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Dale Pendell: Salvia divinorum
Pharmako/poeia
The Salvia divinorum chapter
by Dale Pendell
(This site is created and maintained by Daniel Siebert)
Dale Pendell has graciously agreed to share this, the Salvia divinorum chapter from his extraordinary
book: Pharmako/Poeia: Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft. Published by Mercury House, San
Francisco, 1995. There is a tremendous amount of depth in this piece of writing. Every time I read it I
discover something new. Pendell has distilled the essence of the Salvia divinorum experience into a vessel
of poetry.
If you would like information on ordering this book, please go here.
"An epic poem on plant humours, an abstruse alchemic treatise, an experiential
narrative jigsaw puzzle, a hip and learned wild-nature reference text, a comic paen
to cosmic consciousness, an ecological handbook, a dried-herb pastiche, a
counterculture encyclopedia of ancient fact and lore."
— Allen Ginsberg
"Dale Pendell reactivates the ancient connection between the bardic poet and the
shaman."
— Terence McKenna
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