doorofperception.com Richard Evans Schultes Ethnobotany

Richard Evans Schultes
The Father of Modern Ethnobotany

August 16 2013

Lately I read the Yage letters by William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. I wasn’t able to get over my dislike towards Burroughs but I came across another name: Richard Evans Schultes.

His heritage is carried on by some of his scholars like Wade Davis. His TED talk is a good introduction to ethno-diversity and the ancient knowledge we’re about to lose forever.

Audio files of Schulte’s lecture Hallucinogenic Plants