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is the moral of this tale that anyone can become a shaman ? prob'ly not ...

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  https://flashbak.com/santa-on-shrooms-a-trippy-1943-comic-book-45038/

the jade canoe ... the spirit of haida qway ...

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

Jakutian ... presumably Yakutia, Siberian Russia

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matt johnson, professor of psychiatry ... an overview of the subject of psychedelics

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBA98jHWhoU

womans hour ... the mainstream bbc programme ... a discussion of current medical uses of psychedelics ...

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introductory level discussion of brain structure, stimulation, medical uses, ethical constraints, etc https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001pt8z?q=2 https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/catherine-bird https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/d.nutt

SOME ODD VIEWS OF SHAMANISM FROM THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT ... a diligent illustrator imagines stuff but his pictures were based on incomplete and / or unreliable sources of information ... a pretty good effort

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  you can read the whole book here ... in french, of course ! https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1511243d/f9.item.r=Bernard%20Picart#

the last female shamans in japan ...

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  https://pen-online.com/culture/an-encounter-with-the-last-shamans-in-japan/