Richard Evans Schultes

Plants of the Gods

Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers

Buch

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 l… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Hofmann, Albert / Rätsch, Christian

ISBN: 978-0-89281-979-9
EAN: 9780892819799
Produktnummer: 19368082
Verlag: Pocket UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
Seitenangabe: 208 S.
Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
Masse: H26.8 cm x B19.5 cm x D1.7 cm 845 g
Abbildungen: s/w. Abb.
Gewicht: 845

Über den Autor

A specialist in the cultural use of psychoactive plants, Christian Ratsch is the author of numerous books, including Gateway to Inner Space, The Dictionary of Sacred and Magical Plants, and the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants. A resident of Germany, he is currently serving as the president of the German Society for Ethnomedicine. Richard Evans Schultes (1915-2001) 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 (1906-2008), discoverer of LSD, was a world renowned research biochemist.