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Books about Salvia divinorum

Books about Salvia divinorum

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May 30, 2014 By John Reed Leave a Comment

Salvia divinorum Literature

Salvia BooksPharmako/poeia – Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft
By Dale Pendell

A masterful blend of poetry, science, and magic. Dale Pendell discusses the properties and personalities of a wide variety of psychoactive plants. Their effects are uniquely and magnificently conveyed. An ethnobotanical work of art! 

The Salvia divinorum chapter can be read here.


Salvia - Plants of the GodsPlants of the Gods
By Richard Evans Schultes, Albert Hofmann, and Christian Raetsch

“This is a greatly enlarged and expanded edition. The photographs are spectacular. A chapter on Salvia divinorum is included. This book is well-worth purchasing, even if you already own previous editions.” –Daniel J. Siebert

Of the ninety-one hallucinogenic plants beautifully illustrated and characterized in their lexicon, the authors elaborate in vivid detail on fourteen that have had profound significance for human beings. Drawing on fourteen years of field work, Dr. Richard Evans Schultes describes pilgrimages made to gather the sacred plants as well as the rites, prayers, songs, and dances associated with their use. His accounts are augmented by Dr. Albert Hofmann’s lucid explanations of the biochemistry of these psychotropic substances.

The text is accompanied by numerous illustrations, more than one hundred of which are in full color. Included are rare photographs – many published here for the first time – of plants and the people who have used them as well as ceremonies, sculptures, paintings, pottery, and weavings related to the ritual use of these sacred hallucinogens.

Psychdelic Shamanism - Salvia BooksPsychedelic Shamanism

By Jim DeKorne

The boldest exploration of psychedelic plants since Terence McKenna’s ‘Food of the Gods’. For the first time, theory and practice are linked in one consciousness-expanding book.

DeKorne is a “psychonaut”, exploring the “imaginal realms” through personal experimentation and scholarly research. He guides the reader through the history and lore of psychotropic plants, with advice on how to handle the eerie “entities” one encounters in “hyperspace”.

A master gardener, DeKorne explains in loving detail how to cultivate many of these plants and how to extract their powerful psychoactive alkaloids. He provides down-to-earth information on dosages, typical reactions, length and intensity of experience, dangerous combinations, traditional and ritual uses, and much more.

You can read the book for free on Google Books here

Book about Salvia divinorum - Psychedelic encyclopaedia

The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants
By Christian Rätsch

In the traditions of every culture, plants have been highly valued for their nourishing, healing, and transformative properties. The most powerful plants – those known to transport the human mind into other dimensions of consciousness – have traditionally been regarded as sacred. In The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants Christian Rätsch details the botany, history, distribution, cultivation, and preparation and dosage of more than 400 psychoactive plants. He discusses their ritual and medicinal usage, cultural artifacts made from these plants, and works of art that either represent or have been inspired by them.

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Salvia divinorum growers guideThe Salvia Divinorum Grower’s Guide

Learn how to grow the most mysterious of power plants . . . while it’s still legal. Complete cultivation instructions are disclosed as well as sources for obtaining cuttings of this very rare plant. This is the only guide of this sort.

 

Sage Spirit

This is a book that truly contains much “sage” wisdom. (…) Dr. Ball describes many of his personal experiences, shares meaningful insights, and provides helpful advice on using this herb as a tool for cultivating practical spirituality. Sage Spirit should be read by all who seek to understand the nature of Salvia divinorum, especially as it relates to human consciousness, personal growth, and spiritual development. – Daniel Siebert, Sagewisdom.org

Salvia Divinorum: Shamanic Plant Medicine

Inventor of numerous groundbreaking herbal formulas, Shaahin Cheyene is a fifth generation herbalist from Iran. Cheyene consults for pharmaceutical companies as well as natural products companies on the use of indigenous and shamanic plants in modern day products. Cheyene was introduced to Salvia Divinorum by the late Terrence McKenna.

Drugs of the Dreaming

Using a multidisciplinary approach that draws from ethnobotany, anthropology, medical research, chemistry, and the recorded experiences of “psychonauts” who have experimented with many of these compounds, the authors have compiled a rigorously researched, fascinating, exhaustive survey of the planet’s oneirogens, ranging all the way from recently popularized herbs such as Salvia divinorum and Calea zacatechichi to ancient Egyptian, Greek, Celtic, Amazonian, African and medieval potions; to vitamins and hormones; to dream-inducing cheeses and fish species!

