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Biofields, Placebo, and Ritual - Dr. Richard Hammerschlag

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The Hallucinogenic Cactus and the Native People

I was doing a thesis on comparing the hallucinogenic cactus to the hallucinogen mushroom. I thought wow there's something really interesting going on here so um that was just one one way that I was open up a whole another long story involved my undergraduate degree. How much of the ritual around the peyote came out of tribal ceremony and traditional ways? And how much actually came out of the was based on the alkaloids for example is there's an emetic in many of these entheogens entheogens uh and they make you barf they make you Barf they makeYouBarfYes. can just float on top of a teacup full of water but

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