Cuando lo invisible dice quién eres. La subjetivación adonada de los yajé unkukë

Abstract

The Siekopái ritual specialists (yajé unkukë), through the consumption of yajé, gain access to the invisible world, where they experience the reception of various gifts. It is a vital experience that, in many cases, exceeds both their own expectations and conceptual limits. The invisible world can be signified, but not represented. In this article, following Jean-Luc Marion’s phenomenology, I show that this experience can be understood as a saturated phenomenon, since the given saturates the consciousness of the yajé unkukë, who discover themselves not so much in the control of their representations, but in the recognition of the gift received