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the seven sisters of sleep ... a long read via project gutenberg ... an 1860 review of the culture of various addictions

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the text ... http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60805 a modern review http://psypressuk.com/2010/02/28/literary-review-the-seven-sisters-of-sleep-by-mordecai-cooke/

the wikipedia article on shamanism in mongolia has been updated fairly recently ... very clear and well written ...

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

the Yup'ik Culture in Western Alaska ... archaeology meets shamanism ...

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a short but richly informative talk given by rick knecht at cardiff this year ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XhgetM5ApU and an excellent short film on the subject ... https://www.branstetterfilm.com/docads/

psilocybin with zen meditation experiment ... "All individuals followed a structured meditative discipline known in the Zen tradition as sesshin."

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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-50612-3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesshin

hardened journalist tries out a psychedelic "mush"

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https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/10/11/my-adventures-in-psychedelia/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=348AhnAkSco

genetically engineered psilocybin extraction ...

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https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-made-a-bacterium-that-poops-out-psilocybin https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S109671761930309X?dgcid=author

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 overthrow the government. G