Comprar edición impresa (la versión actualizada e ilustrada): https://laemboscadura.com/tienda/60-semanas-en-el-tropico/ Una tentativa de huir hacia adelante, una conciencia que bascula de la desolación al júbilo. Un proyecto de trabajo sobre el origen de la pobreza y riqueza en el Sureste asiático… Sesenta semanas en el trópico narra las peripecias durante un año sabático en Tailandia con excursiones a Vietnam, Birmania y Singapur, sobre el quicio preciso que separa la segunda de la tercera edad del autor. En el atardecer de la vida, iluminado por una luz distinta, el corazón aventurero de Escohotado apura hasta los posos de su atrevimiento, y el paisaje de gentes y lugares exóticos acompaña a una pesquisa interior que tocará fondo en otro trópico -el amazónico-, con un brote de introspección y telepatía provocado por brebajes primitivos. Devuelto al origen, la humilde odisea de este libro acaba ofreciendo una respuesta a la pregunta del comienzo -¿qué hace ricos a individuos y grupos?-, y cierra un ciclo del ánimo por precipicios. Catálogo de costumbres ignoradas u olvidadas, conjuro para decisiones que desgarran, boceto de antropología económica, la obra medita sobre dos modos genéricos de entender la vida, que se condensan como «planeta interior” y «planeta exterior». Aislados uno de otro hasta la actual globalización, ahora solo pueden compenetrarse o combatirse. Una sola Tierra para dos tipos de moradores, cada vez menos indiferentes entre sí: un reto inaplazable. Antonio Escohotado aprovecha la reedición de este título -casi 20 años después de su publicación- para retocar la narración de varios pasajes, así como para ilustrar con algunas imágenes su enriquecedora aventura en la tierra de los Thai.

A clear-eyed look at the instrumental role drugs have played in our cultural, social, and spiritual development. • First American publication of the surprising European bestseller. • Examines everything from the ancient use of ergot and datura to the modern phenomenon of "designer" drugs such as Ecstasy and crack cocaine. From remotest antiquity to the present era of designer drugs and interdiction, drugs have played a prominent role in the cultural, spiritual, and social development of civilizations. Antonio Escohotado demonstrates how the history of drugs illuminates the history of humanity as he explores the long relationship between mankind and mind-altering substances. Hemp, for example, has been used in India since time immemorial to stimulate mental agility and sexual prowess. Aristotle's disciple Theophrastus testifies to the use of datura by the ancient Greeks and further evidence links the rites at Eleusis to the ingestion of a hallucinogen. Similar examples can be found in cultures as diverse as the Celts, the ancient Egyptians, the Aztecs, and other indigenous peoples around the world. Professor Escohotado also looks at the present-day differences that exist between the more drug-tolerant societies like Holland and Switzerland and countries advocating complete repression of these substances. The author provides a comprehensive analysis of the enormous social costs of the drug war that is coming under increasing fire from all levels of society. Professor Escohotado's work demonstrates that drugs have always existed and been used by societies throughout the world and the contribution they have made to humanity's development has been enormous. The choice we face today is to teach people how to use them correctly or to continue to indiscriminately demonize them. "Just say no," the author says, is not an option. Just say "know" is. Antonio Escohotado is a professor of philosophy and social science methodology at the National University of Distance Education in Madrid, Spain. He travels widely, offering lectures and seminars on the subject of drugs and history.

On October 14-19, 1990, the 6th International Conference on the Conservation of Earthen Architecture was held in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Sponsored by the GCI, the Museum of New Mexico State Monuments, ICCROM, CRATerre-EAG, and the National Park Service, under the aegis of US/ICOMOS, the event was organized to promote the exchange of ideas, techniques, and research findings on the conservation of earthen architecture. Presentations at the conference covered a diversity of subjects, including the historic traditions of earthen architecture, conservation and restoration, site preservation, studies in consolidation and seismic mitigation, and examinations of moisture problems, clay chemistry, and microstructures. In discussions that focused on the future, the application of modern technologies and materials to site conservation was urged, as was using scientific knowledge of existing structures in the creation of new, low-cost, earthen architecture housing.

Poetry. Edited by C.D. Wright. Translated from the Spanish by A.S. Zelman-Doring, Forrest Gander, and C.D. Wright. Forward by Raúl Zurita translated by Sarah Denaci and Forrest Gander. Like a nightscape's pulsating constellations, dreams and memories are exploded wide open in RAIN OF THE FUTURE--Mejer's bracing collection of prose poetry and lyrical sequences. Her charged words reimagine one's body as a constantly shifting geography, readying us to face life's most brutal rains.

Memory and mourning in Colombia. This book provides the first in-depth examination of a representative range of contemporary Colombian cultural engagements with the conflicts known simply as La Violencia that began in Colombia in the late 1940s. These include Gustavo Alvarez Gardeazábal's now classic revision of the 'novela de la Violencia', the autobiographical cycle of acclaimed author Fernando Vallejo, versions of the testimonio by Alfredo Molano and internationally renowned novelist Laura Restrepo, as well as cinematic works by Carlos Mayolo and Luis Ospina. These cultural icons, many of whom are remarkably understudied, show how the heterogeneity of social and cultural processes condensed in La Violencia demands a deconstruction of 'violence' in Colombian culture. This argument is developed in dialogue with European and Latin American cultural theory and contributes to theoretical debates surrounding issues of memory and mourning developed in other Latin American contexts. The narratives explored in this book provide alternatives to abstract historicism and show us how to imagine ways out of deeply rooted cycles of violence. Yet their insistence on haunting and spectres signals the problems besetting the task of mourning in Colombia, positing history rather than psychology as a remainder that troubles efforts to forge collective memories and enact social reconciliation. RORY O'BRYEN lectures in Latin American literature and culture at the University of Cambridge.

Gnosis means knowledge. But we are not referring to just any knowledge. Gnosis is knowledge which produces a great transformation in those who receive it. Knowledge capable of nothing less than waking up man and helping him to escape from the prison in which he finds himself. That is why Gnosis has been so persecuted throughout the course of history, because it is knowledge considered dangerous for the religious and political authorities who govern mankind from the shadows. Every time this religion, absolutely different from the rest, appears before man, the other religions unite to try to destroy or hide it again. Primordial Gnosis is the original Gnosis, true Gnosis, eternal Gnosis, Gnostic knowledge in its pure form. Due to multiple persecutions, Primordial Gnosis has been fragmented, distorted and hidden.