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The Plant Intelligence
SACRED MEDICINES AND THE TEACHERS WITHIN
Every native culture on earth found them. The ancient Greeks built a 2,000-year mystery religion around them. The Vedas praised them in 120 hymns. The Mazatec healer Maria Sabina sang them into being. Now researchers at Johns Hopkins are proving what shamans knew thousands of years ago: certain plants carry an intelligence that goes past our own. This course does not romanticize them or hype them up. It maps them carefully — the brain science of what these substances do to the default mode network, the study of how humans found them, the history of how whole civilizations organized themselves around them, and the clinical evidence now being published in Nature, JAMA, and the New England Journal of Medicine. Fourteen lessons. The full arc from Terence McKenna's stoned ape to the MAPS Phase III trials. The truth about what these plants are, what they do, and why every civilization that met them built a religion around the experience.