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A post twice is long is hardly more 'convenient'. Nor is something totally different 'exactly the same'.
Your post is such nonsense that I will wager $1000 that not one of 5 strangers picked at random will consider them exactly the same.
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Perhaps not 'exactly the same' but rather, strikingly similar.
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Nothing in your original post is innacurate.
Yay me! 
In the book "Wizard of the Upper Amazon", the author (del Rios?), a self-described shaman in his own right, told how he lived with a primitive Amazonian tribe for over a year after being kidnapped and his fellow rubber harvesters were killed. The elders would take ayahuasca to divine which tribe was going to attack them. They would work themselves into a frenzy and slaughter many innocents in the neighboring tribe who had no such was intentions.
Wizard of the Upper Amazon was admitted to be imaginative fiction by it's author. It is a poor example of anthropology, and it's description of the practices of the Amazonian tribes is inaccurate. You criticised Moonshoe for citing fiction, but you are doing the same.
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Would you care to wager that I can not come up with an equally moronic story to counter your position?
You are flaming. That is not allowed...no no! Bad!
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OrgoneConclusion said: A post twice is long is hardly more 'convenient'. Nor is something totally different 'exactly the same'.
Well, it was certainly more entertaining and imaginative.
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It was perfect to prove the point, imo.
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Wizard of the Upper Amazon was admitted to be imaginative fiction by it's author. It is a poor example of anthropology, and it's description of the practices of the Amazonian tribes is inaccurate. You criticised Moonshoe for citing fiction, but you are doing the same.
At the time I read the book, the author claimed it to be autobigraphical.
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Perhaps you should try getting you anthropological information from peer reviewed journals.
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Would you care to wager that I can not come up with an equally moronic story to counter your position?
You are flaming. That is not allowed...no no! Bad!
Calling a story about two guys living in feces, moronic, is not flaming. I said nothing against the poster.
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So, YOU took a book that discusses telepathy as reality for fact?
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Re: Aboriginal Dreamtime [Re: NiamhNyx]
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You know there is very little academic information on ayahuasca and that I was not trying to present a falsehood.
Yet you fail to apply your standards equally, such as to Moonshoe's story. That is disingenuous.
The fact remains that ayahuasca journeying has yet to bring back demonstrable knowledge that was not learned from an ordinary reality source. At least no strong case for such has ever been made publicly.
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There is actually a great deal of academic anthropological work done on ayahuasca and other psychedelics, as well as things like the dreaming. This stuff is interesting, of course scientists are studying it! I'd send you links to journal articles, but unfortunately you have to pay to use most of the sites. I have access through my school... JSTOR is an excellent source.
Also, my comment wasn't disingenuous because Moonshoe never claimed his parable came from a legitimate source. He made it up, and it struck me as funny.
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Re: Aboriginal Dreamtime [Re: NiamhNyx]
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harmine Pronunciation: har′mēn A central nervous system stimulant and potent monoamine oxidase inhibitor obtained from Peganum harmala (family Zygophyllaceae) and Banisteria caapi (family Malpighaceae); psychic effects resemble those of LSD, but sedative and depressive qualities may predominate over hallucinatory manifestations.
Synonym(s): banisterine, leucoharmine, telepathine
[G. harmala, harmal, fr. Ar. harmalah, + -ine]
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Huehuecoyotl said: So, YOU took a book that discusses telepathy as reality for fact?
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Re: Aboriginal Dreamtime [Re: coulterIV]
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Where are ya'll at??
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backfromthedead said: Where are ya'll at??
they are stuck in the machine unable to dream their way to the otherside.
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Re: Aboriginal Dreamtime [Re: coulterIV]
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Tell them all it takes is a stack of blocks. Preferably not a house of cards. Something substantial now. Less blocks the better. I suspect ONE is best. But Christ, Lucifer... Yin. Yang. Fight it out and awake with a BANG!! Telepathy?? Got me. I was convinced. I got minced. Medicine. Edison. Seattle. Battle.
I jumped in the fountain. It was all seeds and weeds yes. I climbed the mountain. Looked down and saw a mess. I felt connected up there... To all you out there. And you all were talking to me, those that care. But then it turned ugly into a tranced evil stare. The docs say I'm schizo I say I know so I say I know the plan They pretend like the don't understand The story. Rory. Rogers on ice when I was a kid. I drank it like that I did. Then it POPPED. And it didn't stop. Voices. Are you real?? Talk to me.
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Are you real?? Talk to me.
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Re: Aboriginal Dreamtime [Re: NiamhNyx]
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NiamhNyx said: The story points out how ridiculous it is to expect someone's spirit world to magically shield them from physical assault and that the fact that it didn't do so doesn't undermine the validity of the experience.
This conclusion was also reached by CC but I never understood that. If one can "see" then they can see and that's that.
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Wizard of the Upper Amazon was admitted to be imaginative fiction by it's author. It is a poor example of anthropology, and it's description of the practices of the Amazonian tribes is inaccurate. You criticised Moonshoe for citing fiction, but you are doing the same.
At the time I read the book, the author claimed it to be autobigraphical.
True, the author was a liar.
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