Description
Luis Eduardo Luna.
He was born in Florencia, in the Colombian Amazon region (1947). He studied Philosophy and Letters at the Complutense University of Madrid, and obtained an interdisciplinary master's degree while teaching Spanish and Latin American literature in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Oslo. He is a former full professor at the Swedish School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland, from which he retired in 2011, and a former professor of Anthropology at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil (1994-1998). He received a doctorate from the Institute of Comparative Religion at the University of Stockholm (1989) and an honorary doctorate from St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York (2000). Luna is a Guggenheim Fellow and a member of the Linnaean Society of London. He is the author of
Vegetalismo: Shamanism among the Mestizo Population of the Peruvian Amazon (1986), and with
Pablo Amaringo of Ayahuasca Visions: The Religion Iconography of a Peruvian Shaman (1991).
He is co-editor with Steven F. White of
Ayahuasca Reader: Encounters with the Amazon's Sacred Vine (2000, with a new revised edition in 2016), and co-author with Rick Strassman, Slawek Wojtowicz, and Ede Frecska of
Inner Paths to Outer Space: Journeys Through Psychedelics and Other Spiritual Technologies.
In 1986, he co-founded the Usko-Ayar Amazonian School of Painting in Pucallpa, Peru, with Pablo Amaringo, where he served as Director of International Exhibitions until 1994. He has lectured on Amazonian shamanism and altered states of consciousness worldwide and has curated visionary art exhibitions in several countries. He is an honorary research fellow at the University of Exeter, UK. Luis Eduardo Luna is the Director of Wasiwaska.
