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| Foreword | |
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| Author's Preface | |
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| Introduction to Indigenous Science in the Upper Amazon | |
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| A Celestial University | |
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| A Unified Worldview and Way of Being | |
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| Good Masters Are Hard to Find | |
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| A Show of Power | |
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| Obtaining Healing Plants from the Celestial Realm | |
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| More Mysterious Affirmations from the Yag� | |
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| Meeting the Chiefs of the Animals | |
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| Raising and Lowering the Mythic Underworld Nets | |
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| Cloth, Thread, and Needles from the Crab Jaguar's Store | |
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| The Future of Ayahuasca | |
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| Degradation of the Spiritual Science: Sorcery and Superstition | |
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| No Tolerance for Sorcery | |
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| Cleansing Temptations of Sorcery on the Sun Canoe, a Secoya Practice | |
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| Perils and Pitfalls on the Path of Shamanism | |
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| Reining in Sorcery | |
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| The Gift of Ayahuasca | |
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| Various Approaches to Ayahuasca and Yag� | |
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| Important Differences in the Consumption of Ayahuasca and Yag� | |
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| The Meaning of the Names Ayahuasca and Yag� | |
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| A Medicine Capable of Inspecting the Innermost Vibrations of Mind | |
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| Origins of Ayahuasca | |
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| Elements of the Experience | |
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| Sacred Songs of the Medicine | |
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| Yag� Toy�: Designs of the Visionary Realms | |
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| The Ceremony of Yag� | |
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| Cultivating the Sacred Within | |
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| La Dieta: For Purification and Spiritual Mastery | |
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| Preparing a Proper Brew | |
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| Sourcing and Harvesting Ayahuasca | |
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| Cooking the Plants into a Sacred Drink | |
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| The Celestial Summer of the Cicadas | |
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| Meeting the Cicada People | |
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| Downy Cicada Jaguar, Diety of the Southern Cross | |
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| Two Frogs in the Learning of the Tradition | |
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| Sacred Plant-Based Technologies of the Celestial Summer | |
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| About the Secoya, People of the Multicolored River | |
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| Fulfilling the Dream of a Yag� Drinker to Reclaim Ancestral Lands | |
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| Sharing the Oral Tradition from a Jaguar-Centered Worldview | |
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| The Deep-Forest Perspective of the Waorani | |
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| Me�eiriwempo: Protector Deity of the Waorani People | |
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| Songs of Hidden People | |
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| Two Waorani Set the Clouds on Fire | |
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| Insights into the First Contact | |
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| The Right of Non-Contact | |
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| The Origin of Those Who Ate Their Father | |
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| The Good Way of the Ancestors | |
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| Working on the Demarcation of Waorani Territory | |
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| Village Life | |
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| Becoming an Iroinga | |
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| Origin Myth of the First Miiyabu | |
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| The Subtle Use of Miiyabu | |
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| The Eyebrows of the Andes | |
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| The Perspectives of the Condor and King Vulture | |
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| The Tropical Wet Forest: A Conservation Priority | |
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| Napo-Galeras: The End of the World Jaguar Mountain | |
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| Lessons of the Mountain: Powerful Spirits and Places | |
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| Unkiyabe: Galeras Mountain in Waorani Tradition | |
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| Jaicunti: Galeras Mountain in Secoya Tradition | |
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| Modern-Day Adventures in Caretaking a Sacred Mountain | |
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| Establishing and Protecting Napo-Galeras National Park | |
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| Wairachina Sacha, Rainforest of the Purifying Winds | |
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| Lineage Holders of the Ancient Traditions, Deep Forest and Urban | |
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| Urban Ayahuasqueros of Peru | |
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| Don Casimiro Mamallacta, Seventh-Generation Keeper of a Sacred Mountain | |
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| Amazanga Community | |
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| Stories of the Old Waorani Warriors | |
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| Torchbearers in the Darkness | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| About the Author and Contributors | |