I found this amazingly well-written article on altered states, shamanism and psychonautics.
It retells in one particular paragraph how, over time, the influences of Protestant Christianity, technocracy and empirical science changed the way people looked at the spiritual. Not even in synagogues and mosques are the psychtropic substances used for shamanism accepted because they are seen as too primitive--and that supposedly, being "primitive" is a bad thing.
I'm not sure I understand that fear-laden train of thought, seeing as how I, myself am interested in such substances to induce shamanic trances. I'm not crazy about the idea of going to prison just for using something from nature, however so I find other ways to--if purists will pardon the expression--get my trance on.
There is more to this article than what I read, but I am definitely giving this site the "thumbs-up."
Click here to see and read the article.
BB,
Rev. Kat
It retells in one particular paragraph how, over time, the influences of Protestant Christianity, technocracy and empirical science changed the way people looked at the spiritual. Not even in synagogues and mosques are the psychtropic substances used for shamanism accepted because they are seen as too primitive--and that supposedly, being "primitive" is a bad thing.
I'm not sure I understand that fear-laden train of thought, seeing as how I, myself am interested in such substances to induce shamanic trances. I'm not crazy about the idea of going to prison just for using something from nature, however so I find other ways to--if purists will pardon the expression--get my trance on.
There is more to this article than what I read, but I am definitely giving this site the "thumbs-up."
Click here to see and read the article.
BB,
Rev. Kat
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