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Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Rain Forest

10 best books like Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Rain Forest (Mark J. Plotkin): The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature, Simulacra and Simulation, The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell, Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge, DMT: The Spirit Molecule, One River, The Way of the Shaman, The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien, Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees, True Hallucinations

The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature
AuthorDavid George Haskell
A biologist reveals the secret world hidden in a single square meter of forest.

In this wholly original book, biologist David Haskell uses a one-square-meter patch of old-growth Tennessee forest as a window onto the entire natural world. Visiting it almost daily for one year to trace nature’s...
Simulacra and Simulation
AuthorJean Baudrillard
ISBN0472065211
The publication of Simulacra et Simulation in 1981 marked Jean Baudrillard's first important step toward theorizing the postmodern. Moving away from the Marxist/Freudian approaches that had concerned him earlier, Baudrillard developed in this book a theory of contemporary culture that relies...
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
AuthorAldous Huxley
ISBN0060595183
As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness. These two astounding essays are among the most profound studies of the effects of mind-expanding drugs written in this century. Contains the complete texts of The Doors of Perception ...
Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge
AuthorTerence McKenna
ISBN0553371304
This book is trash.

I picked up this book because of an interest in drug culture and history. The premise sounds interesting enough: we stopped doing shrooms and got worse as a society.

I'll summarize the book in case the premise sounds interesting to you, so you can get the gist without...
DMT: The Spirit Molecule
AuthorRick Strassman
ISBN0892819278
A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death & Mystical Experiences.
A clinical psychiatrist explores the effects of DMT: A behind-the-scenes look at the cutting edge of psychedelic research.

From 1990 to 1995 Dr. Rick Strassman conducted US DEA-approved...
One River
AuthorWade Davis
ISBN0684834960
The story of two generations of scientific explorers in South America—Richard Evans Schultes and his protégé Wade Davis—an epic tale of adventure and a compelling work of natural history.

In 1941, Professor Richard Evan Schultes took a leave from Harvard and disappeared into the...
The Way of the Shaman
AuthorMichael Harner
ISBN0062503731
Harner is the creator of what is called "Core Shamanism" (the ‘shamanism’ and practices of Sandra Ingerman, and Caitlín and John Matthews also fall under the Core Shamanism umbrella). Like Daniel C. Noel and Robert J. Wallis, I believe Harner's teachings are based on cultural appropriation...
The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien
AuthorOscar Hijuelos
ISBN0060975946
In The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien, Oscar Hijuelos brings to life the rambunctious Montez O'Brien family. In a small Pennsylvania town, Nelson O'Brien runs the Jewel Box Movie Theater, raising 14 daughters and a son with his wife, Mariela Montez. Through the eyes of Margarita, the eldest...
Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
AuthorThor Hanson
ISBN0465052614
From the award-winning author of The Triumph of Seeds and Feathers, a natural and cultural history of the buzzing wee beasties that make the world go round.
Bees are like oxygen: ubiquitous, essential, and, for the most part, unseen. While we might overlook them, they lie at the heart of relationships...
True Hallucinations
AuthorTerence McKenna
ISBN0062506528
Like a lovely psychedelic sophist, McKenna recounts his adventures with psychoactive plants in the Amazon Basin. Either a profoundly psychotic episode or a galvanizing glimpse into the true nature of time & mind, McKenna is a spellbinding storyteller, providing plenty of down-to-earth reasons...
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