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Mick Harper
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Hatty
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To be fair, in TME we mention that sage contains thujone, the compound present in artemisia (wormwood) and associated with mind-altering experiences.
The Medium.com article makes the point that botanists across the ages repeat, plant substances can be medicinal or toxic depending on quantities used.
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Mick Harper
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In: London
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In a discussion about tourism and Stonehenge ["Why didn't they build a railway station near it?" etc] this interesting snippet appeared
| A few years back I noticed a book called The Megalithic Empire in the library. It varies from usefully questioning archaeological orthodoxies to crackpot, incorporating a few basic mistakes of easily verified fact along the way (such as the relationship between the Biblical Anne and Mary), but its basic premise is that Stonehenge and similar stone circles were not "used for ritual purposes" but were trade centres, the focus of long distance trade routes and operating as a sort of market and distribution centre. Something like a market with accompanying bus station. But they never suggested a helicopter pad! |
What is most interesting though is an application of the 'Bogus List' test. Every critic of the book complains of 'basic mistakes of easily verified fact' and every critic of the book uses 'the relationship between the Biblical Anne and Mary' as an instance of it. A great comfort.
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Mick Harper
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In: London
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Megalithic Empire has finally been recognised as the epochal work it is by being cited in a Ph D thesis
Not the book itself maybe but certainly the walk featured on the website
Harper, M.J. & Vered, H.L. 2012.The Megalithic Empire: When you get home. Nathan Carmody. [Online].
[Accessed 6 November 2015]. Available from: http://www.themegalithicempire.com/. |
It's Hatty I'm pleased for. I get cited every day of the week (matinées Wednesday & Saturdays) but she has to struggle for recognition. Despite those weird hats.
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Mick Harper
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In: London
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A regular correspondent has sent me this. https://old.world-mysteries.com/newgw/gw_stristan1.htm
Some of you will know about Sylvain Tristran (I'm sure I watched a lecture of his once) but reading through the article I was struck by how much it resembles the basic tenets of Megalithic Empire (the book, and even more some of the threads in the forum). Though obviously we don't go in for the fancy stuff.
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Mick Harper
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Ishmael
In: Toronto
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That story is mind blowing.
I recently saw a video where a man relayed a similar claim of a parallel life he lived after ingesting some drug of a type I can't recall.
Did he ever make any attempt to locate any of the people he supposedly knew in Texas? That's the first thing I would have done upon reemerging from the "dream."
But the story is so astounding, can it even be believed?
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Hatty
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In: Berkshire
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| Ishmael wrote: | | But the story is so astounding, can it even be believed? |
It made me think of some of those children's stories where someone falls asleep and finds a hundred years have passed when they wake up. I'm beginning to wonder if fairy tales have more connections to drug experiences than is healthy. Alice in Wonderland is unusual as it does specifically refer to perspective-altering mushrooms but traditional stories probably weren't intended for children.
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