--- In [email protected], "mark robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The shaman. Quite a figure, generally an outcast who nonetheless > is held > with mystical esteem. The shaman usually is a healer. The healer > doesn't > turn the healing sense of self on and off. This is a person who > has had to > try and test every means of healing and know first hand on the > pulse of the > soul itself what's what and who's who. > > That's not easy in todays legislated world where one isn't > lawfully allowed > to penetrate life's mysteries without an interceptor, be it a > doctor, or > psychiatrist, or priest, or top secret government project noone > today is > lawfully allowed to follow their own unique vision, unless it > resides within > the law of society. > > And yet the shaman must go on. We need white blood cells in > society. We need > people who can ressurect the connection of the DNA, these people > are the > mRNA of society attuned to the deeper pumping rhythms of > wholeness that one > can partake of. > > The shaman utilizes every means to cure society of its ills. The > shaman is > also the trickster. The caller to the quest, the journey, and the > goal > behind the yellow curtain. Any rhythm after all must be founded > upon > something. And it's founded upon the navigation of the ocean-like > surface of > the heart. Do Dum Do Dum Dum Do Dum Do. Two beating hearts are > better than > one ;) > > The shaman might take peyote before going to work in the office, > at the > computer, because code really is fine prose, and the virtual > frontier is > full of possibilities. The surgeon may have hit the > dextromorphophan because > surgery is plugging directly into someone elses guts and calm is > needed. > The cook might smoke some weeeeeed because food really is > psychedelic when > the mind is open. The farmer gets plowed, the fireperson gets > smoked out, > and the garbage is wasted. Everyone is self medicating even the > Amrit Kalash > peeps who are getting off on yellow berried nightshade and moon > creeper. > > This is the native urge, that is, to self regulate, like as in > pulse > diagnosis. I mean, it's better to just act spontaneously in > accord with ones > vision. But if not then methods are needed to return to the > dharma of the > dna and the pulsating uncomplicated wholistic rhythm of the life > which is as > native as the heartbeat which keeps us burning. The shaman is the > keeper of > the archive of techniques. > > So there must be shamans driving through the city who have rhythm > and > vision. Deep in the fabric of our socialized society are those > who are > really living the anarchy that is inherent in the diversity of > existance. > Natural Law is anarchy, not Monocracy. But the anarchy of a > carbon based > system and that carbon is common to us all. I guess it's no > mystery then > that the carbon based life forms are dirty. Ironic then that > carbon based > society is always trying to rise above. Different religions each > trying to > rise above. > > But the real mysteries are not above but deep within. Above is > within, not > above. And so the Shaman can drive on. What's on the radio. ung > ung ung ung
> > Good post. Only those ignorant of shamanism think that its > pharmacology is something decadent and devaluing that needs to be > risen above. Same is true for today's ignorant "priests" > regarding ancient soma shamanism. It was virtually all > drug-shamanism originally, but through said ignorance, became > drug-bigoted religion. > > Ancient shamans would have killed for some of our music and sound > equipment. > > Modern man has little notion of what is possible through a > combination of his own nervous system, specific pharmacology, and > specific technology. > > -M > "The content of the knowledge Adam and Eve could gain by tasing of the fruit does not matter nearly as much as its form -- that is, the very fact that there was spiritual knowledge of any kind to be had from a tree: from nature. The new faith sought to break the human bond with magic nature, to disenchant the world of plants and animals by directing our attention to a single God in the sky. Yet Jehovah couldn't very well pretend the tree of knowledge didn't exist, not when generations of plant-worshipping pagans knew better. So the pagan tree is allowed to grow even in Eden, though ringed around now with a strong taboo. Yes, there is spiritual knowledge in nature, the new God is acknowledging, and its temptations are fierce, but I am fiercer still. So unfolds the drug war's first battle." >From Michael Pollan's great little book The Botany of Desire. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
