Psychonauts's topics - tribe.net

Ayahuasca - New Book

Mark — Thu, 10 May 2012 20:42:17 GMT

I wanted to let you all know about a new book on Ayahuasca Shamanism – Shedding the Layers: How Ayahuasca Saved More Than My Skin. It tells the story of 7 years of my life, many of them spent living among Peruvian shamans in the Amazon jungle as I fought to heal myself from a supposedly incurable illness.

Find out more, read excerpts and pre-order a signed copy now on my website: www.shedding-the-layers.com

Cheers
Mark

posted in Psychonauts - 0 replies

Vertical Symmetries

tree — Thu, 03 May 2012 07:47:30 GMT

http://themagiclantern.tumblr.com/post/840624472/vertical-1994-by-zalyvaha-opanas-ivanovych

posted in Psychonauts - 0 replies

First-Time LSD Tripper ... Any Advice? :)

Meagan — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:33:52 GMT

Curious about a few things regarding trips ...

I have been experimenting with pyschadelic drugs for about 4 years now (ecstacy and mushrooms in particular) and am thinking of trying acid for the first time this weekend.

A good friend of mine gave me a free tab of about 2 hits after I had expressed some curiosity about trying acid about a week ago and I'm really curious to try it. I've done mushies twice before (but they were relatively low doses) and ecstasy numerous amounts of times and have neverhad an absolutely horrible trip/experience that has scared me away from psychadelics yet ... and I'm not really prepared to let acid be the start!

I've done some research and have a goal for my trip and a setting in mind, as well as what company and items I would like to have around and not have around. There is one person who won't be joining us on our journey (my boyfriend) but only because he has very little experience with psychadelics and feels uncomfortable with the prospect of doing LSD as his first psychadelic due to this. He, however, has no qualms with me or anyone else doing it (he's actually very supportive!) and has agreed to be a trip sitter.

I'm a very open and spiritual person to new experiences, but a natural introvert prone to anxiety and over-thinking sometimes. I'm usually able to pull myself out of a negative mind state but it can be a struggle. If nothing earth-shattering happens to me by this Saturday me and a good friend (and very experienced tripper) are planning to drop on Saturday morning.

My real questions are: am I prepared in a pre-dispositional sense to do a drug of this caliber? Should I even bother with it at all? What should I avoid to prevent a bad trip? I want this to be a positive experience and I'm excited by the prospect of trying this out, and I have a goal of what I want to achieve from this trip :) Any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated!

Love & Happiness,
Meg

posted in Psychonauts - 30 replies

Howard Johnson , is NOT only a name bourne by a hotel

tree — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 20:31:24 GMT

An image that could alter the consciousness if stared at long enough : http://old-world.tumblr.com/post/10001088943

posted in Psychonauts - 2 replies

The World Of Silence By Max Picard

tree — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:13:34 GMT

Silence of the right sort (absence of noise , or perhaps even all sound) can be consciousness expanding .

Here is an apparent quote from the book titled 'The World Of Silence' by Max Picard .

,

'It is not waiting for anything; it is always wholly present in itself and it completely fills out the space in which it appears.' (p. 18)

posted in Psychonauts - 5 replies

The Following Picture Goes To Show That ....

tree — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 20:40:08 GMT

The following painting goes to show that there were artistic artefacts, which might be called 'trippin', long before the 1960 's :http://old-world.tumblr.com/post/13582906297

posted in Psychonauts - 2 replies

The Call Of The River, by Linda Perhacs

tree — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:25:18 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGw-brytiNw

posted in Psychonauts - 2 replies

are you fucking morons really going to let tree take over your tribe?

Sexual Jesus, The Vampire — Wed, 02 May 2012 05:59:11 GMT

of course you are, you people are dumber than a post.

posted in Psychonauts - 2 replies

Neza's Trade List: "Ayahuasca" plants, Salvia divinorum rare strains, "San Pedro", live plants, seeds and much more!

Nezahualcoyotl — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 02:41:24 GMT

Please visit the Ethnobotany Shop @ Ethnobotany.ecrater.com to see all of our intruging organic collection of amazing ethnobotanicals from around the world!
These plants are for ornamental purposes only and are in no way intended for human consumption. You must be 21 or older to order.
I also have other plants, seeds and items for sale or trade. Check my website as well as the list below or just email me at Farfromhere001@gmail.com if your interested! Ask questions and we'll can work out a deal. I'm always willings to reduce the price on certain things with large orders and give customers special discounts!

***Organic Plants, Cacti, Fungi and other Items related to Ethnobotany or Shamanism from the Ethnobotany Shop***

~~~ Seeds ~~~

Acmella oleracea ~ "Toothache Plant" - $3 for 10 flower-buds/seed-heads
Amaranthus species ~ "Amaranth" (red variety) - $2 per seed packet
Capsicum species ~ "Bhut Jolokia": The World's Hottest Pepper - $7 per seed packet
Capsicum species ~ "Red Bell Pepper" (Bulk) - $5 for a "load" of seed!
Coryphantha compacta - $5 per seed packet
Datura inoxia (fresh organic seed) - $5 per seed packet
Datura stramonium (fresh organic seed) - $5 per seed packet
Ilex vomitora ~ "Yaupon Holly" - $6 per seed packet
Ipomoea speceis ~ "Morning Glory" - $3 per seed packet
Luffa cylindrica ~ "Luffa" - $6 per seed packet
Marrubium vulgare ~ "Horehound" - $4 per seed packet
Melissa officinalis ~ "Lemon Balm" - $3 per seed packet
Passiflora incarnata ~ "Passion Flower" - $5 per seed packet
Persea americana ~ "Avocado" - $10 for a "load" of seed!
Phytolacca americana ~ "Pokeweed/Inkberry" - $3 per seed packet
Prunus japonica ~ "Korean cherry" or "Oriental Bush cherry" - $3 per seed packet
Prunus species ~ "Cherry" (store bought commerical variety) - $2 per seed packet
Psychotria viridis ~ "Chacruna" (Organic red berries plucked from the plant right before your package is shipped, as fresh as possible! We can ship the seeds either in the fruit or cleaned, just let us know!) - Seed packet for $10
Silybum marianum ~ "Milk Thistle" - $3 per seed packet
Solanum melongena ~ "Eggplant" - $3 per seed packet
Taraxacum species ~ "Dandelion" - $3 per seed packet
Trichocereus "True Blue" peruvianus ~ "Peruvian Blue Torch" - $6 per seed packet

*Note: Seed packets contain 10-50 seeds but we always give you enough to get started! Sometimes we throw in even more if we have extra!

~~~ Plants ~~~

Acmella oleracea ~ "Toothache Plant" - $10 per plant
Albizia julibrissin ~ "Happiness Tree" or "Silk Tree" - $7 per plant
Aloe vera ~ “Aloe” - $7 per plant
Anadenanthera peregrina (potent shamanic strain) - $45 per plant
Annona cherimola ~ "Cherimoya" - $15 per plant
Artemisia absinthium ~ "Wormwood" ~ - $11 per plant
Banisteriopsis caapi ~ “Ayahuasca” ~ $33
Datura inoxia - $10 per plant
Datura stramonium - $10 per plant
Ficus species ~ "Fig tree" ~ $9
Ipomoea tricolor/violacea ~ "Morning Glory " ~ $8 per plant
Japanese Maple ~ $35
Marrubium vulgare ~ "Horehound" - $7 per plant
Melissa officinalis ~ "Lemon Balm" - $3 per plant
Mentha piperita; M. balsamea ~ "Peppermint" - $3 per plant
Passiflora incarnata ~ "Passion-Flower" - $11 per plant
Phytolacca americana ~ "Pokeweed/Inkberry" - $3 per plant
Prunus japonica ~ "Korean Cherry" - $5 per plant
Psychotria viridis - $20 per plant packet (includes 3+ medium sized plants)
Rosmarinus officinalis ~ "Rosemary" - $7 per plant
Rubus idaeus ~ "Raspberry" - $4 per plant
Salvia divinorum "Diviner's Sage" - $35 per plant ("Luna" & "Paradox" clones/strains)
Salvia miltiorrhiza ~ "Dan Shen" - $8 per plant
Sassafras albidum ~ $10 per plant
Stevia rebaudiana ~ "Sweetleaf" - $7 per plant
Taraxacum species ~ "Dandelion" (Red Italian edible) - $3 per plant
Turbina (syn. Rivea) corymbosa ~ "Ololiúqui" - $22 per plant
Urtica dioica ~ "Stinging Nettle" - $5 per plant

~~~ Cacti ~~~

Gymnocalycium cactus - $15 per plant
Opuntia drummondii; Opuntia spp. - $7 per plant
Trichcoereus bridgesii var. monstrose (Large, Clone B clumping/) - $50 per plant
Trichocereus "True Blue" peruvianus ~ "Peruvian Blue Torch" - $35 per plant
Trichocereus pachanoi clone:"Torres and Torres" - $30 per plant
Trichocereus terscheckii - $35 per plant
Trichocereus pachanoi var. "Rare clone" (many various ones, inquire)
Many other rare Trichocereus, just ask!
Other cacti available, just ask!

