Plants and Religion

Perspectives on the academic study of plants and spirituality

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The Working Group on Plants and Religion is dedicated to exploring perspectives on plants in religious, historical, anthropological, medical, and psychological contexts.  Though founded at the University of Florida, it ...
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On the Origins of Ayahuasca – New Article from Beyer’s Singing to the Plants

Steve Beyer has posted a new article over at Singing to the Plants. Steve is a compelling writer and extremely thorough scholar, and the new article raises some truly fascinating points in ...
April 26th, 2012
Topic: Anthropology, Ayahuasca, Shamanism Tags: None

WGPR Symposium Program

We are very happy to announce that program for the symposium has been put together. As announced before, the symposium will run from Dec 15-17, with a really exciting range of speakers ...
December 7th, 2011
Topic: General, Religion Tags: , , , ,

ADHS interviews with Rick Doblin of MAPS

The ADHS Points blog is going to be running a 3-part interview series this week with Rock Doblin of MAPS, the final posts of which will cover ayahuasca, ibogaine, and ...
November 29th, 2011
Topic: Therapeutics Tags: ,

Traditional knowledge of the jaguar shamans of Yuruparí

The following information has been posted by UNESCO following the meeting of the sixth session of the Intergovernmental Committee in Bali, Indonesia, during the month of November, 2011. It was ...
November 28th, 2011
Topic: Shamanism Tags: , ,