22ME09 - Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy: Exploring Botanical Medicine through the Work of Mircea Eliade Format:Video bringing multiple challenges to those

bringing multiple challenges to those who cultivate it

Examples of some of the plants we discuss include Black Cohosh (Actaea racemosa)

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RH (AHG) and TBA

22ME09 - Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy: Exploring Botanical Medicine through the Work of Mircea Eliade Format:Video bringing multiple challenges to thoseSpeaker: Kenneth Proefrock, NMD When Mircea Eliade wrote the classic text with the same sub title in 1951, he was writing as a historian of religion, synthesizing the approaches of psychology, sociology, and ethnology to study the figure of the shaman', at once magician and medicine person, healer and miracle doer, psychopomp, priest, mystic, and poet. In similar fashion, we walk back through Eliade's work and draw out the botanical agents that have