Ritual consumption of psychoactive fungi and plants in ancestral Costa Rica
Journal of Psychedelic Studies April 5, 2019 José M. Rodríguez Arce, Marco A. Arce Cerdas
Not much is known from an ethnohistorical perspective about the use of psychoactive substances in southern Central America; it is mainly through the archeological record that their presence in the past has been inferred. This article reviews evidence for the use of mind-altering plants and mushrooms in the societies that inhabited the current Costa Rican territory during pre-Columbian times,...