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gold figures, possibly shamanic ... tairona people of colombia

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Masked Figure Pendant | Tairona | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (metmuseum.org)   Figure Pendant | Tairona | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (metmuseum.org)

tlingit talisman in the metropolitan museum

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  Amulet | Tlingit, Native American | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (metmuseum.org)

a woman using psilocybin to help deal with life-long anorexia

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/05/anorexia-psychedelics-mdma-mushrooms  

an update on the current understanding of benefits derived from the use of various psychedelics to treat depression, PTSD, and OCD, etc ...

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2024/06/psychedelics-as-medicine

scythian burial goods containing substantial residues of opium and marijuana ... drugs just as likely to facilitate war as peace, now as then ...

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS7RDoiXv_s

April 19th is "BICYCLE DAY " ... the day back in 1943 when Albert Hoffman decided to self-administer a new chemical ... he had synthesised it years previously but had then set it aside because he had other research priorities ...

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  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Hofmann

tlingit shaman's drum

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https://www.adn.com/arts/2017/05/11/with-help-of-infrared-photography-tribes-hopes-to-repair-timeworn-tlingit-drum/ https://beautifulbritishcolumbia.net/2018/07/26/philosophy-and-religion-of-the-tlingit/