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omnipoetics:silva [2025/02/26 19:29] – [Language Reversal & Defamiliarization] mahrukhomnipoetics:silva [2025/03/11 00:31] (current) – mahrukh
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-====== How the Names Are Changed on the Peyote Journey by Ramón Medina Silva ====== +====== How the Names Are Changed on the Peyote Journey ====== 
 +''Written by Ramón Medina Silva''
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 **//Symposium of the Whole// (pp. 116-118)** \\ **//Symposium of the Whole// (pp. 116-118)** \\
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-[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peyote|Peyote]] is a small cactus that contains psychoactive alkaloids, mescaline in particular, which induces similar hallucinogenic effects as psilocybin and LSD. It is native, and considered sacred, in Mexico and southwestern Texas. The Spanish word's roots can be traced to "Nahuatl //peyōtl//, meaning 'caterpillar cocoon', from a root //peyōni//, 'to glisten'." It is known for its mind-altering capabilities and has a long history (5,500 years) of psychedelic and medicinal uses by indigenous people in North America.+[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peyote|Peyote]] is a small green spineless cactus that contains psychoactive alkaloids, mescaline in particular, which induces similar hallucinogenic effects as psilocybin and LSD. It is native, and considered sacred, in Mexico and southwestern Texas. The Spanish word's roots can be traced to "Nahuatl //peyōtl//, meaning 'caterpillar cocoon', from a root //peyōni//, 'to glisten'." It is known for its mind-altering capabilities and has a long history (5,500 years) of psychedelic and medicinal uses by indigenous people in North America.
  
  
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 ==== Thoughts on why? ==== ==== Thoughts on why? ====
  
-- Preparation for the psychedelic experience +  * Preparation for the psychedelic experience 
-- Going back in time? Make contact with the collective unconscious? +  * Going back in time? Make contact with the collective unconscious? 
-- Defamiliarize/detach from preconceived names and meanings and view of the world+  * Defamiliarize/detach from preconceived names and meanings and view of the world 
 +  * Vibe: Zen Buddhist teachers that respond to philosophical questions with everyday lingo and normal questions with philosophical answers. Maybe the method allows travelers to slowly defamiliarize with their ego-identity and reality. Sort of like in a psychedelic trip, but when they return home, they have to revert back to the usual way of saying things.
  
 ===== The Role of Community ===== ===== The Role of Community =====
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 ===== Cyclical Time ===== ===== Cyclical Time =====
  
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 There is a juxtaposition between the time spent in the peyote experience (outside of normal time, fresh, unique, short lasting) and the repeated reminders by the author that this process comes down from the beginning. There is a juxtaposition between the time spent in the peyote experience (outside of normal time, fresh, unique, short lasting) and the repeated reminders by the author that this process comes down from the beginning.
  
-===== References ===== +Another connection of the cyclical nature of time can be made with the following description of the painting on the right that honors //Tatewari//: 
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-  - .+<blockquote> 
 +In this picture the gods are welcoming the “nierica” (mandala) of fire. They surround it and greet it. A “nierika” is a circular entrance to another world. The Huichol say the sacred fire is called Tatewari, he is the shaman of ancient times, the patron of all shamans; he is the one that burns the fields ready for planting corn, who cooks our food, who helps us to hunt deer and he is the peyote. 
 +He stands beside the shaman when he is curing a sick person and his messengers are feathers, like the feathers of the shaman´s wand, the “muvieri”, they are imbued with life, they have feeling, they move around and are capable of speech and action. 
 +</blockquote> 
 + 
 +===== The Sacred Journey & Ceremony ===== 
 + 
 +  * [[https://www.tashdoherty.com/posts/a-peyote-ceremony-what-is-it-and-what-to-expect|A Peyote Ceremony: What Is It and What To Expect]] 
 +  * Recommendation: Watch the documentary **How to Change Your Mind - S1 E4 · Chapter 4: Mescaline** on Netflix. Based on Michael Pollen's book.
  
  
 {{tag>theory meditation altered-states-of-consciousness native-american community-event sacred shaman}} {{tag>theory meditation altered-states-of-consciousness native-american community-event sacred shaman}}

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