{"id":274,"date":"2023-12-11T05:45:22","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T05:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spirituality.catherineliew.com\/?p=274"},"modified":"2023-12-11T05:45:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T05:45:22","slug":"mandragora-officinarum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spirituality.catherineliew.com\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"MANDRAGORA OFFICINARUM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Concept<br \/>\nMandragora Officinarum by director and visualist Tiago Pereira is a live video performance based on the fusion of religion, xamanism, and alternative medicine concepts. It unveils different fields of knowledge such as ethno-history, ethno-linguistics and ethno-botanic reinforcing the value of oral narratives, music and rituals in society. This post-cinematic event gathers samples of contemporary music and field recording on collective memory that deeps in dynamic and unconventional aspects of culture. The descriptions collected on popular beliefs, botanic and their contradictions with science and religion are put together with musical narratives aiming at new strings of creative thought that instigate and renovate today\u2019s identity process.<br \/>\nabout:<br \/>\nMandragora Officinarum is the common name for members of the plant genus Mandragora that contains deliriant hallucinogenic tropane alkaloids such as hyoscyamine. Although all parts of the Mandragora Officinarum plant are poisonous, its roots have long been used in magic rituals and in neopagan religions. The plant grows natively in southern and central Europe, in lands around the Mediterranean Sea, and also in Corsica.<br \/>\nThe musical environments included in Mandragora Officinarum soundtrack vary from Jazz, Folk, Electronic, Experimental, Post-Rock and Pop. 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