Comments on: Friday Fact: Richard Evans Schultes

By: Juan Paredes

Juan Paredes — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:27:15 +0000

Hi,

A group of Colombian independent filmmakers are in postproduction of a documentary about the knowledge about plants and states of being of the people in the Amazon and Richard Evans Schultes. The inspiration was Wade Davis’ book “One River”. Wade was interviewed as part of it. A lot of information on Schultes has been collected on their site. http://www.insearchofoneriver.com

This documentary was done with a lot of effort, personal funds, some government grants, it was really a passion project, and they have very little promotion budget.
They are at the moment looking for people who would be interested in guest blogging. Let me know if you would be interested.

Thanks!

By: jennifersaylor

jennifersaylor — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 02:42:54 +0000

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By: zensutherland

zensutherland — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 02:29:37 +0000

You probably already know this, but snow is getting all over your photo of Richard! :)

By: jennifersaylor

jennifersaylor — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 01:15:10 +0000

Glad you like! His student, Wade Davis, is one of my heroes and one of my favorite science writers. Check out the TED talk linked above.

By: zensutherland

zensutherland — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:23:56 +0000

Wow, Jen! Schultes is one of my heroes. I first learned about him while researching my collection of Golden Guides. He wrote the famous (and underprinted so now rare) Golden Guide to Hallucinogenic Plants a primer of plants and indigenous people’s use – which, along with the Carlos Casteneda series of books was my rebellious drug use youth which was somewhere between reading Edgar Rice Burroughs and the American Transcendentalists.

Anyway, thanks for that sweet reminder of a great man!