It’s snowing in the UK and that means everything stops. Roads are shut, schools are closed, trains don’t run and the shops are full of panic-buyers. This Christmas, I thought I’d slow down like the rest of the snow-swept nation
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Shaman Of The Tribe
In ancient times, every tribe had a shaman who was the medecine man and spiritual leader of the community. Often under the influence of locally produced drugs such as Mescaline or Ayahuasca or Iboga, in ecstatic trances, the shaman would
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‘… one night we suddenly went mad together again; we went to see Slim Gaillard in a little Frisco nightclub. Slim Gaillard is a tall, thin Negro with big sad eyes who’s always saying ‘Right-orooni’ and ‘How ’bout a little
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