February 11, 2023 - In the traditions of every culture, plants have been highly valued for their nourishing, healing, and transformative properties. The most powerful of those plants, which are known to transport the human mind into other dimensions of consciousness, have always been regarded as sacred.

November 22, 2024 - The idea of plants, bracketed with it being sacred, dates back to ancient times. In India, where plants and trees are worshipped till date, it comes as no surprise that India’s history encompasses this idea since the Vedas were scripted. From amongst the four vedas: the Rigveda, the Yajurveda, ...

July 2, 2024 - The National Council of Native American Churches describes the purpose of the practice as a way to build community: “[w]hile peyote plays a central role in the [NAC] service, it is not to induce visions (per the common misunderstanding), but to bring people closer to their creator and to ...

July 1, 2016 - There has been little rigorous research on the spiritual content of ayahuasca sessions, despite the tribal use of this herbal concoction and the existence of three Brazilian churches in which ayahuasca is considered a sacrament.

Psychoactive plants that induce a form of altered states of consciousness (hallucinogen-induced ASC (H-ASC)) have been widely used during the religiou…

June 4, 2025 - Cannabis has served as an entheogen—a chemical substance used in religious or spiritual contexts—in the Indian subcontinent since the Vedic period dating back to approximately 1500 BCE, but perhaps as far back as 2500 BCE in Ancient China. It was introduced to the New World by the Spaniards ...

March 9, 2016 - Cannabis (hemp, marijuana) is one of the oldest and most widely cultivated plants, valued in many cultures as medicine, food, fiber, and sacrament. It is said to have been used as an adjunct to prayer in ancient Taoist, Vedic, and Sufi practices, among others.

Nowhere near the same sage you cook with, Salvia divinorum is a pretty badass psychoactive plant that can induce “visions” and other hallucinatory experiences. Miley Cyrus made it famous a few years back when she was caught on video smoking it, but don’t let that give you the impression ...

1 month ago - ^ According to Holdrege, srotriyas (a group of male Brahmin reciters who are masters of sruti) "frequently do not understand what they recite" when reciting the Samhitas, merely preserving the sound of the text. ^ Klostermaier: "Brahman, derived from the root bŗh = to grow, to become great, ...

Brugmansia, known among people of South America as the “Tree of The Evil Eagle,” is a potent medicinal and psychoactive plant that has played a prominent role in South American Andean and Amazonian medicine and shamanic practice for centuries. All parts of the plant, especially the leaves ...

February 25, 2022 - Bhang has long been of cultural significance in India. In Hinduism, bhang takes on special meaning as the plant preferred by Shiva, the god of destruction, who was believed to have used bhang to focus inward and to harness his divine powers for the good of the world.

Answer (1 of 5): Yes. Cannabis plant is mentioned under Atharva veda book 11 hymn 8 or verse 15 [ kand 11 sukta 8, 3177]. The thing which one should notice that in Vedic text Halfa grass. oats, paddy, cannabis and Epidara Gerardiana [Somlata] are mentioned, but here they are mentioned as the plan...

Ethnobotany is the study of how people of a particular culture and region make use of indigenous (native) plants. Plants provide food, medicine, shelter, dyes, fibers, oils, resins, gums, soaps, waxes, latex, tannins, and even contribute to the air we breathe.

September 17, 2021 - Religious plants are one of the very important parts of India. They are mainly used by Indian people for worshipping gods, goddesses. The religious plants in India are very unique as they not only help you to grow as a better person but also help you to attain mental peace and material prosperity.

BGCI’s work aims to promote and develop a more efficient, cost effective and rational approach to plant conservation in botanic gardens.

“Plants of the Gods” is a term referring to the religious meaning members of many primitive cultures worldwide attribute to plants containing hallucinogenic or mind-altering substances. The plants are customarily considered sacred and ...

1 week ago - They have traditionally been used ... healing, divination, meditation, yoga, sensory deprivation, asceticism, prayer, trance, rituals, chanting, imitation of sounds, hymns like peyote songs, drumming, and ecstatic dance. In ancient Eurasian and Mediterranean societies, scholars have hypothesized the sacramental use of entheogens in mystery religions such as the Eleusinian Mysteries of ancient Greece. According to Ruck, Wasson, and Hofmann in The Road to Eleusis, psychoactive kykeon brews ...

July 8, 2014 - Psychoactive plants have played an important role in medicine, religion, ritual life, and recreation since ancient times. In shamanic religions, which appear to have dominated throughout much of human pre-history, trance induced by psychoactive

World Pilgrimage Guide by National Geographic photographer Martin Gray. Information, pictures, maps of 1500 holy places and sacred sites in 160 countries. Myth, archaeology, religion, spiritual, history, astronomy, megalith, miracle, gods, goddesses, Christian, Hindu, Buddhism, Islam, shamanism, ...

May 26, 2025 - A sacred tree or holy tree is a tree which is considered to be sacred, or worthy of spiritual respect or reverence. Such trees appear throughout world history in various cultures including the ancient Hindu mythology, Greek, Celtic and Germanic mythologies and is central to the beliefs of The ...