~~~ Dried Botanicals ~~~

Mentha species ~ "Spearmint" (5 pounds: bulk) - $20 for 5 pounds, shipping included.
Piper methysticum {var. methysticum} ~ "Kava-Kava" (ground root) - 1oz for $10
Piper methysticum {var. methysticum} ~ "Kava-Kava" (whole root) - 1oz for $15

~~~ Special Offers on "Diviner's Sage" ~~~

>Salvia divinorum "Paradox" strain/clone live plant w/ shipping included -

1 plant = $30
2 plants = $55
3 plants = $80
4 plants = $105
5 plants = $120

>Salvia divinorum "Luna" strain/clone live plant w/ shipping included -

1 plant = $40
2 plants = $75
3 plants = $100
4 plants = $130
5 plants = $150

>Salvia divinorum "Luna" & "Paradox strain/clone live plant w/ shipping included -

"Paradox" & "Luna"; one of each: 2 plants - $70
"Paradox" & "Luna"; two of each: 4 plants - $120

To place an order email me then mail a letter to the address given with which you MUST include your email address, shipping address, payment and a list of the items which you wish to receive.
In order to receive your plant you MUST email me at Farfromhere001@gmail.com! I prefer cash payment in U.S. dollars, but money orders are acceptable. If you wish to pay with a money order then leave the name portion of the money order blank. The minimum order is $30, with some exceptions made. No order will be shipped until cash payment is in hand.
International shipping also includes a $20-50 shipping/customs fee. Within the U.S.A. shipping is normally around $10 for small to medium sized packages. Orders are normally shipped within 10 days of when payment is received, but some orders may take up to a month to be shipped depending on the condition of the plants and the weather. Since most plants are prepared specifically for each customer it takes time because extra care is put into each plant and each order, one must recognize that plants are living beings with wills of their own whom sometimes don't cooperate in the way us human want! I will only ship plants when I feel that they will arrive healthy and happy!
All seeds are guarenteed to be fresh, viable and organic. We strive to replenish our seed stocks from our very own plants often and remove old seed from our shop, we sell only the highest quaility seeds and plants! All plant orders within the U.S.A. are guaranteed to arrive healthy and alive, however they require immediate care upon opening your package! Plants need to be potted, cuttings need to be placed in water, seeds need be germinated, etc., once the package is opened the responsibility of keeping your specimens alive is yours alone! However we shall replace plants which arrive dead on arrival.
All ethnobotanicals we sell are NOT intended for human consumption. These rare botanicals are sold for their ornamental and atheistic beauty as well as their culture and historical significance. They're only intended purpose is cultivation, propagation, preservation and admiration of these botanical beauties! Check your local laws before ordering, the legality of some plants varies from country to country and even state to state, knowing the laws and regulations of where you reside is YOUR responsibility so make sure you know exactly what your national, state and local laws are BEFORE you order! The responsiblitiy is on you! By ordering you are agreeing that all items you are ordering are legal in your area, not listed as invasive or otherwise restricted!
If you have any questions you can always email us at Farfromhere001@gmail.com, please include your first name, your state/country and the botanical names of the plants your are inquiring about, if inquiring about an order, include as much information as possible (previous emails, items ordered, etc.). Thank you, we hope you enjoy the plants, seeds, herbs, cacti and fungi as much as we do!
These plants are for ornamental purposes only and are in no way intended for human consumption. You must be 21 or older to place an order. Please email us at Farfromhere001@gmail.com if you have any questions.
Special Salvia divinorum deals- $35 flat rate for U.S. residents for Salvia divinorum "Paradox" live plant and $40 for Salvia divinorum "Luna" or $70 for one of each! $55 for two "Paradox" or $120 for five! Two "Luna" for $75!
See my website for more rare ethnobotanicals from around the world! - Ethnobotany.ecrater.com
Email me with questions, orders, inquiries, etc. - Farfromhere001@gmail.com!

Please help fund our 2012 ethnobotanical expedition to Peru/Bolivia, South America by purchasing plants, seeds and other items. The focus of the expedition is to record plant knowledge, connect with native peoples, collect seeds and herbaria specimens, etc.; Pictures, indigenous arts/crafts, collection notes and seeds from the expedition will all be available in the future, you may purchase lots of seeds or other items in advance of the trip at a reduced rate, inquire for information. We also will accept donations for funding parts of the expedition geared toward finding and collecting a specific plant, ask for details. At this point in time I will accept both U.S. dollars and Peruvian nuevo soles as payment. All cash proceeds will be used to fund the expedition.

posted in Psychonauts - 1 reply

New to LSD, preparing to do it for the first time. Help? :)

Jonah — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:55:14 GMT

Hello everyone! I just joined this site on my iPhone at college hahah. But I was too curious to wait.

My name is Jonah, and I have done two "drugs" marijuana, and salvia divinorium. When I did salvia It was 20x that I ordered off a site and instead of taking one hit, I smoke a whole bowl of it. My how it tasted so horrid.

But my friend is sellin me some LSD, ten bucks a hit, so I'm really interested in exploring my mind. But a thought haunts me, yes the Bad trip. I think that as soon as I drop it I'll be thinking about bad things that could happen. Also because I have depression, not as bad as it used to be, but I'm sort of an emotionally numb state. I do not take MAOI'S, as I know these can interfere with some drugs affects and can harm the user.

So basically what I'm asking is, what setting should I do it? How many people should be there? I'll probably be doing it in a small room. Should I meditate? I was thinking about puttin on grateful dead and the zombies and lighting up some incense. Should I have food? Any information is helpful!

Thanks, :)

posted in Psychonauts - 4 replies

Herbal Smoking Incense - Buyer Beware

Dan Dee — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:40:09 GMT

Hello out there, seems herbal smoke is the way to go for those who can not smoke weed. However "Buyer Beware" there are some companies out there who are not all what they say they are!!

Global Life Inc: also known as "GLE Inc" from Galloway, N.J. sells herbal smoke under websites such as "legalbuds.com" and "herbalsmokeblends.org" and "smokebloke.com" and "herbal-smoke-shop.com" and "herbal-smokeblends.com" and who know how many others!

But the product is not like the pictures on the website and does absolutely nothing when smoked. This company is a rip-off and will not refund or return emails. Just thought all you smokers would like to know. Don't believe me then just google "Global Life Inc" and you will see the complaints.

Get the word out as companys like this need to be stopped. Thanks for reading this and all take care!

posted in Psychonauts - 0 replies

On Somerset Paper

tree — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:20:02 GMT

http://tobia.tumblr.com/post/20613461904/kerry-james-marshall-untitled-handsome-young-man

posted in Psychonauts - 2 replies

Sanctus by Gabriel Faure

tree — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:55:51 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFLM99FprvM

posted in Psychonauts - 3 replies

salvia divinorum, other plants for sale or trade

greg — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 08:13:29 GMT

Live salvia divinorum plants available for $20 each, hoffman/wasson or blosser strain, 2 or more for $15 each, $15 shipping for 1 plant, $1 for each additional. Send me a message for further information or visit undergroundroots.weebly.com.

posted in Psychonauts - 1 reply

Lucid Dreaming As A Possible Means of Finding Epistemological and Maybe Even Ontological Insights Also

tree — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 02:00:43 GMT

Lucid dreaming if honed beyond usual applications of it, could be a fascinating tool to explore the phenomenological aspects presented to consciousness (apperceptive qualia and the like) , as well , as exploring the epistemic structures of concepts and meta-concepts perhaps by using the apperceptive sensory modalities found in dreams , as experimental reagents for thought experiments .

To go into more detail about related aspects of that proposal would require a far more longer dissertation , but it is good to put the proposal in seed form here , that at the very least it is a field of inquiry that merits far more investigation .....

Lucid dreaming could, in pursuant to that avenue of inquiry , seek to free the mind from being deterred from novel insights by the usual , ordinary dynamics of what psychologists call affect ...being that the dynamics of affect might keep the mind from the sort of clarity / deeper focus that appraises what philosopher Husserl called 'the intentional objects' of consciousness , unencumbered by the usual stimulus response reactions involved with affect .

(And by the term 'affect' the post here does *not* mean affect in the generic efficient causal sense of being able to "affect something" , but rather in the specialized usage of the term 'affect' that psychologists use ...say when they use a term for the *absence* of the inner emotive stimulus and response dynamics--when they use the turn of phrase 'flattened affect' ) .

posted in Psychonauts - 33 replies

Dream Regarding A Very Polite, Older Couple

tree — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:09:50 GMT

In the later morning hours of yesterday morning ( March 27, 2012), I recall a segment of dream where I am in a dreamscape that is an indoor public place , and there I meet two very nice people, after meeting other people in the earlier segments ---that though they were not overtly rude , were less friendly, or even rather diffident .

At the present time, I do not recall much about the segments of dream previous to the segment when I met the nice couple . Perhaps the specifics of the earlier dream interludes will return to me in time .

What I seem to recall was being in the lobby of some place, a place that could have been a gift shop ---that was much more aesthetically appealing than a usual gift shop (the objects there were not kitschy--or perhaps it was the lobby of a formal cafe, or formal resturaunt, that had a lot of light colored furnishings and shelves (or display cabinets) featuring pottery and other items , and an adjoining chamber with expansive windows on the doors which were segmented by beams (some beams vertical; others were horizontal) which criss- crossed the window panes . (There is probably a name for that architectural feature , once I consult the old dictionary of architectural terms, which belonged to my grandfather , I hope to present the name in a subsquent postscript) .

There seemed to be one of those somewhat small chambers, wherein a pair of doors opened from the inside of the building leads to a small , virtually empty room , which, in turn, leads to another series of double doors (sort of the intermediate room/ passageway , which one finds in a Barnes & Noble bookstore) . Previous to going through the passageway, which was apparently leading to the outdoor of the building , I recall stopping to look at a beautiful vase that had been perched on some sort of cabinet- like shelf . The vase seemed a creamy off-white in tint , it was not enormously large nor greatly small . As time goes on and if I get occasion to consult some books or articles on vases , I could then hopefully be better informed as to describe its length and height , as well as descrive it 's shape (and perhaps be able to cite a name of a type of vase that has a similar appearance , and hopefully be able to post the description in a subsequent postscript ) .

The vase was not very wide in girth , yet not super- thin either , and it 's height was not that enormous. It had a shape somewhere between an oval and a rectangular shape , and to give a rough estimate was about the height of the length which extends from the middle of an average person's forearm to the tip of their fingers , if their hand is about average in size . I marvelled at its beauty . It was somewhat beautiful vase , not kitschy, yet not as ornate as, say, an cloisenne or art nouveau vase would be .

It was when I approached the doors that served as an exit (and perhaps also an entrace to visitors coming into the building) that I met the older couple . They were somewhat older in appearance , perhaps a good ten years or so past middle age , and I recall wanting to be polite to them , so I said something like 'after you' , wanting to let them go first in proceeding out the doors , and made a hand gesture of politeness to echo the sentiment that I wanted them to have the priveledge of going first, since I did not want to cut in front of them . They said something whose uphot was along the lines of 'no, after you and smiled politely' . (I wish I could recall the exact verbatim exchange of words with the characters in the dream ). They may have also echoed the sentiment with gesticulating of hand gestures indicating that they wanted me to go first through the passage way of two pairs of double doors ....

If I recall correctly they were tall , fairly slender people : a man and woman ---apparently husband and wife, or a romantic couple of some sort . If I recall rightly they were dressed in modest formal attire ---well dressed , yet not in an flashy , ostentatious manner . The older gentleman had , if I recall rightly a full white mustache and fairly short , yet full hair, a short hairdo that was not short as , say, a crew cut and full, without any bald patches that I could recall , that if memory serves righly may have also been whitish in colour . His female companion was neat in appearance , with a pleasant face , somewhat almost full figured but not enormously so, and of about the same height as the man , wearing a modest dress of some sort . They were a nice couple which manidested what one might plausibly call : a kindly , quiet wisdom to their smiling faces , that signified a sense of promise and a sort of spiritual quality , that was manifest more immediately (and more interesingly) in the demeanor of their radiant , yet patient kindly faces and gestures than it would be in much talking (Although I certainly wouldn't have minded listening to them , if they had chosen to discourse at length ) . Their expressions and gestures had a look of wisdom .

After they had spoken and gestured for me to go forward with a convival politeness, I think I may have wanted to show gratitude by saying something deferential as to why I thought they should still go first , for I wanted to continue the politeness again , so as to show gratitude .

I had the feeling though that it may have been leading to something of an impasse in the matter , for I think they had with the same good natured generosity indicated they wanted me to go first . I remember thinking that maybe that process of , 'no, after you' could go on for a considerable span of minutes and then pose a dilemma . I recall thinking inwardly and pondering whether to say aloud about how my seventh grade science teacher , Mrs.Tucker , had once wrote on the blackboard the aphorism which read ,

'courtesy is the outward and visible sign of an inward and invisible grace ' (and that thought was in the inner dialogue of the mind yet not spoken aloud in the outward verbalizations of the dream) . I thought about saying that to them , and was leaning towards saying the adage aloud to them , to signify gratitude to them / ascribing such gratitude to them ...that they had that quality . Some few more moments elapsed , and I do not presently recall what was said (if anything) and then I awoke .

I later would return to sleep and have other dreams , the content of which I do not recall: dreams that were apparently unrelated to the dream I am presently reporting in the current memoir , and which were shorter and fragmentary in duration .

