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.
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. Every culture have valued plants for their nourishing, healing and transformative properties. The most powerful and sacred of those plants are known to transport the human mind into other dimensions of consciousness.The authors detail the uses of hallucinogens in shamanic rites while explaining 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.
