shamanism

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shaman

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is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.

Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.

is a call to authenticity, to the cultural hardware that we are propelled toward rather than the bad software of cultural conditioning which is buggy and constantly re-written.

Cultural conditioning is like bad software. Over and over it's diddled with and re-written so that it can just run on the next attempt. But there is cultural hardware, and it's that cultural hardware, otherwise known as authentic being, that we are propelled toward by the example of the shaman and the techniques of the shaman. ... Shamanism therefore is a call to authenticity.

is nothing but philosophy with a hands-on attitude; philosophy based on the acquisition of extreme experience.

And what is shamanism but philosophy with a hands-on attitude. Philosophy not made around the camp fire, but philosophy based on the acquisition of extreme experience. That's how you figure out what the world is, not by bicycling around in the burbs, but by forcing extreme experience.

is about edge-walking on an ontological transformation of what it means to be human.

This is in fact what shamanism is all about, what the end of history is all about, what psychedelic drugs are all about, we are edge-walking on an ontological transformation of what it means to be human.

is about shape shifting; shamanism is about doing phenomenology with a tool kit that works.

Shamanism is about shape shifting. Shamanism is about doing phenomenology with a tool kit that works.

I don't believe that shamanism without hallucinogens is authentic shamanism or comfortable shamanism.

is a world-wide tradition which, since Paleolithic-times, has said that you must make your own experience the center piece of any model of the world that you build.

Shamanism, on the other hand, is this world wide, since Paleolithic-times, tradition which says that you must make your own experience the center piece of any model of the world that you build.

is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.

Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.

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