Pharmacotheon: Entheogenic Drugs, Their Plant Sources and History

by Jonathan Ott, Albert Hofmann (Foreword)

Pharmacotheon Drogas entegenas, sus fuentes vegetales y su historia Jonathan Ott Se trata del libro multidisciplinar ms completo sobre el tema de los...

Genres: Nonfiction, Reference, Drugs, Science

639 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Jonathan Ott was an American ethnobotanist, writer, translator, publisher, natural products chemist and botanical researcher in the area of entheogens and their cultural and historical uses, and helped coin the term "entheogen".

Reviews

[Mesoscope · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is clearly the finest and most detailed single resource on psychoactive plants and their sacramental use that has yet been written. Nothing else comes close.

[Kevin · Rating 5 out of 5]

if the leaders of a city-state are employing consciousness-altering plants, then the entire culture are being led into the future of hallucinatory vision. Gordon Wasson and Jonathan Ott are seekers of the full mind's future. A must read.

[Craig · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nothing short of a masterpiece, just as any other work by Mr. Ott... tragic that they're so hard to obtain now.

[Revan Bd · Rating 5 out of 5]

Esta muy bien como introducción a las plantas enteogenicas aportando tanto contexto histórico y antropológico como la química e investigaciones científicas de los mismos resaltando los capítulos sobre ayahuasca y psilocibina y sus derivados.

[Andrew Sampson]

I do not understand the dictum "ignorance is bliss." Ignorance means other people get to tell you what your worldview should be. It's amazing and exciting to me that whole worlds open up mythically, biologically, psychologically and historically through a psychoactive plant or fungus.