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by Richard Evans Schultes, Albert Hofmann, & Christian Rätsch - Paperback: 208 pages; Publisher: Healing Arts Press; 2nd edition (2001); ISBN-10: 0892819790; ISBN-13: 978-0892819799

The Author is a specialist in the cultural use of psychoactive plants. A resident of Germany, he is currently serving as the president of the German Society for Ethnomedicine. Richard Evans Schultes, was a Jeffrey Professor of Biology and Director of the Botanical Museum at Harvard University, considered by many to be the father of modern ethnobotany. Albert Hofmann, discoverer of LSD, was a world renowned research biochemist. This 2nd revision provides the latest scientific updates to this classic work on psychoactive flora by two eminent researchers.
Numerous new and rare color photographs; Explores the uses of hallucinogenic plants in shamanic rituals throughout the world; Cross-referenced by plant, illness, preparation, season of collection, and chemical constituents.

Three scientific titans join forces to completely revise the classic text on the ritual uses of psychoactive plants. They provide a fascinating testimony of these "plants of the gods," tracing their uses around the world and how the plants shaped culture and history. In the traditions of every culture, plants have been highly valued for their nourishing, healing, and transformative properties. The most powerful of those plants, which are thought to transport the human mind into other dimensions of consciousness, have always been regarded as sacred. The authors detail the uses of these plants in sacred shamanic rites while providing lucid explanations of the biochemistry of these plants and the cultural prayers, songs, and dances associated with them. The text is lavishly illustrated with 400 rare photographs of plants, people, ceremonies, and art related to the ritual use of the world's sacred psychoactive flora.

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