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RubenDeSoire

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Hi all,

I am an archaeologist who has focused on Andean prehistory, most especially the Chavin Horizon circa 1000BC - 200BC. It looks like some of the origins of prehistoric complexity arose from this culture. What has fascinated me for years has been the central role that substances such as Ayahuasca and San Pedro has had in the formation of these cultures. These substances created a situation where people from all over South America would come together and perform Fremen like rituals. The congregation of people from disparate cultures created one of the earliest forms of globalization in a time period where most of Europe was a cultural backwater.

SWIM has recently found and used a smoked mimosa product and has had numerous spiritual experiences with it. My friend will live with this product for the rest of his earthly existence.

-Ruben
 
Hey welcome to the nexus!

I find it facinating as well how these substances were basically woven into the very core of these peoples cultures. I spent time at colledge studying religous anthropology and shamanism. I remember being astonished at how similar alot of mayan iconography was to what I was seeing at night after taking large doses of mushrooms.

Then last year I started to experiment with vilca. When I take vilca I have visions that seem to mirror exactly what I have seen from images taken at chavin de huantar, and incan iconography. I cant even believe the similarities. I have had people tell me that it's becasue I say these images first and then took vilca and saw these things becasue of the associations I had built up, but I dont buy it. I am convinced that this is just what the human nervous system experiences when bufotenine in ingested. The art of the Chavin is simply a reflection of what they saw in their visions. Bufotenine was a huge part of chavin life and everything about their culture reflects that. It's very beautiful actaully..the roots are based in this experience of pure gnosis, everything else flows out from that centre point.
 
Thank you for the welcome and response.

Yes, friends of mine are continuously baffled that prehistoric peoples were able to extract/use products from MHRB. As am I, though I must admit that the ability of prehistoric peoples to do such things is a reflection of the creativity, ingenuity, and innovation of cultures who were much closer to living with the natural world where the lack thereof would mean death. What should intrigue us more is the relative loss of creativity, ingenuity, and innovation amongst the supposedly intellectualized current world system. We are more divorced from the source than ever before while at the same time under the guise that we are more advanced.

I agree with TM when he proposes the Stone Ape theory... throughout history there are numerous examples of art, architecture, shamanism, myth that points to a crucial link between awareness and psychedelics. Chavin is just one of them. And you're correct... Chavin de Huantar was built to be a spiritual psychedelic experience. It incorporated sound, sight, and feeling through open plazas full of stoned people, dark tunnels with water flowing... creating trippy echoes, and through specific art forms meant to evoke specific spirit animals. It must have been a sight to see!!! More importantly, what happened there created the complexity that allowed the Incans (circa 1300-1519) to take over all of western South America by the time Pizzaro marched his men in.

-Ruben
 
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