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Phamacotheon - Entheogenic
drugs, their plant sources and history Richard Evans Schultes and Robert F. Raffauf Pages:
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now from Mind Books Read The Entire Text of The Proemium from Pharmacotheon - A masterpiece |
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Foreword by Albert Hofmann A note on the Text Proemium six chapters in four parts: A. Beta-Phenethylamines B. Isoxazole Derivatives D. Appendices. 5 Appendices: I. Sundry Visionary Compounds II. Putative Entheogenic Species III. Index of Entheogen Chemistry and Pharmacology IV. Botanical Index V. Suggested Further Reading bibliography general index acknowledgements notes |
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| Comprehensive, definitive guide to botany and chemistry of entheogens. Has four main sections: phenethylamines (mescaline), indoles (LSD, DMT, beta-carbolines, and psilocybin), isoxazoles (muscimole), and sundry visionary compounds (tropanes, ibogaine, salvinorin, cannabinols, thujones, and others). Also new species to explore. Extensive references and notes for each chapter. Great bibliography and suggested reading list. Chemical, botanical, and general indices. Interesting pro-legalization Proemium on drug policy. By one of the masters in the field. Highly recommended. - Mind Books |
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Reviews:
This book reads like a scientific review article albeit one of 638 pages! The book is not recommended for those wanting a quick introduction into the field of entheogenics. One should expect complete pages filled with botanical names and complex chemical names. For those used to reading scientific literature here finally is a book that takes the well informed reader seriously. Ott also includes results of several very informative self-experiments and has an opinion on the whole issue of entheogenic use that deserves to become widely held. - chris@telebyte.nl Johnathon Ott has carried the Entheogenic movement one giant step forward with this scholarly text of immense value to anyone interested in the future of entheogens. This book has been limited to a printing of 5000 copies, I am glad that I got mine before they were all gone. - phitzr@mindspring.com Excerpts: As is immediately
obvious from my title, I use the neologism entheogen(ic)
throughout this book, a new word proposed by a group of scholars
including Dr. R. Gordon Wasson, Prof. Carl A. P. Ruck and me. As we
know from personal experience that shamanic inebriants do not
provoke "hallucinations" or "psychosis," and
feel it incongruous to refer to traditional shamanic use of psychedelic
plants (that word, pejorative for many, referring invariably to
sixties' western drug use), we coined this new term in 1979 (Ruck et
al. 1979). I outline thoroughly the histories of words for
sacred plant drugs in Chapter 1, Note 1. I am happy to say, fourteen
years after launching the neologism on its literary career, that the
word has been accepted by the majority of experts in this field, and
has appeared in print in at least seven languages. The term is not
meant to specify a pharmacological class of drugs (some, for
example, conceive of psychedelic as implying indole and
phenethylamine drugs with an LSD- or mescaline-like effect); rather,
it designates drugs which provoke ecstasy and have traditionally
been used as shamanic or religious inebriants, as well as their
active principles and artificial congeners. (page 15) |