PLANTS OF THE GODS

Plants of the Gods is a 208-page paperback by Richard Evans Schultes, the pioneering Harvard ethnobotanist whose fieldwork across the Amazon documented indigenous plant knowledge that might otherwise have been lost. This richly illustrated reference catalogs the psychoactive and visionary plants used by traditional cultures around the world.

The book draws directly on Schultes' decades of fieldwork alongside Indigenous healers and shamans in South America, as well as anthropological and botanical traditions from Mesoamerica, Africa, and Asia. It documents plants such as ayahuasca, peyote, and psilocybin mushrooms within the ceremonial and healing contexts their originating cultures have long used them.

Readers can use this book as a serious reference for understanding the cultural, historical, and botanical context of entheogenic plants, as a starting point for respectful study of shamanic traditions, or as a resource for understanding how these plants have shaped ritual and healing practices across cultures.

This book is special as a landmark of ethnobotanical scholarship—Schultes is widely regarded as the father of modern ethnobotany, and this text remains one of the most thorough, respectfully documented surveys of humanity's long relationship with sacred plants.

SPIRITUAL BENEFITS
ETHNOBOTANICAL WISDOM. SHAMANIC TRADITIONS. SACRED PLANT KNOWLEDGE.