Peopled Darkness: Perceptual Transformation through Salvia divinorum

When James Arthur decided to experiment with Salvia divinorum, a Mexican visionary plant sacred to the Mazatecs, he was expecting a hallucinogenic experience-but not the transformation of his entire view of the world. With repeated sessions over the course of several years, he began returning to the same inner landscape, where he found himself entering a unique state of “thoughtless awareness” and accessing a mode of language that articulated a distinctive form of understanding and communication.

Divining Ecstasy

Salvia Divinorum is one of the most powerful psychoactive substances in the world. Over 100 times the potency of LSD, this plant is being used by the Mazatec shamans and laymen alike for divnation, healing meditation and the exploration of conciousness. In this book, we take an insightful adn provocative look at this ancient plant and its newly discovered properties.

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Salvia Media Controversy

Salvia Media Controversy

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May 29, 2014 By John Reed Leave a Comment

Salvia Media Controversy

Media coverage


Salvia Media ControversySalvia divinorum
has been more and more popular in news coverage as of late. All the news coverage tends to overlook or downplay the studies and reports showing the almost non-existent negative effects of the drug. They also tend to involve questioning the legality and safety of the drug with overly dramatic headlines using words such as “dangerous” or “deadly.” These stories almost all revolve around younger adults and teenagers, as parents are a driving force behind the banning of the drug.

Many times, journalists report Salvia divinorum being compared or linked to LSD, due to the very strong potency each holds, but that is where the similarities end.  Chemically strangers, salvinorin A is found naturally occurring in a single plant, while the making of LSD is dependent on several chemicals, including anhydrous hydrazine and chloroform, both of which are extremely toxic and carcinogenic. The effects of each compound differ in duration and description, LSD typically last much longer (8-12 hours) than Salvia divinorum (a few minutes) as well.

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Brett’s law

Brett’s law was passed prompted by the suicide of a 17 year old Delaware student Brett Chidester in 2006, making Salvia divinorum a Schedule I controlled substance in said state. According to the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, this dictates it has a high potential for abuse, no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States and a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision. Due to the lack of negative side effects found so far and the small amount of research concerning Salvia divinorumin general, many think this move is far too preemptive, as this will put a stop to all current research with the drug including any possible medical benefits that have yet to be discovered.

The Controlled Substances Act is controversial in itself, some believing it was only enacted by Ronald Reagan to help control the ongoing war protests.

Most of the news coverage seems to sensationalize the impact Salvia divinorum had in the death of Brett Chidester, downplaying many of the other potential elements involved. The fact that his parents were divorced, if there were any other drugs involved, and even the cause of death (carbon monoxide poisoning) were all unexplored paths. Some have commented that his death might not have been suicide at all, but only his attempt at making the drug more potent and longer lasting by smoking it in an enclosed space to increase absorption. Whatever the true reason, people against the regulation of Salvia divinorum keep pointing out that the drug is only that, an inanimate object, people have a right to choose what they use as far as their body is concerned. Regardless of this being the only reported case of suicide involving Salvia divinorum, there has been a heavy push to put it on a nationwide Schedule I listing. This push has been repeatedly stopped for reasons ranging from the lack of research, lack of popularity (which may be soon null), and even separation of church and state (due to some Native Americans still using the drug in their religious ceremonies).

Other

YouTube has been the main cause of contention as of late concerning Salvia divinorum with videos of teenagers, adults, and even former “Hannah Montana” star, Miley Cyrus consuming the drug. This is, needless to say, exponentially increasing the drugs popularity to which most proponents are ardently against. They contend that by increasing its popularity, especially in such a negative light (by younger teenagers doing silly things), it is just making it easier to render illegal, thus making it more of a burden for the people who use it for more spiritual and philosophical reasons.

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These videos are also being used as evidence in courtrooms for reasons to deem it a controlled substance. Showing kids losing the ability to speak intelligibly, and laughing uncontrollably, then arguing that they could drive a car or jump out a window. Proponents say the same is true of alcohol, however that is not on the Schedule I list yet.

There is even a film in the works by the company Imedi Films titled ‘The Salvia Experiment.’  It is in pre-production as of yet, but planned to be screened at the American Film Market it Santa Monica, California in October of 2012. Although said to be ‘Based on real salvia trip stories’ this is a movie and likely to be dubious at best as pertaining to the reality of the drug.  The press release states: The Salvia Experiment focuses on a remote lab, where six young psychology students will explore the effects of the most psychoactive plant ever discovered: Salvia Divinorum. After prolonged exposure to “The Experiment”, they begin to slide into a fractured state of consciousness where they can no longer differentiate reality from fantasy.

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