Word: shamanism
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...about El Dorado, has long been a land where people search for the extraordinary. So two years ago, singer-guitarist Andrea Echeverri and bassist-producer Hector Buitrago of the Colombian rock duo Aterciopelados (ah-tair-see-oh-peh-lah-dose) trekked to Colombia's Putumayo region, befriended a local shaman and joined in what Buitrago calls a healing ritual. "They make this drink, and everyone has it," says Echeverri. "You get terribly sick and get in touch with the divine part of yourself and see beautiful things...
...fear a good enough reason to keep someone off the streets? It's not clear, according to DePaul law professor Jeffrey M. Shaman, who says the state is walking a fine line when it calls for sending prisoners to institutions after they've completed their sentence. "It's always been understood that it takes a great deal of proof to keep a person locked up - the state must show the person is suffering from mental disorder and poses an imminent threat. After all, we're talking about taking away someone's liberty, incarcerating them against their will. And this...
...intricacies of the debate, says Shaman, and the potentially widespread implications of any decision mean this is definitely a job for the Supremes. "I think the Court's prior decision needs a good deal of clarification," he says. And who better to clarify it than the Justices themselves...
...they who helped popularize MDMA--a signal event in the history of recreational drugs. Ecstasy is easily the biggest advance since LSD. It changed not only the party world but the shaman world, where it was used by psychologists who believed it had therapeutic value. Since MDMA was banned in 1986, scientists have looked for compounds that have the same effects without damaging neurotransmitters, as MDMA can. They haven't had much success...
...Yanomami are the celebrities of the rain forest. No tribe on the planet is more lauded, defamed, protected, exploited and fought over. Best sellers chronicle their warlike savagery. Missionaries convert them. Gold miners massacre them. And TV movies zoom in on their loincloths and painted faces, their shaman magic and hallucinogenic habits...