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Summary: Entheogens: Professional Listing
Review: "Plants of the Gods" has been selected for listing in "Religion and Psychoactive Sacraments: An Entheogen Chrestomathy" http://www.csp.org/chrestomathy
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Summary: Entheogens: Professional Listing
Review: "Plants of the Gods" has been selected for listing in "Religion and Psychoactive Sacraments: An Entheogen Chrestomathy." http://www.csp.org/chrestomathy
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Summary: Meagre!
Review: -Quality lacking, it's the stupid laymans introduction to hallucinogens. Lot's of folklore, cultural use but all in a very digestible shortstyled fashion. If you are 10 years of age and wanna know this is the book for you.
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Summary: substantial addition
Review: a comprehensive and educated overview of the plants that are really really good for us! Schultes has done many immensely important works and, while not quite as entertaining as McKenna, contributes to the dialogue in an expert manner.I recommend reading this one along with Timothy Leary, Christopher Hyatt and Jonathan Ott.
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Summary: A thorough study of the world's hallucinogenic treasures.
Review: A well-written and easy to comprehend treatise on the subject. Explains the dangers and benefits clearly so one can easily assess interest.
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Summary: One of the Greatest Books on Hallucinogenic Ethnobotany
Review: Just get it you won't regret it
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Summary: Perfectly layed out and designed
Review: Let there be no question as to the readability and beauty of this book. It is wonderful in design, perhaps the most beautiful book I have ever owned (definitely on the subject of psychoactive plants). This book covers a lot of territority real fast without needless elaborations. From sacred cacti to sacred to mushrooms and more, you will find a lifelong supply of inspiration in this title. It's packed with many photographs, little treasures we should hunt for, even recipes.
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Summary: Great reference work on entheogens
Review: Plants Of The Gods is a comprehensive reference work on psychoactive plants. It provides a definition of plant hallucinogens and information on phytochemical research on sacred plants, geography of usage and botanical range, the chemical structures of these substances and the use of hallucinogens in medicine. The plant species discussed include the Amanita (Fly Agaric) mushroom, Atropa (Deadly Nightshade), Yellow and Black Henbane, Mandrake, Cannabis Ergot, Datura, Iboga, Yopo beans, Ayahuasca, Yage, Brugmansia, Peyote, the San Pedro cactus, the Morning Glory plus what the authors term "the little flowers of the gods" which include the various types of Psilocybe mushroom. The text is enhanced by a wonderful variety of color and black & white photographs, illustrations and quite impressive paintings. The section Overview Of Plant Use consists of tables listing every plant's common name, botanical name, historical ethnography, context and purpose of usage, preparation and the chemical composition and effects. Plants Of The Gods is a great and detailed investigation of entheogenic plants from around the world. This valuable reference book concludes with a bibliography and index.
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Summary: A Good All-Around Buy
Review: Plants of the Gods is a condensed ethnobotanical encyclopedia of hallucinogenic drugs with nicely illustrated cultural/art/chemical information . This book illustrates why these psychoactive plants have been so important, nay, a necessity of primordial human consciousness and experience because of their medicinal, teleportal, and communicative capabilities. It even includes a beautifully annotated color-picture field guide lexicon. It begins with a history of plant hallucinogens and then explores their cremonial/ritualistic use in various cultures around the world, creating a sense of their cultural AND artistic importance in other societies that ACTUALLY RESPECT and don't abuse them. Plants of the Gods leaves you with a sense of respect for these plants when you realize that smoking pot in some basement just to break rules is like a rites of passage sacrament practiced by many tribal cultures who know the importance of this experience which we seem to have neglected and even outlawed. Thoroughly descriptive, yet easily digestible,it reads more as a quick refrence guide /bedtime story than a book-"book", but is captivating and informatively engaging at the same time.
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Summary: read the review
Review: Read this book with Terence Mckenna's Food of the Gods. They work well together. Don't be afraid of the subject. If you've read the primary literature avoid this book unless your running a "trip" mission and you want to turn people on. These two men are giants on the subject. Forget the review. Buy the book out a repect. Schultes and Hoffman were trippy before most of us were born. P.S. All that God stuff, it's importmant but it was the thrill seeker in all of us that got us here.
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