Plants of the Gods
Door Richard Evans Schultes, Albert Hofmann en Christian Rätsch - Engelstalig
"A visual, spiritual, and intellectual feast, Plants of the Gods is the best book ever written on hallucinogenic plants." --Dr. Mark Plotkin, Conservation International, author of Medicine Quest: In Search of Nature's Healing Secrets
"This is a greatly enlarged and expanded edition. The photographs are spectacular. A chapter on Salvia divinorum is included. This book is well-worth purchasing, even if you already own previous editions." --Daniel J. Siebert
Of the ninety-one hallucinogenic plants beautifully illustrated and characterized in their lexicon, the authors elaborate in vivid detail on fourteen that have had profound significance for human beings. Drawing on fourteen years of field work, Dr. Richard Evans Schultes describes pilgrimages made to gather the sacred plants as well as the rites, prayers, songs, and dances associated with their use. His accounts are augmented by Dr. Albert Hofmann's lucid explanations of the biochemistry of these psychotropic substances.
The text is accompanied by numerous illustrations, more than one hundred of which are in full color. Included are rare photographs - many published here for the first time - of plants and the people who have used them as well as ceremonies, sculptures, paintings, pottery, and weavings related to the ritual use of these sacred hallucinogens.
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