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Psychedelics, Deep Ecology, and Wild Mind
In 1969, in an essay in Earth House Hold, Gary Snyder wrote that “Peyote and acid have a curious way of tuning some people in to the local soil.” While exceptions abound, some of the more salient characteristics of the psychedelic revolution that blossomed in the 1960s and continue to this day are an embracing of things “natural,” including natural foods, natural childbirth (and breast-feeding), an easy acceptance of nudity and the human body, and, for many, a return to earth-centered living. Many favored the outdoors as a place to open their minds in the new way, and interest in vision quest and traditional nature-based lifestyles followed. …
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Pharmako/Gnosis: Plant Teachers and the Poison Path
This final volume covers the visionary plants: the contemporary uses of plant poisons, historic cultural lore, and shamanic rites. …
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