Psychedelic Shamanism: The Cultivation, Preparation & Shamanic Use of Psychoactive Plants Book

Phenomenological depictions were highly enjoyable, as was his integral thinking and attempts at synthesizing various theories and perspectives on what the psychedelic phenomenon is. Although, it should have either a) stopped there or b) continued in the same vein. Only the 2nd part of the book is about actual cultivation and detailing of various plants and their attributes. Very boring and was a bad fit to the first part of the book.

Always interesting to listen to someone who is both well read and deeply experienced in this, from the consensus-reality-POV, wacky aspect of existence. Its fascinating to me how intuitive reading provides the right book for the right time. As ones reality tunnel expands and widens, books that would have been senseless before, suddenly falls into ones lap.

It's kind of like a litmus test for your capacity of ontological open-mindedness and humility, which probably presupposes having experienced an ontological breakdown for yourself. Meaning, that from a certain point of view, most of DeKornes (supposed) experiences necessarily must be thrown out of the window. Yet, when you have experienced the irreality of your axiomatic beliefs once or several times yourself, you can allow for the possibility of such things being, at least psychically, true. And, as one begins to realize, their "physical" reality isn't necessarily even an interesting question. It's like Plato's cave, once you've stepped out of it, the opinions of those who're still stuck inside becomes radically less important.