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Ralph Metzner collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 56
Abstract
This collection contains articles and publications collected by Ralph Metzner that explore different aspects of the progression of psychoactive substance research, including scientific research, politics, and religion.
Dates:
1958 - 2008; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1990
Ayahuasca and Analogue Pharmacology, 1976 - 2005
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSP 56, File 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Ralph Metzner collection of articles documents the progression of psychoactive substance research, legality issues, and the religious or spiritual aspects of its use. These articles were not solely written by Ralph Metzner, but they instead represent the type of work that influenced Metzner during his career. These article files do not contain the personal papers of Ralph Metzner. Instead, they provide insight into the diverse sources that Metzner sampled while conducting his research....
Dates:
1976 - 2005; Majority of material found within 1990 - 1999
Andritzky, Walter. "Sociopsychotherapeutic Functions of Ayahuasca Healing in Amazonia." Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 21, no. 1, January–March 1980
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSP 56, File 1, Item 1
Scope and Contents
Photocopy. This article is available electronically in the database PsychINFO.
Dates:
January–March 1980
Batchelder, Tim. "Drug Addictions, Hallucinogens and Shamanism: the View from Anthropology." Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients: The Examiner of Medical Alternatives, 216, July 2001
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSP 56, File 1, Item 2
Scope and Contents
Photocopy. Printed note on top states, “From: Jarvin R. Heiman, MD”.
Dates:
July 2001
Bear, Jaya. "Ayahuasca Shamanism: An Interview with Don Agustín Rivas-Vasquez." Shaman’s Drum 44, (1997): 43-52, 1997
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSP 56, File 1, Item 3
Scope and Contents
Reprint.
Dates:
1997
Callaway, James C. "Ayahuasca, Now and Then." Eleusis no. 1, May 1995
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSP 56, File 1, Item 4
Scope and Contents
Photocopy.
Dates:
May 1995
Callaway, J.C. "Pharmahuasca and Contemporary Ethnopharmacology." Curare 18, no. 2: 395-398, 1995
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSP 56, File 1, Item 5
Scope and Contents
Photocopy.
Dates:
1995
Callaway, James C. "Some Chemistry and Pharmacology of Ayahuasca." Jahrbuch f. Ethnomedizin, 1994
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSP 56, File 1, Item 6
Scope and Contents
Reprint.
Dates:
1994
Callaway, J.C., D.J. McKenna, C.S. Grob, et al. "Pharmacokinetics of Hoasca Alkaloids in Healthy Humans." Journal of Ethnopharmacology 65, 1999
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSP 56, File 1, Item 7
Scope and Contents
Reprint. This article is available electronically in the database ScienceDirect.
Dates:
1999
Callaway, James C., Lionel P. Raymon, William L. Hearn, et al. "Quantition of N, N Dimethyltryptamine and Harmala Alkaloids in Human Plasma after Oral Dosing with Ayahuasca." Journal of Analytical Toxicology 20, October 1996
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSP 56, File 1, Item 8
Scope and Contents
Reprint. This article is available electronically in the database IngentaConnect Journals.
Dates:
October 1996
Callaway, James C., Mauno M. Airaksinen, Dennis J. McKenna, et al. "Platelet Serotonin Uptake Sites Increased in Drinkers of Ayahuasca." Psychopharmacology 116, 1994
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSP 56, File 1, Item 9
Scope and Contents
Reprint. This article is available electronically in the database PsychINFO.
Dates:
1994
"Chapter 5: Shamanism and Ayllu Regulation." Sacha Runa, undated
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSP 56, File 1, Item 10
Scope and Contents
Chapter out of a larger work; book citation information missing. Photocopy. Extensive highlighting throughout chapter; brief marginalia,
including inscription.
Dates:
undated
Creedon, Jeremiah. "Ayahuasca." UTNE Reader, September–October 2001
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSP 56, File 1, Item 11
Scope and Contents
Reprint.
Dates:
September–October 2001
Grob, Charles S., Dennis J. McKenna, James C. Callaway, et al. "Human Psychopharmacology of Hoasca, A Plant Hallucinogen Used in Ritual Context in Brazil." The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 184, no. 2, 1996
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSP 56, File 1, Item 12
Scope and Contents
Reprint. This article is available electronically in the database PsychINFO.
