Difference between revisions of "History of Ethnobotanicals"

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This is a project page for organizing the efforts of the The Coalition for Entheogenic Liberties [CEL], specifically those regarding The Nexus eBook -- please edit in regard and accordance with The CEL Action Hub and any pertinent discussion found on the associated subforum.

The work on a rather large book concerning the history of ethnobotanical use has been started, see this thread. The idea is to prove beyond any doubt that in every human culture, in every part of the world, medicinal and visionary plants has had a rather large impact. A summary of this book will be available in the Nexus eBook.

Evening Glory will write the book with the help of the community. My thought is to structure the book after our different continents, and then again after the different nations and/or cultures. When a plant is mentioned for the first time, I will include a short explanation of its constituents and their pharmacology. At the end of the book, I will include both a dictionary, a section with a short explanation of every mentioned plant and in what culture their use is recorded.

The group consists of

Writer: Evening Glory

Research: Evening Glory, Elpo

Proofreading: Bancopuma

Please post in the mentioned forum thread if you'd like to contribute!

Needed books and publications

These books and publications are desperately needed. Please read this list carefully, and contact Evening Glory if you would like to donate or lend out any of them!

• Richard Rudgley - The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Substances
• Christian Rätsch - The Sacred Plants of our Ancestors ISBN 0-9720292-1-4
• Tim Pilcher - Spliffs 3: The Last Word in Cannabis Culture? ISBN 1843403102, ISBN 9781843403104
• Charles E. Dibble et al. (translation) - Florentine Codex: Book 11 - Earthly Things.
• Takahashi Patrick Kenji - Simple Solutions for Humanity, Book 2 ISBN 1434368424
• Peter C. Rogers - Ultimate Truth, Book 1 ISBN 1438979681
• P. T. Furst - Flesh of the Gods: The Ritual Use of Hallucinogens
• T. B. Roberts - Chemical Input—Religious Output: Entheogens
• T. B. Roberts (editor) - Psychoactive Sacramentals: Essays on Entheogens and Religion
• Albert Hofmann - "Teonanácatl and Ololiuqui, two ancient magic drugs of Mexico", UNODC Bulletin on Narcotics Issue 1
• Richard Evans Schultes - "The Plant Kingdom and the Hallucinogens", UNODC Bulletin on Narcotics Issue 4

Possible Nexus eBook Structure:

+ The Human Spark

+ Survey of the Old Ways

+ The Guidance of The Other

+ The Arrival of Dogma

+ Shamanism Today

Possible Large Book Structure:

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