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The Chemistry of Mind-Altering Drugs; History, Pharmacology, and Cultural Context
by Daniel M. Perrine
Publisher:
American Chemical Society 
Year:
1996 
Reviewed by Lux
5/31/2007

Some of the material in this book is irreducibly technical and will be intelligible only to people with backgrounds in chemistry. However, the novice reader can easily skim the brief technical digressions and understand the majority of the book.
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Eduardo el Curandero: The Words of a Peruvian Healer
by Eduardo Calderon, Richard Cowan, Douglas Sharon & F.Kaye Sharon
Publisher:
North Atlantic Books 
Year:
2000 (revised edition) 
Reviewed by David Arnson
5/18/2007

...a fascinating book about a Peruvian shaman who performs (or performed) healing ceremonies employing San Pedro cactus as the sacrament and medicine. Evidently this book is a transcription of a filmed documentary that took place in 1978. Even with nothing but the black-and-white still shots from the film as illustration, the book sustains the reader’s interest from cover to cover. [ read more ]

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The Age of Entheogens & The Angels' Dictionary
by Jonathan Ott
Publisher:
Natural Products Co. 
Year:
1995 
Reviewed by Rendi Case
5/18/2007

Two books under one cover: a call to draw us out of the Dark Ages in which we live into a brighter future where people can reconnect with the spirit through the immediate experience of the sacred through the ingestion of entheogens (sacred plants, hallucinogens, psychedelics or what have you); and a dictionary of terms related to divine inebriants, shamanism, psychonautica and the like. [ read more ]


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