Dr. Luna has a B.A. from Madrid University (1972), an interdisciplinary Master from Oslo University (1980), and a Ph.D. from the Department of Comparative Religion Stockholm University (1989).

He is a Guggenheim Fellow (1986), a Fellow of the Linnaean Society of London (1989), and is a Doctor Honoris Causa, from St. Lawrence, Canton, New York (2002).

Dr. Luna is the author/co-author of several books including Vegetalismo: Shamanism among the Mestizo Population of the Peruvian Amazon (1986), Ayahuasca Visions: The Religious Iconography of a Peruvian Shaman (1991), and Inner Paths to Outer Space: Journeys Through Psychedelics and Other Spiritual technologies (2008).

He is co-editor with Steven White of Ayahuasca Reader: Encounters with the Amazon’s Sacred Vine (2000, 2016).

He is director of Wasiwaska, Research Center for the Study of Psychointegrator Plants, Visionary Art, and Consciousness, Brazil. www.wasiwaska.org.