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i am neither for or against shamanism ... but russia's treatment of this man is deplorable

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Russia Siberian shaman arrested on trek to exorcise Vladimir Putin Alexander Gabyshev walked 1,700 miles across Russia before being held by police Andrew Roth  in Moscow Thu 19 Sep 2019  15.58 BST Last modified on Thu 19 Sep 2019  16.52 BST Shares 228   Alexander Gabyshev, a wandering shaman: ‘God has told me to do this, nature has told me to do this.’ Photograph: Facebook/Воин шаман Александр Габышев A wandering shaman on a quest to “drive the evil spirit of [Vladimir] Putin from the Kremlin” has been arrested in Siberia by armed police. Alexander Gabyshev had walked an estimated 1,700 miles from the remote city of Yakutsk towards Moscow, attracting an eccentric group of acolytes and appearing at rare protests in regional Russian cities, before his arrest on Thursday. Police in Yakutia confirmed the arrest but did not say why he had been detained. Supporters believed he may face charges for his calls to ...

art for art's sake ...

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mildly shamanastic and rarther beautiful ... at burning man in 2018 ...

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https://vimeo.com/339155010?fbclid=IwAR1QhgkuyDfhv-DHL2XIMe46WI2TuFtcNuMBg63pWgeWQxYKlr20aCfbQYo

a sound recording of aldous huxley questioned after taking LSD

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the short extract ... http://www.openculture.com/2019/08/aldous-huxley-trips-on-acid-talks-about-cats-the-secret-of-life-1962.html the longer recording ... http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz002b13tj

another interesting tale of the maudsley's mescaline experiments, via the bethlem museum of the mind ... and raymond tallis's reading of the oliver sacks' book, hallucinations, written for the times literary supplement

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https://museumofthemind.org.uk/blog/in-the-frame-for-april-2013 https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/oliver-sacks-drugs/

bethlem hospital ... an exhibition of 1930s art produced after taking mescaline ... this one by julian trevelyan

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https://museumofthemind.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/brilliant-visions-mescaline-art-psychiatry

apropos de nuffinque ... a clever picture by rod evans

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