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The Body is the Metaverse

The Emerald

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The Body Mirrors the Totality

Rock art sites in the california wilderness are more than abstract depictions of bodies. They are what david whitley calls a portal to the sacred realm, part of a great mataverse. Young chumash initiates fasted for days, refrained from meat and sex, and then drank tea made from the root of the detura plant. In this way they could communicate with animals, sometimes shape shifting into animal form themselves. It's like that plant is an invitation somewhere,. Like it could be a door that could open up an entire medaverse, which it can, because plan s, too are the medaverse. Bodies are themedaverse. Plants are

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