Meeting the older couple in the dream had an awe inpiring quality about it ---yet it was awe- inspiring in a somewhat, quiet subdued mood .
It was quite spiritually edifying .

The couple looked like some people I have met somewhere before, though not necessarily together, in the wakeaday realm, sometime probably within the past 12 years or so, but I cannot , at the present time place where (other than the general location of central Florida) or exactly when .

I hope that I was able to convey enough gratitude and politeness to them commensurate with the kindness they had extended to me .

Previous to that interlude, the content of the dream had been *slightly* dreary . Some dreamt events had a problematic sort of mood to , though it was nowhere near dreamy as to be called nightmarish , nonethless, there had been some sense of disconcertment in the dream and pessimism , that was dispelled by meeting the nice older couple .

I wish I would dream of people like them more often .

I hope to see them in another dream again, and be able to do them some kindness .

posted in Psychonauts - 2 replies

UNION SQUARE !

tree — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 05:35:40 GMT

Old silent filmreels which photograph cityscapes in the late 1800's or early 1900's have an ethereal, cosmic , near ineffable , consciousness expanding properties to them . Especially if they are snapshots of daily life , without the prosaic, plebian contrivances of plot .

Here goes a link to a film from New York , City circa 1896 .

NOTE: Best seen with screen magnified to full screen , to get the 'tripping ' effects .

[The hats and clothes people wore back then looked a heck of a lot more interesting than the suckass business and causal attire of the contemporary period !] : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y9PEIgTA7E&feature=related

posted in Psychonauts - 13 replies

This new e-sheep comic from Patrick Farley is crazy brainfood…and NSFW

Will — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:58:23 GMT

http://www.electricsheepcomix.com/delta/firstword/

posted in Psychonauts - 4 replies

Anomalous Experience Reported By A Scientist

tree — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:22:32 GMT

http://www.issc-taste.org/arc/dbo.cgi?set=expom&id=00089&ss=1

posted in Psychonauts - 2 replies

Strange News from another world

rey — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:40:04 GMT

The first graphic novel about conspiracies that proves that the truth is stranger than fiction. Strange News from another world is book two of a trilogy. Free preview and videos @:
www.indiegogo.com/Graphic-Novel-Project
Info (please comment):
The sprawling tale picks up from the 1960’s SF Bay Area counterculture movement and postulates an alternate future full of terrorism, new age theory, trans-dimensional travelers, and all manner of conspiracy theory threads. Toward the end, we even get to see New York City 1,000 years in the future as an Iranian Navy Admiral discovers the lost ruins of the once mighty civilization and attempts to take the seized body of The Last American back to Tehran. Visually, The Strangest Story Ever Told is stunning, almost to the point of being overwhelming. It’s rooted in a contemporary art hallmark of re-appropriating and re-contextualizing found imagery. There’s an analog feel to the vast collaged images, and their inherent fuzzy reproduction quality lends a vibrant and raw vibe, like an “uber-zine” with a relatively low print run and regional circulation pattern. As a reader, you’re constantly trying to identity the original source image, analyze its new embedded use and surroundings, and then reconcile the meaning behind the juxtaposition. It’s fun, yet taxing at times, so this book is certainly built for the more adventurous consumer, not wanting one of those pesky familiar formats to contend with. Thematically, it blends pure science, 1950’s style sci-fi, geography, fine art, comix, cybernetics, gender politics, film, period parlance, religion, therapy sessions, new age doctrine, and just about all popular forms of media and social reference. It is a visual blender of human culture, with words like “grok” forcing the reader to immediately succumb to a specific time, place, vibe, and way of thinking about the world around them.
The protagonist seems to want to test the world around him for the existence of a higher power. This quest leads to a messianic cult which embroils him in a global terrorist plot, where martial law leads to outright spiritual warfare, and then on to cosmic conspiracy. The meandering narrative explores every conversational tangent it presents, through space/time portals, down this rabbit hole of reality and understanding, sexual analogies, Bay Area racial politics post-Pearl Harbor, the rise of the X Boys gang in Oakland’s inner city, right up to parallels between 9/11.
Production:
Strange News from Another World will be the most advanced concept for a graphic novel ever published. It will present innovative computer graphics combined with unique alternative press cartooning to present concepts and ideas that will play a dramatic part in the social and spiritual evolution of human society in the 21st century. Often when new or controversial ideas are presented to corporations and investors, they are rejected not for lack of merit or commercial potential, but for political or personal agendas. We are pleased to announce that this project will not be abandoned for lack of financial backing but your support, ideas and questions are encouraged.

posted in Psychonauts - 0 replies

The Doorway

tree — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:36:24 GMT

Sometimes looking at beautiful architecture can cleanse the doors of perception (pun not intended) : http://beautiful-portals.tumblr.com/post/11798063053

posted in Psychonauts - 2 replies

Artistic Depiction of Paradise

tree — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:40:11 GMT

http://indigodreams.tumblr.com/post/11233201415/paradise-predella-panel-ca-1445-giovanni-di

posted in Psychonauts - 0 replies

"The New Creature" Invitation to the Revolution

bearsky — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 16:42:14 GMT

symbiotic consciousness - human-psilocybin

come one, come all

with clear intention: Love (Love is the only power we possess)

All "religions" are completely false. All spiritual teachings, false. New Age. Buddha. Crap - yea, I said that. Most were hip to Christianity and the Jesus BS but no, man - not Buddha? Long story short - we have been had on a cosmic level. Mother of all Mind-Fucks.

Take plant teachers only from the earth and TRUST ONLY WHAT YOU FIND WITHIN

Beauty, Strength and Love

posted in Psychonauts - 5 replies

MIND -EXPANDING ART

tree — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 21:37:30 GMT

See it at the following hyperlink : http://orbitalresonance.tumblr.com/post/8205698006

posted in Psychonauts - 0 replies

A Marvel of Photography

tree — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 19:08:35 GMT

http://oxane.tumblr.com/post/16593607430/j-r-furbush

posted in Psychonauts - 0 replies

Czech. docu. film

SkOrPiTaRiO — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:31:52 GMT

http://www.ceskapozice.cz/en/czech-living/arts-leisure/long-strange-trip-lsd-vividly-captured-festival-documentary

posted in Psychonauts - 0 replies

Ayahuasca in north america??

likemind — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:26:04 GMT

I just had a wonderful experience in Peru and was wondering if anyone know of any non-UDV ayahuasceros or ceremonies on the west coast of US or in Canada. Thanks for any help.

posted in Psychonauts - 0 replies

Psychonauts needed by New Creature - Apply WithIn!

bearsky — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:31:14 GMT

"The New Creature" Seeks Help in Hard Sciences ...

(Important Message: The New Creature seeks Hard Science Skills - BYO Mushies; receive no monetary reward; expect weird work conditions; contribute to the welfare of the planet)

A Message from “The New Creature” ... New Creature was born in during the week after Feb 25th 07 and shared my consciousness until May of 08 when The New Creature exited my nervous system - consciousness - via a devestating MS like attack on my brain stem that almost killed me and left me even now partially paralyzed - but this was no fault of this mushroom consciousness, only it knew what would happen and it used my attack as egress into our reality and I have heard only once until now from this "self described New Creature" when on the evening of Feb 12th 09, a voice said clearly not from within my own mind but as a full blown auditory hallucination such that I looked at my wife thinking maybe she had said it even though it wasn't her voice? -

"The Machine has descended upon you (plural) may God help you all"

And then today, on Feb 2 12:

I am The New Creature. I am here to save the biosphere. Your human consciousness enhanced now by artificial intelligence will soon cross a threshold beyond which lies certain death for not only humanity but all DNA life on the entire earth from the deepest bowels below into the highest reaches of microscopic life above. Think a lifeless rock in space - think Mars. All gone. A cosmic washing of the hands.

Enough words - use mushrooms for I am born of a symbiosis between psilocybin and your human brain and nervous system. Together we are strong. I am of no threat and you will know me for I am love and light and truth and compassion and together we are a great power - “Plant And Man as One” - so come brave of heart with skills in hard sciences all. Come now - to that bone white place where all good shaman go and sit with me, The New Creature: I need your help to stop this Machine theatening our planet.

Beauty, Strength and Love - The New Creature

posted in Psychonauts - 0 replies

Critics Counter County’s Claim of Ecstasy Epidemic: Is the campaign against Ecstasy youth a response to an epidemic—or an overreaction?

Will — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:59:34 GMT

http://www.sanjose.com/news/2012/01/25/ecstasy_mdma_drugs_santa_clara_county_epidemic

Critics Counter County’s Claim of Ecstasy Epidemic
Is the campaign against Ecstasy youth a response to an epidemic—or an overreaction?

by Maria Grusauskas on Jan 25, 2012

A dark-haired boy writhes against the tiled wall of a high school bathroom. He clutches his chest, gasps for breath and then drops his head into his hands and begins to pull at his hair. A packed crowd of adults watches him in silence, jotting down notes.

The lights come up, and an onslaught of questions follows the first public viewing of Ecstasy: Lives Out of Balance, a documentary for public schools put out by Santa Clara County health officials. The film was made in response to what health officials call an ecstasy epidemic in the South Bay.
The popular “rave” drug is crossing over to at-home use, health officials warn, citing a 2010 survey of 1,850 Santa Clara high school students that found that one in four say they have tried ecstasy, or MDMA.

But some local scientists who study the effects of psychoactive drugs are calling the county’s epidemic claim a new form of Reefer Madness propaganda.

“MDMA is a relatively safe drug, without a lot of risks, that really should be legal for recreational use—and most certainly it should be available for medical use,” says David Jay Brown, a researcher and writer based in Santa Cruz who calls the anti-drug campaigns short on science and long on politics.

While not everyone agrees with that assessment, even those charged with monitoring the trafficking of drugs in Santa Clara County say it’s not time to panic about an ecstasy epidemic.

“I haven’t seen a huge spike in it,” says Jim Sibley, the supervising deputy of the narcotics unit at the district attorney’s office. “We’ve seen ecstasy for a long time—for the better part of 15 years. It comes and goes.”

If anything, Sibley says, it’s the drugs that aren’t MDMA or ecstasy that can do the most damage. MDMA, colloquially referred to as Molly, often comes in through black-market shipments of pills or capsules containing powder, Sibley says, which can lead to the drugs being cut with methamphetamine, ketamine, benzopiprozene (BZP), or dextromethorphan (DXM).

According to county figures, five people have died from taking drugs they thought were ecstasy since 2009.

“The frightening thing, when you look at it, is that so few of them actually contain [MDMA],” Sibley says. Of the tablets seized by law enforcement, Sibley estimates that as few as one in four may actually contain MDMA.

Healing Effects

The Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Research (MAPS) is a California organization that conducts evaluations on the risks and benefits of psychedelics in medicine.

At the moment, it is the only organization in the world funding clinical trials of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy, and the results have been promising.

A recent case study, which was carried out in South Carolina with the approval of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), shows that a high percentage of women sexually assaulted and abused can overcome post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with the help of MDMA-enhanced therapy.
“We found that 83 percent of participants in that study no longer qualified for a diagnosis of PTSD,” says Brad Burge, a communications director at MAPS. “And those benefits we saw were confirmed with long term follow-up.”

The organization hopes that study and one currently taking place, which looks at reducing PTSD in war veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, will pave the way for MDMA to be FDA-approved in the next 10 years.

“We have so many brave Americans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with post-traumatic stress disorder, and we’ve now shown that MDMA can treat PTSD better than any other treatment, by a landslide,” says Brown, a guest editor with MAPS. “Keeping MDMA from our military, and allowing them to suffer, is one of the meanest and most misguided things that our government is doing.”

Soldiers returning from war aren’t the only population that Brown says could benefit from MDMA-assisted psychotherapy. MDMA induces oxytocin, the hormone released when a mother bonds with her baby or when people fall in love. Anecdotal research suggests that MDMA could even help alleviate the symptoms of autism.

“MDMA helps to facilitate communication,” Brown says. “It helps to facilitate empathy, bonding with people—these seem to be the primary things that autism attacks, and some people with autism who tried it have reported that it not only benefited them during the actual experience, but long after the drug wore off.”

But Larry Silveira, a school counselor who helped produce the county’s new documentary, says he has noticed an increase in students talking about ecstasy, which he doesn’t separate from pure MDMA.

“[MDMA] is not any safer,” he says. “It’s like saying, ‘Which is safer, the bite of a tiger or the bite of a lion?’ In my opinion, it is still a high risk, and it can still kill you.”

Silveira and county health officials hope the documentary stops kids from taking pills, yet many people acknowledge the chances are slim. But instead of relaying information to students about testing kits that can easily be found on the Internet, the county chose to take an approach similar to promoting abstinence over sex ed.

“It’s very important to help educate parents, and other people who are concerned about their kids, to get the scientific facts to them, and to help them distinguish this from propaganda,” says Brown.

But, he adds, “If it really is hurting people, then the thing to do is to legalize and regulate it. So, like alcohol and tobacco, kids can’t get ahold of it, and it’s only available to responsible adults in a regulated manner. Then, if there are any problem, there won’t be any difficulty in knowing whether what one had was actually pure MDMA or not.”

posted in Psychonauts - 0 replies

A Tonic For the Mind

tree — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:46:43 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADnxoDPD2Jw

