It is a product of the breakdown of ibotenic acid by ultra-violet radiation.[81] Muscazone is of minor pharmacological activity compared with the other agents.[21] Amanita muscaria and related species are known as effective bioaccumulators of vanadium; some species concentrate vanadium to levels ...
Most of us live our lives completely lost and asleep in our dream characters, the drama that we call ‘life’. The institutional world that we live in is a infrastructure built on our survival instincts, roles, tribal customs, habits, rituals, consumerism, social and religious belief systems;...
The photo further down below (juxtaposed with a very recent one of me) is ofCSA Gen. William F. Payne— one of my distant paternal bloodline (I am descended on my father’s side from a branch of the Virginia Payne’s that made its way to the deep South and then to Mississippi and ...
What Is a Dukun? In parts of Indonesia, especially Java and Bali, adukunfills the role ofshamanand healer. Also known as abomoh, this traditional specialist uses ancient rituals and a natural pharmacopeia to heal physical and spiritual ills. Much of Southeast Asia is modernized, but the dukun...
I don’t know much. But I know that each time I see something heartbreaking on the news, each time I encounter a problemoutside,the answer to the problem isinside. The problem is AWAYS me and the solution is ALWAYS me. If I want my world to be less vicious, then I must become ...
Her name is Luna Ferocity Shadow: she was rescued from a home where the other cats bullied her. A Child of the Secret, just like me and Kirsty. And we adore her. But honestly? Most of the people who called me friend, comrade or their shaman now fill me with nothing but a terrible...
The burden of the medication regi- men is typically linked to the rigidity of medication which impedes flexibility in every day life, as this patient re- ports, 'just the timing and remembering to take your pills on time. It's a real effort to take them at the right time" [37, 50,...
Yet Dr. Pollak very clearly blurs the line between his private spiritual beliefs and the practice of medicine until he becomes far more of a shaman than a doctor, and it is disingenuous to market his services in any other way. He claims that the true cause of disease, insofar as the co...
Jeju shamanic religion; sacrifice; aekmagi; simbang (Jeju shaman); sacred status of simbang1. Introduction Though aekmagi was performed almost all over Korea in various ways for at least a hundred years (Kim 1991), now this ritual is only conducted regularly in some villages of Jeju-do.1 ...
Also recorded in that decade is the use of a gourd for grinding, from which shamans would then take “pinches” to inhale during ceremonies. The ground cebil is also mixed with tobacco to be smoked in pipes (Figure 2a) [32,33]. Figure 2. ‘Weenhayek shaman’s implements (a) 1—bag...