An Overwhelming Pile of Plants: The EGA Bibliography

Vegetable mountain. Image by Vecteezy.com.

Imagine if you stacked every plant you’d ever grown, eaten or inhaled in a pile - for most this would make for a pretty astounding site. For much of the EGA crew, we imagine such an exercise would result in veritable rainforest rainbow, like the Amazon, Daintree, Congo, Bosawas, Sinharaja and Monteverde all combined.

We recently made our own ethnobotanical plant pile and listed the entire works of EGA. It’s a pretty phenomenal list, if we do say so ourselves. With ~450 individual outputs at the time writing (not including our blog, individual conference presentations, or the many works still to come) it would take months to consume it all.

With contributions from acid king, LSD manufacturer for the Merry Pranksters, Owsley ‘Bear’ Stanley; the father of MAPS and psychedelic medicine’s renaissance, Rick Doblin; the ethnobotanically encyclopaedic mind of Christian Rätsch; Botanical Dimensions founder and Terence McKenna’s wife, Kathleen Harrison; Terence’s brother and the backbone of modern ethnobotany, Dennis McKenna; Keeper Trout; the Erowids; Bob Jesse; Monica Gagliano; Mark Pesce…

You might wonder when this new bibliography will stop name dropping – it won’t.

There are far too many exceptional EGA ethnobotanical contributors in the bibliography to list here, and we haven’t even touched on our long list of Australian pioneers in psychedelic research, medicine, harm reduction and mycology.

So, if you’re looking for something to read or watch, are curious about the progress of psychedelic and plant culture in Australia, or you’d like to grow your own work on the shoulders of ethnobotanical giants, make sure to check out The EGA Bibliography. You better start before we add more, or you’ll never get through it all.