Jeremy Narby Ph.D.

Anthropologist &
Author

Jeremy Narby, Ph.D., is an anthropologist and the author of  The Cosmic Serpent, Intelligence In Nature and Shamans Through Time (with Francis Huxley). While doing work cataloging indigenous uses of rainforest resources to help combat ecological destruction, he asked one of his guides how they knew so much about the plants around them.

Narby was informed that the plants themselves tell people how to use them, particularly through the drinking of ayahuasca, an indigenous hallucinogen.  Since then, Narby has written three books, as well as sponsored 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, he has been working for the Swiss NGO, Nouvelle Planète as the Amazinian Projects Director.  He has spent several years living with the Ashaninca in the Peruvian Amazon