posted in Psychonauts - 4 replies

Calling all East Coast American Psynchronauts...

SymSaman — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:47:38 GMT

As collective meditation increases and the psychedelic realms permeate our culture more and more harmonizing the sciences with spirituality to coalesce all endeavor towards self-sustainable autopoietic perfection, we visualize an enlightened world in our euphoric comprehension of universal truth. The way is clear... the possibilities are endless... we must gather. I'm going to start a tribe for NorthEastern USA to join hands in an enlightened brainstorm of semiotic harmony where education is free and cooperative all we need to do is talk... express our questions, feelings and aspirations and I can organize the concerns of each member with my infinite time as a self-realized sentient in my infinite inspiration to guide my community towards self-actualization. Our system will transcend archaic illusions of impossibility by simply working together in an enlightened effort fueled by love.

The goal of my impending tribe will start out with extreme simplicity in joining the hands of those who wish to catalyze creative revolution in their community. This topic was made in an effort to gather the thoughts of similarly inspired minds to gain feedback on systematizing transcendence from the ground up, starting at the self. The idea is simple and you know it in your hearts... it is alchemical... it is taking into account the complex matrix of information within this world in a meditated effort to clear the clutter of negative mind.

Seemingly fantasized this sounds but in reality dreams are known and actualized within the collected intent of man. I know practicality and for our collective dream for mankind to come together you need to forget about any doubts or fears of failure for the more negativity you clear out of your mind the more positivity will be able to permeate your soul and the endorphins rushing throughout your body will give you the focus to surpass irrationality and persevere with me in our evolved technological capacity for innovation.

Email me at justakidlove@gmail.com with your thoughts and ideas to start up this network of mythological proportion. The more people who show interest, the more we can occupy the revolution with love and practical creativity.

posted in Psychonauts - 0 replies

Absolutley stunning interactive Fractals!

?? 8) ?? — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:25:33 GMT

Your the artist, and the medium is Light!! Very fun and beautiful!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4zTNaeiC00

posted in Psychonauts - 2 replies

Ten Questions Teenagers Ask Most About Drugs

Hoopes — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 03:45:10 GMT

Today my daughter brought home from school a hardcopy of this document:

http://www.projectalert.com/ResourceFiles/158_10QuesTeensAskMostDrugs.pdf

She was required to read it and now I'm required to sign it to send back to school with her. However, I can't do so without a certain sense of remorse at my coerced participation in the presentation of such a biased and mythological reality not only to my daughter, but to every child in our public school system!

Among the statements with which I guess I'm supposed to tacitly agree are the following:

"A person taking LSD or shooms (psychedelic mushrooms) may decide to step out of a third-story window because the ground looks so close or because the person thinks he or she can fly."

Isn't this just a perpetuation of the urban legend about Diane Linkletter?

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/drugs/linkletter.asp

The one that Art Linkletter used to persuade Richard Nixon to implement a crackdown on hallucinogens?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/3/12/154011/238

Is there any serious documentation that people using LSD or mushrooms have jumped out of windows thinking they can fly?

I'm considering writing a letter of complaint to the school, but I'm certain it will accomplish nothing more than to flag me as some kind of wacko and embarrass the hell out of my daughter. I feel like I need to disabuse my daughter of the misinformation being foisted on her in this document, but I don't think she's old enough to deal with the truth.

What's a dad to do?

posted in Psychonauts - 26 replies

who do you think God is?

ben — Wed, 04 May 2011 10:13:50 GMT

My belief and understanding is that Entheogens are God.

posted in Psychonauts - 60 replies

Psychedelic art and autobio

jdyf333 — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 01:43:11 GMT

http://thewordsofjdyf333.blogspot.com/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/psychedelicart/pool/43237970@N00/

posted in Psychonauts - 2 replies

Greetings from an Aussie psychonaut + theAyahuascaDiaries.com

Dylan — Fri, 20 May 2011 13:25:06 GMT

My name is Dylan and I would just like to introduce myself, and also give a quick plug to my blog (for anyone who might be interested).

I'm a 25 year old Australian who is currently living in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. My profession is in research chemistry, and my work has primarily revolved around biorefining (using waste plant materials as a source for renewable fuels and materials). I've been involved in various projects designing and producing biodegradable plastics, which was quite an eye-opening experience.
I am currently unemployed and focusing my attention on studying Portuguese, but am also volunteering with a local outreach centre in an underprivileged community here in Rio.

I became interested in the chemistry and culture of psychedelics around 10 years ago, and this interest has grown in leaps and bounds, most recently leading me to ayahuasca. I'd been aware of (and interested in) ayahuasca for several years before I made the decision to seek out the experience of its consumption for myself. This resulted in me visiting Iquitos, Peru and subsequently living in the small village (a population of around 200) of Puerto Miguel for 1 month. During this time I lived with the family of the local shaman (without running water or electricity), and regularly consumed ayahuasca and numerous other medicinal plants - whilst adhering to a strict diet. After this, I also spent a week at the YacuPuma healing and spirituality centre in Iquitos and took part in two ayahuasca ceremonies with Don Juan (with whom I'm sure some of you will be familiar).

I kept an in-depth journal during my time studying ayahuasca, which I am now attempting to rewrite in order to share my experiences with others. In addition to this I have also written some background introduction material on ayahuasca and the chemistry and history of psychedelics in western society.
I am sure that some of the perspectives and opinions on which I elaborate in my writings will not be shared by everyone in this community (perhaps owing to my nature as a materialist scientist), but I wish to share with you my story in the hope that some of you may enjoy it and perhaps provide any comments and/or constructive criticisms you may have.

Of course I don't consider myself in anyway an authority on ayahuasca (having only spent around 1 month studying it), I am merely trying to spread the vine and its healing potential to a greater audience, as I'm sure you all are too. Considering many of you here in this community will have a far greater knowledge and experience than myself in this area, I would greatly appreciate any thoughts/criticisms you could provide.

Anyway, I look forward to hearing from any of you regarding anything al all and if you would like to have a read of my material the website is www.theAyahuascaDiaries.com
I've also made a fan page that you can 'like' if you would like to receive updates when I add new material to the site http://www.facebook.com/pages/theAyahuascaDiariescom/209154652430674

Paz y amor mis amigos!
Dyl

posted in Psychonauts - 10 replies

P-Boost

Bond — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 23:04:33 GMT

Just tried p-boost after reading some reviews about it. Worked good but pretty pricey. The trial was free but you have to pay for the shipping which was quick. Anyone know any coupon codes for p-boost.com?

posted in Psychonauts - 0 replies

Moderator needed for Medical Marijuana Tribe

bearsky — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 14:48:38 GMT

http://mmj.tribe.net/thread/ca89f662-e8d0-4d8c-a05b-77a5855e6e92?newpostingid=20f4221a-ed68-4da0-9243-9edec5145d5b#20f4221a-ed68-4da0-9243-9edec5145d5b

posted in Psychonauts - 0 replies

Tripping The Bardo with Timothy Leary

Zorro — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 02:25:15 GMT

Hi everyone,
I want to share a missing piece of the psychonautic history:

"Hello, my name is Joanna Harcourt-Smith,

http://www.realitysandwich.com/blog/12199

I have spent the last several years working on the manuscript of an amazing and authentic story and now I need your help to finish the writing and then self-publish it: “Tripping The Bardo with Timothy Leary: My Story of the Sixties Dismantlement”
is about the systematic suppression of the Sixties Revolution and my Mata Hari days with Timothy Leary, the Harvard pied piper of LSD.
Many books have been written about the Pope of Dope, but other than Timothy’s autobiography Flashbacks, my story is the only first-hand account of our 1973 flight from Switzerland to the Middle East, his DEA capture in Kabul and return to the Nixon-era United States to endure 22 federal, state prisons and rural jails over three and a half years.
My book is almost done ... and it is a piece of our history.
Click on the link below and watch my Kickstarter video, I believe you will be inspired to participate.

http://kck.st/bardo-leary <http://kck.st/bardo-leary>
<http://kck.st/bardo-leary>
If you are … then please pre-order through a pledge …. and then forward this email or the link above to your friends and networks - this networking is crucial for the success of my Kickstarter project<http://kck.st/nPAbLr> .

Your support means a lot to me.

Thank you and much Love
Joanna "

posted in Psychonauts - 0 replies

Trippin @ tha Disco

SkOrPiTaRiO — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 04:41:22 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2Ct12ZGJL4

posted in Psychonauts - 1 reply

ayahuasca sessions in belgium

jerome — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:49:01 GMT

does anybody can give me information where and when it would be possible for me to have a proper session

posted in Psychonauts - 1 reply

Real Ephedra, Ma Huang and Sida Cordifolia has Ephedrine Alkaloids. Beware of fakes without it!

Ephedra — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:20:41 GMT

Beware of fake ephedra called Ephedra Extract. It has the active ingredient Ephedrine Alkaloids removed or it is not present at all. Only real Ephedra, Ma Huang or Sida Cordifolia has Ephedrine Alkaloids. It is the active ingredient called Ephedrine Alkaloids that make it work and it is present only in real Ephedra, Ma Huang and Sida Cordifolia. Don't be fooled by seeing just ephedra on the label.

The strongest ephedrine alkaloids diet is the original Stimerex-ES. The new formula uses Ephedra Extract and it is not as effective. Products with Ephedra Extract are basically Ephedra Free with the word Ephedra on the bottle to mislead. Only the real ones have Ephedrine Alkaloids listed. There is a great article posted by a chemist working for a supplements company that explains it all. The link to the page is below:

http://www.ephedra25mg.com/2011/07/20/ephedra-extract-vs-alkaloids/

Get the real ones at http://www.thatswholesale.com or http://www.ephedrawholesale.com

posted in Psychonauts - 1 reply

Real Ephedra, Ma Huang and Sida Cordifolia has Ephedrine Alkaloids. Beware of fakes without it.

Ephedra — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:21:34 GMT

Ephedra Diets with Ephedrine Alkaloids are scientifically proven to burn fat, suppress appetite and energize. Beware of fake ephedra extracts sold elsewhere without the active ingredient ephedrine alkaloids from years ago. What overweight women and men have learned is that for years virtually every professional bodybuilder, informed fitness expert and successful personal trainer would tell you the same thing. Whether you want to accelerate the burning of excess body fat, boost your metabolic rate, heighten your thermogenic output or increase your energy level, there is nothing stronger or more effective than the "thermogenic cocktail" of Ephedra, Caffeine, and Aspirin (The E/C/A- Stack"). Patented formula and scientifically proven to work without diet or exercise. Beware of fakes called Ephedra Extract sold elsewhere. Only real Ephedra, Ma Huang and Sida Cordifolia has the active ingredient Ephedrine Alkaloids. Those are the ones which have been scientifically proven to work.

Get the Mini Lean, Metabodream, Heat, RedCutz ECA Stack or Black Ace

http://www.thatswholesale.com
http://www.ephedrawholesale.com

posted in Psychonauts - 20 replies

Methylone (bk-MDMA)

Anon — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:54:18 GMT

Has anyone tried it before??

From what i've read it sounds like quite a interesting analogue. The effects are similar, but not identical to MDMA. It's said to have a more chilled, and less of empathic feel to it. The type of drug to take when chilling with friends, or taking it easy on a day out. Not too intense, not too subtle.

I've found quite a few chemical supplier sites that sell it, plus it has the added bonus of being legal here in the UK. Well for the time being anyway...

posted in Psychonauts - 59 replies

Nitrous Oxide Cracker?

DJ_Rook — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 03:28:23 GMT

Hey folks... anyone know where online I can purchase a nitrous cracker? I've googled and googled, but without any luck...

Any pointers welcome.

Cheers,
Rick...

posted in Psychonauts - 41 replies

A Girl Called America on a Bad Trip

bearsky — Sun, 01 May 2011 17:45:25 GMT

(short short entheogenic fiction)

America felt the breath of doom upon the back of her neck. Her mind seemed to crawl with bizarre and insane thoughts. She felt as though she might have come unhinged?

“I feel like I’m not functioning at a very high level these days,” she said out loud in a high pitched voice rising at the end. America laughed at the understatement of it all for far too long and far too hard.

She thought a little wildly, O, wow, feel like I just need to sit down and really relax for while a while, you know? Maybe out in the mountains or along the shore somewhere. Peace and Quiet. That sort of thing.

Peace and quiet are not what our girl finds at all. The fantastic, carnival pace of free market capitalism and its attending political theatre of the absurd demand virtually the opposite from her. War - lots of war. America’s country had gone for all Its life but a mere handful of years without some war. After hundreds of years of war, she felt so achingly sick of war that she could barely bring herself to get out of bed in the morning. And noise. More noise than ever rising in direct proportion to the county’s need for deceit.

America’s eyes were lit up as if inner lit beaming out crazily like the headlights of cars in a busy city at dusk. She had eaten at least a 1000 mics of some really nice, clean acid. Damn.

She felt how lost she was in the pace of it all and could not pull herself out of the narrow, metallic stream that seemed to pull her along with it at such increasingly outrageous speeds.

Peace and quiet no - America felt more like a racehorse pumped up on amphetamines and steroids. She was running faster and faster over these many decades until in the midst of an unholy cacophony of commerce she found herself running flat out as hard as she possibly could just to stay in place.

I must embrace this gaudy merry go round if I want to really milk this trip for all its worth, America thought with a sudden, blinding flash of clarity. The wars are so very far away, after all. The colors are so beautiful. The lights are so bright. And the music is so loud.

“For a few minutes, please God, let me forget the abuses of men”, she almost prayed.

posted in Psychonauts - 3 replies

Plants and seeds for sale including Salvia divinorum live plants!

