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Esoteric Communicating with plant spirits

PriestTheyCalledHim said:
What did your friend learn or discover during her research?
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Being a typical anthropologist she held that reality was a construct inter-subjectively in the minds of the group of indigenous people she studied. Therefore their shared belief in the existence of plant spirits as part of a larger earth spirt which they themselves were part of was ‘real’. She also held that the destruction of forests for farming and logging and other industries was psychologically damaging to these indigenous people because they felt a real part of themselves that controlled their physical and mental wellbeing was being destroyed.

Burt really she didn’t ‘learn or discover’ that through her research. It was her starting premise and she used the project simply to confirm her biases. Same as most PhD’s in the social sciences these days.
 
schizoinfective said:
Yes but multiple disconnected tribes of different regions discovered their own versions of ayahuasca, with different plants local to them
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So what? It is not rocket science. Like Ismene wrote, the plants are local to these tribes and given how isolated they were or are from the rest of the world, and because there's fuck all to do living in a thatch hut in the Amazon they mess around with plants, mixing them, seeing which ones get them fucked up/high, etc.

Think of it as how different Ancient civilizations in various parts of the world all have fermented fruits, vegetables, grains, etc. to make alcohol to get fucked up on.
 
Atelier3 said:
Being a typical anthropologist she held that reality was a construct inter-subjectively in the minds of the group of indigenous people she studied. Therefore their shared belief in the existence of plant spirits as part of a larger earth spirt which they themselves were part of was ‘real’. She also held that the destruction of forests for farming and logging and other industries was psychologically damaging to these indigenous people because they felt a real part of themselves that controlled their physical and mental wellbeing was being destroyed.

Burt really she didn’t ‘learn or discover’ that through her research. It was her starting premise and she used the project simply to confirm her biases. Same as most PhD’s in the social sciences these days.
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Thanks for the reply, was this in Australia, NZ, or in a SE Asian country?

Which plants and types of indigenous people did she study or work with? Did she take any of the intoxicating plants, infusions, etc.?
 
For it to be the "plant that told me" - it has to be a psychedelic right? A potato wont whisper to you. So which plant other than ayahuasca could it have been?

And it might sound unlikely to someone who hasnt a fucking clue about living in a jungle and buys the "thousands and thousands of plants" idea but ive a feeling the reality is a bit different. Its like some fucker whose sat playing "dungeons and dragons" or some bullshit - yeah theres "thousands and thousands" of possible scenarios you might end up at but in reality its not quite like that - in 3 days you know everything the game does.

"How did you work out that if you press the enter button 4 times while spinning the mouse wheel that you get an extra energy point"? - "the spirit of the computer told me...".

Those kind of things are discovered by kids in countless seperate places too - when youre 12 years old and the only thing you have to do is play on the computer or masturbate you learn fast.
 
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