Sentences with phrase «psychoactive plant»
A psychoactive plant is a type of plant that contains chemicals that can affect a person's mind or mood when consumed or used. These plants have the ability to alter one's perception, emotions, or consciousness. Full definition
Today this bitter tea, also known as hoasca, has become the sacramental ritual of two modern religions in Brazil; one of them, the União do Vegetal (UDV) church, has invited McKenna, an expert on psychoactive plants, and other research teams, to scrutinise this sacred brew.
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The man behind The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food is back with a new, off - the - beaten - path project — and it involves psychoactive plants.
A high frequency trader, Mr. Traumberg starts taking hallucinogenic drugs, which cause him to alter the algorithms he uses for trading and begin making «outsider» paintings that examine psychoactive plants.
The buzz around Fred Tomaselli's meticulous painting - collage hybrids frequently centers on the work's more loaded materials — ephedrine, aspirin, saccharine, an assortment of brand - name pharmaceuticals, marijuana, and other psychoactive plants — which Tomaselli assembles into kaleidoscopic patterns and scenes; looking at his pictures, one might infer that «using» a drug as a raw material should constitute or symbolize «being on drugs.»
The psychoactive plant is native to the western Pacific, where communities in Polynesia have been drinking it in tea form for thousands of years.
«You'll likely see Leonotis leonurus (a psychoactive plant from the Mint family referred to as lion's tail or dagga) hit store shelves soon, but the bigger worry will be synthetics,» Stogner warns.
Philosopher and ethnobotanist Terrence McKenna believed that the boundaries between machines, animals, plants, biotechnology, and art were becoming more fluid and would lead to a transformation of human consciousness, and he traveled to the Amazon in search of transformative experience, which he found through indigenous shamanism and the psychoactive plant «ayahuasca».
It is believed by some that the mythical «flying carpet» of Central folk tradition stems from the use of Harmel (Perganum Harmala) or Syrian Rue, a psychoactive plant, in the red dye found in ancient weavings.
Her ideas were later taken up by Terence McKenna in his exploration of human evolution and our relationship to psychoactive plants.
They are characterised by the use of unorthodox materials, such as over-the-counter medicines, prescription pills, herbal remedies and psychoactive plants, creating parallels between the mind - altering properties of these substances and the long - standing idea of painting as a window on another reality.