Giorgio Samorini

Giorgio Samorini (born in 1957, in Bologna, Italy) is a 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.

Bibliography

Books

• Animals and Psychedelics: The Natural World and the Instinct to Alter Consciousness (2000). Giorgio Samorini. Park Street Press. ISBN 0-89281-986-3.
• Samorini G., 1995, Gli Allucinogeni Nel Mito. Racconti sull'origine delle piante psicoattive. 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.
• Samorini G., 2002, Animals and Drugs. The Natural World and the Instinct to Alter Consciousness, Rochester, Vermount. ISBN 978-0892819867.
• Samorini G., 2012, Droghe tribali, Shake Edizioni, Milano. ISBN 9788897109266.
• Samorini G., 2016, Jurema, la pianta della visione. Dai culti del Brasile alla Psiconautica di frontiera, Shake Edizioni, Milano. ISBN 9788897109433.

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., 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, "A contribution to the ethnomycology and ethnobotany of Alpine psychoactive vegetals", Acta Phytotherapeutica, 3° s., 2: 59-65.
• 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)
• Video of his conference at the 2015 National Botanical Congress of Colombia in Spanish: Aspectos y problemas de la arqueología de las plantas embriagantes de Sudamérica.