Animals and Psychedelics: The Natural World and the Instinct to Alter Consciousness
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| Rating | : | 4.96 (925 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0892819863 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 112 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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The author's fascinating accounts of mushroom-loving reindeer, intoxicated birds, and drunken elephants ensure that readers will never view the animal world in quite the same way again.. • Reveals drug use to be a natural instinct. • Throws out behaviorist theories that claim animals have no consciousness. • Offers a completely new understanding of the role psychedelics play in the development of consciousness in all species. Author Giorgio Samorini explores this little-known phenomenon and suggests that, far from being confined to humans, the desire to experience altered states of consciousness is a natural drive shared by all living beings and that animals engage in these behaviors deliberately. Rejecting the Western cultural assumption that using drugs is a negative action or the result of an illness, Samorini opens our eyes to the possibility that beings who consume psychedelics--whether humans or animals--contribute to the e
The question of intentionality and the natural inclination toward intoxication is neatly crafted together and explored, and gives the impression that this field of study is well worth further investigation by researchers.” (Psychedelic Press UK, January 2013)"Samorini's observations support his controversial hypothesis that human drug-taking derives from a universal biologically-based drive to alter consciousness. “Giorgio Samorini’s text is a beautiful little object. This perspective on drug-taking behavior can only enlarge our own views about the phenomenon which, in many humans, has become so contentious." (Rick Strassman, author of DMT: The Spirit Molecule and Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, U)"Samorini offers support for not only the theory of a biological basis of the pursuit of altered states, but also the possibility that this
Ethnobotanist and ethnomycologist Giorgio Samorini has studied the use of psychoactive substances for more than twenty years, conducting research in Africa, Latin America, India, and Europe. He lives in Italy. . He is editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Eleusis, Plants and Psychoactive Com
Amazon Customer said Four Stars. Interesting. Lucy in the sky with felines a powerful, dazzling display of authority on subject matter that gives "animals" their rightful place among "humans" as proud and adept explorers of the more interesting entheogenic realms.This work, without over doing it on the anthropomorphic side, renders our fellow animals in. Rehashed mishmash funkendub The author admits that this is largely a recap of Siegel's 1989 Intoxication. Like a skipping stone, Samorini only knicks the tops off of profound ideas. There's no depth of natural history or chemistry to be found in this short book. To make matters worse, the translation is hor