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psilocybin in therapy ... update

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https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/magic-mushroom-compound-edges-towards-a-treament-for-depression-/

wikipedia's article on psylocybin has been updated

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybin

the seven sisters of sleep ... a long read via project gutenberg ... an 1860 review of the culture of various addictions

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the text ... http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60805 a modern review http://psypressuk.com/2010/02/28/literary-review-the-seven-sisters-of-sleep-by-mordecai-cooke/

the wikipedia article on shamanism in mongolia has been updated fairly recently ... very clear and well written ...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_shamanism

the Yup'ik Culture in Western Alaska ... archaeology meets shamanism ...

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a short but richly informative talk given by rick knecht at cardiff this year ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XhgetM5ApU and an excellent short film on the subject ... https://www.branstetterfilm.com/docads/

psilocybin with zen meditation experiment ... "All individuals followed a structured meditative discipline known in the Zen tradition as sesshin."

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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-50612-3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesshin

hardened journalist tries out a psychedelic "mush"

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https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/10/11/my-adventures-in-psychedelia/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=348AhnAkSco

genetically engineered psilocybin extraction ...

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https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-made-a-bacterium-that-poops-out-psilocybin https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S109671761930309X?dgcid=author

i am neither for or against shamanism ... but russia's treatment of this man is deplorable

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Russia Siberian shaman arrested on trek to exorcise Vladimir Putin Alexander Gabyshev walked 1,700 miles across Russia before being held by police Andrew Roth  in Moscow Thu 19 Sep 2019  15.58 BST Last modified on Thu 19 Sep 2019  16.52 BST Shares 228   Alexander Gabyshev, a wandering shaman: ‘God has told me to do this, nature has told me to do this.’ Photograph: Facebook/Воин шаман Александр Габышев A wandering shaman on a quest to “drive the evil spirit of [Vladimir] Putin from the Kremlin” has been arrested in Siberia by armed police. Alexander Gabyshev had walked an estimated 1,700 miles from the remote city of Yakutsk towards Moscow, attracting an eccentric group of acolytes and appearing at rare protests in regional Russian cities, before his arrest on Thursday. Police in Yakutia confirmed the arrest but did not say why he had been detained. Supporters believed he may face charges for his calls to overthrow the government. G

art for art's sake ...

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mildly shamanastic and rarther beautiful ... at burning man in 2018 ...

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https://vimeo.com/339155010?fbclid=IwAR1QhgkuyDfhv-DHL2XIMe46WI2TuFtcNuMBg63pWgeWQxYKlr20aCfbQYo

a sound recording of aldous huxley questioned after taking LSD

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the short extract ... http://www.openculture.com/2019/08/aldous-huxley-trips-on-acid-talks-about-cats-the-secret-of-life-1962.html the longer recording ... http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz002b13tj

another interesting tale of the maudsley's mescaline experiments, via the bethlem museum of the mind ... and raymond tallis's reading of the oliver sacks' book, hallucinations, written for the times literary supplement

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https://museumofthemind.org.uk/blog/in-the-frame-for-april-2013 https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/oliver-sacks-drugs/

bethlem hospital ... an exhibition of 1930s art produced after taking mescaline ... this one by julian trevelyan

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https://museumofthemind.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/brilliant-visions-mescaline-art-psychiatry

apropos de nuffinque ... a clever picture by rod evans

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a glimpse of writer michael pollan ...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02uwHu0G0yg

the beckley foundation "going commercial" ...

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https://www.facebook.com/TheBeckleyFoundation/videos/1297949303688472/

another update and global perspective on the current state of psilocybin research

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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jun/10/magic-mushrooms-treatment-depression-aztecs-psilocybin-mental-health-medicine

three women in the history of psychedelic research

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A Hidden History of Women and Psychedelics Written by Mariavittoria Mangini, Ph.D., FNP MAPS Bulletin Spring 2019: Vol. 29, No. 1 Download this article. Mariavittoria Mangini, Ph.D., FNP There is plenty of writing about women and drugs, but the discourse around psychedelics has historically been dominated by men. The drug experiences of women have been both sensationalized for their scandalous aspects and sterilized in clinical reports, but the role of women in the investigation of psychedelics prior to criminalization is obscure, and the identities of early women experimenters are often unknown. Discourse, in critical analytic terms, is larger, more complex and more formal than conversation. It includes complex systems of rules, roles, rituals, goals, professional credentials, customs, habits, combinations of words, and patterns of thought. These complex systems were described as “games” by Timothy Leary, and were what his famous (or infamous) slogan “Turn On, Tune In, D

foucault changed by lsd ? ... tip-top reviewing by eric bulson in the TLS, May 17 2019

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault

mapping the emotions

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http://www.openculture.com/2019/05/mapping-emotions-in-the-body.html https://www.consciousentities.com/2018/09/the-map-of-feelings/

micro-dosing ... long newspaper article with proponents/practitioners and with some expert caveats

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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/may/03/psychedelic-drugs-women-taking-tiny-doses-hattie-garlick

a big survey in germany questions "people's sense of oneness"

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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190411101803.htm

a new book on dreaming ...

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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/apr/14/dreams-perfect-canvas-intense-visions-alice-robb-interview

on the usefulness of MDMA in treating depression

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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/apr/14/psychedelic-renaissance-could-mdma-help-with-ptsd-depression-and-anxiety?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR3mrHUne8HFsO44YVV6ed_v1DssfwQFBOsL569QIqg4hhRiE69dDCtU-MI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDMA

a tourists' intro to shamanism in mongolia

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https://www.selenatravel.com/mongolia-travel-blog/show/273/mongolian-shamanism?fbclid=IwAR3DMWvbjIg_n2fwWmmy3bwUx9QzUkvAPOSC5kbdUTB3lQlYfeQN2DeUDJc

spring time in ernst fuchs' unfettered imagination ...

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the concept of self-transcendence

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maslow's heirarchy, above  ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-transcendence other stuff ... https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/debating-humanity/selftranscendence/CFFB5D11DAA360DBB7E1E265612ED8EF/core-reader

ancient rock art in the western united states ... just an assemblage of images and links to begin with

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https://www.outdoorproject.com/blog-news/national-treasures-utahs-native-rock-art http://blog.redrocksandbeyond.com/2016/10/shamans-gallery-ghosts-in-desert.html and then there's the heroic compilation of images gathered by ian parker, a british scientist working in california ... http://parkerlab.bio.uci.edu/nonscientific_adventures/Petroglyphs.htm beside the dried up bed of a lake, lake winnemucca in nevada ... thought to be the oldest north american petroglyphs ... photo by steve chandler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsXwSe4oEOA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnemucca_Lake https://www.npr.org/2013/08/16/212569006/n-americas-oldest-known-petroglyphs-discovered-in-nevada https://www.donsmaps.com/winnemucca.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Rock_art_in_North_America

more new science ... ???slow waves that cross the hippocampus???

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https://www.sciencealert.com/neuroscientists-say-they-ve-found-an-entirely-new-form-of-neural-communication?fbclid=IwAR0XKCf2_GfJHUof5Rkkyx9SStY6Mgh5PnIT668aNk0p4eNHJBWCIgCtE8Q https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1113/JP276904 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocampus

what science knows that shaman's need to, maybe ...

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very popular youtube course on the science of the nervous system https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPix_X-9t7E&feature=share