#psychedelics

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: "There is a reason that things were esoteric throughout the history of and , and it is that they are not for everybody, at least at the stage most people are, trying to just make a living, trying to keep their families together... because a lot of these esoteric practices and experiences, have a kind of quality, they pull the rug out from under you, they show you a multiplicity world, sometimes god is everywhere, and it is pretty groovy, but it can be, in someways, ."

@erik_davis & Douglas @Rushkoff on in society

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N6jTxEeohI

Really interesting read from gathering evidence that is not as old or as it is made out to be. The tales tourists want to hear...

'Brabec de Mori argues that ayahuasca diffused through the Peruvian Amazon in the past 300 years. It is likely older among Tukanoan peoples further north, who, he suspects, transmitted the practice to populations missionised early in the lowlands. Yet in the regions most frequented by tourists, it seems to be a relative novelty. Brabec de Mori isn’t the first to make the argument – the anthropologist Peter Gow proposed something similar in 1994 – but he, more than anyone else, has found the anthropological data to support it.'

We definitely believe Peter Gow (who saw the equivalency of menstrual girls to shamans. Ayahuasca use tends to push women out)

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/01/the-ancient-psychedelics-myth-people-tell-tourists-the-stories-they-think-are-interesting-for-them

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