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Title Hallucinogens and Culture
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Description It is hoped that the following pages will demonstrate something of the
essential interplay between nature and culture between chemistry, mind set,
and social and historical setting in the use of hallucinogenic plants and
other psychoactive substances by different peoples the world over.
Obviously, many significant areas of research in psychopharmacology and
ethnobotany, as well as some interesting and as yet little- understood
nonchemical "techniques of ecstasy" have had to be slighted, in
favor of in- depth treatment of some others of more general interest.
Besides, this is an ongoing story: "new" botanical hallucinogens
and other naturally occurring psychoactive substances some perhaps never
culturally exploited, others long forgotten by the people who formerly used
them, and yet others successfully concealed for centuries from the prying
eyes of outsidersóare even now being discovered and scientifically
described and tested. Still more await botanical and pharmacological
identification beyond the native terms under which they appear in the
ethnohistorical literature or reports of travelers and ethnographers. Even
for Indian Mexico or Amazonia, whose extensive psychoactive pharmacopoeia
has been relatively well studied, we still do not know the identity of
every species used in native ritual, prehistorically or at present, nor do
we as yet fully understand the pharmacological or cultural role of
additives to plants of known or suspected psychoactivity. Indeed, in the
opinion of such authorities as Richard Evans Schultes, Director of
Harvard's Botanical Museum, it is precisely the function of these additives
to the botanical hallucinogens that presents one of the most exciting
challenges to the modern investigator of the psychedelic phenomenon in
indigenous societies. Clearly, then, there is a world yet to be discovered.
The concerned reader is urged to keep up with the more specialized
ethnobotanical publications and the rapidly growing literature on brain
biochemistry and scientific and humanistic explorations into the uses and
abuses of alternate states of consciousness.

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