The alchemy of culture

By Richard Rudgley

Subjects: Psychotropic plants, Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience, Altered states of consciousness, Social aspects

Description: Intoxicants have played an important part in societies all over the world. This text shows that intoxicants have all had a central role in religious or social life, and that the altered states of consciousness produced by each intoxicant are shaped by cultural values.