- Giorgio Samorini
Giorgio Samorini (born in 1957, in
Bologna ,Italy ) is anethnobotanist andpsychedelics researcher. He has published many essays and monographs regarding the use ofpsychoactive compounds and sacred plants. He was a frequent contributor to, and sometime editor of "Eleusis the Journal of Psychoactive Plants & Compounds".Bibliography
Books
* [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0892819863/ Animals and Psychedelics: The Natural World and the Instinct to Alter Consciousness] (2000). Giorgio Samorini. Park Street Press. (ISBN 0-89281-986-3)
* Gli Allucinogeni Nel Mito. Racconti sull'origine delle piante psicoattive (1995). Giorgio Samorini. Nautilus Press, Torino.
* Samorini G., 1996, L'erba di Carlo Erba. Per una storia della canapa indiana in Italia (1845-1948), Nautilus, Torino.
* Samorini G., 2001, Funghi allucinogeni. Studi etnomicologici, Telesterion, Dozza BO [ISBN 88-87999-01-5] .
Publications
* Selected archives of: [http://www.csp.org/chrestomathy/eleusis_1_1998.html Eleusis: the Journal of Psychoactive Plants & Compounds] , from the [http://www.csp.org/ Council on Spiritual Practices] (CSP) site.
* Samorini G. & F. Festi, 1989, Le micotossicosi psicotrope volontarie in Europa: osservazioni sui casi clinici, in Atti I Convegno Nazionale sugli Avvelenamenti da Funghi, Rovereto 22-23 Ottobre 1988, Annali Museo Civico Rovereto, Suppl. vol. 4: 251-257.
* Samorini G., 1993, Funghi allucinogeni italiani, in Atti II Convegno Nazionale Avvelenamenti da Funghi, Rovereto 3-4 aprile 1992, Annali Museo Civico Rovereto, Suppl. vol. 8: 125-149.
* Gartz Jochen, Giorgio Samorini & Francisco Festivities, 1996, “On the presumed French case of fatality for ingestion of funghetti”, Eleusis, n. 6, pp. 3-13.
* Samorini G., 1995, Kuda-kallu: umbrella-stones or mushroom-stones? (Kerala, Southern India), Integration, 6: 33-40.
* Samorini G. & G. Camilla, 1995, Rappresentazioni fungine nell'arte greca, Annali Museo Civico Rovereto, 10: 307-326.
* Giorgio Samorini, “The ‘Mushroom-Tree’ of Plaincourault”, Eleusis: Journal of Psychoactive Plants and Compounds, n. 8, 1997, pp. 29-37.
* Giorgio Samorini, “The ‘Mushroom-Trees’ in Christian Art”, Eleusis: Journal of Psychoactive Plants and Compounds, n. 1, 1998, pp. 87-108.
* Samorini G., 1998, The Pharsalus Bas-Relief and the Eleusinian Mysteries, The Entheogen Review, 7(2): 60-63.
* Samorini Giorgio, 2001, “Fungi hallucinogens. Etnomicologici studies”, Telesterion, Dozza BO, pag. 248
* Samorini G., 2001, New Data from the Ethnomycology of Psychoactive Mushrooms, International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms, vol. 3, pp. 257-278.
* Samorini G., 1992, The oldest representations of hallucinogenic mushrooms in the world (Sahara Desert, 9000-7000 BP), Integration, 2/3: 69-78.
* Samorini G., 2002, A contribution to the ethnomycology and ethnobotany of Alpine psychoactive vegetals, Acta Phytotherapeutica, 3° s., 2: 59-65.
* Samorini G., 1996, Colliri visionari, Eleusis, 5: 27-32.
* Samorini G., 1997-98, The Initiation Rite in the Bwiti Religion (Ndea Narizanga Sect, Gabon), Jahrbuch für Ethnomedizine, vol. 6-7, pp. 39-55.
* Samorini G., 2002-2003, The ancestor cult Byeri and the psychoactive plant alan (Alchornea floribunda) among the Fang of Western Equatorial Africa, Eleusis, n.s., vol. 6/7, pp. 29-55.
* Samorini G., 2003-04, Il dio egiziano Min e la lattuga. Un contributo etnobotanico a un enigma dell'egittologia, Archeologia Africana, Centro Studi Archeologia Africana, Museo Civico di Milano, vol. 9-10, pp. 73-84.
* Samorini G., 2006, Lattuga e lattucario. Storia di equivoci ed enigmi insoluti, Erboristeria Domani, n. 299, gennaio, pp. 49-55.External links
* [http://www.samorini.it/ Samorini.it] – Official site (In Italian, many articles in the section Documentation in English)
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