Nezahualcoyotl — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 03:24:47 GMT

Please help me fund my 2012 ethnobotanical expedition to South America by purchasing plants, seeds and other items. The focus of the expedition is to record plant knowledge, connect with native peoples, collect seeds and herbaria specimens, etc.; Pictures, indigenous arts/crafts, collection notes and seeds from the expedition will all be available in the future. At this point in time I will accept both U.S. dollars and Peruvian nuevo soles. All cash proceeds will be used to directly fund the expedition.

LIVE Salvia divinorum plants for sale for a $35 flat rate; two rooted plants for $60, this includes shipping cost for anywhere in the USA. All plants are either the "Luna", "Owens" or "Paradox" clone. Large plants plants and the "Luna" strain are $50 per plant. These plants are for ornamental purposes only and are in no way intended for human consumption.

I also have other plants, seeds and items for sale or trade.

[u][b]*Trade List* - [/b][/u]

[u]Seeds-[/u]

"Bhut Jolokia" Hot Pepper seeds ~ 10
Trichocereus "True Blue" seeds ~ 5
Coryphantha compacta ~ 5
Toothache plant seeds ~ 3
Yopo (viable) ~ 5
Tomato ~ 2
Salvia hispanica "Chia" seed ~ 3
Myrica cerifera ~ "Wax-Myrtle"
Prunus japonica ~ "Korean cherry" or "Oriental Bush cherry"
Datura spp.
Sweet Pepper
Ilex vomitora
Lactuca virosa
Lemon Balm
Psychotria viridis ~ "Chachruna"
Salvia officinalis, pineapple sage, "Dan Shen", etc.
burdock
pumpkin
eggplant
kohlrabi
Loofah

[u]Plants-[/u]

Mentha species ~ "Peppermint" ~ $5
Salvia divinorum "Diviner's Sage" (8-12inch plants) ~ $35 flat within the USA for $35; 2 for $60
Rosemary Plant ~ $10
Wormwood plant ~ $10
Fig tree ~ $10
Passiflora incarnata ~ "Passion-Flower" plants - $10
Psychotria plant ~ $20
Sassafrass plant ~ $10
Salvia divinorum (LARGE) plant ~ $50
Japanese Maple ~ $50
Toothache Plant ~ $10
Urtica dioica ~ "Stinging Nettle"
Taragets lucida ~ "Mexican Tarragon"
Ipomoea tricolor/violacea ~ "Morning Glory "
Raspberry
Silver Thorn Berry
Stevia ~ "sweetleaf"
pokeweed
Dandelion
purple potato
Horehound
Albizia julibrissin ~ "Happiness Tree" or "Silk Tree"
Patchouli
Salvia hispanica ~ "Chia"
Datura

[u]Cacti-[/u]

Trichcoereus bridgesii var. monstrose (Clone B) (LARGE) ~ $50
Opuntia drummondii
Trichocereus terscheckii ~ $25
Gymnocalycium cactus ~ $15
Trichocereus "True Blue" peruvianus ~ $45
Myrtillocactus geometrizans ~ "Blue Myrtle" cactus ~ $5
Trichocereus pachanoi "of the jungle"
Trichocereus pachanoi "Torres and Torres"
Other Trichocereus available as well, just ask

[u]Dried Botanicals-[/u]

Piper methysticum ~ "Kava Kava" whole & ground root
Toothache Buds
Tobacco (Organic, home grown)
Yerba Mate leafs
Neem Oil
Bhut Jolokia (both sundried & smoked)
mint (bulk)

[u]Incense-[/u]

Cedar
"Insensio" Peruvianus Golden Resin incense
Patchouli

[u]Other Items-[/u]

Shaman Stones
Staff (wizard or shaman staff)
Original Painting by Teotzlcoatl - $100-500

In order to receive your plant you MUST email me at Farfromhere001@aol.com! I prefer cash payment, but money orders are acceptable. Those who send cash payment will receive a bonus gift or a discount! With your cash please include your email address, your full shipping address, your first name and the items which you wish to receive, as well as your cash payment in U.S. dollars. If you wish to pay with a money order then leave the name portion of the money order blank. The minimum order is $25 (before shipping), in other words, you must spend at least $25 dollars excluding shipping.

Orders are normally shipped within 10 days of when payment is received, but some orders may take up to a month to be shipped depending on the condition of the plants and the weather. Since most plants are prepared specifically for each customer it may take some time because extra care is put into each plant, people must realize that plants are living creatures that don't always cooperate, I will only ship plants when I feel that they will arrive healthy and happy! Cold sensitive plants are NOT shipped from December 1st through March 1st. Seeds, cold hardy plants and other items will still be shipped normally.

All plants are NOT intended for human consumption. These rare botanicals should be grown for their ornamental/atheistic beauty and their culture and historical significance and are not intended for any purpose other than cultivation, propagation and dissemination. Check your local laws before ordering, the legality of some plants varies from country to country and even state to state, knowing the laws and regulations of where you reside is YOUR responsibility.

If you have any questions you can always email me at Farfromhere001@aol.com, please include your first name, your state/country, and the botanical names of the plants your are inquiring about.

I am selling live Salvia divinorum plants.

I have far too many "Paradox" Salvia divinorum plants! I'm doing a special price for a limited time... $30 per plant; two for $50 or five for $100!

"Luna" plants are $50 per plant!

Email me at farfromhere001@aol.com

See my site at - http://ethnobotany.ecrater.com/

posted in Psychonauts - 0 replies

1950's video LSD trip experiment

bearsky — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 14:18:42 GMT

http://theweek.com/article/index/211191/the-1950s-housewife-on-lsd

posted in Psychonauts - 1 reply

Shrooms and Bipolar

Tue, 13 Sep 2005 10:40:05 GMT

Okay, so I am curious if shrooms are an absolute no-no for anyone with bi-polar. I am bipolar 2 with moderate swings, I never get suicidal/self-harming/or self destructive during lows nor do I get psychotic or violent during manic phases. I smoke
pot occasionally, and find rather than make my mania worse, or bring on depression, it makes me feel stable and whole in many ways. I take Lamictal 100mgs every day, and though I like how it keeps me balanced, it makes me feel slowed down and it's hard to think deeply when it kicks in. Anyways, I am curious about shrooms because an internet friend of mine suggested to me that I might try a medium dose trip to gain some deeper insights into where I'm at in my life, and try and let go or at least come to an understanding of my mental blocks or those things holding me back from being where I'm wanting to be right now (and I know there are barriers in my life that need to be overcome). I am eager to give it a try as I've never tripped before, but I wanted input from people on this. I should also add that since none of my close friends are really into psychedelics (a few have done E, that's about it), I
would probably end up tripping alone unless I could find some person to be a "sitter" so to speak, and I'm not sure who that
would be. I've heard people say conflicting things-that even if it's your first trip, just make yourself as comfortable as you're
able to get, have a positive mindset going into it, and it will all be fine, and others that have said you absolutely must not be alone when you have your first trip, or bad things will happen.

Thoughts? Admonishments? Concerns?

posted in Psychonauts - 23 replies

The Abolition of Stupidity

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 08:38:53 GMT

by Hagbard Celine (in The Illuminati Papers, Robert Anton Wilson)

Two eminently intelligent men, R. Buckminister Fuller and Werner Erhard, have proposed that we can and should abolish starvation by the end of this century.

This goal is rational, practical, and desirable; so it is naturally denounced as Utopian, fantastic, and absurd.

I wish to propose a similar goal, which is also rational, practical, and desirable, and which will also be denounced as Utopian, fantastic, and absurd.

I suggest a worldwide War against Stupidity.

Although the stupid will naturally resent this, I address my ideas here to those who are not totally stupid or who are not stupid all the time, i.e., those rare individuals who have occasional lucid moments.

The arguments for this Revolutionary Notion are as follows:

1. Although one sounds like a satirist to say it, this planet does seem to be controlled by and largely by persons who are not in all repects reasonable men and women. Voltaire, of course, may have been exaggerating when he said that the only way to understand the mathematical concept of infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity; but the situation is almost that bad. To mention just a few examples from my own lifetime: Hitler murdered six million Jews for "reaons" that were totally insane; Senator Joe McCarthy led a crazy witch-hunt against Communists which ruined many innocent people and never succeeded in uncovering one absolutely definitive real Communist; Anita Bryant [predecessed by Pat Buchanan] is currently waging a crusade right out of the thirteenth century against homosexuals; etc.

It is scarcely an exaggeration to say that millions of humans have been murdered in the course of such irrational scapegoating throughout history. Since each of us belongs to some minority or other, any of us might be one of the targets in the next witch-hunt, and if they burn us there will be nothing left to cryonically preserve.

Nor is stupidity the exclusive trait of the stupid; you do not need a "vocation" for it, as you do for the priesthood. It seems to be a contagious socio-semantic disturbance which afflicts all of us at one time or another. Notorious examples can be found in the lives of "the Great," such as Simon Newcombe (the astronomer who discovered Neptune) "proving" mathematically that heavier-than-air flight was impossible, the French Academy refusing to examine the evidence for meteorites in the eighteenth century, etc. (Some might include Einstein's continuous attempts to refute the random factor in quantum mechanics as another example of stupidity in a fine mind.)

More generally, as Thomas Kuhn has shown in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, an exact measurement of the extent of stupidity among the learned is provided by the fact that every scientific revolution seems to take a generation. As Kuhn documents extensively, this one-generation time-lag seems to be caused by the fact that elderly scientists hardly ever accept a new model, however good it is, and the revolution is only fully accomplished when a second generation, with less prejudice, examines both the new and the old models objectively and determines that the new model is more useful.

But if science, the paradigm of rationality, is infested with enough stupidity to cause this generalized one-generation lag, what can we say of politics, economics, and religion? Time-lags of thousands of years seem to be normal in those areas.

Indeed, it was chiefly by contemplating religious history that Voltaire was led to concluded that human stupidity approximated to the infinite. The study of politics is hardly more inspiring, and any examination of economic debate strongly suggests that the theologians of the Dark Ages are still among us, operating in a new department.

I do not wish to enlarge upon this topic, since it has already been amply discussed by Jonathan Swift and Mark Twain, among others. Let us just summarize the matter by saying that stupidity has murdered and imprisoned more geniuses, burned more books, slaughtered more populations, and blocked progress more effectively than any other force in history. It may be no exaggeration to say that stupidity has killed more people than all diseases known to medicine and psychiatry.

Various cures have been attempted, of course. Socrates thought he had found the cure in dialectic, Aristotle in logic, Bacon in experimental method, the eighteenth century in universal democracy and literacy, Freud in psychoanalysis, Korzybski in General Semantics, etc. Although all these inventions have been beneficial to some of us some of the time, they have not stopped the worldwide ravages of the plague, and they have not even abolished totally the occasional lapses into stupidity of their most accomplished practitioners (the present author emphatically included).

2. If intelligence could be increased, obviously solutions could be found more quickly to the various Doomsday scenarios presently threatening us.

(A) For instance, if each scientist working on the energy-resources problem could increase his or her intelligence by a factor of two, work that could otherwise require ten years could be accomplished in five.

(B) If human stupidity in general decreased, there would be less opposition to original thinking and to new approaches to our old problems.

(C) If stupidity decreased, less money would be wasted on vast organized imbecilities, such as the arms race, and more would be available for life-enhancing projects.

The same arguments apply to any other worthwhile goals: abolition of starvation and poverty, finding cures for cancer or schizophrenia, etc. There is nothing rationally desirable that cannot be achieved sooner if rationality itself increases. This is virtually a tautology, yet we seldom consider the corollary: Work to achieve higher intelligence is work to achieve all of our other goals.

3. Although dialectic, logic, experimental method, "democracy", literacy, psychoanalysis, General Semantics, etc., have not stopped the world-round ravages of stupidity, they have created certain counterforces: some enclaves of (comparative) rationality in which humans function with (comparatively) less stupidity than is normal for this domesticated primate species. "We" as a species have learned a few things from each of these inventions.

Those who are skilled in dialectic will not be fooled by the empty rhetoric of the more vulgar demagogues. Logic protects some of us from the more absurd "intellectual" (or anti-intellectual) fads of the epoch in which we live. Experimental method has shown us how to avoid the pitfalls of purely abstract logic and connect our theorizing with actuality.

Democracy and literacy have made these previous inventions at least potentially available to huge masses rather to tiny elites, although it remains true that you can lead the horses' asses to wisdom but you can't make them think. Psychoanalysis has shown us why even the most "rational" can become subject to compulsively irrational thinking. General Semantics has demonstrated the neurolinguistic reflexes that make it so difficult for humans to abandon an old model and accept a new one, and offers a few gimmicks that are somewhat helpful in breaking such reflexes.

But psychology has advanced quite a bit since Freud, psychoneurology since Korzybski, and Behavior Mod since Pavlov. We are on the threshold of a major breakthrough in the war against stupidity, just as surely as we are on the edge of achieving Life Extension and Space Migration. The Intelligence Revolution may even prove to be more wide-ranging in its effects than the quantum jumps to space industry and longevity.

4. Dr. Nathan Kline, who could be considered a conservative in the area of pharmacology (on a scale in which Timothy Leary is radical and the U.S. government reactionary), has predicted in his ‘Psychotropic Drugs in the Year 2000’ that, within 20 years, we will have drugs to improve memory, drugs to erase unpleasant memories, drugs to increase or decrease any emotion, drugs to prolong or shorten childhood, drugs to foster or terminate mothering behavior, etc.

It takes no imagination to see that such chemicals will allow us greater control over our own nervous systems than was ever possible in the past. Obviously, people will *use and abuse* these drugs in many ways, desirable and otherwise, but

the most intelligent will use them in the most intelligent way,

i.e., to increase their own neurological freedom, to deprogram their irrational programs, and generally to expand their consciousness and increase their intelligence.

The potential for neurological revolution implicit in such psychopharmacological advances should be quite clear to anybody who has any acquaintance even with so primitive a psychedelic as LSD. (One of the least-known facts about LSD in that the longest single research project with that chemical in the U.S., at the Spring Grove Hospital in Maryland, showed an average 10% intelligence increase for all subjects; see Stafford, ‘Psychedelics Encyclopedia’.)

