La Barre lists the symptoms of peyote intoxication as follows: First a sense of exhilaration often expressed by dancing which leads into a depression state in which dreams and visions occur. ... However, This seemingly contradictory approach to the idea of shamanic or nature based religious experience in literature and film makes the Native fictions a little hard to follow. ...

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