dial a shaman

Starry, starry night Paint your palette blue and gray Look out on a summer's day With eyes that know the darkness in my soul Shadows on the hills Sketch the trees and the daffodils Catch the breeze and the winter chills In colors on the snowy linen land Now, I understand, what you tried to say to me And how you suffered for your sanity And how you tried to set them free They would not listen, they did not know how Perhaps they'll listen now Starry, starry night Flaming flowers that brightly blaze Swirling clouds in violet haze Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue Colors changing hue Morning fields of amber grain Weathered faces lined in pain Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand Now, I understand, what you tried to say to me And how you suffered for your sanity And how you tried to set them free They would not listen, they did not know how Perhaps they'll listen now For they could not love you Bu...

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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

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...

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