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> he thinks aliens were involved in the general development of the human species. That's still a gross mischaracterization of his stance, I think. It sounds l
by mandmandam 2y ago
> he thinks aliens were involved in the general development of the human species.
That's still a gross mischaracterization of his stance, I think.
It sounds like you've never had a psychedelic experience yourself? If you had, I think you'd find it much easier to believe there's something to the 'stoned ape' theory. Especially when you realize that basically every culture ever - I know of no exceptions - has developed some way of leaving their normal state of reality.
- tootie 2y agoNo one has ever left the normal state of reality. Only perception. Certainly humans have been hallucinating and imagining things forever. Also, lying about your knowledge is a pretty universal human trait. Graham Hancock is proof of that.
- mandmandam 2y agoI didn't say *the* normal state of reality, I said their normal state. And that's not untrue, so why do you think you've proved Hancock a liar?
- tootie 2y agoThere's only one reality that we're all in all the time.
- ab5tract 2y agoAnd you just happen to know the precise shape of it all? Reality just unfolded its entire mysteries for you and you alone, I guess.
- tootie 2y agoNo. But it didn't unfold itself to anyone else either. Shamans have never produced a single falsifiable hypothesis. Reality is exposed but by bit through observation and experimentation. Preferably while sober.
- ab5tract 2y agoThe combination of plants that creates ayahuasca appeared in a dream. Shamans have identified cancers and illnesses in people. If science can’t cope with these realities, that’s a science problem.
- mandmandam 2y agoThat's it. Shamans appear in disparate cultures over millenia upon millenia, helping people in astounding and near-inexplicable ways... And modern academia is just like, 'well, they believe in spirits and take drugs so they must be dumb - now off I go to work to pay my $400,000 mortgage, because that's sensible'. We owe these traditions an astonishing unacknowledged debt, and the people telling us so are ferociously attacked. It's a shame. And it will change.