What's you opinion on the experience of ingesting of a plant concoction in the Amazon?
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Re: What's you opinion on the experience of ingesting of a plant concoction in the Amazon?
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Agreed! If it hadn't been part of a ceremony and he hadn't known that he was expected to see visions, he might have chalked up the dizziness and vomiting to the drink just being bad.Emily Guerra wrote: ↑10 Apr 2019, 00:31I totally agree. Positive or negative, placebo effect is real. I think if he’d received the drink and someone said it was some local fruit juice or tea with no hallucinating effects whatsoever, the story would be totally different.briellejee wrote: ↑07 Mar 2019, 22:20 I think it's a placebo effect - which is powerful. Even in medical research, placebo effects could go a long way of a patient's health. The author having knowledge that such concoction can help him led him to believe that it has an effect on him. Having a preconceived idea can really affect how you see things. Such faith can truly move mountains.
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Best post by far. I fully agree with you.Crazyreader01 wrote: ↑17 Mar 2019, 13:26 I don't really know what to think about it to be completely honest. I just know that if you believe that something has the ability to do something, then it will. For example, if you're sick and you tell yourself that a certain medicine will make you feel better, then it will, and vice versa.
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You definitely have to wonder if he was just having a hallucination or a true "vision from God". I don't, personally, want to take those kind of drugs to find out.briellejee wrote: ↑08 Mar 2019, 21:37I never thought of it that way, but now that you mentioned it, some plants could give hallucinations and these tribes mistake it as visions. It really does make me think about whether it's true or not.abbiejoice wrote: ↑07 Mar 2019, 23:51 I feel uncomfortable whenever I remember the author's experience of a vision after ingesting a plant concoction. This opens the possibility of a hallucination and thus, questions the validity of his vision.
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