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This resort, in the heart of Saratoga Spa State Park features a full service spa and on-site restaurant. Saratoga Casino and Raceway is only 7 miles from the resort.
The guest rooms at the Gideon Putnam Resort & Spa all feature a cable TV, coffee maker, and work desk. They are elegantly decorated in dark wood furnishings, plush bedding, and bright colors.
Relax at the Roosevelt Spa with massages, facials, and hair styling services. The Resort Gideon Putnam features a fitness center and steam room.
Putnam’s Restaurant serves local cuisine for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Guests can also enjoy open-air dining on the restaurant’s patio during the summer.
The resort is a short 6-minute walk to the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. The Saratoga County Airport is an 11-minute drive from the property.
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Russische immigranten in New York over president Trump
Ongeveer de helft van de Amerikaanse kiezers, zo blijkt uit peilingen, is sceptisch over de conclusies van het Mueller-rapport. Maar anderen halen hun gelijk, ook de Russische gemeenschap in de thuisstad van president Trump: New York.
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Chicago's Oldest Monument
The Illinois/Indiana State Line Boundary Marker is the oldest monument it the City of Chicago. In 1988 the marker was restored and relocated to a new position outside the State Line Generating Plant. The plant closed in 2012 and was demolished, only its Art Deco entrance remains. Since that time the boundary marker has had its bronze plaques removed which use to read State line retraced by act of Congress 1833, boundary of Illinois, boundary of Indiana, This monument is 159.359 miles due north from the Wabash River and 191.09 feet north from its original site.
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Our Miss Brooks: Mash Notes to Harriet / New Girl in Town / Dinner Party / English Dept. / Problem
Our Miss Brooks is an American situation comedy starring Eve Arden as a sardonic high school English teacher. It began as a radio show broadcast from 1948 to 1957. When the show was adapted to television (1952--56), it became one of the medium's earliest hits. In 1956, the sitcom was adapted for big screen in the film of the same name.
Connie (Constance) Brooks (Eve Arden), an English teacher at fictional Madison High School.
Osgood Conklin (Gale Gordon), blustery, gruff, crooked and unsympathetic Madison High principal, a near-constant pain to his faculty and students. (Conklin was played by Joseph Forte in the show's first episode; Gordon succeeded him for the rest of the series' run.) Occasionally Conklin would rig competitions at the school--such as that for prom queen--so that his daughter Harriet would win.
Walter Denton (Richard Crenna, billed at the time as Dick Crenna), a Madison High student, well-intentioned and clumsy, with a nasally high, cracking voice, often driving Miss Brooks (his self-professed favorite teacher) to school in a broken-down jalopy. Miss Brooks' references to her own usually-in-the-shop car became one of the show's running gags.
Philip Boynton (Jeff Chandler on radio, billed sometimes under his birth name Ira Grossel); Robert Rockwell on both radio and television), Madison High biology teacher, the shy and often clueless object of Miss Brooks' affections.
Margaret Davis (Jane Morgan), Miss Brooks' absentminded landlady, whose two trademarks are a cat named Minerva, and a penchant for whipping up exotic and often inedible breakfasts.
Harriet Conklin (Gloria McMillan), Madison High student and daughter of principal Conklin. A sometime love interest for Walter Denton, Harriet was honest and guileless with none of her father's malevolence and dishonesty.
Stretch (Fabian) Snodgrass (Leonard Smith), dull-witted Madison High athletic star and Walter's best friend.
Daisy Enright (Mary Jane Croft), Madison High English teacher, and a scheming professional and romantic rival to Miss Brooks.
Jacques Monet (Gerald Mohr), a French teacher.
Our Miss Brooks was a hit on radio from the outset; within eight months of its launch as a regular series, the show landed several honors, including four for Eve Arden, who won polls in four individual publications of the time. Arden had actually been the third choice to play the title role. Harry Ackerman, West Coast director of programming, wanted Shirley Booth for the part, but as he told historian Gerald Nachman many years later, he realized Booth was too focused on the underpaid downside of public school teaching at the time to have fun with the role.
Lucille Ball was believed to have been the next choice, but she was already committed to My Favorite Husband and didn't audition. Chairman Bill Paley, who was friendly with Arden, persuaded her to audition for the part. With a slightly rewritten audition script--Osgood Conklin, for example, was originally written as a school board president but was now written as the incoming new Madison principal--Arden agreed to give the newly-revamped show a try.
