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An Italian ethnobotanist explores the remarkable propensity of wild animals to seek out and use psychoactive substances.

• 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.

• Reveals drug use to be a natural instinct.

From caffeine-dependent goats to nectar addicted ants, the animal kingdom offers amazing examples of wild animals and insects seeking out and consuming the psychoactive substances in their environments. 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

Animals and Psychedelics

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An Italian ethnobotanist explores the remarkable propensity of wild animals to seek out and use psychoactive substances. • Throws out... Read more

    Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
    Publication Date: 9/26/2002
    ISBN13: 9780892819867, 978-0892819867
    ISBN10: 0892819863

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

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    An Italian ethnobotanist explores the remarkable propensity of wild animals to seek out and use psychoactive substances.

    • 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.

    • Reveals drug use to be a natural instinct.

    From caffeine-dependent goats to nectar addicted ants, the animal kingdom offers amazing examples of wild animals and insects seeking out and consuming the psychoactive substances in their environments. 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

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