Jeremy Narby Ph.D.

Anthropologist &
Author

Jeremy Narby is an anthropologist who  grew up in Canada and
Switzerland, studied history at the University of Kent at Canterbury, and received a doctorate in anthropology from Stanford University.

Narby spent several years living with the Ashaninca in the Peruvian Amazon cataloging indigenous uses of rainforest resources to help combat ecological destruction.

Narby has also written three books, sponsoring an expedition to the rainforest for biologists and other scientists to examine indigenous knowledge systems and the utility of ayahuasca in gaining knowledge. Since 1989, Narby has been working as the Amazonian projects director for the Swiss NGO, Nouvelle Planète.

Ayahuasca - Jeremy Narby
 

“The first time an Ashanica man told me that he had learned the medicinal properties of plants by drinking an hallucinogenic brew, I thought he was joking.  We were in the forest squatting next to a bush whose leaves, he claimed, could cure the bite of a deadly snake.  ‘One learns these things by drinking ayahuasca,’ he said.  But he was not smiling”

"...Nature as a whole is capable of communicating, which contradicts the founding principle of this molecular biology that is current orthodoxy."
- Jeremy Narby, The Cosmic Serpent