Claim: Pinchbeck made a claim that our society has not been constructed to think about the idea of plants and chemicals that can show the association between the mind, natural and supernatural world. (6) Grounds: The grounds for this claim is that we should find a sense of balance between our physical world and our innerselves. First, Pinchbeck indicated that this “yearning that went far deeper than a desire to get a good story” and goes to explain that this was a “mystical lottery ticket” into the spiritual world. (13) Secondly the author states that from the perspective of the mushrooms the world revealed different priorities, trees and plants glowed with patience and intelligence as if expressing a deeper wisdom” (55) Warrant-generalization:
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(104) Grounds: Burning man is once year, where tens of thousands of people gather in Nevada's Black Rock Desert also known as the playa to create Black Rock City. This festival is a temporary metropolis dedicated to community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance. They depart one week later, having left no trace whatsoever. It started in 1986, by Larry Harvey who built an eight foot tall wooden effigy of a man after a heartbreak. Harvey wanted the man to represent a “free-floating symbol: an image of transience or spiritual regeneration, a signaling beacon for a new posthumanism, or a reigniting point for the spent energies of a suppressed and depressed counterculture at the end of Reagan eighties.” (89) Warrant: Burning Man provides spiritual growth, they have workshops and art, sexual curiosities thus making it so that this can bring you to inner connection with your flesh and your soul. Backing: In the book Pinchbeck goes to Burning Man where he discovers that the soul is something you work on. At the festival he was introduced to the ideas of George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff who believe that the earth and the moon were living, evolving beings and that humanity was made for the purpose of serving the evolutionary purposes of the sun and moon. He believed that we serve for the sake of the earth and to fulfill earth's purposes and that plants, animals, people are food for the moon.
(104) Grounds: Burning man is once year, where tens of thousands of people gather in Nevada's Black Rock Desert also known as the playa to create Black Rock City. This festival is a temporary metropolis dedicated to community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance. They depart one week later, having left no trace whatsoever. It started in 1986, by Larry Harvey who built an eight foot tall wooden effigy of a man after a heartbreak. Harvey wanted the man to represent a “free-floating symbol: an image of transience or spiritual regeneration, a signaling beacon for a new posthumanism, or a reigniting point for the spent energies of a suppressed and depressed counterculture at the end of Reagan eighties.” (89) Warrant: Burning Man provides spiritual growth, they have workshops and art, sexual curiosities thus making it so that this can bring you to inner connection with your flesh and your soul. Backing: In the book Pinchbeck goes to Burning Man where he discovers that the soul is something you work on. At the festival he was introduced to the ideas of George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff who believe that the earth and the moon were living, evolving beings and that humanity was made for the purpose of serving the evolutionary purposes of the sun and moon. He believed that we serve for the sake of the earth and to fulfill earth's purposes and that plants, animals, people are food for the moon.