EntheO. New Health Concerns. Entheogenic Review.
Entheogens, the Conscious Brain and Existential Reality. Abstract: The purpose of this article is to provide a ‘state of the art’ research overview of what is currently known about how entheogens, including the classic psychedelics, affect the brain and transform conscious experience through their altered receptor dynamics, and to explore their implications for understanding the conscious brain and its relationship to existential reality, and their potential utility in our cultural maturation and understanding of the place of sentient life in the universe.
Contents 1. Cultural and Historical Introduction 2. The Enigma of Subjective Consciousness 3. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 1: Cultural and Historical Introduction Human societies have been actively using psychoactive substances since the earliest cultures emerged. Background image negative of Psion005 Andrew Ostin Fig 1: Phosphene-like finger markings Neolithic tomb of Gaverinus, Brittany. “when they become excited by them start dancing, singing, weeping. Like And the peyote sees your heart ... (Anderson).
Plant Guides. Terence McKenna on Entheogens. Entheogenic Plants. Exogenous Amina. Alter Guides. The Power Path. The Rights of the Shaman. The Rights of the Shaman is a term paper I wrote when I returned to graduate school during the mid 1990s.
The Rights of the Shaman Shaman Appendix This paper began as part of a much larger review of the various issues faced by indigenous cultures related to their natural resources utilization. At the time, it was seven years since the Smithsonian Institution’s exhibit on the Amazon Rainforest made its debut in this country at the local forestry center. When I returned to classes at the university where I taught, my years of experience as a lecturer and researcher in another department on campus was unknown to some of my newest professors. I tried on several occasions to winnow this paper down to briefer arguments as requested by the professor, but to no avail.
In the end, this is the last version of a term paper I turned in for the course, more than a year after it was over. The Rights of the Shaman A number or rights are implied by the above four statements. Other Implied Rights. Work of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies. The Foundation is dedicated to preserving, studying, and teaching shamanic knowledge for the welfare of all.
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