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Valus
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posted February 09, 2010 11:14 AM
 
The word ayahuasca is a Quechua word that roughly translates as "vine of the dead" or "vine of souls"... Ayahuasca has continued to the present day to be a part of the spiritual life of many of the tribes in the montane rain forest in South America... its long history of effective shamanic use in folk psychiatry has been documented.. The experience induced by ayahuasca includes extremely rich tapestries of visual hallucination that are particularly susceptible to being "driven" and directed by sound, especially vocally produced sound. Consequently, one of the legacies of the ayahuasca-using cultures is a large repository of icaros, or magical songs. The effectiveness, sophistication, and dedication of an ayahuasquero is predicated upon how many magical songs he or she has effectively memorized. In the actual curing sessions, both patient and healer ingest ayahuasca and the singing of the magical songs is a shared experience that is largely visual... My own experiences among the mestizo populations of Amazonas convince me that the long-term effect of ayahuasca use is an extraordinary state of health and integration. Ayahuasqueros use sound and suggestion to direct healing energy into parts of the body and unexamined aspects of an individual's personal history where psychic tension has come to rest. Often, these methods exhibit startling parallels to techniques of modern psychotherapy; at other times they seem to represent an understanding of possibilities and energies still unrecognized by Western theories of healing. Most interesting from the point of view of the arguments made in this book are the persistent rumors of states of group-mind or telepathy that occur among the less acculturated tribal peoples. Our history of skepticism and empiricism would have us dismiss such claims as impossible, but we should think twice before doing so. The cheif lesson to be learned from the psychedelic experience is the degree to which unexamined cultural values and limitations of language have made us the unwitting prisoners of our own assumptions. For it cannot be without reason that wherever in the worl hallucinogenic indoles have been utilized, their use has been equated with magical self-healing and regeneration. The low incidence of serious mental illness among such populations is well documented. ...The investigation of hallucinogenic indoles also dates to the 1920s. A veritable Renaissance of psychopharmacology was taking place in Germany. ...The excitement of Lewin and his colleagues was understandable: ethnographers... returned from Amazonas with accounts of tribes using telepathy-inducing plant drugs to direct the course of their societies. In 1927, the chemists... isolated the active agent from Banisteriopsis caapi and named it telepathine. .. the name harmine was officially given precedence over telepathine. ~ Terence McKenna, "Food of the Gods"
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Dervish
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posted February 10, 2010 02:52 AM
Interesting. When I was on shrooms I was told to stop responding what people were thinking. I said something like, "Oh, I was wondering why your lips weren't moving."But they were on shrooms, too. One sober guy stopped by and I did the same to him that he got away from me fast, scared, and told others that he thought I had demons in me because I was reading his mind. IP: Logged |
Valus
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posted February 10, 2010 11:45 AM
Yeah. I saw a story recently about a shaman who, when he performed healing, had a halo around his head, which was only visible to people who had ingested the sacred medicine. It's unfortunate that so many people are too brainwashed with propaganda to even consider the possibility of these things. They just have knee-jerk reactions, and if you even share a favorable opinion about these "drugs" (or "gods", as some cultures have called them), they want to see you censored, lol.
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