dial a shaman

  The Lost World: From Cosmic Freedom to Social Discipline November 23, 2013 Doing an online search for The Tibetan Ukrainian Mountain Troupe last night, I came across this delightful picture  here . I’m guessing it’s from about 1982-83. To me it says everything about the utopian dreams of an ‘alternative culture’, which saw its last hurrah with the Stonehenge Festivals of the early 1980s and the Cosmic Freedom Festival at Greenham Common in 1982. It was part of a festival circuit which saw urban squatters take to the road in battered buses and lorries in the summer. This movement was dealt a dolorous blow in 1985 with the  Battle of the Beanfield , an act of  state brutality  surely sanctioned at the highest level, partly in revenge for the incursion at the projected cruise missile base at Greenham Common, which saw frantic phone calls between Downing Street and Washington – at least, according to the gossip tree at the festival. To paraphrase  René R...

MDMA molecule ... https://psychedelicreview.com/mindmed-and-liechti-lab-to-conduct-the-first-clinical-trial-combining-lsd-and-mdma/

 https://psyc hedelicreview.com/the-role-of-the-claustrum-in-the-psychedelic-experience/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claustrum#:~:text=The%20claustrum%20(Latin%2C%20meaning%20%22,the%20thalamus)%20of%20the%20brain.

https://psychedelicreview.com/examining-the-cognitive-neuroscience-of-psychedelics/

one thing puzzles me ... the "axe" pictured below ... without sharpened edges, surely it wasn't made for chopping or cutting, neither wood nor flesh  ... nevertheless, it really is a beautiful piece of work ... so much balance and symmetry ... the streamlined refinement of it's continuous curves ... it seems so much more sophisticated than any other object in the display ... are there any other objects from this period that it might be compared with ? ... what other practical purpose might it have served ?   https://www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/?artwork=upton-lovell-shaman&fbclid=IwAR3IgJEt-06YehLnNlcsMiYFZV6dDE6zyrFO_o2ACUO9LZnT92ctWph9Quw http://www.wiltshireheritagecollections.org.uk/index.asp?page=itema&mwsquery=({Phrase%20search}=*{Upton%20Lovell})&filename=DZSWS&hitsStart=31&hitsNext=%3E%3E http://www.wiltshireheritagecollections.org.uk/wiltshiresites.asp?page=selectedplace&mwsquery={Place%20identity}={Upton%20Lovell%20G2a}

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jul/04/magic-mushrooms-could-help-ex-soldiers-to-overcome-trauma

https://psychedelicreview.com/reviewing-some-landmark-studies-on-using-psilocybin-to-treat-anxiety-and-depression-in-cancer-patients/