I just finished this book by an anthropologist called Jeremy Narby, Ph.D...
He spent several years living with the Ashanica peoples of the Peruvian Amazon, cataloguing their use of the rainforest & indigenous knowledge. The aim was to help combat ecological destruction. His experiences with local shamans (healers) led Narby towards a hallucinogenic jungle brew called Ayhuasca. During his drug induced research he witnessed the impossible, images appearing out of thin air, multicoloured illuminous serpents, 'a green leaf with its veins, then a human hand... a woman with twenty breasts'. His account and those of many more were collected for evidence and after returning back home he got to work putting these findings into order. Beginning with the Peruvian Indians' claim that their knowledge of the medicinal properties of plants were acquired through these hallucinations, he starts to connect the dots and researches shamanistic traditions all over the world. From South America, Africa and Australia, he sees that ancient indigenous people have known for millennia-and even have drawn-the double helix structure, something conventional science discovered only in 1953. He also suggests that DNA and the life it codes for at the cellular level, has a consciousness, and communicates to the shaman when under the influence. DNA is represented by the Cosmic Serpent, who reveals how the material world around us appears immaterial when we open our minds to its influence, educating our hiegher SELVES. This book really made me want to try Ayhuasca the traditional way, as an apprentice to a shaman deep in the Amazon. If anyone knows a shaman then drop me a comment! Check out http://www.spiritpathperu.com/ for an idea of what's out there.
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would u want to try it???!...........................................................................................................................
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