From: Unleesh-AT-aol.com
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 02:07:03 EST
Subject: Re: shamans/for charles gavette(fwd from the bataille list)


In a message dated 1/6/99 10:49:49 PM Pacific Standard Time,
cw_duff-AT-alcor.concordia.ca writes:

<< In their reading of Castaneda, D&G in How Do You Make Yourself A Body
 without Organs, in 1000 PLateaus, write that shamanic experimentation,
 with or without drugs, involves letting go of interpretation which is
 most effective when consc. is dipped in a river of forgetfullness.
 While in this situation it cannot be said to be passive because
 attentive to whatever may emerge for itself while reading urban oracles
 whose outcome always is uncertain, like the throw of dice. >>

This may be something close to what the young woman meant when she talked
about dropping her "filters" ...