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a newspaper article about the yanomami people

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https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jan/29/claudia-andujar-photography-yanomami-brazil-jair-bolsonaro

a pretty exhaustive introduction to shamanism ... the link will lead you to a big pdf booklet ... i haven't actually read it !

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http://www.sacredhoop.org/Free-Guide-To-Shamanism/Sacred-Hoop-Free-Guide-To-Shamanism.pdf

psilocybin in therapy ... update

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https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/magic-mushroom-compound-edges-towards-a-treament-for-depression-/

wikipedia's article on psylocybin has been updated

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

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/