Rationalism is dead...this is the age of Magic!

"I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws." -Antonin Artaud

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"Ayahuascha-based shamanism is an essentially indigenous phenomenon.  It belongs to the indigenous people of Western Amazonia, who held the keys to a way of knowing that they have practiced without interruption for at least five thousand years.  In comparison, the universities of the Western world are less than nine hundred years old.

The shamanism of which the indigenous people of the Amazon are the guardians represent knowledge accumulated over thousands of years in the most biologically diverse place on earth.  Certainly, shamans say they acquire their knowledge directly from the spirits, but they grow up in cultures where shamanic visions are stored in myths.  In this way mythology informs shamanism: The invisible, life-creating maninkari spirits are the ones whose feats Ashaninca mythology relates, and it is also the maninkari who talk to Ashaninca shamans in their visions and tell them how to heal."

"Many of science's central ideas seem to come from beyond the limits of rationalism.  Rene Descartes dreams of an angel who explains the basic principles of materialist rationalism to him; Albert Einstein daydreams in a tram, approaching another and conceives the theory of relativity; James Watson scribbles on a newspaper in a train, then rides his bicycle to reach the conviction (having "borrowed" Rosalind Franklin's radiophotographic work) that DNA has the form of a double helix. And so on." - The Cosmic Serpent, Jeremy Narby