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#469: Dr. Mark Plotkin on Ethnobotany, Real vs. Fake Shamans, Hallucinogens, and the Dalai Lamas of South America
The Tim Ferriss Show
What Is Ethno Botany?
Much of my fascination and thinking on ethno botany comes from reading the work of sholtes. The bottom line is that schultes believed, and taughtth rest of us to believe that much of human culture is based on our relationship with plants. There is evidence to indicate that many of the world's religions had their beginning and the effect of these magical plants on the minds of our ancestors. These antheogenic, hallucinogenic compounds in the hands of shamans who i work with are essentially vegetable scalpels which allow them to understand, analyze, treat, and sometimes cure emotional ailments. And we'll be digging under the hood with this quite a bit....
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