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I've spent quite some time with a Shipibo master in the Peruvian Amazon. Master's like him will explain that the plants "talk" to them and tell them what they'r
by thelittleone 7y ago
I've spent quite some time with a Shipibo master in the Peruvian Amazon. Master's like him will explain that the plants "talk" to them and tell them what they're good for healing and how they should be prepared and dosed.
- shawnz 7y agoOf course, the masters who "heard wrong" are now dead
- agumonkey 7y agoOr they're just in a higher reality. Trumaster
- martin_a 7y agoVery obvious case of survivorship bias in its most direct sense.
- thelittleone 7y agoCertainly a reasonable opinion and one that I'd have shared before living with these people, but now I'm not so sure. There's a peculiar and wonderful connection between a shaman and nature (particularly a shaman from unbroken ancestral lines dating back hundreds of years). It's certainly something special to witness. "Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm" by Buhner is an eye opening and thoroughly researched book in this area if you felt inclined to explore.
- martin_a 7y agoIt was a joke.