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''Pharmako/Gnosis: Plant Teachers and the Poison Path'', published in 2005, is the third and final volume of [[Dale Pendell]]'s ''Pharmako'' trilogy, completing the work begun with ''Pharmako/Poeia'' in 1995 and continued in ''Pharmako/Dynamis'' in 2002.<ref name="gnosis">Pendell D. ''Pharmako/Gnosis: Plant Teachers and the Poison Path''. San Francisco: Mercury House; 2005.</ref> Where the first volume gathered the inebriants and the second the ~~stimulants~~, ''Gnosis'' turns to the visionaries: the plants and agents that occasion vision, that reorder perception, and that have most often been met as teachers. Pendell kept the method of the earlier volumes, the braid of botany, chemistry, ethnography, and verse, and again wrote in terms of the "ally" character of each plant; the volume's subtitle names the "poison path", his term for the deliberate, careful, attentive practice of working with these plants. ''Gnosis'' treats [[Peyote|peyote]], San Pedro, psilocybe mushrooms, morning glory, the [[Ayahuasca|ayahuasca]] admixture plants and [[DMT|DMT]] among the visionaries, and the tropanes, [[Amanita muscaria]], [[Ketamine|ketamine]], and [[Iboga|iboga]] among the plants he set apart as daimonic.

''Pharmako/Gnosis: Plant Teachers and the Poison Path'', published in 2005, is the third and final volume of [[Dale Pendell]]'s ''Pharmako'' trilogy, completing the work begun with ''Pharmako/Poeia'' in 1995 and continued in ''Pharmako/Dynamis'' in 2002.<ref name="gnosis">Pendell D. ''Pharmako/Gnosis: Plant Teachers and the Poison Path''. San Francisco: Mercury House; 2005.</ref> Where the first volume gathered the inebriants and the second the psychostimulants, ''Gnosis'' turns to the visionaries: the plants and agents that occasion vision, that reorder perception, and that have most often been met as teachers. Pendell kept the method of the earlier volumes, the braid of botany, chemistry, ethnography, and verse, and again wrote in terms of the "ally" character of each plant; the volume's subtitle names the "poison path", his term for the deliberate, careful, attentive practice of working with these plants. ''Gnosis'' treats [[Peyote|peyote]], San Pedro, psilocybe mushrooms, morning glory, the [[Ayahuasca|ayahuasca]] admixture plants and [[DMT|DMT]] among the visionaries, and the tropanes, [[Amanita muscaria]], [[Ketamine|ketamine]], and [[Iboga|iboga]] among the plants he set apart as daimonic.

On pharmacopedia.wiki the ''Pharmako'' trilogy is the primary literary source for plant medicines, and its three volumes form the primary structure of the plant panel. This category is the wiki's page for the third volume. It collects the plant medicines that Pendell placed among the visionaries, and it indexes the two class-level categories he names within ''Gnosis''.

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