Coca: Divine Plant of the Incas Cathy J. Sakas Chapter Synopsis: Setting the stage

Chapter Synopsis: Setting the stage for the book

All kinds of doors open when we stop using broken down traditional techniques and start thinking outside the box

and culminates in the glamour of early Hollywood--all during the brief sliver of history in which the advent of railroads and the automobile traversed a beckoning American frontier and anything seemed possible

postmodern Christians are being transformed from cultural change agents and initiators into cultural conformists and imitators

Coca: Divine Plant of the Incas Cathy J. Sakas Chapter Synopsis: Setting the stageCoca is a plant with a complex array of mineral nutrients, essential oils, and varied compounds with greater or lesser pharmacological effects one of which happens to be the alkaloid cocaine, which in its concentrated, synthesized form is a stimulant drug with possible addictive properties. Of all the plants introduced to the world by American Indian societies, few have been as controversial as the coca bush. Part of the Erythroxylum genus, the coca