dial a shaman

insert picture here later ... if you can find one that seems appropriate https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-drug-that-taught-me-how-much

https://nhmu.utah.edu/articles/experts-explore-new-mushroom-which-causes-fairytale-hallucinations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanmaoa_asiatica

Q.  has anyone written about notions of shamanism in western popular music ? ChatGPT said: Yes — there is scholarly and critical writing on notions of shamanism (or “shamanic” metaphors/techniques) in Western popular music and culture. Here are some key works and how they approach the topic, which could be useful if you’re researching this area: Key sources ‘I’ve Got a Spirit Coming through Me’: Music as Hierophany and Musicians as Shamans by Mark Jennings (2015) This article uses Mircea Eliade’s notions of hierophany (the appearance of the sacred) and of the shaman in his theoretical schema. journal.equinoxpub.com It applies these ideas to popular music / Pentecostal music contexts (e.g., Australian musician Xavier Rudd) to argue that musicians can function “shamanically” by channeling something beyond the everyday. journal.equinoxpub.com Usefully this connects “popular music” (in a Western context) with shamanic/ritual experience — you might draw on this if your f...

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/sep/17/on-drugs-by-justin-smith-ruiu-review-a-philosophers-guide-to-psychedelics

https://indiantraders.com/blogs/news/native-american-shamanism  

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2832297 Question    Is cannabis associated with the same midbrain dopamine pathway involved in psychosis?

 

  https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/01/the-ancient-psychedelics-myth-people-tell-tourists-the-stories-they-think-are-interesting-for-them    

                https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/mar/19/doctor-shaman-adana-omagua-kambeba-indigenous-western-medicine-traditions-brazil#img-1          

  Male Power Figure (Nkisi) Kongo artist and nganga late19th–mid-20th century    This work was the product of an intense collaboration between a sculptor and the initiated priest "nganga," who controlled its use in his professional practice. After an artist completed carving the artifact, the "nganga" transformed it into an object capable of healing illness, settling disputes, safeguarding the peace, and punishing wrongdoers. Each work of this kind or "nkisi" is associated with a spirit, that is subjected to a degree of human control. The term "nkisi" may relate to a wide spectrum of physical receptacles, including cloth packets, filled vessels, as well as the carved wood sculptures studied by art historians. This piece is especially admired for its reflective inward expression.   Among the many amulets and bound bundles attached to this "nkisi," are a finely carved anthropomorphic cross and a small gong. The cross alludes to the divisi...

                    https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/ainu-shamanisma-forbidden-path-universal-knowledge          

  https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0806030105

https://uploads.guim.co.uk/2024/07/16/240716_Science.mp4 volunteers took either psilocybin or ritalin, and were subjected to scan before and after ... those who had taken ritalin were later given psilocybin While participants’ brain scans largely returned to normal the day after taking psilocybin, Siegel noted a reduction in communication between the default mode network and the anterior hippocampus – a part of the brain critical for memory and perceptions of space and time – lasted for three weeks after the dose. a researcher commented ... "we didn't have any trouble finding participants" https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jul/17/psilocybin-magic-mushrooms-influence-brain-weeks-study

  https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/sep/13/why-do-we-take-drugs-sainsbury-centre-norwich https://www.sainsburycentre.ac.uk/whats-on/why-do-we-take-drugs/

  https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/article/2024/sep/06/psychedelics-side-effects-risks-clinic-berlin

An ancient "birdman" was unearthed in 2019 in Siberia, who was buried wearing a costume made of bird beaks — believed to be from herons or cranes. They may have been part of a ritual costume, or an elaborate helmet. The Novosibirsk Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography unearthed the finds at the Ust-Tartas archaeological site in the Novosibirsk region. The beaks were assembled at the back of the skull, along the neck, as if it was a collar that protected the owner. Alternatively, the beaks — of which there are estimated to be between around 30 and 50 — may have been part of a ritual costume, or an elaborate headdress or helmet. It is believed the ancient man was a shaman who belonged to the "Odinov culture" which dominated the region. The "Odino culture" name is taken from the Odino settlement in the basin of the Ishim river, in Western Siberia. The Odinov people lived during the Bronze Age, likely between the 18th to 16th centuries BCE. They lived as...

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/aug/06/magic-mushrooms-end-of-life-psilocybin

  https://neurosciencenews.com/brain-gummies-hallucinogens-26462/

  Headmen, shamans, and mothers: natural and sexual selection for computational services (grasshoppermouse.github.io) ABSTRACT Computer engineers face a dilemma. They must build systems with sufficient resources to solve the most complex problems the systems are expected to solve, but the systems will only need to solve such problems intermittently, resulting in inefficient use of expensive computational resources.  This dilemma is commonly resolved with timesharing, networking, multitasking, and other technologies that enable computational resources to be shared with multiple users. The human brain, which evolved to acquire, store, and process information to make beneficial decisions, is likewise energetically expensive to build and maintain yet plausibly has idle capacity much of the time.  We propose that humans evolved to use advantages in information or computational resources to provide computational services to others via a language-based “network” in exchange for ...

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