Although artifacts remaining from ancient cultures show mushrooms surrounded by human figures, the significance of such statues remained obscure for many years. Scientists were not aware of the existence of hallucinogenic mushrooms and their part in tribal rituals until the twentieth century. ...
An analysis of strands of human hair from a burial site in Menorca, Spain, indicates that ancient human civilizations used hallucinogenic drugs derived from plants. Previous evidence of prehistoric drug use in Europe has been based on indirect evidence such as the detection of opium alkaloids in B...
Hallucinogens of Plant Origin Interdisciplinary studies of plants sacred in primitive cultures yield results of academic and practical interest R Schultes 被引量: 0发表: 0年 Bufo alvarius: a potent hallucinogen of animal origin HallucinogensPlant ExtractsAnthropologists have long speculated that ancient ...
Many ancient and wonderful cultures lived their lives in this symbolic world and their rituals and practices give rise to symbolic statements. Here is a statement from a young Native American undergoing an initiation –“On the eighth night, another big bird appeared to me and I determined to ...
Humans have been seeing things that do not objectively exist and hearing voices that come only from their minds. In the Ancient Greece, hallucinations were represented by the goddess Pasithea. Neither the Greeks nor the Romans had an equivalent term for “hallucination.” While the Latin wordAluci...