christmas frivolity ... was santa a shaman ? etc ...
http://www.openculture.com/2017/12/did-santa-claus-his-reindeers-begin-with-a-mushroom-trip.html
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rock art out of the jungles of south america
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-12/ucl-vra120517.php
embrace of the serpent ... shaman travels with modern men in rain forest
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace_of_the_Serpent
a shapeless blog with a few links ... barend ter haar ... an interesting bibliography not just about shamanism but all sorts of social and spiritual stuff in china
http://faculty.orinst.ox.ac.uk/terhaar/shamanism.htm https://www.univ.ox.ac.uk/univ-people/professor-barend-j-ter-haar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_shamanism and other stuff ... such as arthur waley ... https://www.amazon.com/Nine-Songs-Shamanism-Ancient-Classic/dp/1330293541
cary grant's therapy
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/may/12/cary-grant-how-100-acid-trips-in-tinseltown-changed-my-life-lsd-documentary
american clinical trial using psilocybin to treat depression with cancer sufferers
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/hallucinogenic_drug_psilocybin_eases_existential_anxiety_in_people_with_life_threatening_cancer_
an improbable memory booster ? they would have to be tiny doses ...
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/may/08/daily-dose-of-cannabis-extract-could-reverse-brains-decline-in-old-age-study-suggests-thc
more brain scans ...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-04-evidence-higher-state-consciousness.html
very early shamanic art in southern africa
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/earliest-dated-rock-art-southern-africa-depicts-shamans-journey-world-spirits-1615320
where shamans might intuit, scientists research ...
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jan/26/lsd-study-reveals-why-acid-trips-last-so-long-lysergic-acid-diethylamide-serotonin