Book Reviews About Mescaline And Peyote
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Book Reviews About Mescaline And Peyote
Doors of Perception - Heaven and Hell
In the first half of the book, doors of perception, originally a separate volume, Aldous Huxley offers an argument for the use hallucinogens (specifically, mescaline) as a means for opening up the thinking mind to new ideas and perceptions, or even as a method for jump starting human creativity in common people.
Not only does he offer compelling historical precedents and sound medical research, but he also reveals positive details about his own personal experimentation with the drug. As is always the case with Huxley's essays, his various hypotheses are very articulately expressed and not easily dismissed.
The second part of the book, heaven and hell, also originally published separately, Huxley introduces the idea that spiritual insight and personal revelation can also be achieved through the use of hallucinogens.
While just as articulately written and researched as the first volume, the idea that religious insight can be gained through drugs may offend some readers. Thought provoking reading for both professionals and amateurs interested in the positive potential of mind altering drugs.
Doors of Perception - Heaven and Hell People of the Peyote:
Huichol Indian History, Religion, And Survival
Explores the Huichol Indians of Mexico, who are best known for their worship of the peyote cactus. Ritually harvested each year, the peyote flower plays a central role in most Huichol observances of the annual ceremonial round.
The Huichols have been the most culturally persistent indigenous group in Mexico and have maintained their pre-Christian religion with only minimal accommodation to Catholicism.
People of the Peyote Peyote And Other Psychoactive Cacti
Describes growing peyote and other psychoactive cacti. Looks at growing, cloning, grafting, and extracting maximum output of mescaline and other alkaloids. Includes Peyote, San Pedro, Donana and other cacti.
Peyote has been used ceremonially by the native peoples of the Americas as a spiritual medicine for close to 3,000 years. Peyote and Other Psychoactive Cacti is a concise and readable guide to the art of cultivating peyote, San Pedro, and other entheogenic cacti.
Peyote And Other Psychoactive Cacti Peyote Religious Art:
Symbols of Faith and Belief
Nice book with information (and some full color images) about Native American art, the people who produce it, and other related topics. Discusses issues like the struggle for religious freedom taking place in our nations heartland.
Interesting read for any one interested in current Native American affairs, religious history, or traditional artwork.
Peyote Religious Art Peyote:
The Divine Cactus
The most complete authority on the peyote cactus, Lophophora williamsii. Includes every aspects of peyote. History, religious uses, ethnobotany, phytochemistry and pharmacology. For anyone interested in learning all aspects of this mystifying plant.
If you are looking for complete information on the Peyote Cactus, this is the book for you to buy. It is professional, well written, and informative.
Peyote: The Divine Cactus Sacred Cacti 3rd Edition: Trout's Notes
This is the most accurate series of books available about cacti that contain mescaline. Trout's Notes are not for the casual reader with an interest in mescaline. They are for the serious reader or researcher. Although most of the information covered would be understood by the educated reader.
Sacred Cacti (Part A) is a detailed look at peyote and other cacti that contain mescaline, with the exception of Trichocereus cacti. Includes a reference compendium on the properties, chemistry, and pharmacology of mescaline. With sections on its assays, reagents, isolation, and purification. A treatise on their preparation and use. A chapter on other succulents known to be used for medicinal and/or spiritual applications. This book is the one with info about growing cacti that contain mescaline. Not yet released.
Sacred Cacti (Part B) is a detailed look specifically at San Pedro and its relatives in the Trichocereus genus. Info about how to grow Trichocereus cacti can be found in Part A. This book has information about nearly everything else. Includes the botany, chemistry, and history of these beautiful and sometimes gigantic mescaline cacti. Black and white photos to help enable the reader to better recognize, or at least understand, what they may encounter in horticulture or in the field. Contains over 300 pages and more than 800 images.
Sacred Cacti (Part C) is a detailed look at all of the known cactus alkaloids other than mescaline. Including what is known concerning their physical properties, pharmacological actions, metabolism and toxicity, isolation abstracts, assays and identification criteria, their reported occurrences with percentages recovered and the means of identification that was used. Not yet released.
(Part A): Sacred Cacti
(Part B):
San Pedro & Trichocereus (Part C): Cactus Alkaloids