Giorgio Samorini
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) is an ethnobotanist and psychedelics researcher. He has published many essays and monographs regarding the use of psychoactive compounds and sacred plants. He was a frequent contributor to, and sometime editor of Eleusis the Journal of Psychoactive Plants & Compounds.

Books


  • 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: Eleusis: the Journal of Psychoactive Plants & Compounds.
  • 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

  • Samorini.it – Official site (In Italian, many articles in the section Documentation in English)
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