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Raoul Weston La Barre war ein US-amerikanischer Anthropologe, der vor allem für seine Arbeit in der Ethnobotanik bekannt wurde, die teilweise auch auf die Religion der amerikanischen Indianer Bezug nahm, sowie für seine Anwendung psychiatrischer und psychoanalytischer Theorien auf die Ethnologie. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. Dezember 1911 – 13. März 1996
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“The subjective self emerges most purely in states of sensory deprivation, when the blank screen of consciousness has projected upon it only the individual hallucinatory subjective self, without sensory correction or editing, without reality testing or any such objective “noise.””

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Quelle: Hallucinogens and the Shamanic Origins of Religion (1972), p. 263

“Like the paranoid schizophrenic, the vatic personality pretends to be talking about the grandiose outside cosmic world, but he is really talking grandiosely in symbolic ways only about his narcissistic self and his inner world. The mystic pretends to discard his sensory self in order to meld with the cosmic Self; but in discarding his senses he abjures his only connection with the cosmos and re-encounters only himself. The realities he expounds are inside him.”

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Quelle: Hallucinogens and the Shamanic Origins of Religion (1972), p. 265

“A religion is a kind of group dream—the subjective poetry in which, supporting one another’s faith or need to believe, we strive desperately to believe.”

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Quelle: Hallucinogens and the Shamanic Origins of Religion (1972), p. 264

““God” is often clinically paranoiac because the shaman’s “supernatural helper” is the projection of the shaman himself. The personality of Yahweh, so to speak, exactly fits the irascible personality of the sheikh-shaman Moses; the voices of Yahweh and Moses are indistinguishable. Of course, shamans do not always have an easy time of it. If the dereistic dreamer arouses too much anxiety, people call him crazy, just as people must put themselves at a psychological distance from the frightening and uncanny schizophrenic. But if the dreamer largely allays anxiety in the society, then he is the shaman-savior. Thus it is that outsiders to the society cannot tell the difference between a psychotic and a vatic personality. Only the society itself can distinguish between its psychotics and its shaman-saviors.”

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Quelle: Hallucinogens and the Shamanic Origins of Religion (1972), p. 266

“We have too long supposed that the Unknown mysterium tremendum et fascinosum of religion was outside us, when in fact that Unknown, although ego-alien or unconscious, was all the while within us: the alleged “supernatural” is the human “subconscious.””

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Quelle: Hallucinogens and the Shamanic Origins of Religion (1972), p. 261

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