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Mind Hacks points out "Anthropologist Wade Davis’s wonderfully vivid description of the effects of Amazonian hallucinogenic plants from page 216 of fantastic book, One River:

In the case of yagé, some twenty one admixtures have been identified to date. Two of these are of particular interest. Psychotria viridis is a shrub in the coffee family. Chagopranga is Diplopterys cabrerana, a forest liana closely related to yagé. Unlike yagé, both of these plants contain tryptamines, powerful psychoactive compounds that when smoked or snuffed induce a very rapid, intense intoxication of short duration marked by astonishing visual imagery.

The sensation is rather like being shot out of a barrel lined with baroque paintings and landing on a sea of electricity."

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i never cared much for baroque paintings
LT

# posted by

Anonymous : 12 September, 2010 17:25

... and you know this .... how?

happy birthday

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Quimper Ratatouille : 12 September, 2010 19:23

When I was shot out of a barrel, it was lined with post-impressionist works, and I landed in a sea of birds; is that the same thing?

# posted by

Sundown McNoodle : 12 September, 2010 19:27

I love the phrase "sea of electricity" - it makes my brain smile.

# posted by

Osprey : 12 September, 2010 19:39

I wonder if this is what has happened to Young? :(

# posted by

HeadBurro Antfarm : 13 September, 2010 04:24

We all miss Young :( *shakes her fist* You come back here this instant!

# posted by

Osprey : 13 September, 2010 11:20

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