Dale Pendell

Dale Pendell is a contemporary author who combines science and poetry in his explications of the relationship between psychoactive compounds and human beings. A long time student of ethnobotany, Pendell discusses historical and cultural uses of "power plants" in his works. He reads and distills the literature of pharmacology and neuroscience, of ethnobotany and anthropology, of mythology and political economics as they intersect with the direct experience of human psychoactive use.

His publications include the Pharmako Trilogy: Pharmako/Poeia (1994), Pharmako/Dynamis (2002), and Pharmako/Gnosis (2005), all published by Mercury House. He covers all the major categories of psychoactives and details the use, the pharmacology, the chemistry, the political and social historical implications and effects of the use of psychoactives.

He is also well regarded as a myth critic. Certain of his works contained detailed scholarship on the origins of cultural myths.

Dale Pendell is highly regarded for his expertise on psychoactive plants and drugs and as a writer and poet; one of his works is used as a textbook for a course in the University of California, Berkeley's Molecular and Cell Biology department.

Pendell has also delved into politics, introducing the concept of "Horizon anarchism" at his Burning Man 2006 Palenque Norte lecture. [1]

Bibliography

• The Gold-Dust Wilderness (1971)
• Physics for the Heart (1985)
• Chasing the Cranes, with Steve Sanfield, (1986)
• City Limits Blues (1986)
• Rough Cuts & Kindling (1986)
• Swirling (1986)
• Mokujiki: Thirteen Tanka, with Kazuaki Tanahashi, (1988)
• Pharmako/Poeia: Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft (1995)
• Living With Barbarians: A Few Plant Poems (1999)
• Pharmako/Dynamis: Stimulating Plants, Potions, & Herbcraft (2002)
• Pharmako/Gnosis: Plant Teachers and the Poison Path (2006)
• Inspired Madness: the Gifts of Burning Man (2006)
• Walking with Nobby, Conversations with Norman O. Brown (2008)
• The Language of Birds, Some Notes on Chance and Divination (2009)
• The Great Bay: Chronicles of the Collapse (2010)

External links

• Official site & blog
• Erowid's Dale Pendell vault
• Erowid review of Pharmako/Gnosis
• [2] (includes audio link)
• 'Magical Practice', a discussion with Dale at the World Psychedelic Forum, Basel, 2008 (MP3 available)
• Dreamflesh.com review of Pharmako/Poeia
• Audio recordings of Dale Pendell discussing his favorite plant allies can be found at Botanical Preservation Corps

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