What Is Shamanism?

On Being Human
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“Shamanism, the Faith of experience, marks mankind’s transition from dreamtime into experiential-self-reflective time, and is the common source of all Religions, and psychoactive plants played a pivotal role in this relationship.” – Chriss Bennet,...

Joy in a Monk Bowl

Travelog Blog
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After traveling to many places throughout this wondrous world of ours, I can’t help feeling that the romantic days of “untouched cultures” are quickly disappearing, if they haven’t disappeared altogether already.  More often than not,...

The Amazonian Market

Travelog Blog
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Belching people from every orifice, this interface between the jungle and the modern world spreads its filthy fingers from the waterfront; its banks sickly-sweet from discarded fruits and carcasses continuously churning with the mud,...