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Rochester, VT: Healing Arts Press.
ISBN: 0-89281-406-3
Description: Healing Arts paperback, 192 pages. Published by McGraw-Hill in 1979.
Contents: Preface, introduction, 24 unnumbered chapters, epilogue, further readings, picture credits, index, acknowledgments.
Excerpt(s): A few plants, however, had inexplicable effects that transported the human mind to realms of ethereal wonder. These plants are the hallucinogens. In the early stages of development, human beings needed to explain all natural phenomena. How could they understand the startling effects of these few psychoactive plants that put them into communication with the spirit world? These plants were the residences of divinities or other spiritual forces. Some were even considered gods. The intimate relationship between the human and plant world is easily discerned, but the production of substances profoundly affecting the mind and spirit is often not so easily recognized. These are the plants that make up the substance of Plants of the Gods, focusing attention on the origin of their use and the effect that they have had on man's development. Plants that alter the normal functions of the mind and body have always been considered by peoples in nonindustrial societies as sacred, and the hallucinogens have been "plants of the gods" par excellence. (Preface, page 7) |
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