Sep 06, 2008 12:09
Currently planning and ironing out details of "the great move of 2008". So far alot more options are coming up in terms of rooming and temp crash space than i ever could have imagined. Lol and behold, Buffalo has ALOT more cooperative living establishments then Atlanta.
I dream at night of taking an old warehouse downtown and turning it into a co-op hive. Wall partitions made out of COB to create seperate apartments within the massive space. MAssive Indoor vegetable garden. 2-4 families. Nearly completely self-sustainable...but smack dab in the middle of urban life.
But i did forget ONE thing.
Autumn. Buffalo. Different from down here.
I need to start investing in thermals, STAT.
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In 1984, Jeremy Narby travelled to the Amazon to study with the Ashanica. There, he met shamans who claimed they received their plant knowledge and healing power from drinking ayahuasca. This began an adventure that lasted over ten years and
culminated in Narby's groundbreaking book, The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge, which revealed possible correlations between shamanic technologies, myth, and science. He has also authored the book Intelligence in Nature: An Inquiry into Knowledge and served as co-editor of Shamans Through Time: 500 Years on the Path to Knowledge with Francis Huxley.
In this interview, Narby discusses photon-capturing DNA, his first terrifying journey with "the spirit vine," the correlation between molecular biology and ayahuasca shamanism, and how modern-day humans could benefit from acknowledging their dark side.
(starts off slow and then picks up some SERIOUS co-signing love from the Dana)
Jeremy Narby is a breath of fresh air with his respect towards indigenous tradition and religion. There are faaaar too many westerners on spirit quests who tend to assimilate and denigrate rather than experience and appreciate aware of 500+ years of world-sanctioned genocide.