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The amount of peer-reviewed research on psychedelics has accordingly been limited due to the difficulty of getting approval from institutional review boards. [72] Furthermore, scientific studies on entheogens present some significant challenges to researchers, including philosophical questions relating to ontology, epistemology and objectivity ...
Psychedelic: South America Brosimum acutifolium: Latex: Bufotenin: Psychedelic: Bufotenin has been identified as a component in the latex of the takini (Brosimum acutifolium) tree, which is used as a psychedelic by South American shamans. [10] Cannabis (and cannabis concentrates) Cannabis spp. Flower: Cannabinoids (THC, and CBD) Psychedelic
In 1993 by David E. Nichols, Mark Geyer, George Greer, Charles Grob, and Dennis McKenna founded the Heffter Research Institute, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that promotes research with classic hallucinogens and psychedelics, predominantly psilocybin, to contribute to a greater understanding of the mind and to alleviate suffering. Founded ...
The Maya, Olmecs, and Aztecs have well-documented entheogenic complexes. [3] North American cultures also have a tradition of entheogens. In South America, especially in Peru, the archaeological study of cultures like Chavin, Cupisnique, Nazca [4] and Moche, [5] have demonstrated the use of entheogens through archaeobotanical, iconographic and paraphernalia.
Terence McKenna advocated the exploration of altered states of mind via the ingestion of naturally occurring psychedelic substances; [5] [32] [43] for example, and in particular, as facilitated by the ingestion of high doses of psychedelic mushrooms, [26] [55] ayahuasca, and DMT, [6] which he believed was the apotheosis of the psychedelic ...
Nicotiana rustica (Maya: piziet). Tobacco (Nicotiana spp.) contains the alkaloid nicotine, which affects the nervous system.Tobacco was smoked, inhaled, chewed, and occasionally mixed with the leaves of Datura, (another genus in the family Solanaceae, but, unlike Nicotiana, one rich in deliriant tropane alkaloids), which enhanced the hallucinogenic effect of the activity.
Intensive Latin: First Year and Review (1997) The World of Classical Myth: Gods and Goddesses, Heroines and Heroes, with Blaise Daniel Staples (1994, ISBN 0-89089-575-9) Persephone's Quest: Entheogens and the Origins of Religion, with R. Gordon Wasson, Stella Kramrisch and Jonathan Ott (1988) Latin: A Concise Structural Course (1987)
Ott has written eight books, co-written five, and contributed to four others, and published many articles in the field of entheogens.His comprehensive 1993 book, Pharmacotheon: Entheogenic Drugs, Their Plant Sources and History has been described as one of the important works on the subject of entheogenic drugs. [2]