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Physicists, alchemists, and ayahuasca shamans

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Some experimental ideas I've been working with...

http://culturaladmixtures.wordpress.com/2014/07/14/physicists-alchemists-and-ayahuasca-shamans-a-study-of-grammar-and-the-body/

Are there any common denominators that may underlie the practices of leading physicists and scientists, Renaissance alchemists, and indigenous Amazonian ayahuasca healers? There are obviously a myriad of things that these practices do not have in common. Yet through an analysis of the body and the senses and styles of grammar and social practice, these seemingly very different modes of existence may be triangulated to reveal a curious set of logics at play. Ways in which practitioners identify their subjectivities (or selves) with nonhuman entities and with ‘natural’ processes are detailed in the three contexts. This logics of identification illustrates similarities, and also differences, in the practices of advanced physics, Renaissance alchemy, and ayahuasca healing.

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Think it is a nice article there. Very interesting reading thanks for sharing

I am particularly interested n the use of metaphor and song. The twisted talk and resulting performative qualities embodied in the act of singing.

Nice writing

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Your thesis I am presuming is very interesting. Nice stuff.

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Thanks Velvet. Yeah, the Graham Townsley piece is such a gem.

The thesis will be finished in about 8 months, available in 12 or so. Though it is pretty nuts-and-bolts anthropology for the most part. This recent blog post is perhaps more exciting.

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cool: I am interested in the disruption of traditional research methodologies. I wonder what such methodologies would reveal alongside the nuts and bolts anthropology approach? not mixed methods but rather a whole seperate study but seen through a different lens?

8 months, very good. I have 6 myself. Totally different discipline: education.

I am working in a highly qualitative methodology co-created with my local place: an arts based autoethnography.

I look forward to finishing now, getting tired of the writing: data collection was awesome, making art/music with place (human and non-human). I am proposing a loose framework for educators to work alongside local communities and the entities of place. i am writing a chapter on relatedness, genius loci and liminality at the moment.

Are you published anywhere?

All the best with the remaining months.

I like this quote:

Live in Linj—The present moment.

Be aware of the past, and the future.

Stay in the present moment.

If you stay too long in the past or future: you forget to live in the now.

Slightly paraphrased from: Kakkib li' Dthia Warrawee'a. (2002). There once was a tree called deru. [s.l.]: PerfectBound.

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The chapter you are currently writing on relatedness and education sounds very interesting. I'd like to hear more about that. I will be down in Melbourne for EGA. We should met up. I have a piece coming out in The Australian Journal of Anthropology soon but other than that only the blog at the moment.

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awesome sounds good EGA it is!

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Great to see you around Velvet :)

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You too YT my brother

Huge Hugs

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Hi drugo :)

Have you read any of the Perennial Philosphy either Huxley's interpretation, Ken Wilbur, or otherwise? There's a lot of stuff in there that makes a lot of sense to me, but my mind took it one step further, which once I write up my own essay on the idea (hopefully it happens...). It seems to be an archetype of anthropological philosophy; holons within holons within holons, ad infinitum...

Super impressed with your paper! Fuck I'd be happy to be half as well-written as you!

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