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The Psychedelic Science of the Jurema Tree

The Psychedelic Science of the Jurema Tree

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Series: Copernicus Books

AnthropologyChemistryGeneral Psychology

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ISBN10: 3032227046
ISBN13: 9783032227041
Publisher: Springer
Published: May 26 2026
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.18 Depth: 9.23
Language: English

This book tells the story of jurema-preta, a plant which shaped the culture of Indigenous and Afro-Brazilian peoples, and withstood oppression from colonial forces to take a leading role in today's clinical research on psychedelics.

Following a path that starts with contemporary biomedical research conducted by Brazilian scientists who are testing if psychedelic DMT extracted from jurema-preta can be used in the treatment of depression, the author shows how current psychedelic science opens the door to a world in which clinical and psychopharmacological research live side by side with Indigenous and Afro-Brazilian religions and mysticism. And how the global psychedelic renaissance has created the networks for the circulation of these resurgent traditional practices connecting neoshamanic groups in places as distant as Brazil, the United States, the Netherlands and Australia.

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