Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs (eBook)

Proceedings from the 2022 Conference

The McKenna Academy of Natural Philosophy (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
818 Seiten
Synergetic Press (Verlag)
978-1-957869-24-7 (ISBN)

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Own the next chapter in the worlds most enduring exploration of psychoactive medicine and human potentialand help shape the ethical, ecological, and visionary renaissance unfolding now.For anyone shaping the future of psychedelics, fromacademics, clinicians, ethnobotanists, psychedelic practitioners, and visionary thinkers, ESPD55 is essential readingan authoritative reference and a catalyst for future inquiry.Enter the living dialogue where science meets spirit, ecology meets consciousness, and ancestral intelligence meets cutting-edge research.For more than half a century, Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs has stood as the foundational gathering point for scholars exploring the interface of ancestral plant wisdom and modern psychedelic science. In this landmark continuation of that legacy, ESPD55 brings together the proceedings of the 2022 conferencean extraordinary convergence of more than thirty leading thinkers in ethnobotany, pharmacology, ecology, anthropology, consciousness studies, and Indigenous plant medicine traditions.Curated by Dennis McKenna, PhD, and hosted by the McKenna Academy of Natural Philosophy, this volume captures a moment at the frontier of a global psychedelic renaissance. With contributions from some of the most respected voices in the fieldincluding Sir Ghillean Prance, Wade Davis, Andrew Weil, Monica Gagliano, Glenn Shepard, Paul Stamets, Jonathan Lu, and many othersESPD55 offers a rigorous, multidimensional exploration of how psychoactive plants and fungi shape culture, cognition, and healing.Across six thematic spheresthe ethnosphere, phytosphere, mycosphere, faunasphere, archeosphere, and sonospherereaders are invited into groundbreaking research and cultural insight spanning continents and knowledge systems. Featured chapters include:Ancient Psychoactive Plant Use in Eurasia Mark D. Merlin, PhDCoca: The Divine Leaf of Immortality Wade DavisThe Therapeutic Potential of Coca Andrew WeilEthnopharmacology of Psychoactive Substances in Chinese Culture Jonathan LuThe Ark: Biocultural Sustainability for the San Pedro Cactus Laurel Sugden & Josip Orlovac Del RoThe Harpys Gift & the Jaguars Curse: Matsigenka Hunting Medicines Glenn H. ShepardFrom the ceremonial use of Ephedra and San Pedro to emerging ethical frameworks for ayahuasca sustainability, from cognitive evolution studies to sonic ethnomedicine, this book illuminates both the ancient past and the unfolding future of entheogenic research.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.12.2025
• Zusatzinfo: black & white
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Test in der Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Alkaloids • Amanita muscaria • Ayahuasca • ayahuasca and mushrooms study • banisteriopsis • biognosis ethnopharmacology • books on psychedelics • caapi • Consciousness • Dimethyltryptamine • DMT • entheogens book • entheogen science • ethnobotany • ethnobotany and consciousness • ethnopharmacologic search volume • ethnopharmacology book • fly agaric • hallucinogenic • Iboga • ibogaine • indigenous pharmacology research • indigenous plant wisdom • integrative psychedelic therapy • intoxication • Iquitos • Kava • kratom • LSD • MAO • Maoi • McKenna Academy book • mescaline • Mushrooms • narcotic • Peyote • Pharmacodynamics • phytochemistry of psychoactive plants • plant-based psychedelics research • Plant Medicine • plant medicine for consciousness • plant medicine handbook • plant neurochemistry psychedelics • Psilocybin • psychedelic academic journal compilation • psychedelic and consciousness expansion • psychedelic and indigenous knowledge • psychedelic ceremony and ritual studies • psychedelic consciousness studies • psychedelic culture and healing • psychedelic drug anthropology • psychedelic drug culture studies • psychedelic drug evolution • psychedelic drug history • psychedelic drug policy history • psychedelic drug science illustrated • psychedelic drug symposium proceedings • psychedelic ethnobiology research • psychedelic ethnography book • Psychedelic Integration Guide • psychedelic intervention strategies • psychedelic medicine and healing • psychedelic medicine in modern science • psychedelic medicine symposium • psychedelic neuroscience overview • psychedelic pharmacognosy • psychedelic plant medicine • psychedelic plant spirituality • psychedelic plant therapeutics • psychedelic renaissance book • psychedelic research 1967-2025 • psychedelic research anthology • psychedelic research methodology • psychedelic retreat science • psychedelic science and spirituality • psychedelic science book • psychedelic science reference book • psychedelics in medicine • psychedelic studies anthology • psychedelic substance ethnography • psychedelic substance research • psychedelic therapy and mental health • psychedelic therapy manual • psychedelic therapy research collection • Psychoactive drugs • psychoactive drugs research • psychoactive plant symposium book • psychoactive substances anthropology • Psychology • Psychopharmacology • psychotomimetics • Psychotropic • Ritual • Salvia divinorum • Shaman • shamanic • shamanic plant rituals • Snuff • snuffs • Stimulants • Toxicity • traditional medicine psychedelics • tryptamine • tryptamines • Visions • Yage
• ISBN-10: 1-957869-24-0 / 1957869240
• ISBN-13: 978-1-957869-24-7 / 9781957869247