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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Serious Blogging

Although my blog is, as of this moment, still pretty weak, I'm working on it. I haven't quite figured out what type of widget I might add or exactly how to add them, but that will come down the road. For now I'm trying to survey the blog-o-sphere to get a feel for different styles of layouts. In a previous post I mentioned that my vision for the Mediated Culture final project includes both shamanic tourism and the scientific research being conducted on entheogens. Fortunately, the amount of data emerging from this field of study seems to be increasing, so I've been able to find some great sources that call for research on hallucinogenic compounds, as well as justifying its inclusion within the framework of a variety of disciplines. Sites like Brainwaving have article topics ranging from String...

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Shamanic Assimilation Trailer

 For the final video, I also hope to incorporate current Western philosophies and research on dimethyltryptamine (DMT), the psychoactive chemical compound in Ayahuasca....

Monday, March 7, 2011

Shamanic Tourism, Entheogens, and Consciousness: Perhaps Humanity's Most Important Emerging Fields of Study

 The source I’ve spent most of my time delving into is a dissertation written by Evgenia Fotiou entitled From Medicine Men to Day Trippers: Shamanic Tourism in Iquitos, Peru. I’m choosing to summarize that piece here because it’s the most recent research I’ve found on the subject, and nearly everything Fotiou covers pertains directly to our project. Plus, she’s inundated her dissertation with exceptional sources that I would like to research further.             Fotiou uses the first 100 pages or so to detail her methodology for field work, the hallucinogenic beverage Ayahuasca (the main draw for western tourists seeking “authentic” shamanic experiences), and the history of shamanism and its complex, fluid relationship with Western...

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