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"Although the use of hallucinogenic drugs such as ayahuasca is common, many cultures use a strong repetitive rhythm or beat to create that state; the Native American Ojibwa wanbeno, for instance, use drumming, rattling, chanting, naked dancing, and handling of live coals.7 Drumming is particularly effective in producing a highly concentrated focus; a number of studies have shown that listening to the beat of a drum causes the brain to slow down into a trancelike state.8 As Native Americans discovered, even intense heat, as in a sweat lodge, can transport individuals to an altered state." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"So the body rarely gets the chance to make sufficient amounts of such hallucinogenic drugs to cause an addiction. Yet regular consumption of alcohol can eventually increase this chance. Some people should not risk drinking alcohol at all. Asians in general and Chinese and Koreans in particular lack the enzyme that breaks down the toxic acetaldehyde so even small amounts of alcohol lead to a fast pulse, abdominal pain, and a red face. For this reason, alcoholism is rarely existent in Asia; Asians would simply die in large numbers from alcohol poisoning." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"It has to be achieved in slow increments; that is why rebirthing or the use of hallucinogenic drugs is so dangerous. There is no such thing as a weekend enlightenment where a new kind of consciousness can be achieved. Now we see how someone can give up booze and drugs and find God. Feelings start their rise, and ideas take over to set in motion our inner drug factory. If the addict is lectured about the evil of drugs, activity in the amygdala goes down while at the same time activity in the OBFC goes up, responding to the words and beliefs of the lecturer." - Dr. Arthur Janov, Primal Healing: Access the Incredible Power of Feelings to Improve Your Health (Get the book.)

"Interestingly, a dreaming brain is not all that different from a brain on hallucinogenic drugs. There are even similarities between dreaming brains and psychotic brains. The parallels are compelling enough to inspire some scientists to begin researching dreaming brains to better understand psychotic brains. •Why does it sometimes feel like the person you're dreaming about is actually present? We don't really know why. Our best explanation is that the dreaming brain lacks the ability to say, This doesn't make much sense." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"If someone becomes violent under the influence of beer, it is due to reasons similar to a drug user becoming violent under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs. Apart from their mind-altering effects, hops are known to work as an anti-aphrodisiac, suppressing sexual drive and performance in men. Hops contain the female sex hormones daidzein and genistein, which are generally used to fatten calves, sheep, and chickens." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.) "Just because prescription medicine is legally available and given to you by your doctor, does not mean it is any less addictive than hallucinogenic drugs. Senior citizens in particular should be cautious when taking medicines prescribed by their doctors. A new study from Duke University reveals disturbing evidence that more than 20 percent of all seniors who are prescribed drugs are receiving medications that are known to be harmful to older patients." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"In addition, alcohol, cigarettes, and other mineral- and vitamin-depleting substances, such as prescription medicines and hallucinogenic drugs, can make the skin vulnerable to ultraviolet radiation. After you have cleared your liver and gallbladder from all gallstones, moderate sun exposure will cause you no harm; in fact, it is essential for good health. Over 42 percent of Americans suffer from vitamin D deficiency, and 47 percent of pregnant women are severely deficient in this important hormone. Their children tend to have weak bones that break easily, even during their childhood years." - Andreas Moritz, The Liver and Gallbladder Miracle Cleanse: An All-Natural, At-Home Flush to Purify and Rejuvenate Your Body (Get the book.)

"Alcohol, cigarettes, and other mineral and vitamin depleting substances, such as allopathic and hallucinogenic drugs, can also make the skin highly vulnerable to ultraviolet radiation. In particular, polyunsaturated fats as contained in refined and vitamin E depleted products, such as thin vegetable oil, mayonnaise, salad dressings, and most brands of margarine, pose a particularly high risk in the development of skin cancer and most other cancers. According to Archives of Internal Medicine, 1998, polyunsaturated fats increase a woman's risk of breast cancer by 69 percent." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"The serotonin-stimulated nerve system (serotonergic system) is the medium through which analgesics such as morphine and hallucinogenic drugs like LSD register their effects. It is this kind of stimulation of the serotonergic system that becomes addictive when people get hooked on a drug, be it caffeine or cocaine. The brain cells that convert tryptophan to serotonin have the ability to make this conversion at the same rate as it arrives." - Fereydoon Batmanghelidj, Obesity Cancer & Depression: Their Common Cause & Natural Cure (Get the book.)

