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And 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 ago
  No. 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 ago
    The 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 ago
      That'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.