Psychonautica #42 - Jeremy Narby talk

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In this week's installment of psychonautica, Max Freakout, fresh back from holidays, first mentions the new psychedelic podcast 'blacklight in the attic' from Sancho and cody, and also the latest episode of Black Beauty's 'BB's bungalow' podacst which features several trip reports from the recent 4/21 dopestock group mushroom trip in Vondelpark, Amsterdam. Next, Max plays a talk by Jeremy Narby from the World Psychedelic Forum, entitled 'synergies between science and shamanism', Narby talks about Gordon Wasson and Maria Sabina, including comparisons that were made between Sabina and Quetzlcoatl's daughter, the use of ayahuasca to treat tuberculosis which was revealed in an ayahuasca vision, the relation of Amazonian cultures to hi-tech cultures, the volatile interface between science and shamanism, the difference between the scientific and shamanic understandings of the concepts of 'hallucination' and 'knowledge', the differing perspectives of shamanic subjectivity and scientific objectivity, combining systems of knowledge, bi-cognitivism, comparison of systems of knowledge to languages, Francis Crick's discovery of the DNA double helix, and the use of psychedelics as a visualizing tool.

'Blacklight in the attic' psychedelic podcast:
http://blacklightattic.podomatic.com/

Playlist: Peacekeeper - If you don't mind (I'm going home)

DOWNLOAD HERE:
http://media.libsyn.com/media/dopecast/psychonautica042.mp3