"In addition, alcohol, cigarettes, and other mineral- and vitamin-depleting substances, such as prescription medicines and hallucinogenic drugs, can make the skin vulnerable to ultraviolet radiation. After you have cleared your liver and gallbladder from all gallstones, moderate sun exposure will cause you no harm; in fact, it is essential for good health. Over 42 percent of Americans suffer from vitamin D deficiency, and 47 percent of pregnant women are severely deficient in this important hormone. Their children tend to have weak bones that break easily, even during their childhood years." - Andreas Moritz, The Amazing Liver & Gallbladder Flush: A Powerful Do-It-Yourself Tool To Optimize your Health and Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"He was an expert curer of human illness, and his principal power objects were a jaguar mask and a bluish pebble or seed called nebbis fcwd/'/jaguar's testicle; the Great Mother herself had given him these objects, and from a number of texts it appears that they suggest the use of hallucinogenic drugs. But putting on the mask and, simultaneously, swallowing the "testicle," ordinary reality began to change; illnesses became visible to the eye in the form of black beetles and thus could be destroyed; women turned into luscious pineapples, and maize stalks were transformed into armed men." - Christian Ratsch, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications (Get the book.)

"They form the basis of several pharmaceutical drugs as well as some of the most potent hallucinogenic drugs, and include poisonous compounds such as strychnine. Of the indole alkaloids used in medicine and pharmacy, the majority n H indole are found in members of the family Apocynaceae (e.g. Rauwolfia, Vinca, Catharanthus and Alstonia spp.). Other families in which they occur are the Loganaceae, Rubiaceae and Convovulaceae. Indole alkaloids are represented in the fungal kingdom by the ergot alkaloids and the Psilocybin mushrooms." - Andrew Pengelly, The Constituents of Medicinal Plants: An Introduction to the Chemistry and Therapeutics of Herbal Medicine (Get the book.)

"North American Indian rock art and hallucinogenic drugs. Journal of the American Medical Association 239:1524-27. -. 1981. Rock art, shamans, phosphenes and hallucinogens in North America. Bollettino del Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici 18:89-103. Wells, Brian. 1974. Psychedelic drugs: Psychological, medical and social issues. Baltimore: Penguin. Werner, Helmut. 1991. Lexikon der Esoterik. Wiesbaden: Fourier. -. 1993. Die Magie der Zauberpflanzen, Edelsteine, Duftstoffe und Farben. Munich: Droemer-Knaur. Westbrooks, Randy G., and fames W. Preacher. 1986." - Christian Ratsch, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications (Get the book.)

"The treatments included the talking typewriter, computer approaches, patterning, play and music, rage reduction, sensory deprivation, visual and motor training, tactile stimulation, LSD and other hallucinogenic drugs, steroid injections, spine adjustments and colonic purges, to name a few. As he observed, "Exposure to this diversity of approaches, most of which are presented as breakthroughs by enthusiastic proponents citing dramatic clinical material, naturally engenders a certain skepticism." - Dr. Abram Hoffer, M.D., FRCP(C), Healing Children's Attention & Behavior Disorders (Get the book.) "Normal subjects under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs will most often accept their perceptual changes as drug induced. If the perceptual changes are judged to be real, the patient will react to them as if they are real. This will distinguish them from imagination or fantasy. Two people who perceive an event more or less alike will respond to it in different ways depending upon these other factors which we might term personality, a combination of experience and heredity. If a fire breaks out, one person will run from the fire but another might run toward it." - Dr. Abram Hoffer, M.D., FRCP(C), Healing Children's Attention & Behavior Disorders (Get the book.) "It is clear that no behavior, normal or abnormal, can be comprehended without some awareness of the perceptual or experiential world of the individual. The hallucinogenic drugs such as LSD produce a schizophrenic syndrome in normal subjects, and I have observed that nurses and psychiatrists who have experienced the effect of these drugs are better therapists, more understanding and sympathetic with their patients. Parents become too impatient with their children as do teachers." - Dr. Abram Hoffer, M.D., FRCP(C), Healing Children's Attention & Behavior Disorders (Get the book.)

"Hallucinogenic drugs in psychiatric research and treatment: Perspectives and prospects. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 1983 (3): 127-38. Suwal, P. N., et al. 1993. Medicinal plants of Nepal. Bulletin of the Department of Medicinal Plants, no. 3. Kathmandu: Department of Medicinal Plants. Svoboda, Robert E. 1993. Aghora: At the left hand of God. New Delhi: Rupa. Symon, David E. 1991. Gondwanan elements of the Solanaceae. In Solanaceae III: Taxonomy, chemistry, evolution, ed. Hawkes, Lester, Nee, and Estrada, 139-50. London: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and Linnaean Society." - Christian Ratsch, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications (Get the book.) "Mexican phantastica: A study of the early ethnobotanical sources on hallucinogenic drugs. British Journal of Addiction 62:171-87. -. 1971. The pre-Columbian mind. London: Seminar Press. -. 1990. La medicinaprecolombiana. [Spain]: Instituto de Cooperacion Iberoamericana. Gunther, Erna. 1988. Ethnobotany of western Washington: The knowledge and use of indigenous plants by Native Americans. Rev. ed. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press. Gupta, Shakti M. 1991. Plant myths and traditions in India. 2nd ed. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers." - Christian Ratsch, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications (Get the book.)

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