Posts Tagged ayahuasca

Lucid Dreaming as Shamanic Technology

Posted by on September 14, 2010  |  18 Comments

Although definitions vary depending on your culture and the strength of your resistance towards the transpersonal, most call lucid dreaming the experience of dreaming with awareness, and sometimes dreaming with control, while the body sleeps. With the buzz around Inception, there have been more news articles about dream research in the last month than I’ve [...]

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Lucid Dreaming and Narby’s Cosmic Serpent

Posted by 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 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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