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Peyote Effect September 4, 2018 Alexander S. Dawson
This chapter turns to the white shamans. This is not a term of endearment, as it is often linked to notions of charlatanism, foolishness, and more lately, cultural appropriation. Beginning with Carlos Castaneda, several generations of white shamans have deployed images tied to Wixárika peyotism in order to authorize their special wisdom. Resisting the temptation to dismiss them in a wholesale...
Peyote Effect September 4, 2018 Alexander S. Dawson
In this chapter, we consider the moment when European and American scientists “discovered” peyote. John Briggs was one of the first Americans to write about peyote (in 1887), followed shortly by James Mooney, who recounted his experiences among the Kiowa of Oklahoma at the Anthropological Association in Washington DC in 1891. Around this time, the German scientist Louis Lewin encountered peyote...
Peyote Effect September 4, 2018 Alexander S. Dawson
We return to Mexico in this chapter, exploring the particular fallout for the psychiatrist Salvador Roquet after peyote was outlawed in Mexico in 1971. This ban grew out of circumstances that mirrored those in the United States: a growing fear among conservatives that non-indigenous youths were increasingly consuming drugs, as well as a sense that this marked a civilizational crisis. Hippy...
Cultura y Droga July 3, 2018 Matteo Politi, Fabio Friso, Jacques Mabit 19 citations
Objective. This article aims to give an overview of the major American centers using traditional herbal medicine or their derivatives in the treatment of substance dependence. Methodology. For the purpose of this article we have considered a small number of plants hailing from South, Central and North America. The research has been based on scientific literature, information exchange with...
June 14, 2018 Carl Alexander Roberts, Catharine Montgomery 1 citation
Ecstasy/3,4 Methylenedioxymethamphetamine is a popular recreational drug that is a potent indirect monoaminergic agonist that has structural similarities to mescaline and amphetamine. It is presumed that interfering with regulatory serotonin signalling with chronic ecstasy use may result in psychobiological harm. This chapter reviews evidence from studies assessing mood, cognition, pain, sleep...
Oxford University Press eBooks May 24, 2018 Christopher Partridge 34 citations
For a number of complex reasons, humans are fascinated by drugs and altered states. Even if only momentarily, psychoactive substances lift people out of the ennui and pain of their everyday lives and, in some cases, introduce them to new visions of reality. It is no surprise, therefore, that the use of recreational drugs is rising. While, sadly, this also means that levels of addiction are...
Psychotropes April 23, 2018 Christian Sueur 3 citations
L’utilisation thérapeutique des substances psychédéliques a été concomitante de la découverte du LSD et de la Mescaline après la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Ces utilisations thérapeutiques concernaient, à l’origine, essentiellement « l’accompagnement » des psychothérapies (thérapies psycholytiques), le traitement des addictions (alcool, puis opiacés) et, du fait de leurs capacités anxiolytiques et...
March 29, 2018 Ian McCabe
The correspondence between Bill Wilson and Carl Jung dates back to 1945. This was made possible through Margarita Luttichau who acted as an intermediary between both men. She was a student of Carl Jung and was also a protege of Bill Wilson. Frank McLynn, an astute biographer of Jung&s;s work, wrote that the only benefit Jung saw in lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) was that it could introduce...
South African Journal of Botany March 1, 2018 Lungelo Given Buthelezi, Sydney Mavengahama, Nontuthuko Rosemary Ntuli 1 citation
both pollen and fermented starch have been utilized in Sri Lanka, India, Japan, Central America, Australia, and central Africa as male aphrodisiacs and in intoxicating beverages at ceremonial events.In Limpopo, South Africa, our fieldwork revealed that widespread damage to Encephalartos populations is caused by extraction for traditional ritual purposes as well as for recreational drug use.In...
South African Journal of Botany March 1, 2018 Samson B. M. Chimphango, John B. O. Ogola, Sipho Thulane Maseko et al. 5 citations
both pollen and fermented starch have been utilized in Sri Lanka, India, Japan, Central America, Australia, and central Africa as male aphrodisiacs and in intoxicating beverages at ceremonial events.In Limpopo, South Africa, our fieldwork revealed that widespread damage to Encephalartos populations is caused by extraction for traditional ritual purposes as well as for recreational drug use.In...