Dates:
1996
Langdon, E. Jean. "Yagé Among the Siona: Cultural Patterns in Visions." In Spirits, Shamans, and Stars, edited by David L. Browman and Ronald A. Schwarz, 63-80. The Hague: Mouton Publishers, 1979
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSP 56, File 1, Item 13
Scope and Contents
Photocopy.
Dates:
1979
Leviton, Richard. "Through the Shaman’s Doorway: Dreaming the Universe with Fred Alan Wolf." Yoga Journal, July–August 1992
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSP 56, File 1, Item 14
Scope and Contents
Reprint.
Dates:
July–August 1992
Luna, Luis Eduardo. "The Ayahuasca Visions of Pablo Amaringo." Shaman’s Drum, Summer 1990
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSP 56, File 1, Item 15
Scope and Contents
Reprint. Pages are out of order.
Dates:
Summer 1990
Mabit, Jacques Michel. "L’hallucination par l’ayahuasca chez les guerisseurs de la haute amazonie peruvienne." Translated by Kenneth A. Symington. Institute Français d’Etudes Andines, January 1988
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSP 56, File 1, Item 16
Scope and Contents
Reprint.
Dates:
January 1988
McKenna, Dennis J., G.H.N. Towers, and F. Abbot. "Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors in South American Hallucinogenic Plants: Tryptamine and β-Carboline Constituents of Ayahuasca." Journal of Ethnopharmacology 10, 1984
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSP 56, File 1, Item 17
Scope and Contents
Photocopy. Multiple partial articles contained in one document. Numbers
written in margins of each page.
Dates:
1984
Novaes da Mota, Clarice, and Jose Flávio Pessoa de Barros. "Jurema: Black Indigenous Drama and Representations." Ethnobiology: Implications and Applications, Proceedings of the First International Congress of Ethnobiology, organized by Darrell A. Posey and William Leslie Overal, 171-180. Belém, Brazil, 1990
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSP 56, File 1, Item 18
Scope and Contents
Photocopy. Notes made in margins of pg. 171. Packet also includes miscellaneous shorter articles on Mount Buffalo and plants in the Legume family (Mimosa subfamily). There are extensive, hand-written notes in the margins of several of these pages. The last page includes a table with three columns: “Species,” “Part of plant extracted (1 kg),” and “Yield DMT”.
Dates:
1990
Schultes, Richard Evans. "The beta-Carboline Hallucinogens of South America." Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 14, no. 3, July–September 1982
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSP 56, File 1, Item 19
Scope and Contents
Photocopy. Brief underlining pg. 214-215, check marks in references section.
Dates:
July–September 1982
Schultes, Richard Evans. "Indole Alkaloids In Plant Hallucinogens." Journal of Psychedelic Drugs 8, no. 1, January–March 1976
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSP 56, File 1, Item 20
Scope and Contents
Photocopy. Underlining throughout document, brief marginalia on pg. 12.
Dates:
January–March 1976
Vepsäläinen, Jouko J., Seppo Auriola, Mikko Tukiainen, et al. "Isolation and Characterization of Yuremamine, a New Phytoindole." Planta Medica 71: 1053-1058, 2005
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSP 56, File 1, Item 21
Scope and Contents
Reprint.
Dates:
2005
White, Timothy. "It’s Time to End the War Against Entheogens." Shaman’s Drum no. 64, 2003
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSP 56, File 1, Item 22
Scope and Contents
Photocopy. Brief marks and underlines throughout article.
Dates:
2003
Ayahuasca Churches, 1988 - 2007
File — Box: 1
Identifier: MSP 56, File 2
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Ralph Metzner collection of articles documents the progression of psychoactive substance research, legality issues, and the religious or spiritual aspects of its use. These articles were not solely written by Ralph Metzner, but they instead represent the type of work that influenced Metzner during his career. These article files do not contain the personal papers of Ralph Metzner. Instead, they provide insight into the diverse sources that Metzner sampled while conducting his research....
Dates:
1988 - 2007; Majority of material found within 1994 - 1996