people who don't care about those things will find a ripping yarn.
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Easy to read, hard to put down
5 Jun 2010
Format:Paperback
This book incorporates some of Gorman's articles for Shaman Drum Magazine with a wealth of new material. It tells the story of his 25-year evolution from tourist to researcher to tour leader to reluctant healer. I didn't think a book about ayahuasca could be such a page turner, but it was by turns fascinating, scary and emotionally moving. I didn't want it to end, but I had to see how it ended.
It gives us interior struggles related to substance abuse and relationship issues; a cast of fascinating personalities, vividly evoked -- Peter's family, friends, employees, clients, and, perhaps, a couple of enemies; descriptions of Iquitos and the surrounding rainforest that are worthy of the highest standards of travel writing; and fantastic psychological adventures in which the dark and bright miracles of the ayahuasca are detailed with a poet's eloquence.
Another excellent book on ayahuasca that was published recently is Singing to the Plants, by Steve Beyer. Beyer's book gives an eagle's perspective: he takes the reader high above the phenomenon of mestizo ayahuasca practice in Peru, and shows its major patterns, and the different peoples who practice it, and their ideas about it. The material is presented coolly, clearly, and encyclopedically with various well-organized topics. Peter's book, in contrast, gives an anaconda's perspective, swimming deep in the dark rivers of an individual's very personal experience as he reluctantly takes on some of the functions of a curandero while struggling to keep his family together.
It gives us interior struggles related to substance abuse and relationship issues; a cast of fascinating personalities, vividly evoked -- Peter's family, friends, employees, clients, and, perhaps, a couple of enemies; descriptions of Iquitos and the surrounding rainforest that are worthy of the highest standards of travel writing; and fantastic psychological adventures in which the dark and bright miracles of the ayahuasca are detailed with a poet's eloquence.
Another excellent book on ayahuasca that was published recently is Singing to the Plants, by Steve Beyer. Beyer's book gives an eagle's perspective: he takes the reader high above the phenomenon of mestizo ayahuasca practice in Peru, and shows its major patterns, and the different peoples who practice it, and their ideas about it. The material is presented coolly, clearly, and encyclopedically with various well-organized topics. Peter's book, in contrast, gives an anaconda's perspective, swimming deep in the dark rivers of an individual's very personal experience as he reluctantly takes on some of the functions of a curandero while struggling to keep his family together.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Incredible read, highly recommended!
2 Aug 2010
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I absolutely love this book! Its truly a work of high art....A phenomenological memoir of sorts rich with insight and wisdom......Gorman renders his visions and relays his experiences with precision and intelligent detail, all with an air of honesty, humbleness, and clarity. I am new to Ayahuasca shamanism, but feel that its safe to assume that this book would be accessible, engaging, and relevant to a wide range of people with all levels of familiarity and experience with Ayahuasca.....
I read a lot in general, but usually put down most books as I get bored with them at some point during the process......This one however, I could not put down and even had to force my self to read only a little at a time towards the end just to extend my enjoyment of reading it...........I am keeping my fingers crossed that Gorman will release a sequal(s) or some kind of writings that follow up where he left off.......Eagerly waiting and in full support....and yes....once again....highly recommended!
I read a lot in general, but usually put down most books as I get bored with them at some point during the process......This one however, I could not put down and even had to force my self to read only a little at a time towards the end just to extend my enjoyment of reading it...........I am keeping my fingers crossed that Gorman will release a sequal(s) or some kind of writings that follow up where he left off.......Eagerly waiting and in full support....and yes....once again....highly recommended!
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