The Psychedelic Journey of Marlene Dobkin de Rios: 45 Years with Shamans, Ayahuasqueros, and Ethnobotanists STEAM elementary Award-winning author Ursula Jones tells

Award-winning author Ursula Jones tells the story with elegance and humor

That two-week layoff lasts a year

imprisoned by pain and nausea that retreated only briefly in gentler afternoon light

two bookmarks and a solid magnetic side flap

The Psychedelic Journey of Marlene Dobkin de Rios: 45 Years with Shamans, Ayahuasqueros, and Ethnobotanists STEAM elementary Award-winning author Ursula Jones tellsAyahuasca is an alkaloid rich psychoactive concoction indigenous to South America that has been employed by shamans for millennia as a spirit drug for divinatory and healing purposes. Although the late Harvard ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes was credited in the early 1950s as being the first to document the use of ayahuasca, other researchers, such as the distinguished anthropologist Marlene Dobkin de Rios, were responsible for furthering his