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Lucid Dreaming and Narby’s Cosmic Serpent

Posted by Ryan Hurd on April 24, 2008 | 5 Comments

I’ve been re-reading the Cosmic Serpent by Jeremy Narby. A highly recommended narrative about an anthropologist’s journey into the realm of ayahuasca cultures in Amazonia. It blew me away and the second reading is just as good.
Narby is an ethnobotanist, and he makes the key observation that, while Western scientists have freely picked [...]

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The Dark Side of Shamanic Tourism

Posted by Ryan Hurd on March 31, 2008 | 6 Comments

This is the Anthropology of Consciousness Review – Part III.
Shamanic tourism is gaining popularity every year. This segment of the ecotourism industry serves First Worlders who want to experience entheogens in a somewhat Indigenous context.

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Anthropology of Conscience

Posted by Ryan Hurd on November 8, 2007 | 1 Comment

The American Anthropological Association just drafted a statement against the US military’s Human Terrain System project. The HTS hires anthropologists to consult with military ground units to better understand the foreign cultures where they are stationed. So they can dispose of them more efficiently.
While I am being slightly tongue-in-cheek, I agree with the [...]

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Anthropology of Consciousness Wants You

Posted by Ryan Hurd on October 4, 2007 | No Comments

THE SOCIETY FOR THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Spring 2008 Annual Meeting and Conference
March 19-23, 2008 ” Yale University
CALL FOR PAPERS
Theme: Consciousness and Spirit
For all its material correlates and consequences, the anthropology of consciousness incorrigibly connotes an aspect or dimension that is immaterial, yet somehow integral to that which is at the most intimate core of the [...]

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