Maya celebrates its 10th anniversary !

We recently celebrated our 10th anniversary, and are pleased to be able to continue our discount of 10% on all orders placed, until 20th March. We also have a great selection of random Special Offers which appear from week to week, and believe it or not a large selection of Free Products available to add to your order.

We would like to thank you for the constant support and positive feedback. It inspires us to find new herbs and products that promote spiritual awareness and the evolution of mankind.

Maya started 10 years ago as a dream: being able to access and to make available; quality ethnobotanicals. The enthusiasm with which we have been received, has enabled Maya to have fast grown to be a vibrant and positive portal of connection with ethnobotanicals and other rarities from around the world. And judging from the great amount of loyal and returning customers, we seem to be doing something right!

Here we are.. Maya Ethnobotanicals. We pride ourselves in supplying the most known ethnobotanical plants, and a wide variety of other rare plants, incenses and related items, as well as handicrafts and fine arts from around the world.
We hold great value in old cultures, their art, visions, and their ancient knowledge of "teacher" plants. We believe that teacher plants are crucial for the spiritual awareness and evolution of mankind. In a time when we have become disconnected from nature, the power and potential of these plants must be acknowledged and embraced. They are tremendously important to medicine and technology, and can be an important tool for to people to learn, understand and appreciate the mysteries of nature. Reconnecting with the plants, reconnects us with reality, and realigns us with nature to promote our spiritual growth. If the purpose of evolution is expanding in perfection, in harmony with nature, we need to acknowledge the teacher in the plant, respect it and learn from it.
For mankind, at the top of the food chain, it's time to Feed the Mind.

It is important to know that according to the 1997 novel foods regulation, any food and food ingredient that was not part of the European diet before 1997, must undergo food safety and nutrition testing by a national authority before they can be sold anywhere in the EU. The lack of evidence of significant history of consumption of many ethnobotanicals, means they can not be sold as food. Therefore, our plants are not sold for the purpose of consumption. We sell botanical specimen of ethnographic value and interest only. Any information provided on this website, including any links to external websites, are solely intended for historical, scientific and educational purposes and must not be interpreted as a recommendation for a specific use. The use and application of our plants is solely at the customer's risk.

It is also very important to be informed about the Codex Alimentarius. The Codex Alimentarius Commission was created in 1963 to develop food standards and guidelines under the Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme. The main purposes of this Programme are protecting health of the consumers and ensuring fair trade practices in the food trade, and promoting coordination of all food standards work undertaken by international governmental and non-governmental organizations. In the early 1990s, Codex began to look at establishing internationally harmonized standards for food supplements. But it appears that the strongest effect of this Directive will be to cut off availability of all vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and most other essential nutrients by re-classifying them as pharmaceutical drugs, eventually available by prescription only and manufactured by pharmaceutical companies from synthetic materials, including genetically engineered substances. People who consider Codex Alimentarius as benevolent consumer protection or as harmless to their health freedom are seriously mistaken. It has nothing to do with consumer protection. It has everything to do with the economic ambitions of multi-national corporations, in particular the pharmaceutical industry.

"If Codex Alimentarius has its way, then herbs, vitamins, minerals, homeopathic remedies, amino acids and other natural remedies you have taken for granted most of your life will be gone. The name of the game for Codex Alimentarius is to shift all remedies into the prescription category so they can be controlled exclusively by the medical monopoly of the major pharmaceutical firms." -John Hammell, founder of International Advocates for Health Freedom.

The Codex is targeted to go into full global effect by January 1st 2010.

"There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it through brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods." -Aldous Huxley

Because of all the above, we welcome you to enter the Maya Ethnobotanicals website and to make your own decisions. If you wish to learn more about the above, we reccomend you to visit the Free Media category.

"Emancipate yourself from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds" -Bob Marley