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This chapter briefly concludes the book by summarizing its contents, while connecting to contemporary thought of figures such as Michael Taussig and Simon Critchley, stressing the need for more literary ways of reading. It analyzes and laments the treatment of Maria Sabina, whose work with mushrooms was exploited by psychedelic enthusiasts. It points out tensions within literary categories of ethnopoetics. It argues that blindly optimistic approaches to the benefits of psychedelics risk perpetuating the same exploitation that affected Sabina, indeed and exploitation that is deeply imprinted on a still-thriving European phantasy structure. I briefly point toward attempts at hybridity such as the work of Gloria Anzaldúa and Luis León.
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Mark Juergensmeyer, “Rethinking the Secular and Religious Aspects of Violence,” Rethinking Secularism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 185.
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Ibid., 198.
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Ibid., 199.
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R. Scott Appleby, “Rethinking Fundamentalism in a Secular Age,” Rethinking Secularism, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, 236.
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Michael Taussig, Beauty and the Beast (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), 2012.
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Michael Taussig, The Magic of the State (New York: Routledge, 1997), 186.
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Jürgen Habermas and Joseph Ratzinger, The Dialectics of Secularization. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2010, 52.
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Maria Sabina, Maria Sabina : Selections, Ed. Jerome Rothenberg (California: University of California Press, 2003), 63.
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Jerome Rothenberg, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (New Jersey: Princeton University Press), 1991.
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Maria Sabina : Selections. Ed. Jerome Rothenberg (California: University of California Press, 2003), xviii.
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Heriberto Yepez, “The Place of Maria Sabina in Mexican Culture,” iamshaman.com , 2015, http://www.iamshaman.com/blog/products/the-place-of-maria-sabina-in-mexican-culture/
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Michael Taussig, Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
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Alice B. Kehoe, Shamans and Religion: An Anthropological Exploration in Critical Thinking, Illinois: Waveland Press, 2000.
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Elena Avila with Joy Parker, Woman Who Glows in the Dark: A Curandera Reveals Traditional Secrets of Physical and Spiritual Health. New York: Penguin, 1999, 16.
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Maria Sabina, Maria Sabina : Selections. Ed. Jerome Rothenberg (California: University of California Press, 2003), 25.
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Ibid., 158.
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Ibid., 142.
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Ibid., 157.
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Ibid., 160.
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Ibid., 153–154.
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Ibid., 69.
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Ibid., 165.
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Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, San Francisco: Aunt Lute, 1987, 88.
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Green, R.K. (2019). Conclusion: Re-Enchantment and Psychedelic Aesthetics. In: A Transatlantic Political Theology of Psychedelic Aesthetics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15318-2_8
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