Produced by Larry Berns and written by director Al Lewis, Our Miss Brooks premiered on July 19, 1948. According to radio critic John Crosby, her lines were very feline in dialogue scenes with principal Conklin and would-be boyfriend Boynton, with sharp, witty comebacks. The interplay between the cast--blustery Conklin, nebbishy Denton, accommodating Harriet, absentminded Mrs. Davis, clueless Boynton, scheming Miss Enright--also received positive reviews.
Arden won a radio listeners' poll by Radio Mirror magazine as the top ranking comedienne of 1948-49, receiving her award at the end of an Our Miss Brooks broadcast that March. I'm certainly going to try in the coming months to merit the honor you've bestowed upon me, because I understand that if I win this two years in a row, I get to keep Mr. Boynton, she joked. But she was also a hit with the critics; a winter 1949 poll of newspaper and magazine radio editors taken by Motion Picture Daily named her the year's best radio comedienne.
For its entire radio life, the show was sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, promoting Palmolive soap, Lustre Creme shampoo and Toni hair care products. The radio series continued until 1957, a year after its television life ended.
The Cannibal Generals of Liberia
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Cannibalism, murder and rape are just a part of everyday life in certain regions of Liberia. Despite the United Nation's eventual intervention, most of this country's young people continue to live in abject poverty, surrounded by filth, drug addiction, and teenage prostitution. In 2009, we went to Liberia to rummage through the messy remains of a country ravaged by 14 years of civil war.
UPDATE: Charles G. Taylor, former President of Liberia and warlord, has been convicted by an international tribunal of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including rape, murder, and the use of child soldiers. He is the first head of state to be found guilty by an international court since the Nuremberg trials.
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Primitive Technology: Termite clay kiln & pottery
I built this pottery kiln and some pottery from termite mound clay to test an alternative clay source to my usual one from the creek bank. I started by making a large grate from ordinary clay. It was just under 50 cm in diameter. Next, I took dry chunks of termite nest and put them into the pit in front of the tiled roof hut. The chunks were crushed and water was added to slake the clay. The clay was trodden on to mix it. Dead palm fronds were added to the clay to stop it from cracking as it dried and to add insulation to the kiln. The mixture was trodden on again and then taken from the pit. A trench was dug to form the firebox of the kiln and a wall of clay was made in the front of the trench. A hole was dug into the wall to allow air flow into the firebox.
The grate was placed on top of the firebox and the walls of the ware chamber were built around the grate. When the kiln walls were finished, grate bars made from termite clay were placed into the firebox. Grate bars are important for fireboxes as they lift the firewood off the ground allowing air to move up through the fuel bed for more efficient combustion. Burning wood as a heap on the ground allows cold air to flow up and over the coals, cooling the kiln and leaving the air unreacted with the fire wood. It still works but is much less efficient than using grate bars. The finished kiln was 50 cm tall (above grate height), 50 cm in diameter and with walls about 12.5 cm thick. The pit/firebox was about 25 cm deep and 25 cm wide with grate bars sitting half way between the ground and the circular kiln grate above.
Next, for the pottery clay, I selected a termite mound built on red clay soil. I took it to the kiln area and slaked it with water and mixed it in a small pit. I crushed up an old grate from a previous kiln and mixed it into the termite clay as grog. Grog prevents pottery from cracking as it dries and helps prevent breakage when firing. I then shaped the clay into a small urn. I also made some barrel roof tiles and a smaller pot from termite clay. I then stacked the kiln with the termite pottery.
To fire the pottery, I collected a large pile of dead wood and started a fire in the firebox. I heard some explosions in the kiln early on and knew something broke but continued anyway. Within an hour the kiln had heated up well and the pottery was glowing red hot. By the second hour the temperature went down illustrating an important point: if you over fill the firebox with wood the kiln will choke it and not burn efficiently. Realising this mistake I merely let the wood burn down a little so more air could get through. By 2 hours and 30 minutes the kiln was firing nicely again with all the pottery glowing low orange (about 845 c or 1550 f). I kept it at this low firing temperature for another 30 minutes. The whole firing process took about 3 hours from start to finish, a relatively short period of time for firing pottery.
When I took the pottery out, one tile had broken and the urn had spalled (a piece of the outer pot broke off) possibly due to still having moisture in it. The urn was still useable though and I use it to water the cassava patch. The forge blower was well fired and is now immune to water damage, no longer needing to be carefully protected from the rain. I put it in the barrel tile shed for storage. I put the broken tile and spalled piece from the urn in a special heap of broken pottery. When I make pottery in future I can crush up these broken pots and mix it into the new clay as grog to strengthen the new ceramic items. Finally, I stored the good tiles at the barrel tiled hut as replacements for broken tiles in that structure should there be any damage in future.
