THE PLANT THAT ENABLES MEN TO SEE THE DEAD In the Central African countries of Gabon, Cameroon, and Zaire, certain age-old ancestor cults still flourish in the twenty-first century. Their members share a common belief, based, they say, on direct experience, in the existence of a supernatural realm where the spirits of the dead may be contacted. Like some hypothetical dimension of quantum physics, this otherworld interpenetrates our own and yet cannot ordinarily be seen or verified by empirical tests. It is therefore a matter of great interest, with highly suggestive research implications, that tribal shamans claim to have mastered a means, through the consumption of a poisonous shrub known locally as eboka or iboga, by which humans may reach the otherworld and return alive. VOYAGE INTO THE SUPERNATURAL The ocean of the supernatural is vast and treacherous. It cannot be navigated without charts. Wherever possible, landmarks must be sought from which to take one’s bearings. My first landmark, and the mystery that originally drew me to this inquiry, was the realization that encounters with supernatural beings are documented in the oldest representational art that has so far been found anywhere in the world—art depicting therianthropes and dating back more than 30,000 years. The discovery that shamans in surviving hunter-gatherer cultures routinely experience encounters with virtually identical beings when they enter trance, and that I could and did encounter such beings myself under the influence of the same hallucinogens that the shamans use, convinced me that there was a real mystery to explore here.
✔ Author(s): Graham Hancock
✔ Title: Visionary: The Mysterious Origins of Human Consciousness (The Definitive Edition of Supernatural)
✔ Rating : 4.7 out of 5 base on (182 reviews)
✔ ISBN-10: 1637480067
✔ ISBN-13: 9781637480069
✔ Language: English
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✔ Device compatibles: Android, iOS, PC and Amazon Kindle
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