Category:Gnosis

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.^[1] 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, San Pedro, psilocybe mushrooms, morning glory, the ayahuasca admixture plants and DMT among the visionaries, and the tropanes, Amanita muscaria, ketamine, and 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.

Pendell divides the visionaries of Gnosis into two classes. Each is a category page in its own right; the medicine pages are indexed under the classes.

• Phantastica: the classical visionaries, the plants and agents of vision in its clearer, more luminous form. Anchor plants and agents include peyote, San Pedro, Bufo alvarius, psilocybe mushrooms, morning glory, Banisteriopsis, harmala, jurema, and DMT. The name follows Louis Lewin's early-twentieth-century term for the vision-inducing class.
• Daimonica: the daimonic visionaries, the plants and agents of a darker, more disorienting, and often more dangerous vision. Anchor plants and agents include the tropanes (Datura, Atropa, Mandragora, and Hyoscyamus), ketamine, Amanita muscaria, and iboga.

This category collects the plant medicines that Dale Pendell gathered in the third volume of the Pharmako trilogy, the visionaries. It is one of three volume categories, alongside Poeia and Dynamis, that together make up the Pendell axis, the primary structure of the wiki's plant panel.

The Pendell axis is one organizing frame among several. A plant medicine indexed here carries one volume tag, Gnosis, and one or both of the class tags above; it may also belong, under the wiki's multi-membership convention, to cross-cutting classes that the Pendell scheme does not name. The boundaries between the volumes are Pendell's own, and they are characterological rather than strictly pharmacological: Poeia is the volume of loosening and grounding, Dynamis the volume of quickening, Gnosis the volume of vision. The split within Gnosis itself, between the luminous Phantastica and the daimonic Daimonica, is likewise Pendell's, and rests on the felt character of the vision rather than on chemistry: the tropanes and Amanita muscaria sit among the Daimonica not because of a shared mechanism but because of the kind of experience they occasion.

Each plant medicine indexed under this volume has its own page, built on the wiki's standard plant-medicine structure: a history-first account that gives most of its length to where the plant came from and how people came to use it, followed by pharmacology, indications, adverse effects, and interactions. Verbatim passages from Pharmako/Gnosis appear on the medicine pages through the wiki's PendellsCorner component, which carries Pendell's own words and nothing else.

This is one of the wiki's MedCategory overview pages. It carries the MedCategory marker tag. The category sits beneath Plants, the plant origin root; the two class categories sit directly beneath it.