Ayahuasca Is by Eleonora Duvivier #memoir #nonfiction #spirituality #rabtbooktours @RABTBookTours

Memoir, Spirituality

Date Published: April 10, 2025

Ayahuasca Is offers a new, Proustian approach to the effects of this plant medicine on the mind. The text has a confessional, poetic yet philosophical style, with insights on art, authenticity, Christianity, and meaning.

"I haven't read anyone that has integrated so much introspection and philosophy into a memoir-type book. The world before the word really shines in that for me. I especially enjoyed her talking about the part when her mother goes swimming in the ocean and she and her brother are sitting on the beach. Also, how she goes on a little later and talks about the relationship between an individual and one's attempts to get to authentic objectivity by shattering our locked sense of subjectivity through ayahuasca. Very cool. I read Being and Time by Martin Heidegger and there are a lot of passages about authenticity and individualistic subjectivity. Her writing reminded me a lot of those passages. Authenticity is a big area of interest to me in the world of existential thought." - Alexandra Furtado

 

About the Author

 

Eleonora is originally from Brazil and has lived in the US for thirty years. She comes from a family of artists and is an artist herself. She has been to the Amazonian jungle a few times to visit native friends and learn about their shamanic world. She studied philosophy in Rio de Janeiro (PUC) in Boston (Boston University) and in England (King's College). She has also written From Mars to Marceline and Apollo's Lover.

 

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