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Topic: Shamanism As Social Catalyst (excerpts from Terence McKenna's "Food of the Gods")
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posted June 15, 2009 11:12 AM
 
Thank you for sharing your opinion, pire. I appreciate that you have your ideological allegiances, and its not my intention to challenge them. But I have to find my own way, for myself, in my own time. As I see it, the evidence in support of my position is overwhelming: All over the world, shamanic healers have been using these plant allies successfully for thousands of years, in order to maintain peaceful religious communities, to find lost and stolen objects, to diagnose and heal illnesses, to promote psychic integration, and to increase spiritual wisdom, power, protection, etc. I feel safe in their hands. This is the path I've chosen, and I thank you for respecting my decision, -- or, at least, not using your energy to endlessly second-guess and divert me with the same tired, uninformed objections and fears we've all heard countless times before. Your tolerance for religious views and practices which you do not personally share is appreciated, and your concerns are duly noted. If you have nothing new to add, I guess there's nothing more to say. Peace to you.
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Knowflake Posts: 1880
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posted June 15, 2009 11:29 AM
The Journey
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting their bad advice--
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do--
determined to save
the only life you could save.
~ Mary Oliver
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Knowflake Posts: 1880
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posted June 15, 2009 11:56 AM
 CNN Study Shows
Psilocybin Mushrooms
Have Long-Lasting
Positive Effects:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOszqH3N1SU
"I particularly like speaking to very conservative groups, where I 'm introduced with everything except psychedelics. 'He was at Harvard and did research on consciousness, and went to India." And, what happened, something's missing. I get up and I say, 'The most significant single event of my life happened on March 6, 1961 when Tim Leary gave me psilocybin.' And I can feel the lips [in the crowd] get very tight. And I say, 'I've taken it hundreds of times since then; LSD and all of them. And so you must assume that anybody who's done that must be psychotic. But I would point out that you paid to come hear me.'... And I can honestly say that what happened to me in 1961 was so - whatever it was, I am still growing into it now. That it has guided the course of my life. That it cut through at such a profound level my ability to keep people as them. And though I've tried (because this culture is very good at keeping everybody as them, so that you're almost totally alienated), whatever it was that happened to me then keeps undercutting my ability to distance myself from other people in my mind without realizing I'm doing a mind-trip on myself. Because the inner validity of the experience of us was so profound." ~ Ram Dass
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mReRUfZf0_w&feature=related
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Knowflake Posts: 1880
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posted June 15, 2009 12:43 PM
Mana From Heaven http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxynieD5izs&feature=related     
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Knowflake Posts: 1880
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posted June 15, 2009 02:28 PM
Broadcast in 1961
Scientific Research
on Psilocybin Mushrooms
Part 1
Shaman takes mushrooms,
shows powerful psychic ability:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz7k00544PA&NR=1
Part 2
Scientist takes mushrooms:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3NMqCij7cI&feature=related
Part 3
Scientists sum up their
experience with mushrooms:
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Knowflake Posts: 1106
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posted June 16, 2009 05:23 AM
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