Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers

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A former member of the board of advisors of the European College for the Study of Consciousness (ECSC) and former president of the Association of Ethnomedicine, he lived in Hamburg, Germany.

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During my college days, I did not have time to read Carlos Castaneda’s books and learn about Don Juan’s Yaqui way of knowledge. I can assure you that Schultes was the only 10-year-old in East Boston reading about ayahuasca in those times. Now 50 years later, following the Aristotelian philosophy of the good life by spending time in my garden as well as reading the classics, I finally found time to read Castaneda’s entertaining series and check the veracity concerning hallucinogenic drugs and neurochemistry. Chantre y Herrera wrote, “The diviner that is the shaman hangs his hammock in the middle of the round house, the Maloca, and takes a bench or small platform.It was held in Mexico, and much of the tenor of the discussion was how the Mexicans and other Latinos resented the fact that all of these gringos were coming down there and doing all these studies, and that the Latinos should study their own plants and their own indigenous peoples.

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A third hallucinogenic plant was the most powerful and, as a benevolent “teacher,” a deity in and of itself. WHAT YOU’RE WELCOME TO DO: You are welcome to share the below transcript (up to 500 words but not more) in media articles (e.Now chicle is a resin of the sapodilla tree, which also produces a very tasty indigenous edible fruit. But Schultes was a better botanist than Safford, and he knew there would be no peyote, which thrives in desert-like conditions. I spoke to Bronwyn Gates, the botanical expert on the Malpighiaceae family, who herself worked with Schultes, and she said, “At this point, we’re still not sure of the original distribution of the ayahuasca liana. Frequent use of cannabis during adolescence has been found to deleteriously affect brain development and cause cognitive deficits.

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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. Before becoming a full-time author and internationally renowned lecturer, Rätsch worked as professor of anthropology at the University of Bremen and served as consultant advisor for many German museums. At the time, this was one of, if not the finest naturist museums in the world, certainly in North America. The eminent Maya scholar Eric Thompson wrote in The Rise and Fall of Maya Civilization[ 12] that the chilans (Mayan priests specializing in divination) may have used peyote and Datura mixed with tobacco and lime to induce hallucinatory visions and assist them in divination.

The active principles in the Nightshade plants are the chemicals atropine, scopolamine (a potent hallucinogenic tropane alkaloid), hyoscyamine, and other tropane alkaloids.

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Interestingly, New World cultures have always been known to employ more magic plants than their counterparts on the Old World, although botanical diversity does not provide a conclusive explanation to this phenomenon. Monoamines: Dopamine, norepinephrine and serotonin, beyond modulation “switches” that alter the state of target networks-a review article.I am excited to share with you three episodes from Plants of the Gods—the first covering the adventures of the legendary ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schulte‪s‬, the second on ayahuasca, and the thirdon coca and cocaine. The ethnobotanist Constantino Torres, who was an authority not only on ayahuasca, but also hallucinogenic snuffs, recorded some of the first documentation of ayahuasca, which was by a Jesuit missionary named Jose Chantre y Herrera as far back as 1675. Both the Zapotec and Aztec Indians consumed the seed of these plants containing lysergic acid compounds that also act through the serotonin psychoactive pathways, as with psilocybin and psilocin. Many of the initial evaluations from the Western medical perspective have focused on mescaline, which is of course from Mexican peyote.