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X besides the movie, The Serpent and the Rainbow is a pretty interesting book...
The Serpent and the Rainbow is a book written by ethnobotanist and researcher Wade Davis and published in 1985. He investigated Haitian Vodou and the process of making zombies. He studied ethnobotanical poisons, discovering their use in a reported case of a contemporary zombie, Clairvius Narcisse. - wikipedia
Check it out. I've only read part but it's pretty interesting whether you think it's a bunch of bullshit or not.
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@gas
ONE I have a friend who is really into ayahuasca and smokes DMT, takes mushrooms etc etc. He's told me some stories about transmitting psychic energy and he said some other "shaman" once put a hex on him and made him cough up all this crazy shit. Whether I believe it or not, not sure. But I do think there are energies around us that we cannot perceive with our normal faculties that affect us daily. It's a matter of perception and intuition; there is much more to this material world than we know now.
A reputable author on this subject is Neil Whitehead, a cultural anthropologist who's extensively studied shamanism and cultural violence in south america. Some books to look into if interested:
2002. Dark Shamans. Kanaimá and the Poetics of Violent Death. Duke University Press.
2004. In Darkness and in Secrecy. The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery in Amazonia. Ed. with Robin Wright. Duke University Press.