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interesting map ... the link to the wikipedia article on shamanism with its long list of reference material ... other links and some additions to my semi-comatose image library

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  Shamanism - Wikipedia The Shamans Of Siberia (rferl.org) Portraits of shamans from around the world | CNN The Shaman Masters of Hohhot Have Returned – Foreign Policy Tsentsak - Wikipedia Plants, Shamans, and the Spirit World (usda.gov) The surprising story of Mongolian shamanism | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology SHAMAN on Behance Thunder Shaman (degruyter.com)

siberian shaman in the early 1900s ...

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guardian article about black women trying to deal with trauma by using psilocybin

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  https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/aug/28/mushrooms-psychedelic-black-women-mothers-microdosing?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR3x89XsRwpj-yXj_ZshPo5DY2cDbB6QSP454xo5F7b2n6Z9wegLsSitqvU#Echobox=1661686654

maybe pseudo-shamanism ...

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https://youtu.be/SVbc_Fwbt50 https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/aug/18/its-so-alien-ive-never-heard-anything-like-it-folk-collective-heilung-on-recording-the-worlds-oldest-song

the huichol or wixarika people , shamanism with peyote

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  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huichol#:~:text=The%20Huichol%20or%20Wix%C3%A1rika%20are,%2C%20New%20Mexico%2C%20and%20Texas. https://wilderutopia.com/international/humanity/wixarika-huichol-people-protecting-sacred-lands-of-mexico/ https://soundcloud.com/socal350/wixarikahuichol-people-protecting-sacred-lands-of-mexico?utm_source=wilderutopia.com&utm_campaign=wtshare&utm_medium=widget&utm_content=https%253A%252F%252Fsoundcloud.com%252Fsocal350%252Fwixarikahuichol-people-protecting-sacred-lands-of-mexico https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/05/travel/mexico-peyote-pilgrimage.html

the guardian's john crace ... already famously anxious ... tries a breathing therapy ... and it works !

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https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/may/23/i-feel-totally-seen-john-crace-on-how-guided-breathing-soothed-a-lifetime-of-anxiety  

a "serious" polish artist who experimented with drugs

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  https://www.openculture.com/2022/05/the-polish-artist-stanislaw-witkiewicz-made-portraits-while-on-different-psychoactive-drugs.html