Yajé: The New Purgatory

Also available in Spanish with the title: Yajé, El Nuevo Purgatorio

Amazing testimony of a real experience with yajé, a sacred plant of the indigenous people of the Amazon, renowned throughout the world for its healing and visionary powers. For more than ten years, the author of this book, Jimmy Weiskopf, has been a judicious apprentice to prominent yajé shamans in Colombia and also explored its uses in Peru and Brazil. Convinced that yajé represents a unique channel to health and spiritual enlightenment, Weiskopf dedicates his book to a ritual whose basic teaching requires a share of suffering: it is the New Purgatory, where the body and soul of the taker are subjected to a violent and prolonged purification to achieve spiritual transformation. The book summarizes the indigenous tradition and the botanical and anthropological research in this regard.