"Drugs in different forms have served as stimulants for ecstasy in shamanism since archaic times." The Attraction of Peyote is an unrivalled exploration of the use of psychedelics in Native American spiritualities by one of the world's foremost anthropologists of religions, ?ke Hultkrantz. The author highlights how this psychoactive cactus began as a basis of shamanic power and eventually became a cult object and medicine for...