Psychoactive Plants & Fungi: A cultural guide to 42 plants and fungi that shift the mind by Liam Engel

Psychoactive Plants & Fungi: A cultural guide to 42 plants and fungi that shift the mind by Liam EngelWhat connects Siberian shamans, Amazonian healers, medieval monks and Silicon Valley biohackers? Why have humans across every culture sought out plants that alter perception, mood and consciousness? And how did humble species like the betel leaf or kanna come to shape entire rituals, economies and belief systems? Psychoactive Plants & Fungi is a vivid, accessible introduction to 42 remarkable botanicals that have captivated, healed and transformed

After his interest was piqued by a 19th-century photo of a camel train in a country town

Is the Sun a planet or a star

Scout and her fellow sentient appliances discover that there are sinister forces in their midst

to the screech of the galahs

especially for cryptic or elusive species

interesting and useful native plants

and finally offer her a chance to escape

One of the group has a secret that the sniper is willing to kill for

until I accidentally vaporized my maths teacher

community and family and secrets and what's going on underneath'

Within a few pages

this dictionary was originally published in French as the Dictionnaire des Symboles