Pinkley

Though his skull is crushed, Edgar miraculously survives the accident after being resuscitated by a possibly deranged hospital intern, Dr. Barry Pinkley.

The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint by Brady Udall: Questions 2001

By the time of our visit, less than a decade later in 1974, the shaman whom Pinkley had worked with was dead, and his son had taken a job with Texaco.

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There we unloaded our gear, climbed the bank to the high ground, and made contact with Basilio, whose name had been given to Tim by Homer Pinkley, a student of Schultes who had spent a year among the Kofán in 1965.

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Homer Pinkley, a graduate student of Schultes, lived for a year among the Kofán in 1965.

One River Wade Davis 1996

In the morning Pinkley examined the ayahuasca cauldron and found three seeds of oprito, an admixture he later identified as Psychotria viridis, a plant in the coffee family containing small amounts of several trypt-amines.

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Still, a decade later, when Homer Pinkley came to the village, the old men gathered as they always had: in a small hut across the river where, dressed as visions, they ingested their sacred plants and conversed with spirits known as the “heavenly people.”

One River Wade Davis 1996

There we unloaded our gear, climbed the bank to the high ground, and made contact with Basilio, whose name had been given to Tim by Homer Pinkley, a student of Schultes who had spent a year among the Kofán in 1965.

One River Wade Davis 1996

In his unpublished thesis Pinkley describes a remarkable day in the life of the Kofán he knew.

One River Wade Davis 1996

Homer Pinkley, a graduate student of Schultes, lived for a year among the Kofán in 1965.

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Homer Pinkley was the first botanist to reach the Río Aguarico.

One River Wade Davis 1996