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Re:Egypt's Pyramids May Have Been Built on a Long-Lost Branc... by ab5tract on Saturday May 18, 2024 @02:54PM (#40401141)
The combination of plants that creates ayahuasca appeared in a dream. Shamans have identified cancers and illnesses in people. If science can’t cope with these realities, that’s a science problem.
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Re:Egypt's Pyramids May Have Been Built on a Long-Lost Branc... by mandmandam on Saturday May 18, 2024 @07:19PM (#40402882)
That's it. Shamans appear in disparate cultures over millenia upon millenia, helping people in astounding and near-inexplicable ways... And modern academia is just like, 'well, they believe in spirits and take drugs so they must be dumb - now off I go to work to pay my $400,000 mortgage, because that's sensible'.

We owe these traditions an astonishing unacknowledged debt, and the people telling us so are ferociously attacked.

It's a shame. And it will change.

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