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"Michael Pollan hit pay dirt in the form of an
idea: do plants, he wondered, use humans as much as we use them? While the
question is not entirely original, the way Pollan examines this complex
coevolution by looking at the natural world from the perspective of plants is
unique. The result is a fascinating and engaging look " from an Amazon reviewer.
-----Yeah, I have been out gardening all day,
specifically pulling up weeds. And I am very into this original battle or one
could say profusion of diverse life all working for a hold on the moment. It's
all very exiting. Only people seem to be missing it, but not really since
Michael Pollan also grooves on it.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 11:57
AM
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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