Autor: Gerd Fonrobert

The author of the book The Ayahuasca Path, Gerd Wolfgang Fonrobert, was born in Germany in 1947 but, since childhood, has lived in Brazil, currently in Sobradinho, satellite town of Brasilia, Distrito Federal. He has academic training in the field of exact sciences and has worked professionally with computers in the days when they were known as electronic brains and displayed in show windows. He did applied philosophical studies at the Academy of Dianetics and Scientology, Saint Hill in England, learning to apply therapeutic techniques of regression and mental and spiritual enhancement called auditing, being also the beneficiary of their application. He met ayahuasca in 1977, joining the then Nucleus of União do Vegetal in Brasília, attending their spiritual meetings for a few years. After a period in which he opted not to commune the tea, he returned to do so from the year 2000 and, in 2003, founded with some friends the Centro Enteogênico La Flor (CELF), headquartered in Sobradinho, where ayahuasca is served to associates and visitors in an entheogenic context—that is, using the tea from the power plants that make up ayahuasca in a religious environment of spiritual elevation. This book is the first work in the genre of its author and builds on experience gained in CELF, including presentation of some texts used in spiritual sessions. Ayahuasca is presented in a universal and ecumenical context so that devotees of traditional religions and even nonbelievers or agnostics can receive the benefits of the entheogenic experience, provided they recognize ethical principles and values greater than themselves as individuals. The continuity of CELF as a spiritual center, aided by friends, associates, and colleagues, is currently one of the main activities of the author, who with this book also expects to better establish and articulate some of the ideas that guide the work of the center.