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Lewis Williams, David, ‘The Mind in The Cave’, Thames and Hudson 2002 p.126
Ibid p.128
Ibid p.128
Seigal (19977:132) List of conditions which can stimulate the experience of form constants; falling asleep and waking, dizziness, insulin hypoglcemia, epilepsy, advanced syphilis, photo stimulation, crystal gazing, drug intoxication, the delirium of fever, psychotic episodes, sensory deprivation, electrical stimulation and migraine headaches.
Kluver Heinrich, Mescal and The Mechanisms of Hallucinations, University of Chicago Press
Ibid p.56
Lewis Williams, Ibid p.56
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