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  <title><![CDATA[The Cosmic Serpent]]></title>
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  <default-description>A personal adventure, a fascinating study of anthropology and ethnopharmacology, and, most important, a revolutionary look at how intelligence and consciousness come into being.  &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;This adventure in science and imagination, which the &lt;i&gt;Medical Tribune&lt;/i&gt; said might herald &quot;a Copernican revolution for the life sciences,&quot; leads the reader through unexplored jungles and uncharted aspects of mind to the heart of knowledge.  &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;In a first-person narrative of scientific discovery that opens new perspectives on biology, anthropology, and the limits of rationalism, &lt;i&gt;The Cosmic Serpent&lt;/i&gt; reveals how startlingly different the world around us appears when we open our minds to it. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&quot;&lt;i&gt;The Cosmic Serpent&lt;/i&gt; is a spellbinding, scholarly tour de force that may presage a major paradigm shift in the Western view of reality.&quot; --Michael Harner, Ph.D., president, Foundation for Shamanic Studies, and author of The Way of the Shaman</default-description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jeremy Narby]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[For anyone interested in DNA, shamanism and the origins of life and knowledge, this book is a must-read.  The author attempts to establish connections between modern science's biomolecular understanding of DNA and the knowledge imparted on shaman by their ayahuasca-induced hallucinations.  Intrigued...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13131358">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun May 10 01:38:06 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jan 31 18:56:02 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was phenomenally excellent in its scope, pacing and informative research.  Though the book is based on academic research, it reads like a mystery novel as it unfolds each new chapter with clarity and discovery.  <br/><br/>Narby's path begins in the jungles of South America where he learn...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14224715">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Sep 06 20:52:39 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Sep 06 21:08:28 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Narby's experience as an anthropologist in the Amazon leads him to believe that ancient indigenous tribes in South America, Africa, and Australia have common themes in their shammanistic traditions, imagery, and mythology that mirror the  work being done by microbiologists today. He looks for more s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5814046">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="52532930">
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Anyone who is interested in DNA or shamanism or just wants to expend his view upon things, i really want you to pick up this book and read it. It is a great book in several ways, but above all it teaches you how to look at other cultures and there history for answers we are looking for these days in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52532930">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8371338">
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Nov 03 12:35:12 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[a great first person detailed account of his research in the studies of shamanic accounts of the great mythical serpent found in all religions and our modern notion of DNA<br/><br/>how they are the same story just told in different manners<br/>how further discovery of DNA's role does nothing more...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8371338">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9895388">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a slightly crazy book by an anthropologist who has taken too many hallucinogenic &quot;ayahuasca journeys&quot;. He has a thesis that ayahuasca allows shamans to communicate with nature via DNA. He proposes that DNA crystals in cells can receive information from biophotonic emissions and th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9895388">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="131208">
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Mar 01 10:41:30 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[For the beginner to genetics, this book provides an amazing introduction written by an anthropologist, in a more lively language than much of science writing. For anyone interested in sacred plants, DNA, the workings of the human brain and consciousness, and a fairly humble perspective on exploratio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/131208">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Look, the first time I took a hallucinogen, I too saw all of the natural world break apart and twist together and reveal to me its interlinked workings, its fundamental connectedness to me and every other living and non-living entity in the universe entire, I too saw into the deeper reality of the u...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45332396">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri May 01 17:11:48 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A brilliant and thought-provoking book that argues that perhaps the drug-induced trances of an Amazonian tribe and their creation myths are somehow related to modern genetics.  <br/>Narby is a Stanford PhD in Anthropology who did his dissertation on these peoples, but this is not his dissertation. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42477818">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="29741154">
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    <body><![CDATA[Author, Jeremy Narby, guides the reader through his exploration of shamanic practices in the Amazon. This autobiographical account of the anthropologist's journey into apparent scientific enlightenment through the use of ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic utilized by the  indigenous healers called ayahuasq...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29741154">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Apr 24 10:36:44 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[In 1985 Jeremy Narby was an eager, 25 year-old anthropology student doing fieldwork for his doctorate in anthropology from Stanford University. For two years he lived amongst the Ashaninca natives in the community of Quirishari in the Peruvian Amazon’s Pichis Valley. &quot;My training had lead me ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20892425">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Feb 04 21:02:40 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an amazing account, brimming with youthful exhilaration, of an anthropologist wresting with a life changing experience with Ashaninca shamans. At first strictly scientific, he refuses to believe the shamans when they said they learned of their exhaustive and mystic knowledge of medicinal pla...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14586042">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10331181">
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Dec 12 12:26:44 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Dec 13 15:15:24 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[the thesis of this book is that the visions of snakes that indigenous people see in hallucinations are actually communications with the same thing that western scientists call DNA.  the anthropologist author is respectful and aware of his biases, and it's actually by confronting his own bias and 'de...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10331181">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="53783967">
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    <body><![CDATA[This shit gets pretty far out there but a lot of the connections he makes are at the least thought provoking. Basically its about the connection between ancient myths involving serpents and how it relates to the structure of DNA. And how shaman actually see DNA and cell structures when they take hal...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53783967">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51677860">
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a perfect excuse to discuss ayahuasca use among Peruvian shamen with your parents' friends at dinner parties. Also, it stands up as a great example of how not all anthropological non-fiction will bore you to tears. A fun and worthwhile read, a subtle nudge to open our world views to inc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51677860">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="71516593">
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pure delusion (with occasional apology). One would feel that ones local bible basher makes better sense. A more interesting thing is: How did he manage to get it published and obtained the comments at the back of the book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is an astonishing example of delusional thinking and exceptionally insane reasoning. Seriously. &quot;This ancient carving is X-shaped, they must have been drawing chromosomes during mitosis!&quot;]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was tossing up 3 or 4 for this. I love the idea and the subject matter. The writing is clear too. I can't put my finger on it but the book seemed to be missing something essential.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i loved this book and how it helps bring science and metaphysics together. There are great references to scientific facts but also relates to religious belief.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Shamans, science, and dna...oh my.  Thought provoking stuff if you are interested in theory of the origins of human kind and consciousness.]]></body>
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