Termite clay is good material for making furnaces and an OK substitute for good pottery clay should it be difficult to find a better source. The termites have already processed the clay by the fact that their mouths are too small to include sticks and pebbles into their structures. As a result, the clay is very smooth and plastic. Too smooth for my liking, in fact, I’m used to working with coarser clay that has silt mixed into it naturally. I find that termite clay is either too runny when wet or cracks too easily when drier. It was difficult to form into complex shapes and it took me 2 attempts to make the urn. But for forming objects like tiles it’s OK, it can be pressed into shape and it will hold without difficulty. In future, I’d be likely to use termite clay for mass producing formed objects such as bricks, tiles, simple pots (formed over a mould) and possibly pipes, thereby conserving the dwindling clay supply from the creek bank which I’ll save for more intricate pottery. In summary, termite clay is able to be used to produce basic pottery if no other source can be found. If you have a termite nest you can make basic pottery from it.
The surprising truth of open defecation in India | Sangita Vyas | TEDxWalledCity
In this TEDx Talk Sangita Vyas shares the unheared and little understood reality of open defecation in India.
Its a well known fact that most of the open defecation in the world happens in India, social scientists and the government were struggling to understand why? Is it because we don't have enough toilets? Is it because we don't have enough money? The enormity of the problem was getting worse, 300,000 children lose their lives to preventable diseases related to sanitation and open defecation and most rural children face physical and mental stunting.
The answer as Sangita found in her country wide survey - is couter intuitive and very surprising. Listen to her talk to know the surprising truth of open defecation in India.
Sangita is broadly interested in the politics and economics of inequality and making services work in India.
She grew up in Dallas, Texas, and received a BS from the University of Pennsylvania. After college, Sangita spent several years working in New York in economic consulting but soon became discontent and moved to India where she oversaw a randomized evaluation of a micro-insurance program for farmers in Gujarat with the Centre for Microfinance.
Sangita holds an MPA in Economics and Public Policy with a Concentration in Urban Policy from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School.
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The Wisdom of the Elders: Lisa Kristine at TEDxCalicoCanyon
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Acclaimed humanitarian photographer Lisa Kristine specializes in images of remote indigenous peoples. Best known for her evocative and saturated use of color, her fine art prints are among the most sought after and collected in the world. Kristine has documented in over 70 countries on six continents.
Lisa Kristine was born in San Francisco, California, on September 2, 1965. She developed an early interest in anthropology and photography. Kristine was mentored in her youth in Silver Gelatin and Cibachrome printing. Following graduation from the FIDM in San Francisco, Kristine photographed for nearly five years in Europe and Asia.
Lisa Kristine has collaborated with international humanitarian organizations. When the State of the World Forum convened in San Francisco in 1999 and New York in 2000, Kristine was asked to present her work to help inspire discussions on human rights, social change, and global security. Her work was auctioned by Christie's New York to benefit the United Nations with Kofi Annan. She was also honored to be the sole exhibitor at the 2009 Vancouver Peace Summit with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Reverend Tutu and award winning Nobel Laureates. She partnered with Free the Slaves in 2010 to do a photographic body of work on Modern Day Slavery.
Her work is made distinctive by her passion, intuition and her intense interest in the humanity of her subjects. Lisa Kristine's art is her personal statement about the connection of humanity, and about the diversity, beauty, and hardship of our world.
Lisa Kristine resides in Northern California with her family.
Esoteric Agenda (2008)
Director: Ben Steward
Producer: Ben Steward
Genre: Documentary / Independent Film / Feature Length
Country: United States
Language: English / EN / ES / FR / DE / PT / RO subtitles
Esoteric Agenda exposes different aspects of the Establishment or New World Order.
There is an Esoteric Agenda behind every facet of life that was once believed to be disconnected. There is an Elite faction guiding most every Political, Economic, Social, Corporate, some Non-Governmental or even Anti-Establishment Organizations. This film uses the hard work and research of professionals in every field helping to expose this agenda put the future of this planet back into the hands of the people.
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La maman et la putain (Jean Eustache, 1973)
Age of Deceit (2) - Hive Mind Reptile Eyes Hypnotism Cults World Stage - Multi - Language
An information packed documentary ranging from topics to the Upside Down Cross to Alister Crowley to The Beatles to Sigil Trances to Archetypal Symbolic Programming to Subliminal Magic to 5G Hive Programming to Project Mauntak to Triggering MK Ultra Programming to Witchcraft in Hollywood to transgender CEOs to Ancient Witch Covens to Ley Line Satellite Cities to the City of The Fallen Angels to The Curse of Griffith Park to just so much more.
