Pharmako/Dynamis, Revised and Updated: Stimulating Plants, Potions, and Herbcraft
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| Rating | : | 4.93 (739 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1556438036 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 312 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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It's great, but not essential like the other two volumes Jake Kosinski It's great, but not essential like the other two volumes. It still tells a number of interesting and vitally important stories, but it's a much slimmer volume than the first and third.. druoak01 said Only For the Serious Ethnobotanists. Dale Pendall is not only a prolific writer educating his audience using highly visual writing. He causes the reader to become inspired and immersed in his descriptive historical fact, scientific identification including biological chemistry and mysterious nature of mind altering plants. You will learn a great deal from his writings and I highly recommend both this tome as well as its companion. The informative and literary elements of Dale Pendall's ethnobotanical manuals should be used in university classe. Mermama said VERY UNIQUE. And erudite scholarship and exploration of subjects. Kind of like when you start to Wiki something and keep linking until you have no idea how you got there. Here.
. A noted poet, he was the founding editor of the avant-garde magazine Kuksu and a cofounder of the Primitive Arts Institute and has led workshops on ethnobotany and ethnopoetics for the Naropa Institute and the Omega Institute. Also an experienced computer scientist, he lives with his wife Laura in California’s Sierra foothills. Pendell was part of the Oracular Madness theme camp at Burning Man for a number of years
The books form an interrelated suite of works that provide the reader with a unique, reliable, and often personal immersion in this medically, culturally, and spiritually fascinating subject. ***This paperback edition has a new introduction by the author and updated content.This is the second volume of North Atlantic Books’ updated paperback edition of Dale Pendell’s Pharmako trilogy, an encyclopedic study of the history and uses of psychoactive plants and related synthetics first published between 1995 and 2005. The Pharmako series also includes Pharmako/Poeia (which covers tobacco, alcohol, cannabis, opiates, salvia divinorum, and other substances) and Pharmako/Gnosis (which addresses psychedelics and shamanic plants).. All three books are beautifully designed and illustrated, and are written with unparalleled authority, erudition, playfulness, and range.Pharmako/Dynamis: Stimulating Plants, Potions, and Herbcraft includes a new introduction by the author and as in previous editions focuses on stimulants (including coffee, tea, chocolate, and coca and its derivatives) and empathogens (notably Ecstasy). The whole concoction is sprinkled with abundant quotations from famous writers, creating a literary brew as intoxicating as its s
It will be preserved amongst the scriptures of an entheogenic revival that will recognize the scribe Pendell as an inspired prophet and forerunner.” —Hakim Bey “Dale Pendell’s books are elegant tapestries of accurate chemistry, pharmacology, and botany, interwoven with rich poetical imagery. The students love them.” —David E. “A poet, ethnobotanist, and amateur chemist, he’s the best writer on drugs to come along since the late Terence McKenna.” —The Village Voice “Dale Pendell, most elegant eloquent writer on drugs because both scientist and poet, has exuded a book as charming as The Compleat Angler or Brillat-Savarin’s Physiology of Taste. I use them as textbooks in a lar