Listening to Ayahuasca

New Hope for Depression, Addiction, PTSD, and Anxiety

De: Rachel Harris PhD

Narrado por: Donna Postel

Used for thousands of years by indigenous tribes of the Amazon rain forest, the mystical brew ayahuasca is now becoming increasingly popular in the West. Psychologist Rachel Harris here shares her own healing experiences and draws on her original research (the largest study of ayahuasca use in North America) into the powerful medicine's effects on depression, addiction, PTSD, and anxiety.

In this wide-ranging and personal exploration, Harris details ayahuasca's risks and benefits, helping listeners clarify their intentions and giving psychotherapists a template for transformative care and healing.

©2017 Rachel Harris, PhD (P)2019 Tantor

Latest research!

Its great that is such unanimity in so many experiences. This book is definitely a tide changer.

Very well researched, excellent narration

This was such a well thought out depiction of the research Harris performed. It’s easy to listen to, thought provoking, informative, feels honest.

Outstanding

Rachel weaves indigenous traditions with modern ailments in a brilliant and honest way not sparing the reader from her own deep work. First person account of the healing traditions based on a fundamental respect for those people who discovered them.

Keep an Open Mind

This book asks the reader to keep an open mind, not just to the effects of Ayahuasca itself and to the author's experience with it, but also to the author's psychological approach to research on how the plant affects people's lives.

Great respect for author, narrator not very good

I respect Rachel Harris and recommend her other book Swimming in the Sacred. It is wonderful to find a female voice in this world that is an experienced psychotherapist and an experienced user of psychedelics. The narrator is not very good. She puts a lot of emphasis on certain words to try to convey feeling and make it a moving, emotional story. This is unnecessary and annoying. Let the listener do that for themselves. it's also hard to differentiate between when she's talking about Rachel's experience and someone else's experience. It sounds like a run-on sentence, except that she's emphasizing words to make it emotional, so it's an emotional run-on sentence, that is occasionally confusing and annoying and detracts from the importance of this story.

just what I needed

this book is full of relevant information for anyone working with plant medicine. Rachel Harris has done the research over decades and shares it here in the most helpful ways. this book is showing me I am safe to trust the process.

Very Thoroughly Researched Book

Rachel Harris has done her research and I appreciate her thoroughness. This book is helpful to those who have drunk the medicine as well as to those who may be considering it. Thank you Ms Harris for your candidness. Thank you for writing this book. I have already recommended this book to others.

Great informational book

I loved the read. It gives perspective from both the medical & experiential models. Informative, not preparatory in nature. it's a great book to orient someone interested in the potential benefits of this ancient medicine.

Holistic, a Guide for guides

The author expresses and explained her experience throughout her career related to ayahuasca. It is a must read for anyone of a western cultural background that is interested in Ayahuasca in any way

Interesting but terribly read

Interesting stories, but the narrator ruins the experience. Read by someone else and it would be better.