The first time an Ashaninca man told me that he had learned the medicinal properties of plants by drinking a hallucinogenic brew, I thought he was joking.
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The cosmic serpent
DNA and the origins of knowledge
1st Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam ed.
by Jeremy Narby
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For ten years, Jeremy Narby explored the Amazonian rain forests, the libraries of Europe, and some of the world's most arcane scientific journals, following strange clues, unsuppressible intuitions, and extraordinary coincidences. He collected evidence and researched the seemingly impossible possibility that specific knowledge might somehow be transferred through DNA, the genetic information at the heart of every cell of every living thing, to a specially prepared consciousness.
Narby demonstrates that indigenous and ancient peoples have known for millennia - and have even drawn - the double helix structure, something Western science discovered only in 1953. He also suggests that DNA and the life it codes for at the cellular level are "minded."
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Ashaninca Indians, DNA, Drug use, Ethnobotany, Ethnology, Field work, Hallucinogenic drugs, Indians of South America, Knowledge, Theory of, Miscellanea, Molecular biology, Shamanism, Theory of Knowledge, Popular science, Sociology, Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics, Science, Science/Mathematics, Peru, Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - Tribes, Social Science / Anthropology / General, Life Sciences - Biochemistry, Life Sciences - Biology - General, Fieldwork, Indians of north america, culture, Indians of south america, culture, Ethnology, north america, Genetics, Ethnology, south america, TribesPlaces
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The cosmic serpent: DNA and the origins of knowledge
1998, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam
in English
- 1st Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam ed.
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