Values and Beliefs of Psychedelic Drug Users: A Cross-Cultural Study

Lerner, Michael; Lyvers, Michael

doi:10.1080/02791072.2006.10399838

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“…No evidence of psychologic maladjustment, mental health deterioration, or cognitive impairment was found in the ayahuasca-using group. Lerner and Lyvers (2006) compared users of psychedelic drugs with users of nonpsychedelic drugs and nonillicit drug-using social drinkers. Samples were drawn from Israel and Australia.…”

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“…Tourists engaging in the latter behaviour are perceived as potentially compromising the 'sacred' aspects and a threat to ayahuasca. The tourist discourse appears to mirror a demonising and moralising perspective on drugs that does not seek to reconcile the potential relationship between spirituality and psychedelic substances (Griffiths, Richards, McCann, & Jesse, 2008;Lerner & Lyvers, 2006). A transformative proximity to nature and indigenous people's values and knowledge is also claimed through the ayahuasca experience.…”

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Spirituality, drugs, and tourism: tourists’ and shamans’ experiences of ayahuasca in Iquitos, Peru

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Mura

Hall

et al. 2016

Tourism Recreation Research

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This study critically evaluates the complex inter space of spirituality, drugs, and tourism through tourists' and shamans' accounts of ayahuasca tourism in Iquitos, Peru. Ayahuasca is a hallucinogenic beverage traditionally consumed for spiritual and health purposes. Using microethnography, one of the researchers was immersed for one month in the tourism experience of ayahuasca. The findings reveal the ambivalent nature of tourists' experiences and the changing meaning and practices of ayahuasca. Tourists' encounters with ayahuasca were perceived as spiritual due to better understanding and perception of 'self' and 'others'. Shamans' encounters with tourists were mostly positive but negative consequences on their practices were evident. The study highlights issues of fluidity, positionality, and self-identification of roles in tourism. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…This network can be analyzed by looking at each cluster individually and by exploring the connected nodes. It shows tightly interlinked clusters of social, political, and ecological movements, reflecting the values found in psychedelic drug culture (Lerner and Lyvers 2006). The visualization of these complex cultural and social entanglements contextualizes the different fields of psychedelic culture into a more holistic picture.…”

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Anthropology with algorithms?

Krieg¹,

Berning²,

Hardon³

2017

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Based on a study of more than twenty thousand reports on drug experiences from the online drug education portal Erowid, this article argues that the integration of ethnographic methods with computational methods and digital data analysis, including so-called big data, is not only possible but highly rewarding. The analysis of ‘natively’ digital data from sites like Facebook, message boards, and web archives can offer glimpses into worlds of practice and meaning, introduce anthropologists to user-based semantics, provide greater context, help to re-evaluate hypotheses, facilitate access to difficult fields, and point to new research questions. This case study generated important insights into the social and political entanglements of drug consumption, drug phenomenology, and harm reduction. We argue here that deep ethnographic knowledge, what we term ‘field groundedness’, is indispensable for thoroughly making sense of the resulting visualizations, and we advocate for seeing ethnography and digital data analysis in a symbiotic relationship.

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Values and Beliefs of Psychedelic Drug Users: A Cross-Cultural Study

Cited by 84 publications

References 8 publications

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