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Italian: Angelo caduto
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Japanese: 堕天使
Javanese: widodari tiba
Georgian: დაცემული ანგელოზი
Kazakh: құлаған ангел
Khmer: ទេវតាធ្លាក់ចុះ
Kannada: ಬಿದ್ದ ದೇವದೂತ
Korean: 타락한 천사
Latin: fallen angel
Lao: fallen angel
Lithuanian: kritęs angelas
Latvian: kritušais enģelis
Malagasy: anjely nianjera
Maori: anahera hinga
Macedonian: паднат ангел
Malayalam: വീണുപോയ ദൂതൻ
Mongolian: унасан тэнгэр элч
Marathi: पडलेला देवदूत
Malay: malaikat yang jatuh
Maltese: waqa 'anġlu
Myanmar (Burmese): ပြိုလဲကောငျးကငျတမနျ
Nepali: गिर परी
Dutch: gevallen engel
Norwegian: Fallen engel
Chichewa: mngelo wakugwa
Punjabi: ਡਿੱਗ ਦੂਤ
Polish: upadły anioł
Portuguese: anjo caído
Romanian: inger decazut
Russian: падший ангел
Sinhala: වැටුනාවූ දූතයා
Slovak: padlý anjel
Slovenian: padli angel
Somali: malaa'igtii dhacday
Albanian: engjell i rene
Serbian: пали анђео
Sesotho: lengeloi le oeleng
Sundanese: malaikat fallen
Swedish: fallen ängel
Swahili: malaika aliyeanguka
Tamil: விழுந்த தேவதை
Telugu: స్వర్గం నుంచి పడిన దేవత
Tajik: фариштаи золим
Thai: เทวดาตกสวรรค์
Filipino: nahulog na anghel
Turkish: düşmüş melek
Ukrainian: занепалий ангел
Urdu: باغی فرشتہ
Uzbek: tushgan farishta
Vietnamese: Thiên thần sa ngã
Yiddish: געפאלן מלאך
Yoruba: angẹli ti o ṣubu
Chinese: 堕落的天使
Chinese (Simplified): 堕落的天使
Chinese (Traditional): 墮落的天使
Zulu: ingelosi ewile
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Arabic: بعد إنسانية
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English: transhumanism
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Spanish: transhumanismo
Estonian: transhumanism
Basque: transhumanism
Persian: transhumanism
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French: transhumanisme
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Hausa: transhumanism
Hindi: ट्रांसह्युमेनिज़म
Hmong: transhumanism
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Armenian: տրանսմունաբանություն
Indonesian: transhumanisme
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Korean: 트랜스 휴머니즘
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Lithuanian: transhumanizmas
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Maori: transhumanism
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Malay: transhumanisme
Maltese: transumaniżmu
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Slovenian: transhumanizem
Somali: transhumanism
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Swedish: transhumanism
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Thai: transhumanism
Filipino: transhumanism
Turkish: transhumanism
Ukrainian: трансгуманізм
Urdu: ٹرانسمیشنزم
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Vietnamese: siêu nhân
Yiddish: טראַנסהומאַניסם
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Healthy Adventures Transcendence Gabriel Cousens (Vol. 2)
You're invited on a journey into the heart of true health. A unique group of holistic health practitioners and raw food champions gathered at The Hawks Kay Resort, Key West to help ordinary people in need of extraordinary change. This series captures the first steps of an adventure into good health as old beliefs are challenged and new miracles revealed.
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The power and potential of parks | Amalie Wright | TEDxQUT
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Public spaces have the power to shape how we feel about our community. Amalie Wright is passionate about rethinking the way that we use parks and understanding that using them well can be transformative.
Amalie is an architect and landscape architect, passionate about achieving positive change through good design. In 2007 she was awarded the mecu Travel Bursary, awarded by Brisbane’s Centre for Subtropical Design, enabling her to study the changing role of city parks in Colombia and the United States. She was subsequently commissioned by CSIRO Publishing to develop her research into a book, and Future Park: imagining tomorrow’s urban parks was published last year. For nearly 20 years Amalie has worked across many project types and scales, from public art and furniture, to residential developments and parkland, resort hotels, commercial precincts and transport infrastructure. She is now enjoying the challenge of running her own company, Landscapology. Amalie sits on the Queensland Executive of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects, and tutors in design at QUT.
About TEDx, x = independently organized event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
Mondo Cane (1962)
A documentary that shocked many viewers at the time of its release, this film presents scenes from across the globe that feature strange rituals. Animal slaughter and bizarre religious ceremonies are among the many events in the movie, which also exhibits cuisine that is highly unconventional to the Western palate. The collage-like production covers a lot of ground, both literally and figuratively, in depicting unusual cultural practices from around the world.
