Posts

matt wall's recent ted talk on the state of the art in brain imaging ... with a special mention of psilocybin ... for about two seconds ... daniel amen's talk about detecting physical damage to brains and improving them is pretty amazing

Image
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APgMXDjLcT4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esPRsT-lmw8

selk'nam people of tierra del fuego ... the last speaker of their language has gone

Image
http://www.memoriachilena.cl/602/w3-article-3602.html#imagenes http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0500544468/ref=dp_olp_all_mbc?ie=UTF8&condition=all

one of my dance drawings from twenty years ago ...

Image

do shamanism and schizophrenia overlap ?

Image
art by waelad akhadan http://genealogyreligion.net/shamans-as-schizophrenics https://toltecwarrior.wordpress.com/2010/04/03/shamanism-vs-schizophrenia/

tony dilje, apache medicine man, c.1890

Image

i've lived with a couple of glamourous synaesthetes, full of life and intelligence, once upon a time ... but i'd only experienced something like synaesthesia with the help of hallucinogens ... in time i came to envy their closer contact with the natural world, and the extra depth and dimensions of their emotional lives

Image
http://genealogyreligion.net/synaesthetic-mysticism

possible background reading ... via feuilleton, john coulthart's fountain of knowledge and fun

Image
http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2015/05/23/more-trip-texts/ http://www.johncoulthart.com/