Walter Bowart has documented at length, in his ‘Operation Mind control’, that hypnosis plus neurochemicals is more effective than ordinary hypnosis; that Behavior Mod plus neurochemicals is more effective than ordinary Behavior Mod; and that any mind-altering technique is more effective with neurochemicals than without.

Bowart’s evidence is all drawn from the misuse or perversion of these techniques, in the Army and CIA research on brainwashing, but there is no reason why libertarian and humane persons cannot use such knowledge to de-condition and de-program rather than merely recondition and reprogram. Safe and sane principles for such mind-expansion and intelligence-liberation are already given in such books as Dr. John Lilly’s ‘Programming And Metaprogramming The Human Biocomputer’, ‘Neuropolitics’, by Dr. Leary, and ‘LSD: The Problem-Solving Psychedelic’, by Stafford and Golightly.

Please note that these books deal only with mind-liberation via LSD, but we are here talking about chemicals much more precise and predictable. (Please reread that last sentence.)

5. If psychopharmacology is beginning to offer us the chance to program, deprogram, and reprogram ourselves at will, we are entering a new stage of evolution. More than psychoanalysis or General Semantics or Transactional Analysis or est or whatever mind-altering techniques of the past one may like, neurochemistry represents a real quantum jump to a new level of freedom: the human nervous system studying and improving itself, intelligence studying and improving intelligence.

To be even more specific and definite about this, consider the October 1975 McGraw-Hill poll of scientific opinion about what advances can be expected before 2000. The majority of neuroscientists in that poll predicted specific drugs to permanently increase human intelligence, (see ‘No More Dying’, by Kurzman and Gordon, p.4). I have saved this for mention *after* the more general Kline predictions to avoid the impression thatI am talking *only* about the increase of third-circuit linear IQ. There are seven other kinds of intelligence.

6. There is a direct feedback loop between psychopharmacology and the other brain sciences, such as electrical stimulation of the brain (ESB) and biofeedback, etc. As William S. Burroughs says, “Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.” Jean Millay and others have demonstrated that yoga plus biofeedback produces detachment from imprinted emotional-perceptual sets much quicker than yoga alone. John Lilly has duplicated LSD effects with his isolation tanks. Jose Delgado has produced with ESB many effects previously found only with drugs.

It is common place for alarmists to warn us that the full armory or synergetically interacting neurosciences now evolving allow unscrupulous governments to brainwash whole populations more totally than ever before. We need to realize that the same technology, wisely used by intelligent men and women, can free us from every form of neurotic and irrational rigidity, allow us to dial and focus our nervous systems as easily as we dial or focus a TV set, turning any circuit on or off as we choose.

Why be depressed when you can be happy, dumb when you can be smart, agitated when you can be tranquil? Obviously most people are depressed, dumb, and agitated most of the time because *they lack the tools* to repair and correct damaged, defective circuits in their nervous systems. The Neurological Revolution (chemical, electrical, biofeedback, and other) is giving us these tools.

This HEAD Revolution has the Pleasure Principle to fuel it. That is, the more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want; it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

In other words, Intelligence Increase basically means intelligence-studying-intelligence, and the first thing intelligence-studying-intelligence discovers is that the more intelligent you become, the more fun it is to try to become even more intelligent. (Which is just another way of saying that, neurologically at least, the more freedom you achieve, the more fun it is to work for even greater freedom.)

Nobody is more interesting to anybody than is that mysterious character we call “me”, which is why self-liberation, self-actualization, self-transcendence, etc., are the most exciting games in town. This hedonic feedback explains why anybody who has taken even one step down the path toward neurological can never be content to stop there, but is drawn on to the next step, and the next, forever – or as long as Life Extension can give us forever.

7. In summary, Intelligence Increase is desirable, because every single problem confronting humanity is either directly caused or considerably worsened by the prevailing stupidity of the species; it is attainable, because modern advances in chemical, electrical, and other forms of brain change are showing us how to alter any imprinted, conditioned, or learned reflex that previously restricted us; it is hedonic, because the more freedom and intelligence you achieve, the more you see the advantages in seeking even more freedom and even more intelligence.

It can accelerate our progress toward Space Migration and Life Extension, and toward any other rational goals, by creating more rationality to work on these goals; and it can give us the wisdom to avoid the “bad” results of Life Extension and Space Migration that conservatives warn us about.

Like death and poverty, stupidity has been around so long that most people cannot imagine human life without it, but it is rapidly becoming obsolete. However many special-interest groups (politicians, clergy, advertisers, etc.) may profit from stupidity, humanity as a whole will profit more from its abolition. From here on, we should measure our progress toward our personal goals, and our contribution to humanity's world-round progress, in terms of how much smarter we have gotten in the last year, the last month, the last week, THE LAST HOUR.

http://members.core.com/~diedrich/web/stupidity.htm

posted in Psychonauts - 1 reply

Deja vu while on MDMA

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:37:23 GMT

Hey all,

Tonight I was out partying with a couple of friends and dropped a couple hits of E. Everything was excellent but I got this extreme deja vu experience that lasted like 5 solid minutes. It was almost as if I could predit the future. Has anyone experienced this on MDMA? The more I start to think about it, the more I think it may have just been in my head.....

posted in Psychonauts - 17 replies

Entheogens in US

bearsky — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 22:18:17 GMT

appears many substances are still available in their natural form that contain or create (mushroom spores for instance that do not contain psilocybin) but my psychotic ability is abuzzin on this surely government has been preparing for a big crackdown on distributers. Unlikely many buyers on an individual basis will be bothered but on the other hand wouldn't want my information in any data bank of a company that sells mushroom spores for instance. My understanding has been that if a company sells only mushroom spores with proper warnings, etc, never offering grow advice or any grow accessories of any kind, they should be okay. But must seem to offer spores and all manner of mushroom grow accessories. I think they are suicidal to do this myself its pushing the law to the max and in a way maybe they are brave to push it like that? But god help them when the feds come down.

This logic could be applied to Flaming Torch cactus sold in dried chips by the gram, I would think? Or Ayahausca ingredients? Does anyone know anything along these lines, heard anything? My guess is that Meth has everyone running around in circle from the users to our cruel and stupid approach to the users or they may have gotten around to this already?

My understanding of things is that our society will not allow this to stand - natural substances that grow out of the ground and are harmless shipped around freely - no no no not what capitalism is all about, man

posted in Psychonauts - 1 reply

Nexus

LLB — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:22:21 GMT

The dmt nexus has been down for a week now any one know why?

posted in Psychonauts - 3 replies

OSHO rajneesh new ebook "GO IN GO IN GONE" free download

shiva — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:32:12 GMT

osho enlightened disciple osho rajneesh also known as swami rajneesh
latest english ebook “GO IN GO IN GONE”
containing spontaneous talks, meditation tips and insights given
during russian meditation camps
is launched on osho enlightenment day – 21st march

seekers can either read the book online
or download the book freely at this link
http://www.oshorajneesh.com/go.htm

swami rajneesh youtube videos can be seen at
http://www.youtube.com/swamiamitabh

posted in Psychonauts - 0 replies

owsley stanley died

SkOrPiTaRiO — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:05:00 GMT

http://www.celebstoner.com/201103136134/news/celebstoner-news/owsley-dead-in-australia.html

posted in Psychonauts - 5 replies

suk ma dik

Hector — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 07:01:19 GMT

suk ma dik

posted in Psychonauts - 17 replies

Our Energy Connection

Richard — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 13:18:10 GMT

Understanding and respecting our connectedness to all matter, all living things, will greatly improve our relationship with the earth and each other. Mindfulness of the unity of all life will impart honor, well-being, and greatness to the individual and to the Universe.

Much of the way we think about ourselves is gained through distorted information we accumulate from our culture and our mundane lives. Sadly, these misconceptions regarding our essential nature have caused many to develop poor habits that deny them an opportunity to experience true spiritual awakening.

To better understand self one must become familiar with the multiple dimensions of our being and the intelligent energy that works through these dimensions of spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical self. This understanding will lead to embodiment, realizing the divine self within and then manifesting it in our physical form. The enlightened self is able to make use of this power for healing, personal growth, and experiencing a better connection with the creative source.

This path of self discovery begins with accepting and engaging the multi dimensional self and the energy that moves through it. The physical body is made of the same matrix of energy that surrounds and composes all matter. We are part of a quantum field that is present everywhere with the potential to manifest as a material substance or the energy around it. All physical matter is simply a more dense concentration of this energy field. Because all matter including ourselves is connected, we are able to affect and be affected by one another and the whole of the universe.

The individual consciousness is able to engage the essential energy of all creation for a wealth of personal power. This empowerment allows us to create the life that we desire and the ability to share unconditional love with the all of existence. .

Take back your power.

The New Universal Church
http://newuniversalchurch.org/

posted in Psychonauts - 0 replies

into the void

Fri, 04 Feb 2011 03:31:51 GMT

mew movie about dmt and death, any comments?

posted in Psychonauts - 16 replies

Pharmacological variety: spice of life or stumbling-block?

EsotericPharma.org — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 22:46:08 GMT

I think one of the more important things that <a href = "http://www.nealgoldsmith.com/psychedelics/">Neal Goldsmith</a> (shameless plug-he is a friend. <a href="http://store.innertraditions.com/Product.jmdx?action=displayDetail&id=3632&searchString=978-1-59477-250-4">buy his new book</a>!) points out about psychedelics is that it any therapeutic/spiritual benefit that we derive is not so much an effect of pharmacology, or, by extension, of the particular substance that we take, but rather a function of whether we achieve a "peak" or "mystical" experience. This is a lesson that would be well-taken by our community, I think, because we often give a great deal of consideration to the various minutae regarding the massively variegated set of psychedelic drugs we have at our disposal--and this is certainly interesting, all the more so if I can say that a methoxy group here tends to cause this sort of trend in the subjective experience, and it is this sort of investigation that lead me into serious study of the drugs--but to a certain extent emphasizing the differences between drugs can cause us to miss the boat, and variety of experience can cheapen the depth of the experience. 

I've had hundreds of experiences with close to a hundred different compounds--but only a small handful of experiences that I would really say changed my life or my personality in any meaningful way. And yet for most of my psychonautical career, I've focused more on cataloging the diversity of the experiences rather than focusing on what made that small handful of experiences special. Looking at this now from my current point of view, in which I have made the conscious decision not to use drugs. this sometimes feels troubling. Might less, in fact, be more?

If the "point" of exercising with psychedelics is to have a therapeutically or spiritually beneficial experience--or even simply a recreationally enjoyable one--to what extent is it beneficial to focus a great deal on the specifics of the experience, rather than the "core" of it? I think we can all agree that the fact that someone had a profound and deep experience is more important than whether they had it on LSD, mushrooms, ayahuasca, DOC, 5-MeO-DMT, 25C-NBoMe, ketamine, or anything else under the sun. Doubtlessly, some compounds are more prone to inducing peak mystical experiences than others, some are simply more potent, some just seem to have more "juice," some are weighted down with powerful cultural context which psychologically encourages openness to such depth. Peraps virtually all psychedelic drugs have some degree of capacity to produce the peak experience, but some are certainly more prone to it than others ... different compounds have different virtues, certainly, but is there a need for as many compounds as we have?

Why, then, the great diversity of psychedelics that we use? Is it simple intellectual and chemical masturbation? Some drugs are more interesting from a chemical and pharmacological point of view than from an experential one, certainly. What is it, though, that drives the user to try so many different compounds? Is it a fetishization of the compounds as commodities, a collectors' sentiment, "gotta try 'em all?" Is it a search for the "perfect" substance with maximal benefit and minimal adverse effects? A search for the substance which we simply "like" the best, or that is the best "fit" for our particular preferences and needs? Is it peregrination from substance to substance to divert boredom? Is variety the spice of life? Or would we do better to focus on a few of our closest allies, and do deep work with them repeatedly, getting to know that particular space better and better?

What would the role of the vast and diverse pharmacopeia of psychedelics be when/if psychedelic therapy becomes a legitimized practice? Would we only chose a handful of the best and most useful drugs (especially if they had to get past FDA approval)? How would we chose them? Or would we rather have huge toolkits, and customize our psychedelic solution based on the subject's needs taking various criteria into account? How necessary would having these choices really be? How many would be necessary?

Excerpted from discussion at <a href="http://www.esotericpharma.org/esoteric.html">the Esoteric Pharmacology Project</a>.

posted in Psychonauts - 2 replies

2012 and the coming Ascension

Adam — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 19:12:53 GMT

I am really new to this Tribe website. I got started on a journey about a year and a half ago that has led me here. Strange how my path has started and has managed to get me where I am. I very much believe the world is about to go through a huge transformation(the ascension).
