Belly — purge and integration
ingestion, cleansing and embodied response
Plant medicines and ritual responses are often discussed through ingestion and bodily cleansing, but practices differ by lineage and plant. The belly anchor is a target-organ projection for substance effects, not a medical map or instruction to ingest.
Point 5 of 6 in Shipibo Icaro Plant Paths
Cross-tradition overlaps
- Belly — purge and integration ↔ Belly — purge and grounding (distance 0.010)
Sources
Gebhart-Sayer, M. “The Geometric Designs of the Shipibo-Conibo in Ritual Context,” (scholarly_modern)
Documents Shipibo-Conibo design, healing and cosmological relations in ritual context; see the article’s discussion of geometric pattern, song and healing.
Luis Eduardo Luna and Steven F. White (eds.), Ayahuasca Reader (secondary)
Bernd Brabec de Mori, “About Musical Spirits and Powerful Sounds,” (scholarly_modern)