Shaman's Web Resources
A collection of clandestine references to a world richer and brighter, beyond average mediocracy, towards understanding, (self-) respect and gratitude.
Collection by Lavrenty Repin
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Plant/Human Symbiosis and the Fall of Humanity: Interview With Tony Wright
7 min · · Tony Wright and Graham Gynn are authors of Left In The Dark- the book that presents Tony’s research outlining a radical re-interpretation of the current data regarding human
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Chemical evidence for the use of multiple psychotropic plants in a 1,000-year-old ritual bundle from South America
· Humans have a long history of using natural resources, especially plants, to induce nonordinary states of consciousness. Imbibing substances derived from plants have been linked to ancient and elaborate knowledge systems and rituals. While archaeological evidence of the consumption of psychotropics, such as alcohol or caffeine, dates back thousands of years, evidence of the use of other psychoactive substances has been more difficult to document. This article presents the results of chemical analyses of organic residues found in a 1,000-year-old ritual bundle recovered from the highland Andes. The analyses provide evidence of the use of multiple psychoactive plants associated with a sophisticated botanical knowledge system among ritual specialists (shamans) during pre-Columbian times.
Over several millennia, various native plant species in South America have been used for their healing and psychoactive properties. Chemical analysis of archaeological artifacts provides an opportunity to study the use of psychoactive plants in the past and to better understand ancient botanical knowledge systems. Liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) was used to analyze organic residues from a ritual bundle, radiocarbon dated to approximately 1,000 C.E., recovered from archaeological excavations in a rock shelter located in the Lípez Altiplano of southwestern Bolivia. The site is located at an elevation of ∼3,900 m above sea level and contains evidence of intermittent human occupations during the last 4,000 years. Chemical traces of bufotenine, dimethyltryptamine, harmine, and cocaine, including its degradation product benzoylecgonine, were identified, suggesting that at least three plants containing these compounds were part of the shamanic paraphernalia dating back 1,000 years ago, the largest number of compounds recovered from a single artifact from this area of the world, to date. This is also a documented case of a ritual bundle containing both harmine and dimethyltryptamine, the two primary ingredients of ayahuasca. The presence of multiple plants that come from disparate and distant ecological areas in South America suggests that hallucinogenic plants moved across significant distances and that an intricate botanical knowledge was intrinsic to pre-Columbian ritual practices. · Shared by 7
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KhoeKhoegowab Lesson No:1
· KhoeKhoegowab is the most populous and widespread of the Khoisan languages. It belongs to the Khoe language family, and is spoken in Namibia, Botswana, and S...
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Marijuana's History: How One Plant Spread Through the World
4 min · · From the Asian steppes where Cannabis sativa plants first evolved, to prehistoric hunters and gatherers, ancient China, Viking ships and finally the Americas, a new report outlines marijuana's… · Shared by 4, including Simon Kuestenmacher
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History of dagga in the South African archaeological record
10 min · · Name Amy Flatau Student number Supervisor Thomas Huffman Title The history of dagga in the Iron Age Introduction I will be examining the history of Cannabis sativa (from here on, it will be referred…
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(PDF) Cannabis and Tobacco in Precolonial and Colonial Africa
5 min · · PDF | Online at: http://africanhistory.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.001.0001/acrefore-9780190277734-e-44 Abstract: Cannabis and tobacco have longstanding roles in African societies. Despite botanical and pharmacological dissimilarities, it is worthwhile to...
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Danny Casolaro
14+ min · · Joseph Daniel Casolaro (June 16, 1947 – August 10, 1991) was an American freelance writer who came to public attention in 1991 when he was found dead in a bathtub in room 517 of the Sheraton Hotel in…
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Ka
20+ min · · Ka 1) My thesis: KA was the Middle Stone Age word of the Blombos Cave people who dwelled in South Africa in the Middle Stone Age, some 75,000 years ago. Ka was the world above, behind and inside the…
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Creation according to the Bantu
9 min · · 29 May 2012 Creation according to the Bantu – The Second People - Part two of a two part miniseries By Mike Smith 29th of May 2012...
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The Big Bhang
10 min · · For centuries cannabis’ complex relationship with the early days of Hinduism, Taoism, Zoroastrianism, Judism, Christianity, and Islam has been shrouded in mystery. This story starts on the ba…