High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wolf-Dieter Storl born( 1942 in Saxony is a trained professional anthropologist, has concerned himself with shamanism and healing in traditional societies. Over the years, he was confronted with the fact that in all cultures plants play an overriding role in all aspects of life, including sacred symbolism, magic, medicine, foods and poisons. This shamanistic and ethnobotanic focus is, so to speak, the recurrent theme of his work.