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Title: Animals and Psychedelics: The Natural World and the Instinct to Alter Consciousness by Giorgio Samorini, Tami Calliope, Rob Montgomery, Robert Montgomery ISBN: 0-89281-986-3 Publisher: Inner Traditions Intl Ltd Pub. Date: 30 August, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Lucy in the sky with felines
Comment: a powerful, dazzling display of authority on subject matter that gives "animals" their rightful place among "humans" as proud and adept explorers of the more interesting entheogenic realms.
This work, without over doing it on the anthropomorphic side, renders our fellow animals in a positive light that suggests they, too, have their very own forms of consciousness.
Very enlightening, heady stuff!
Rating: 4
Summary: Evolution by inebriation!
Comment: This humorous and entertaining book deals with the use of psychedelic substances by our 4-footed and 6-legged friends. The author, an ethnobotanist, provides amazing examples of animals and insects seeking out and consuming psycho-active substances in their environments.
Samorini suggests that the desire to experience altered states of consciousness is a natural drive shared by all living beings. This urge is not confined to humans because animals/insects deliberately engage in these behaviors. His theory is that beings that consume these substances contribute to the evolution of their species by creating new patterns of behavior that are eventually adopted by the other members of the species, in what he humorously terms "evolution by inebriation."
He deals with crazed cows who love locoweed (Astralagus), elephants, slugs and snails, felines and catnip, reindeer and caribou tripping on the Amanita mushroom, goats that have a liking for coffee and khat (Catha Edulis), birds that binge (robins and the pink pigeon of the Mauritian islands), koalas, baboons and rats, plus insects like the house fly (Amanita again), moths, bees and butterflies.
Samorini concludes with the observation that a distinction must be made between a drug phenomenon that is natural and a drug problem that is a cultural problem. This insightful book concludes with a bibliography and index.
Other interesting titles on this topic includes DMT: The Spirit Molecule by Rick Strassman, Moksha by Aldous Huxley, Magic Mushrooms In Religion And Alchemy by Clark Heinrich and Persephone's Quest by R. Gordon Wasson.
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Title: Hallucinogens: A Reader by Charles S. Grob, Andrew Weil, Terence McKenna ISBN: 1585421669 Publisher: J. P. Tarcher Pub. Date: 03 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Breaking Open the Head : A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by DANIEL PINCHBECK ISBN: 0767907434 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 12 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Entheogens and the Future of Religion by Robert Forte, Albert Hofmann, R. Gordon Wasson, David Steindl-Rast, Jack Kornfield, Terence McKenna, Ann Shulgin, Alexander Shulgin, Robert Jesse, Dale Pendell ISBN: 1889725048 Publisher: Council on Spiritual Practices Pub. Date: 01 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences by Rick Strassman MD ISBN: 0892819278 Publisher: Inner Traditions Intl Ltd Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Magic Mushrooms in Religion and Alchemy by Clark Heinrich ISBN: 0892819979 Publisher: Inner Traditions Intl Ltd Pub. Date: 30 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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