the shaman girl's prayer ... via john coulthart's "feuilleton" website
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-0KPS1ZzDw
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cris campbell's "genealogy of religion" blog is always worth a visit for a spot of lucid and learned perspective
http://genealogyreligion.net/
psilocybin and dream states ... how magic mushrooms induce a dream-like state
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25853-how-magic-mushrooms-induce-a-dreamlike-state.html#.U7wuA_ldV8E http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hbm.22562/full
"The Day Before the Beginning of Spring"
c. 1790 Katsushika Hokusai ( Japan , Asia ) Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper 8 3/8 x 6 in. (21.2 x 15.3 cm) (image, sheet) 17 15/16 x 14 in. (45.56 x 35.56 cm) (mat, Size I) Gift of Louis W. Hill, Jr. P.78.64.16.3 For this print, Hokusai was inspired by a play dramatizing a popular ritual performed on setsubun, the eve of the first day of spring in the old lunar calendar. On this day, people in Japan scatter dried beans in their houses to drive out bad luck. In the play, a demon personifies an evil spirit who has come into a widow's house, even though she had created a protective talisman. The clever woman offers the demon sake (rice wine) and he soon becomes drunk. In the end, she successfully drives him away by throwing beans at him. For this print, Hokusai depicted the last scene, with the woman holding her box of beans and the demon on bended knee clutching at...
this lady pays reluctant lip-service to the basic overlap between the stripped-back neurophysiology of exhaustion and some commonly felt transcendent experiences ... lone pine in the owens valley seems an appropriate location for her experience, being surrounded by traces of ancient shamanistic cultures ... both pictures by the indefatigable ian parker
link to barbara ehrenreich's article ... http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/18/barbara-ehrenreich-atheist-religious-encounter-living-with-a-wild-god link to ian parker's photography ... http://parkerlab.bio.uci.edu/nonscientific_adventures/alabama_hills.htm
psilocybin in therapy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybin http://www.maps.org/conference/clinicalsunday/ http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080703/full/news.2008.934.html http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/unique-everybody-else/201209/psilocybin-and-personality http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130407090832.htm http://www.erowid.org/plants/mushrooms/mushrooms_chemistry.shtml