Bonpo a enteogeny

[Intraneus]

Na pewny forum natrafiłem na doniesienia, jakoby pewien badacz środków enteogennych natrafił w 1967 roku na różne dowody mówiące o używaniu przez Bonpo środków ułatwiających szamańskie podróze.

Terence McKenna is one such Magellan of consciousness,and his journey began with a trip to Asia in 1967 to study the pre-Buddhist iconography of Tibetan tankas. He discovered instead that the roots of TibetanBuddhism lay in the native shamanism of Bon-Po, some of whose practitioners use hashish and the hallucinogen datura to catalyze their shamanic journeys.

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One of the most provocative botanical discoveries made by the authors is that Kirati, Sherpa, and Tamang shamans use over twenty varieties of psychoactive mushrooms, ranging from mild stimulants to potent entheogens. Sherpa shamans report that they eat several tree fungi, one called shakti chyau (shakti mushroom) and another called gorato chyau (red mushroom), to enhance their shamanic power. Both the Sherpa and Tamang know about Ganoderma lucidum (the famous Chinese ?mushroom of immortality?), which they call denguru shyamu (drum mushroom) or bonpo shamaup (shaman?s mushroom), and which they use to fly, increase shakti, and revitalize the fatally ill. At Kalingchok, the authors came across a small, umbrella-shaped mushroom (possibly a Panaeolus sp.)?known locally as gobar chyau (cow-manure mushroom)?that Myingmar Sherpa indicated is eaten, after being roasted with salt, to obtain knowledge when fighting demons. This sort of specialized, esoteric knowledge about mushrooms?within an overall culture that is basically mycophobic?suggests that their use could have been restricted to shamans, as it was in ancient Europe and the Urals.


sorki za angielski tekst, ale nie mam siły tego tłumaczyć

ktoś coś o tym słyszał?

[atomuse]

Ja nie, ale tak sobie mysle, ze skoro szamani na calym swiecie korzystaja z darow natury, to czemu szamani tybetanscy/himalajscy mieliby byc tutaj wyjatkiem?

[Kilgore Trout]

One of the most provocative botanical discoveries made by the authors

authors of co?

McKenna AFAIK tylko snul przypuszczenia. W sensie, trudno nie zauwazyc podobienstw miedzy wizjami psychodelicznymi a tybetanska sztuka.