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jaguar pot

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sweet voices of reason ( part 99 ) ... what hallucinations reveal about the mind ... oliver sacks

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2012/oct/30/oliver-sacks-shares-hallucinations http://www.ted.com/talks/oliver_sacks_what_hallucination_reveals_about_our_minds.html

from korea

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a pretty picture of modern mongolia from an old blog called patrick in mongolia

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http://patrickinmongolia.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/dsc08639.jpg

temptation ... resisted for two reasons ... it seemed a pity to destroy something with beauty that others might enjoy ... i don't know how to use them safely

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shamanism in wikipedia

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamanism

coso rock art in eastern california

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coso_People

evenki, siberia

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evenks

soul catcher

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http://www.rrnpilot.org/items/298629

edward s curtis visits the navaho people

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alaska

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edward curtis visits the kwakiutl people

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwakwaka%27wakw

psilocybin research at imperial college and at johns hopkins

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http://www.zmescience.com/research/studies/fmri-scan-psilocybin-effect-on-brain-404234/ http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/magazine/how-psychedelic-drugs-can-help-patients-face-death.html?pagewanted=all

gundestrup cauldron

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gundestrup_cauldron

parakana, shamanism without shamans

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http://pib.socioambiental.org/en/povo/parakana/73

colombian stuff in the british museum

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http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/aoa/c/cast_gold_pendant_of_a_winged.aspx

edward curtis on the pacific coast of canada

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Holmengrå laksefiskevær ... this is too far south and west to be part of traditional sami culture but it might be the kind of place in which similar beliefs first encountered medieval christian ritual

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as was expressed so beautifully in the labyrinth design for the cathedral at chartres ... http://www.labyrinthos.net/photo_library14.html

sami folk

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lapland ? nope ! its mongolia !

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https://hamidsardarphoto.com/

via shamanism to ... wherever !

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mongolian shaman c.1909