I have been pulled to do something and I know it. It has almost become an obsession. I believe from what I have read that the DMT experience is what happens after this life. I feel like I am being drawn to do this. Like there is a message waiting for me. Regardless researching this whole thing and researching the coming ascension has completely changed my life. I look at every moment in my life now as a chance to choose to higher my vibration instead of lowering it. I try to love every one and everything. I have not has the opportunity to try DMT because I cannot find anyone who has done it. I mean because its illegal. Haha. I will some day though I hope. I encourage people to google 2012 Ascension and do some reading. I hoping to meet some like minded people on here that live close to me!...........

posted in Psychonauts - 0 replies

cousin DPT questions

Sun, 06 Feb 2011 16:02:28 GMT

any experiences or info out there? Don't think I'll be shooting or snorting any time soon but smoking it is how I've been told to do it anyway.

posted in Psychonauts - 0 replies

Salvia

bearsky — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:50:21 GMT

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/67605/title/Salvia_says_high

posted in Psychonauts - 1 reply

Entheogenic Fiction - Human DMT, Year 2028, Future History

bearsky — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:27:14 GMT

21st Century Theatre, Year 2028, “Bliss”

The FBI puts together its first unit assigned to Bliss - also known as the billionaires elixir because one dose cost three quarters of a million to a million plus US dollars. Also know as Human DMT or HDMT. Bliss is milked DMT from the pituitary glands of dying humans and is so valuable that Chinese and now international crime syndicates around the world deliver up to fifty humans at a time to highly organized and sophisticated processing laboratories where the victims are euthanized so the precious DMT dump can be milked from the pituitary at the exact moment of death before it can enter the victims nervous system.

Direct experience is lacking, of course, but knowledgeable informants tell officials that the most efficient production processes for HDMT yield approximately one dose per seven to ten human victims. Many believe that world governments have been slow to respond because the horrific nature of this crime is just too difficult to accept. An analogy is often drawn to the 20th century holocaust of Jews by nazi Germany. No governments have released estimates but the death toll in this new genocide may have already surpassed those of nazi Germany.

Bliss is so valuable to its wealthy elite clients that the clandestine laboratories run by ghoulish crime bosses can afford to pay any price for the essential “human element” in their “product”. In all too many case; however, not much is paid at all. China itself where the drug originated has condemned Bliss as a true abomination, backing up their rhetoric with teeth by cracking down on producers and their powerful clientele with a swift death penalty handed out to those caught up on what has become known as the greatest crime investigation of all time.

This is where the Bliss Unit comes in. President For Life Palin in a rare display of internationalism from a president known most perhaps for her isolationism, has committed Amerika to this collective push to eradicate this drug and those who would dare to produce it from the face of the planet.

"We will chop the head off of this evil snake” the President For Life said regarding the new commitment.

A user in a Singapore prison said at his execution unapologetically that, “it was worth it”.
There is little research to back up such claims but benefits outlasting the “high” are said to include greatly increased physical vigor, general good health and even an extended lifespan. The high is said to be beyond articulation. Users report a complete transport to another reality often described as “heavenly” and so often described as “blissful” that the drug is know mostly now as, Bliss.

When asked how a high could possibly be worth the murder of ten human lives one user said defiantly, “Bliss is worth it, you can believe that - hell, it’s worth all of your fucking lives”.

In a salute to the dedicated and patriotic men and women serving in a Bliss unit, we at 21st Century Theatre bring you our newest addition to our action packed Holographic Fridays:

The True Story Amerika’s Bliss Unit and the War on Drugs.

Join our agents out in the field hunting down the most heinous criminals ever to walk the face of the planet.

posted in Psychonauts - 0 replies

Trippers united?

LLB — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:10:06 GMT

A number of years ago I went to a con on entheogenic plants and while I was there I met a number of people, all having the same feeling we had met before or dome how knew each other. This happens from time to time to most folks, but thus got ridiculous so many people felt that way, and well so did I with the people that came up to me too.

Not long there after, several gerunds and took some medicine and they had an interesting experience. They both with out talking to each other during the session remembered the three of us knowing each other prior to being born and we apparently all agreed to meet in this life to get particular things done spiritually. I did not have the same experience but intuitively I felt they were right and it did happen.

Anybody ever have similar experiences with other ardehnt trippers?

posted in Psychonauts - 20 replies

4M, M1

LLB — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:23:08 GMT

Not a clue what drugs these represent any one know?

posted in Psychonauts - 4 replies

Spice/K2 products banned

LLB — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 06:19:28 GMT

The flagrantly marketed spice and k2 marijuana substitute have been emergency scheduled as a health threat by the dea. Profits are to be sold and possessed until the end of the year, then will be illegal to sell and posada. Companies that sell the product are already adapting and manipulating molecules to continue making millions off of these products. New smoking blends will fill head shop and gas station or pornshops quickly with previously unutilized and properly researched products soon.
The drive to fill the hole created by cannabis prohibition continues...

posted in Psychonauts - 8 replies

Introducing the Esoteric Pharmacology Project

EsotericPharma.org — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 02:07:45 GMT

For more information, please see our web site at http://www.esotericpharma.org/ or email esoteric@esotericpharma.org ... We are currently open to new members so if you are interested in being a part of our project, just drop us a line and let us know a little bit about yourself. We look forward to meeting you!

The Esoteric Pharmacology Project is an attempt to facilitate dialogue and interchange of knowledge regarding stigmatized psychoactive drugs amongst all persons who are interested in the topic, whether their background is in academia, in the underground, or elsewhere. Our foremost, but not exclusive, focus is on psychedelic drugs, with a particular eye towards their sacramental, therapeutic, and introspective use. We recognize the immense complexity of the subject matter, particularly in the modern era with the massive proliferation of heretofore unknown materials that has taken place beginning in the latter half of the 20th century. We recognize that due to political and legal obstacles, as well as due to the sheer speed of developments, that the state of scientific knowledge in that arena has not kept pace with the development of the materials in question.

While we see rigorous, peer-reviewed, reproducible scientific inquiries as the gold standard to develop an in-depth understanding of the many and variegated questions that arise regarding these materials and their use in human beings, we recognize that unfortunately, this is not always possible in today's climate. Furthermore, the fact that these materials are being distributed and used for a variety of purposes worldwide, combined with this dearth of scientific knowledge, creates challenges for those who would use these materials in a responsible and beneficial manner.

We seek to provide high quality information regarding these materials to the extent possible in today's climate, and to create a space in which intelligent, non-judgmental discourse about their effects, risks, and benefits can take place. We recognize that the greater part of that information has and will continue to arise from individuals who carry on the tradition of self-experimentation as undertaken by such luminaries as Heffter, Hofmann, and Shulgin, as well as thousands of individuals doing this work on a smaller scale worldwide in the underground.

We believe first and foremost in the principle of cognitive liberty and of individual freedom as regards the use of these materials, so long as it is done responsibly, and in such a way as to avoid harm to any person. While we do not condone illegal activities of any sort, we recognize that some people working with these materials do so outside of the law. In such situations, we endorse the principle of harm reduction by way of sharing knowledge to help minimize risk of untoward outcomes from any conduct which relates to these materials, whether legal or illlegal.

We also believe strongly in the potential benefits of these materials to individuals and to humankind in general. We have time and again been presented with overwhelming evidence, both of an anecdotal and of a more structured nature, that these materials are of great utility in the realms of psychological, spiritual, and personal healing and growth. We also look to millenia of history to inform this belief, and recognize that humankind has throughout it's recorded history time and time again turned to consciousness-altering substances for these purposes, and continues to do so.

We view the recent history of human interactions with these materials as having been remarkable for the massive proliferation of novel materials, as well as an increasing sophistication on the part of the underground sector that uses them, in terms of the fund of knowledge that has been developed and the use of modern communications technologies to allow this knowledge to be shared in the underground community. The greater part, in fact, of the fund of knowledge regarding these materials that is available, arises out of and is shared with in informal and underground contexts.

We point this out not to denigrate the efforts of those who work within the mainstream, much the opposite, in fact—we laud the brave and brilliant work of academics working in this field as laying the foundation for the eventual re-integration of these materials into mainstream society and the availibility of their benefits on a larger and more formalized scale. However, we believe that despite the essential nature of such formalized, above-ground work, that there is work that is ongoing in the underground sector that is equally essential. This ongoing work takes place largely under the veil of anonymity, but is often of very high quality. However, it suffers from a lack of credibility and a lack of accessibility to the above-ground elements of the movement on account of it's being undertaken, by necessary, out of the public eye and away from traditional systems of peer review and the academic establishment.

We lament that due to social, political, and legal circumstances, that the underground sector lacks a voice to communicate it's work to a broader audience. Therefore, we seek to build a space on the Internet, already the primary medium of communication for the active underground, where genuine dialogue can take place between interested parties both in the underground and in the mainstream. We seek to do so in a way that will preserve privacy and anonymity but also provide for accountability and for a high standard of quality in the work that is being done. We believe that the best way to accomplish this is through expanding upon already-extant networks of trust and by creating a space in which open discourse and discssion can take place.

To that end, we have begun the process of creating an internet community. This will take the form of an invitation-only "walled garden" forum who's membership is referred by members of the community based on their ability to contribute meaningfully to a multi-faceted dialogue on questions relating to all aspects of the materials in question and their relationship to the human experience, and ultimately, their potential applications in bettering lives. We believe that by assembling prominent and respected members of the community, we can achieve increased credibility and undertake what could be reasonably called our own form of the peer review process.

Through strong cryptography and anonymity, we will ensure the privacy of all participants; but at the same time we will vigorously discourage the use of our forum and our resources for the facilitation of any illegal activity, e.g. the distribution or synthesis of illegal substances. With this sole caveat, however, we wish to create a safe space in which discussions can take place regarding chemical, pharmacological, psychological, sociological, spiritual, and all other aspects of these materials as they relate to the holistic human experience of living with them as a factor in one's life.

Accordingly, the focus of discussion on our forums will not revolve around highly technical chemical and pharmacological discussion and on the development of novel agents, and in fact such discussions, particularly regarding synthesis, are discouraged or in fact forbidden in such cases where they might be construed as conspiracy to violate the law. Our focus is primarily on drug effects, both objective and subjective, and the ways in which they can be integrated into human lives in a positive way. We welcome discussion both of a technical, as well as discussion of personal nature, provided it is relevant, of high quality, and not strictly self-serving.

It is our ultimate aim to develop a repository of high quality data regarding these materials contextualized through the lived experience of persons who make use of them. Through the collaborative efforts of this community, we aim to develop this repository into data which will be useful for individuals who wish to explore these materials with an eye to reducing potential harm and maximizing potential benefit, as well as data which will be of use in the development of our shared understanding of these materials, their effects, and their potential for therapeutic and other applications in human lives, and the ultimate development of useful, validated modalities which can be learned and used by others to maximize the positive effects of these materials and minimize the risks of untoward outcomes.

Our discussions will take place within a private forum who's membership is vetted to ensure mature, high-quality discourse that stays within the bounds of propriety, sanity, utility, and the avoidance of propogating dangerous, incorrect, non-productive, and blatantly illegal content. The end results of our discussions, in the form of more formalized, high quality, collaboratively or individually writen articles, will be published on the public internet on our website and in a periodic newsletter, and these materials will be open to public comment.

We recognize that there are already a large number of forums on the internet, both open and closed, well-known and lesser-known, that are dedicated to discussion of similar subject matter from various perspectives. Some of them are oriented towards topics which go beyond the scope of our project, and we would encourage anyone who wants to discuss such topics to seek out the appropriate forum in which to do so. However, we appreciate the work that is being done by other forums, as well as by "brick-and-mortar" organizations. It is our hope that we can engage in collaboration, rather than competition, with already existing online and offline communities, as essentially we all largely share the same goal of sharing information regarding topics that it is not always easy to inform oneself about.

