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Great Quote. Is the book about plants
specifically? I want it. Oh cool. Nice book. Thanks.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 11:57
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Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Shamans
Driving through the City
--- 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.
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