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Two angels, Damiel (Bruno Ganz) and Cassiel (Otto Sander), glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion (Solveig Dommartin), the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds--with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk (playing himself) -- that it might be possible for him to take human form.
[Documentaire] DMT : La molécule de l'esprit
DMT, La molécule de l'esprit, est un documentaire qui s'intéresse à cette molécule, du point de vue scientifique avec ses effets sur le cerveau, connue et utilisée depuis des siècles pour ses propriétés médicinales ou psychotropes, présente dans certaines plantes et secrétée par le cerveau. Le docteur Rick J. Strassman a étudié le rôle éventuel de la glande pinéale dans les états de conscience extraordinaires en rapport avec la DMT.
Le docteur Rick J. Strassman, professeur en psychiatrie à l’école de médecine de l’Université du Nouveau-Mexique, et un des psychiatres américains parmi les plus éminents, a mené la plus grande recherche psychédélique jamais réalisée en expérimentant sur des dizaines de volontaires la mystérieuse molécule de l'esprit, nommée DMT, ou diméthyltryptamine.
Avec sincérité et une rigueur scientifique exceptionnelle, le docteur Strassman relate de très nombreux récits dont l'intensité, la profondeur et l'étrangeté sont réellement saisissantes, d'autant plus que beaucoup d'entre eux se réfèrent au Bardo, l'état intermédiaire qui va de la mort à la prochaine naissance.
Le Dr. Strassman a poursuivi ses travaux cliniques en cherchant à déterminer la fonction de la mélatonine, l’hormone secrétée par la glande pinéale connue également sous le nom épiphyse. Le groupe de recherches qu’il a animé a réalisé la première étude permettant de connaître le rôle principal de la mélatonine chez l’homme.
Il s’intéressa ensuite à la DMT, l’agent actif de l’Ayahuasca, et il entreprit en 1990 la seule expérimentation approuvée et financée par le gouvernement américain sur les psychédéliques pendant ces vingt dernières années.
Le chercheur explique : En occident, les études sur la conscience se sont multipliées. Un volet particulier de cette recherche étudie les effets des agents psychoactifs sur la conscience. Dans le cadre de la Fondation Cottonwood, nous poursuivons l’exploration des mystères les plus étranges de l’esprit humain. Nous utilisons les composants psychoactifs des plantes pour étudier les divers champs de conscience manifestés chez l’homme, leur processus, et découvrir leurs bases biochimiques et physiologiques.
Nous nous intéressons également aux implications médicales, sociales, et spirituelles de ces différents états, afin de savoir comment les appliquer au mieux pour soigner, développer la créativité et acquérir une certaine sagesse.
Pendant de nombreux siècles, des cultures indigènes ont utilisé des plantes médicinales pour induire avec méthode des états de conscience amplifiés et de type mystique. La science occidentale commence à peine à s’intéresser aux immenses ressources du savoir traditionnel concernant ces plantes et leurs effets. Nous poursuivrons nos buts en confrontant diverses perspectives, scientifique, anthropologique, et spirituelle.
Notre vice-président, le Dr. Steven Barker de l’Université de Louisiane, met au point un nouveau protocole ultra-sensible pour mesurer les émissions naturelles de la DMT et d’agents similaires dans le corps humain. Ceci devrait nous permettre de comparer les quantités habituelles avec celles qu’on relève lors des états de conscience amplifiés.
Le docteur Strassman sait que ses recherches ne feront pas l’unanimité. D’autres chercheurs ne manqueront pas de réfuter l’idée que la DMT peut permettre à nos cerveaux de percevoir la matière sombre ou des Univers parallèles, tels des plans d’existence habités par des entités conscientes...
Certaines recherches tendent à montrer que la DMT est une substance psychotrope puissante, mais aussi produite naturellement en très petites quantités par la glande pinéale.
Son usage pour ses propriétés psychotropes remonte à l'antiquité. La DMT est présente à l'état naturel dans de nombreuses plantes dont les Psychotria ou Anadenanthera, et dont certaines entrent dans la composition de préparations hallucinogènes artisanales comme le breuvage Ayahuasca ou la poudre à priser Yopo qui sont utilisés lors de cérémonies rituelles chamaniques.
Tout au long de l'histoire de l'humanité, la plupart des civilisations humaines ont utilisé des substances psychotropes dans des buts spirituels, divinatoires, médicinaux ou encore récréatifs.
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