Date Published: April 10, 2025
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
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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