BOOK: http://thesecretlifeofchocolate.com/

Practice website: http://nocturnalherbalist.com/v2/

Association of Master Herbalists practitioner profile: https://associationofmasterherbalists.co.uk/user/marcospatchett/

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TIMESTAMPS

00:35 Talk outline

03:18 Traditional beverages made with Cacao

04:28 The metate (metatl) y mano (metlapil)

06:27 Preparing cacao seeds for making beverages

08:38 Cacao blanco (Theobroma bicolor)

10:00 Chocolate atole

10:48 Bu’pu

14:55 Cacao vessels and varieties of ancient beverage

16:51 Foam on traditional Cacao-based beverages

17:11 Ancient Cacao beverages made without maize

20:27 Cacao, empire and slavery

21:30 Reconstructed traditional Mesoamerican Cacao beverages

23:54 The pharmacology of Theobroma cacao

24:27 Medicinal compounds in Cacao – polyphenols

29:24 Xanthines (caffeine, theobromine, theophylline)

32:30 “Fairy dust” compounds – biogenic amines, salsolinol, GABA, anandamide etc.

34:29 Cacao and Psilocybe mushrooms

37:01 Health benefits of dark chocolate

39:59 Chocolate consumption and decreased risk of death

42:14 Cacao as a hedonic modifier

44:38 Cacao as an anti-phobic substance

46:36 Cacao and the microbiome

48:26 Cacao and the stars

48:33 Curandero Diego’s uses of Cacao and the Old World Venus archetype

51:00 Señora Ca’al, the midwife and Cacao (Venus archetype)

52:15 Ix Chel & Chac exchanging Cacao

53:43 Cacao classified using Old World astrology (including the myth of Quetzalcoatl and Cacao’s origins)

57:45 Quetzalcoatl (a Mesoamerican Venus god)

57:59 Cacaxtla mural of a Venus god with Maize and Cacao

59:20 Maize as Sun, Cacao as…Moon?

1:01:06 Cacao in mythology

1:01:22 The Axis Mundi in the Perennial Philosophy

1:02:16 The Mayan World Tree – the wakah chan

1:04:28 Theobroma cacao as the world tree

1:05:35 “Portals”, “vision serpents” and sacrifice in Mesoamerican religion

1:09:52 Theobroma cacao as an ancestor-tree

1:12:02 The K’iche Maya “Hero Twins” saga (from the Popol Vuh)

1:18:34 “Two fish”

1:20:32 Codex Borgia illustration of “the creation of the universe”

1:22:20 Lacandon Maya “god pots”

1:23:21 Cacao in Renaissance European alchemy

1:25:01 Homeopathic “chocolatum” provings

1:25:46 Chocolate in Traditional Chinese Medicine

1:26:12 Summary of mythic themes of Theobroma cacao

1:28:01 Magical uses of Cacao

Full list of references may be found in the published work “The Secret Life of Chocolate” https://www.aeonbooks.co.uk/product/the-secret-life-of-chocolate/40255/or, for those in the U.S., https://bit.ly/3dVRX1d