Noveltea's reviews. Interactive Clinical Pharmacology. Table of Contents : James Kent. Darwin's Pharmacy. Psychedelic Press UK. The Psychedelic Library. Darwin's Pharmacy: Sex, Plants, and the Evolution of the Noösphere (In Vivo, the Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science) (9780295990958): Richard M. Doyle. The Psychedelic Experience 2 - Das Marsh Chapel Experiment & Psychedelic Forum - Psilocybin als Entheogen - 11. April 2009 - 13. April 2009 - Kulturfabrik Wetzikon - Zürich. Darwin's Pharmacy: Plants as Superpower. The following is excerpted from Darwin's Pharmacy: Sex, Plants, and the Evolution of the Noösphere, available from University of Washington Press (2011). If we recognize the plant as an autonomous power which enters in order to put roots and flowers in us, then we distance ourselves by several degrees from the skewed perspective which imagines that spirit (Geist) is the monopoly of human beings and doesn't exist outside of them.
A new world-picture has to follow the planetary leveling; that is the task which the next century will take up. --Ernst Jünger, "The Plant as Autonomous Power. " Crawling with transactions, the contemporary Earth whirls and whorls, uncannily bereft of human agency. The apparent inability of humans to perceive the densely interconnected nature of their habitat threatens not only said ecosystem but the very self-definition of humanity itself as homo faber, an organism actively creating, rather than created by, her environment. It has to do with Gaia. Online Books : "The Psychedelic Experience" by Leary, Metzner, & Alpert.