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By Dorothy P. Abram,Laura Mernoff

selecting seven fragrant crops with particular psychoactive homes, the writer describes the various states of awareness which are completed, manipulated, and reworked through the folk and cultures that use them in really good methods, either some time past and within the modern world.

Focusing at the function that smell performs in therapeutic and non secular adventure, the writer explores using the aromatic tulsi plant either in Hindu women's ritual and to regard psychological and actual diseases. She analyses the looks of the lotus in sacred Egyptian customs, and as a version of the method of mental swap via metaphorical trips, as witnessed in shamanic perform and its relation to the Biblical ebook of task. creating a major contribution to the knowledge of the therapeutic nation, the ebook is stimulating studying for all those that paintings with and have an interest in aromatics, the feel of odor, or the character of non secular experience.

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