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Native tribes of many different countries and time periods have spent a lot of time and effort developing methods to induce holotropic experiences, or “technologies of the sacred.” This often includes a combination of drumming, rattling, and other forms of percussion, music, chanting, rhythmic dancing, changes of breathing, and social and sensory isolation—such as staying in a cave, the desert, arctic ice, or in high mountains. The natives also frequently use extreme physiological interventions, including fasting, sleep deprivation, dehydration, circumcision, subincision, the use of powerful laxatives and purgatives, and even massive bloodletting and infliction of severe pain. Native cultures use holotropic states for a variety of purposes: direct experiential contact with the archetypal dimensions of reality (deities, mythological realms, and numinous forces of nature); the healing of individuals and groups or even an entire tribe, as exemplified by the Bushmen in the African Kalahari Desert; artistic inspiration (ideas for rituals, paintings, sculptures, and songs); and the cultivation of intuition and extrasensory perception (finding lost persons and objects, obtaining information about people in remote locations, and following the movement of the game they hunt) ~Journey of a Psychonaut, vol 1 by Prof. Stanislav Grof
Watercolour on Khadi 100% Cotton handmade paper
12.7 X 17.78cm

Description
Native tribes of many different countries and time periods have spent a lot of time and effort developing methods to induce holotropic experiences, or “technologies of the sacred.” This often includes a combination of drumming, rattling, and other forms of percussion, music, chanting, rhythmic dancing, changes of breathing, and social and sensory isolation—such as staying in a cave, the desert, arctic ice, or in high mountains. The natives also frequently use extreme physiological interventions, including fasting, sleep deprivation, dehydration, circumcision, subincision, the use of powerful laxatives and purgatives, and even massive bloodletting and infliction of severe pain. Native cultures use holotropic states for a variety of purposes: direct experiential contact with the archetypal dimensions of reality (deities, mythological realms, and numinous forces of nature); the healing of individuals and groups or even an entire tribe, as exemplified by the Bushmen in the African Kalahari Desert; artistic inspiration (ideas for rituals, paintings, sculptures, and songs); and the cultivation of intuition and extrasensory perception (finding lost persons and objects, obtaining information about people in remote locations, and following the movement of the game they hunt) ~Journey of a Psychonaut, vol 1 by Prof. Stanislav Grof
Watercolour on Khadi 100% Cotton handmade paper
12.7 X 17.78cm