No Lonesome Dope after all!

[Jill Strobridge]

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From: Nick Medford <nick at HERMIT0.DEMON.CO.UK>
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Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 7:53 PM
Subject: Re: No Lonesome Dope after all!

>
> Don't know if you saw the recent BBC prog on prehistoric shamans:
certain
> criss-cross patterns found in cave paintings are now thought (by
some,
> probably not all, archaeologists) to be records of visual
hallucinations
> experienced in shamanic trance states. Very similar hallucinatory
patterns
> are reported by old folk who's visual cortex is degenerating. Of
course this
> doesn't prove that the cave paintings represent hallucinations but
it's an
> interesting idea.

Further of interest along these lines - if you look at the beaker
pottery of the "bronze age" i.e. about 2,500BC - 2,000BC it is
patterened with an intensity of stripey triangle shapes and zig zag
designs.    Doesn't prove anything at all of course but the beaker
pots are considered to have probably contained some form of
alcoholic beverage and are often found along with burials.

jill