Matt P
24th February 2016, 22:50
I hate to put this in "alternative medicine" because it really should be "normal medicine" but oh well. The headline caught my attention because I had not heard of this person and I found this to be very interesting and informative. Ever had surgery? You have this guy to thank. And that's just the beginning...
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Why is it that some of the greatest contributors
to our world are so unknown?
We've all heard of Albert Einstein, but how many
people know the name Richard Evans Schultes?
This blue collar kid from Boston did more to
advance medicine, ecology and the understanding
of the human mind than any single individual
who lived in the 20th century.
Absolutely fascinating.
Video:
http://plantwisdom.org/wade-davis-on-richard-evans-schultes/
NextWorldTV.com
In the previous post, we introduced Richard Evans Schultes though a short video and excerpts of an interview conducted with him later in his life.
In this video, his student and protege Wade Davis goes much deeper into Schultes’ story.
Absolutely fascinating and excellent preparation for seeing the new movie “Abrazo de la Serpiente” (Embrace of the Serpent) – which I’ve now seen three times.
If this account of Schultes’s life by Wade Davis isn’t one of the most fascinating stories you’ve ever heard, I’d be very surprised.
It starts a little slow.
If you want to skip the introduction and get to the fireworks, fast forward to 8:20
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Richard Evans Schultes (1915-2001) was probably the greatest explorer of the Amazon, and regarded among anthropologists and seekers alike as the “father of ethnobotany.”
Taking what was meant to be a short leave from Harvard in 1941, he surveyed the Amazon basin almost continuously for twelve years, during which time he lived among two dozen different Indian tribes, mapped rivers, secretly sought sources of rubber for the US government during WWII, and collected and classified 30,000 botanical specimens, including 2,000 new medicinal plants.
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Why is it that some of the greatest contributors
to our world are so unknown?
We've all heard of Albert Einstein, but how many
people know the name Richard Evans Schultes?
This blue collar kid from Boston did more to
advance medicine, ecology and the understanding
of the human mind than any single individual
who lived in the 20th century.
Absolutely fascinating.
Video:
http://plantwisdom.org/wade-davis-on-richard-evans-schultes/
NextWorldTV.com
In the previous post, we introduced Richard Evans Schultes though a short video and excerpts of an interview conducted with him later in his life.
In this video, his student and protege Wade Davis goes much deeper into Schultes’ story.
Absolutely fascinating and excellent preparation for seeing the new movie “Abrazo de la Serpiente” (Embrace of the Serpent) – which I’ve now seen three times.
If this account of Schultes’s life by Wade Davis isn’t one of the most fascinating stories you’ve ever heard, I’d be very surprised.
It starts a little slow.
If you want to skip the introduction and get to the fireworks, fast forward to 8:20
_Dup6kA7yD8
Richard Evans Schultes (1915-2001) was probably the greatest explorer of the Amazon, and regarded among anthropologists and seekers alike as the “father of ethnobotany.”
Taking what was meant to be a short leave from Harvard in 1941, he surveyed the Amazon basin almost continuously for twelve years, during which time he lived among two dozen different Indian tribes, mapped rivers, secretly sought sources of rubber for the US government during WWII, and collected and classified 30,000 botanical specimens, including 2,000 new medicinal plants.
V2mUapYBWy8
1lxtn7zbQfw