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Neo-shamanism: An Analysis of the Relationship between

Capitalism and the Psychedelic Revival
Tacie Cox
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, coxt3@unlv.nevada.edu

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Neo-shamanism:
An Analysis of
the Relationship between
Capitalism and the
Psychedelic Revival
Context & Important Points

• Psychedelic Revival

• Indigeneity, Sacred Medicines and Shamanism

• Neo-shamanism & it's Connection to Colonization &

Capitalism
 Thesis & Methodology

• Method of research
• Without reciprocity, neo-shamanism
and psychedelic medical use within a Western paradigm
is dangerously reminiscent of colonization
• Mysticism is a human universal
• Reciprocity through forms of reparations
• Studying neo-shamanism
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