Daniel @thisispsychedelico.com · Oct 17 Somewhat adjacent to my last post—this little book is what initially sparked my interest in #psychedelics as an #archaeology undergrad who wanted to study ice age cave paintings in Europe. Their descriptions of altered states are a little, ah, naïve, but I didn't know that at the time. ⬇️
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See also this really cool paper that hypothesizes that the limited oxygen resources in caves would have been depleted by artificial light sources, which may have induced mild hypoxia and altered states of consciousness, and contributed to the cosmological significance of liminal cave environments.