![]() ![]() ![]() Books Ĭosmic Serpent book cover The Cosmic Serpent Narby and three molecular biologists feature in the documentary Night of the Liana that documents them revising the Peruvian Amazon to test hypothesis presented in Intelligence in Nature. Since 1989, Narby has been working as the Amazonian projects director for the Swiss Non-governmental organization, Nouvelle Planète. The resulting documentary film was Night of the Liana. Narby has written and edited five 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. During those years living with the Ashaninca, Narby catalogued indigenous uses of rainforest resources to help combat ecological destruction. ![]() He has a PhD in anthropology from Stanford University and spent time in the Peruvian Amazon undertaking his PhD research starting in 1984. He studied history at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Narby was born in 1959 and grew up in Montreal, Quebec, and Switzerland. In his books, Narby examines shamanism, molecular biology, and shamans' knowledge of botanics and biology through the use of entheogens across many cultures. Jeremy Narby (born 1959 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian anthropologist and author. ![]()
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