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Plants of the gods is more than a research book, it is a guide to understanding the role hallucinogens play in various religious cultures using a scientific and anthropological approach. This book illustrates why these psychoactive plants have been so important, nay, a necessity of primordial human consciousness and experience because of their medicinal, teleportal, and communicative. Plants of the gods their sacred, healing and hallucinogenic powers preface introduction 1. A lot of collections are provided in soft documents. Plants of the gods book by richard evans schultes, albert. Their sacred, healing and hallucinogenic powers reprint richard evans schultes and albert hofmann rochester, vt. Psychoactive plants are plants that people ingest in the form of simple or complex preparations in order to affect the mind or alter the state of consciousness psychoactivity may include sedative, stimulant, euphoric, deliriant, and.
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Their sacred, healing, and hallucinogenic powers april 2020 worldrenowned anthropologist and ethnopharmacologist christian ratsch provides the latest scientific updates to this classic work on psychoactive flora by two eminent researchers. The most powerful of those plants, which are known to transport the human mind into other dimensions of consciousness, have always been regarded as sacred. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. A visual, spiritual, and intellectual feast, plants of the gods is the best book ever written on hallucinogenic plants. Profusely illustrated, this book contains an extensively researched plant lexicon, providing common and botanical names, history, ethnography, preparation, chemical components, usage in healing, and effects for 91 hallucinogenic plants. A world tour of the healing and visionary powers of cannabis. Their sacred, healing, and hallucinogenic powers, by richard evans schultes. In this book, the worlds most renowned authorities on psychoactive flora provide a fascinating and moving testimony of these plants of the gods, tracing their. Their sacred, healing, and hallucinogenic powers by richard evans schultes healing arts press 1992 394 appears to be the bible of natural hallucinogens. Amazingly well put together book on entheogenic drugproducing plants. Their sacred healing and hallucinogenic powers by richard evans schultes. Although it would seem qualified by the academic prowess and background of its authors, the book is highly biased in regards to extolling these plants and their uses. Their sacred, healing, and hallucinogenic powers 1979, coauthored with chemist albert hofmann, the discoverer of lsd, is considered his greatest popular work.
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