Title: The alchemy of culture
Description: Intoxicants have played an important part in societies all over the world. This text shows that intoxicants have all had a central role in religious or social life, and that the altered states of consciousness produced by each intoxicant are shaped by cultural values.
Subjects: Psychotropic plants, Social aspects, Altered states of consciousness, Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience, Liquors, Stimulants