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A Scientific study on Salvia Divinorum also known as Diviner's Sage, Magic Mint, Ska María Pastora, Sally D, Or simply Salvia.

Although the genus name is shared among many plants, it is a powerful psychoactive plant, a member of the Sage Genus and the Lamiaceae (mint) Family. It has long been used as an entheogen by the Indigenous Mazatec Shamans for healing during spirit journeys.

The plant is found in isolated, shaded and moint plots in Oaxaca, Mexico. It is thought to be a cultigen.

A Gathering of Shamans is a documentary about the connection between consciouness and nature, as embodied in the spiritual traditions of Indigenous Peoples, whose ecological metaphors of the sacred are so relevant to the modern world.

The project was shot in 1997 at an historic 10-day gathering of shamans from five continents, who travelled to Karma Ling, a Tibetan Buddhist retreat centre in the Val Saint Hugon in Savoy, in the French Alps, to discuss their concerns with H.H. the Dalai Lama and high-level representatives of the world's religions.