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# Comprehensive psychoactive plant guide 400 rare color photos Latest scientific updates & biochemistry Plants Of The Gods

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## Summary

> 🌿 Unlock the ancient secrets of sacred plants — your gateway to mind, culture, and healing!

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- **What is this?** Plants Of The Gods
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## Why This Product

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## Key Features

- • **Global Shamanic Wisdom:** Explore the sacred uses of hallucinogenic plants in diverse shamanic traditions across the globe.
- • **Cultural & Historical Impact:** Discover how these 'plants of the gods' have shaped human consciousness, culture, and healing practices.
- • **Cross-Referenced for Precision:** Easily navigate by plant, illness, preparation, season, or chemical makeup for targeted knowledge.
- • **Cutting-Edge Ethnopharmacology:** Benefit from the latest scientific insights by world-renowned experts on psychoactive plants.
- • **Visual Journey Through Sacred Flora:** Immerse yourself in 400 rare, vibrant photographs capturing plants, rituals, and cultures worldwide.

## Overview

Plants Of The Gods is a definitive, fully updated guide by leading ethnopharmacologists, featuring 400 rare photographs and detailed scientific and cultural insights into the ritual and healing uses of psychoactive plants worldwide.

## Description

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. 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 lucid explanations of 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.

Review: Knowledge - Good read
Review: Five Stars - Thank you Nature.

## Features

- Healing Arts Press

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #119,329 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #153 in Cultural & Ethnic Studies #435 in History of Civilization & Culture #891 in Mental & Spiritual Healing |
| Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 772 Reviews |

## Images

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Knowledge
*by R***R on 24 August 2018*

Good read

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Five Stars
*by A***R on 18 January 2015*

Thank you Nature.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 民族植物学におけるバイブルの１冊
*by R***X on 11 August 2024*

国内翻訳も出ましたが、このジャンルに生涯をかけた方達の話や写真等は、次世代に伝わる勢いの本です。まさにバイブルの１冊です。

## Frequently Bought Together

- Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers
- The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications
- The Encyclopedia of Aphrodisiacs: Psychoactive Substances for Use in Sexual Practices

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