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Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 394.14
EAN: 9780892819799
Edition: Second Edition
ISBN: 0892819790
Label: Healing Arts Press
Manufacturer: Healing Arts Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: November 01, 2001
Publisher: Healing Arts Press
Release Date: November 01, 2001
Studio: Healing Arts Press
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Editorial Review:
World-renowned anthropologist and ethnopharmacologist Christian Ratsch provides the latest scientific updates to this classic work on psychoactive flora by two eminent researchers.⢠Numerous new and rare color photographs complement the completely revised and updated text.
⢠Explores the uses of hallucinogenic plants in shamanic rituals throughout the world.
⢠Cross-referenced by plant, illness, preparation, season of collection, and chemical constituents.
⢠First edition sold 33,000 copies.
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 throughout the world and their significance in shaping 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 known to transport the human mind into other dimensions of consciousness, have always been regarded as sacred. The authors detail the uses of hallucinogens 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.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Shamanic History at its Finest
If you're looking for information on how to prepare psychoactive plant medicine and, well quite frankly, how get high, this is not the book for you. However, if you'd like to gain more wisdom and insight into shamanistic practices around the world, this is a wonderful history that draws you into the mind of the shamin. I loved this book. It gave me new respect for the wisdom of those ancient people of whom we know so very little. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in shamanism ... Read More
Rating: - Informative but...
This is a good starting point for working with Psychoactive Plants. It is however not quite as informative as the author's "The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications". If you are interested in working with plants but are not sure then this is the book for you to get the real information you need to make a informed decision.
Rating:  - A handy reference book
This is a good book on the topic of psychotropic plants, though I have to admit that I'm a little shocked that the opium poppy wasn't included. Oh well. There are enough books on that subject that I'm sure if you really want to study the "black smoke" you can find another book to read. It presents an interesting subject in an approachable, readable format. My one complaint is that parts of it read a little too New Age-y, which irks me. But that's the way I am. Aside from that one (rather small) ... Read More
Rating: - Researchers Overview
The authors Richard Schultes, director of the Botanical Museum at Harvard and Albert Hofmann, discoverer of LSD and former director of the Pharmaceutical-Chemical Research Lab in Basel, Switzerland, together have over fourteen years of research in field of botany, chemistry and ethnobotony. In their book the authors offer an ethnobological look at the sacred use of hallucinogenic plants and include: an introduction to hallucinogenic plants, a plant lexicon, overview of plant use chart, ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent, authoritative review lifted from Erowid
Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers
by Richard Evans Schultes, Albert Hofmann, and Christian Rätsch
Publisher:Healing Arts Press/Inner Traditions
Year:2001 (revised and expanded edition)
ISBN:089281979-0
Categories:Book Reviews, Recommended Books
Reviewed by Jon Hanna, 6/26/2007
It may be a rare thing for a second edition of a book to warrant its own review, but such is definitely the ... Read More
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