hippie movement was totally identified with that position. In the late sixties and early seventies, glorifying the drug and was not seen as harmful but as something close to spirituality, at least in chattering circles.
hero Octavio Paz wrote in the introductory note of the book "The Teachings of Don Juan" by Carlos Castaneda: "Drugs, the ascetic practices and meditation exercises are not ends but means. If this medium becomes short, becomes an agent of destruction "and adds" Once broken everyday perception of reality, drugs are unnecessary. "
The above is a surf film late this outlook. It was filmed in the early eighties but displayed a 12 or 13 years earlier. Basically, it tells the story of a college professor who is locked in a kind of capsule to isolate, withdraw and scientific conclusions. These experiences are profoundly enlightening and allow you to discover aspects of their personality totally unknown. The process is repeated periodically until it seasoned with peyote and other hallucinogenic substances.
The doctor travels to the south where shamans are using psychotropic substances in their ancestral rituals. The trip is acidÃsimo and allows your inner self expands: the images are amazing screen distilled, but they have a clearly religious. At first believed that all is a hoax, but collects a sample for use in your personal closure.
When I heard his argument came to my mind some radical ideas put forward by Richard Dawkins in his book "The Selfish Gene." This guy believes that several cultural notions such as belief in God (for example), are impregnated in some entities like genes and are inherited. This would explain why certain universal beliefs.
I think the story is quite smooth and entertaining. The script weaves together properly purely fiction and anthropological features. The visual aspects are well done, and at times are too interesting. The central idea is very innovative and original so surprised. On the other hand, the end is absurd and unnecessary, a conclusion ends being poor is a shame that a story so well brought up as deplorablamente then decays as it did.
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