Mark Plotkin
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first heard Jul 2026
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And being able to remove that blindfold is the first step to becoming a shaman.
And I asked the shaman to explain it to me.
He says, well, imagine at some point in your life you saw somebody you hadn't seen in 30 years, and the night before you had a dream about them.
And there they are in front of you.
Okay?
We've all had that experience, so we call that a coincidence.
They say, no, that's peeking into a different reality, as you said.
And again, just to tie it back to our own culture, if you look at the Washington Post this morning, there's a big article about a doctor who is dealing with dying patients and the visions they have.
Now, these are not...
The near-death experiences that have been studied and cooked, this is something completely different.
This is before they die.
They start revisiting their childhood or having a conversation with the stillborn child they had.
I mean, just totally amazing stuff.
So, yeah, to circle back to your point, there are other realities out there.
I do think that Indigenous peoples are more comfortable with them, and we have a lot to learn by listening to them.
Just their abilities to see things that make no sense.
Look, I'm a scientist.
I'm supposed to believe what I see.
But I think it was Carl Jung who said, I don't engage in the fallacy of dismissing something just because I can't explain it.
And time and time again, you'll have so-called primitive peoples or preliterate peoples tell you something which you may not believe, which may not make sense, and it turns out to be true.
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