Wednesday, 09 June 2010 18:59

Classic Entheogens: San Pedro & Morning Glory

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These are some of staple culturally important psychedelic plants, for Entheogen collectors (Although they are equally popular in regular gardens).

Morning Glory and one of its relatives are two of the core sacred Entheogens of the Aztecs, who used it in shamanic healing rituals, and as an anesthetic and for medicine. It was also used for a variety of magical ointments.

The Aztecs believed that these plants were a means of connecting the Sun Gods, some believing a highly evolved spirit lived within the plant. The seed preparation was crushed by a 10-15 year old virgin, to allow the seeds to “speak”. The shaman would then imbibe the potion, and “die as a person, to be reborn as a Shaman”, then able to speak with the Gods.

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Hawaiian Baby Woodrose, a relative plant has been used shamanically, for healing, in Hawaii. Morning glory grows in abundance around New Zealand, as a weed. It is however also a great easy growing garden vine, with very attractive flowers. Both these plants contain, in the seeds, D-lysergic Acid Amide and related compounds which are chemically very similar to LSD.

San Pedro, and also Peruvian torch, are cacti with a similarly long history of use. They contain primarily the active Mescaline, also found in the cactus peyote. These cacti have been used as sacred Entheogens for healing rituals and visionary states by Native American Indian and Peruvian Shamans (Going back historically to at least 1300 BC, as we have found a carving of a San Pedro held in the hands of a God from then in Peru) with similar importance to Peyote culturally.

The Native American Indians use it for vision questing, for strengthening the psyche, and healing physical and mental problems through shamanistic ritual. Of course, it has sometimes been also considered a fertility symbol by some cultures. The fast growing cactus, not only has that classic “western movie” tall branching shape, making it very popular as a garden plant, but it has a very rare blooming, almost never occuring flower (I’ve never seen one apart from on the net).

Here is a shaman’s account of its effects: “the drug first ... produces ... drowsiness or a dreamy state and a feeling of lethargy ... a slight dizziness ... then a great 'vision', a clearing of all the faculties ... it produces a light numbness in the body and afterward a tranquility. And then comes detachment, a type of visual force ... inclusive of all the senses ... including the sixth sense, the telepathic sense of transmitting oneself across time and matter ... like a kind of removal of one's thought to a distant dimension. “

Its very important to note, that while both these types of plants are ideal for a Entheogen collection, rewarding and easy to grow, attractive looking, legal and easy to get; they both contain banned substances. Morning glory and relatives contain LSA, which is considered a banned precursor to LSD, and mescaline in the cacti is a Class A substance. For this reason, one should never, under any circumstance ingest, or extract from, these plants - it's illegal!

Last modified on Wednesday, 09 June 2010 19:10

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  • Comment Link Jamie Karl Thursday, 17 June 2010 20:50 posted by Jamie Karl

    How old is it? Mine is about 1.5 metres, but still no flowers, although I water it and feed it enough (not too much either). Maybe its climate related?

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  • Comment Link Dale Saturday, 12 June 2010 12:43 posted by Dale

    Nice article, hadn't really thought much about morning glory seeds for a while and never knew the aztecs used them.

    One thing though, my big pedro flowers pretty regularly, the last three or four years anyway. Maybe I'm lucky, but the blooms are an awesome sight and smell for their short life.

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