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Feb 4Liked by Andrew M. Weisse

Consciousness alteration is a human universal.

See Human Universals, by anthropologist Donald E. Brown.

Of particular interest for us here is this one: “Mood- or consciousness-altering techniques and/or substances.” Here, I shall claim that this is one of the most important, perhaps the most important and the very first of all human universals.

https://peterwebster.substack.com/p/origins-of-psychedelia

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