christmas frivolity ... was santa a shaman ? etc ...
http://www.openculture.com/2017/12/did-santa-claus-his-reindeers-begin-with-a-mushroom-trip.html
Posts
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_