This chapter describes the traditions, training, alterations of consciousness, healing ritual, and ethnomedical ideologies of Cannabis sativa, which is the oldest, most widely used, yet least considered plant teacher of the psychedelic renaissance. After briefly summarizing the recent literature about the deeply intertwined histories of Cannabis sativa and its intimate relationship with human...
It seems that for the lay person, the schizophrenic may come to represent the sheer image of madness and the archetype of the madman. But although this severe form of mental illness, characterised by bizarre delusions and vivid hallucinations, may appear as old as mankind, it is in fact a modern psychiatric nosology, approximately one hundred years old. I suggest that autobiographies written by...