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In his latest book, Mesquite, Gary Paul Nabhan employs humor and contemplative reflection to convince readers that they have never really glimpsed the essence of what he calls “arboreality.” As a Franciscan brother and ethnobotanist who has often mixed mirth with earth, laughter with landscape, food with frolic, Nabhan now takes on a large, many-branched question: What does it means to be a tree, or, accordingly, to be in a deep and intimate relationship...

"World-renowned anthropologist and ethnopharmacologist Christian Ratsch provides the latest scientific updates to this classic work on psychoactive flora by two eminent researchers. • Numerous new and rare color photographs complement the completely revised and updated text. • Explores the uses of hallucinogenic plants in shamanic rituals throughout the world. • Cross-referenced by plant, illness, preparation, season of collection, and chemical...

This documentary captures a glimpse into the ancient healing practices of the Amazon rainforest's medicine men, or shamans, whose knowledge of indigenous plants and rituals is threatened by deforestation, modernization and ecotourism. It follows eight people from the developed world with a variety of common and serious ailments who embark on a one-month healing journey into the heart of the Amazon jungle. Working with a handful of shamans experienced...