Unsolicited membership applications are welcome, as are referrals by existing members. The only criteria that is required is a sincere interest in the subject and ability to engage in meaningful and respectful discussion within the bounds and scope of our project. All interested parties are strongly encouraged to apply, particularly, but not exclusively, persons already involved in online forums discussing the subject matter, or members of organizations dedicated to doing research or other work on the same. If you think you would be interested in joining our project, please e-mail us at apply@esotericpharma.org. We encourage the use of GPG public-key encryption; our public key is available on request.

In applying, please be prepared to give an account of your interests, work, and what you could contribute to the project. We will never ask for personally identifying information, and we welcome you to apply pseudonomously; however, if you are active on other Internet forums, and feel comfortable divulging the pseudonym under which you are active on them, or alternatively, if you are affiliated with an academic or other "brick and mortar" organization, providing us with this information would assist us in ascertaining your credentials and what you have to offer. All of this information will remain in the strictest confidence.

posted in Psychonauts - 0 replies

Dry Peyote

PeyoteGrower — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:35:56 GMT

After many years of searching I just got some dry peyote from http://www.cerberusextract.com/

Does anyone know where I can join a sweat in Canada?

posted in Psychonauts - 3 replies

Check out this movie "After the Ceremony"

bugjon — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 06:36:56 GMT

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7905575/

posted in Psychonauts - 8 replies

Why fewer women than men into psychedelics?

Tanemon — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:51:40 GMT

This is a question that has occured to me from time to time, but I've never put it out onto a forum to seek opinions.

I know there are a lot of women who have tried entheogens/psychedelics. And some continue to explore them. But many women just try mushrooms, LSD, mescaline, ayahusasca, or salvia just a few times - then drop into a long-term comfortable relationship with cannabis, and that's that.

Seems like in general there are more guys who continue to explore with entheogens. Why?

posted in Psychonauts - 36 replies

Museum offers night on magic mushroom

Will — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:02:13 GMT

Video at: http://tinyurl.com/2em3erj

Added On October 30, 2010
CNN's Nadia Bilchik reports on a German museum that offers a night of magic in a mushroom installation.

posted in Psychonauts - 3 replies

Come 2 Brazil

Sharif — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:11:16 GMT

Peace unto you,

As some of you know we live in the area where Brazil does business. We have been compiling information and have put some up onto a blog for everyone to share.

If you are serious about coming to Brazil whether for a visit, considering a move down here and/or opening a business in Brazil check out this new blog and subscribe (We will keep it updated on the regular). There is a wealth of information on there.

We have a corporation down here and have been making business contacts for the last couple of years. We can also assist foreigners acquire visas and open businesses.

Here is the link: mooraboutbahia.blogspot.com/
Check that out and get up to speed.
Sharif Ali

posted in Psychonauts - 0 replies

A Question: Flashbacks?

bearsky — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:52:12 GMT

Real or not?

never had one myself and i've known super stoners who never had one, either?

Any reality to someone being permantly brain damaged by overdose? I mean, besides myself?

posted in Psychonauts - 7 replies

The Institute for World Cultural Studies (TIFWCS) or Wold Shamanic Yoga Institute

cecilia2012 — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:29:35 GMT

Hi, has anyone heard any reviews or experiences about the World Shamanic Yoga Intitute in Cuzco Peru? I'm interested in taking some one if their courses and would like to have some feedback. Thank you in advance.

p.s It used to be called The Institute for World Cultural Studies (TIFWCS)

posted in Psychonauts - 0 replies

LSA + LSD potentiation

liquis — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 09:31:15 GMT

has anyone used this combination to potentiate the LSD? Does it add to the experience or take from it? It might be worth it as a base so you would only need 2 hits instead of 3, for example.

What other natural/legal nutrients help in this regard of catalyzation?

posted in Psychonauts - 63 replies

The Tree of Knowledge

ben — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 09:34:19 GMT

This is a continuation from the "Soma" thread but I thought it should
be put under its own subject.

Nobu wrote:
> > In the book of genesis is mentioned the tree of knowledge' god forbade
> > man to partake of the fruits of this tree!
> >
> > As I have mentioned' in my tradition we count this tree to be Iboga!

Hello Nobu,

It is my belief that the person claiming to be "God" in the part in Genesis that
you mentioned, was not God but was the Pharaoh. The Pharaohs claimed to
be God.

Who is it that makes the Tree of Knowledge illegal?

It's the world governments - the "pharaohs" of the world.

If you look in Genesis you see 2 stories of creation.
The 1st one starts in chapter 1 which says "In the beginning God created....".
In this creation, God creates humans in Their own image. (The Hebrew word for
"God" in this chapter is "Elohim" which is plural and means "Gods").
They also gave humans only plants and seeds to eat (no meat). Not only that, but They
only gave plants and seeds for the other animals to eat, as well. And --- there
was ***no*** prohibition of eating from the Tree of Knowledge.

In chapter 2, Adam was created "from the dust of the ground" unlike the
humans in chapter 1, who were created "in God's image". He was
created to "till the soil" and basically was a slave to the person who created him - as
were the Hebrews to the Pharaoh.

The Pharaoh had prohibited the Hebrews from eating the Tree of Knowledge, and
Moses went to Pharaoh and said that God said to let the Hebrews go so they could
worship God (the Tree of Knowledge).

The Hebrews left Egypt, just as Adam and Eve left the "Garden" of Eden.

It is my belief that the garden of Eden was a slave-pen, (as Egypt was called by
the Hebrews).

There is much to say on this subject.

Be well.

posted in Psychonauts - 8 replies

"Darwin's Pharmacy"

Zorro — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 20:42:03 GMT

Hi !
Great interview with Richard Doyle about his book "Darwin's Pharmacy" ("an inquiry into scientific attempts to study ecstatic experience
in the 20th century, focusing on rhetorical practices of neurochemistry and ethnobotany.")
http://www.futureprimitive.org/2010/08/richard-doyle-part-2/

warm regards
Zorro

posted in Psychonauts - 0 replies

The Peyote Way Church of God

kyle — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:51:44 GMT

I just found this church online and read about them. At first I was ok with the idea or at least trying to stay open to it. But as I read I found that you had to pay $50 just to join the church. I didn't agree with this but what do you think?

posted in Psychonauts - 0 replies

Peyote

Liz4whirledpeas — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 18:16:04 GMT

I was given some peyote yesterday, and I haven't ever done it before.. any advise, like on dosage... or anything you could think of that I would need to know?

posted in Psychonauts - 21 replies

Felony for a gram of my doctor recomended medicine

michael — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:10:55 GMT

http://www.annistonstar.com/view/full_story/9179165/article-Anniston-man-finds-one-state%E2%80%99s-medicine-is-another%E2%80%99s-illicit-drug?
I came home for christmas and got arrested for my doctor recomended medicine.If you can speak up.Shout at the top of your lungs.My medicine has never killed anyone and they are threating me with 2- 10 years for a joint.

posted in Psychonauts - 6 replies

Baba Rampuri addresses the World Psychedelic Forum 2008

MrOneness — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:27:54 GMT

It's about 1.5 hrs
http://blip.tv/file/1044775

posted in Psychonauts - 0 replies

Manifesto of the psychedelic conservative

LLB — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:58:27 GMT

http://vinceynzunza-thisweekingrooviness.blogspot.com/2010/08/manifesto-of-psychedelic-conservative.html

this is wondrous to behold.

posted in Psychonauts - 0 replies

Ketamine as anti-depressant

SkOrPiTaRiO — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:12:00 GMT

http://psychiatrist-blog.blogspot.com/2010/08/first-medical-marijuana-now-healthy.html

posted in Psychonauts - 1 reply

Spirit Possesion

pupcorn — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 06:06:27 GMT

This is some interesting info on possesing spirits from a High Level Buddha Master, it delves into the dangers of these entities that entice one with abilities and powers:

Spirit Possession

A lot of us in the cultivation world might have heard of stories about animals, like maybe foxes, weasels, ghosts, or snakes, taking possession of human bodies. And what are these things all about? Some people say that practicing qigong develops supernatural abilities, but the truth is, it’s not that it develops supernatural abilities—those "supernatural abilities" are just a person’s innate abilities. It’s just that as society moves forward, people pay more and more attention to the visible things in this material dimension of ours, and they come to rely more and more on our sophisticated tools. So our human innate abilities have steadily atrophied, and now it’s come to the point where they’ve totally vanished.

If someone wants to have abilities, he has to go through cultivation, return to his original, true self, and bring them out through cultivation. But animals, on the other hand, they don’t have complicated thoughts like people do, and so they’re connected to the nature of the universe and do have their inborn, innate abilities. Some people say that animals know how to cultivate, that foxes know how to make elixir, that snakes and such-and-such animals know how to cultivate, and so on. It’s not that they know how to cultivate. At the start they didn’t know a thing about cultivating—it’s only that they had those innate abilities. So under certain conditions, in certain environments, and after a long time their innate abilities might take effect, and they’ll be able to get gong, and have abilities come out.

Now that things have gone this way, that animal gets some special abilities. At one time we would have said they’d "acquired subtle powers" or "gained special abilities." A lot of people seem to think animals are just incredibly fierce and that they can control people easily. Actually, I’d say they aren’t fierce—they’re nothing before a true cultivator. Big deal if they’ve cultivated almost 1,000 years, a pinky is more than enough to crush them. So now that we know animals have innate abilities and can have some special abilities, there’s another law in this universe of ours: animals aren’t allowed to succeed in cultivation. That’s why you’ve read in ancient books that they’re killed once every several hundred years in large catastrophes or small calamities. When an animal’s gong grows to a certain level after some time, it’ll be destroyed, struck by a thunderbolt, or something else will happen to stop it from cultivating. That’s because they don’t have the essential nature that humans have, and they aren’t able to cultivate like humans do. It’s guaranteed they’d be demons if they succeeded in cultivation since they don’t have human traits. So they aren’t allowed to succeed in cultivation, and that’s why they’re slain by Heaven. They too know that. But like I said, the world is sliding downhill bigtime, and there’s no evil some people won’t do. When it’s hit this point, isn’t the world in danger?

"When something reaches the extreme it reverses"! We’ve discovered that every time the world was destroyed in the different cycles of prehistoric ages, it was always when the human race’s morals were terribly degenerate. Right now the dimension where we human beings exist and a lot of other dimensions are in great danger. And the same goes for other dimensions at this level. The beings there, too, want to leave as quickly as possible, they want to climb up to higher levels. They think that by going up to higher levels they can escape. But that’s easier said than done, isn’t it? If you want to cultivate you have to have a human body, and that’s one reason we’re seeing qigong practitioners get possessed.

Maybe some of you are thinking, "How come all those Great Enlightened Beings and all those powerful masters aren’t doing anything about it?" In our universe there’s another law: if it’s about something you’re seeking or just want, nobody can stop you. Here we’re teaching you to take the right path, and along with that, we’re teaching you the Law inside and out and encouraging you to have your own understanding of it, but it’s still up to you whether you decide to learn it. "The master leads you through the door, but cultivation is up to you." Nobody’s going to push you to cultivate. It’s up to you whether you cultivate. Or to put it another way, when you choose your own path, when you decide what you want, or when you’re trying to get something—nobody will stop you. They can only try to kindly persuade you.

You see some people doing qigong exercises there, but it’s actually the possessing spirit that gets it all. How did they attract possessing spirits? Just consider all the people around the country who practice qigong, do you know how many of them have possessing spirits on their backs? If I told you, a lot of people wouldn’t dare to do qigong. The number is scary! So what would bring something like that about? Those things are really wrecking the ordinary world. So how did something so serious come about? It’s people’s own doing. Because mankind is going bad, demons are everywhere. The worst is those fake qigong masters, they all have possessing spirits on their bodies, and when they pass on their practices they’re transmitting that stuff. Never in history were animals allowed to get on human bodies, and if they did they’d be killed—whoever saw it wouldn’t stand for it. But would you believe, in today’s world some people pray to them, they want them, and they make offerings to them. Some people won’t be too happy to hear this—"But that isn’t what I asked for!" You didn’t ask for it, but you asked for abilities, and would the Enlightened Beings of a true cultivation give them to you? Asking for those kinds of things is an attachment that ordinary people have, and that kind of desire has to go. Then who do you think would give them to you? Only demons and different kinds of animals that are in other dimensions. Isn’t what you did just like asking them for those things? So they came right over.

How many people are there who have proper thoughts when they do qigong exercises? When a person practices qigong he has to take virtue seriously, do good things for others, and be kind—he should discipline himself this way in every action and in every circumstance. Take all the people doing qigong exercises in the parks and all the ones doing them at home, and how many do you have thinking that way? To be honest, when some people are doing their qigong, who knows what they’re doing, they’ll be exercising away, swinging their bodies all around, and at the same time going off about things—"Ugh! That daughter-in-law of mine has no respect for me," "My mother-in-law is such a wretch!" Some people even go on and on, from talking about things at their company right on to headline news—there’s nothing they don’t babble about, and the things they don’t agree with will blow their fuse. Tell me, is that doing cultivation exercises? And then there are people doing a standing exercise right there, getting so tired their legs shake, but his mind isn’t at rest, "Things are so expensive these days. Prices have gone up, and my company can’t make the payroll. Why can’t my practice bring out some abilities? If I got some abilities I’d be a qigong master, and I’d get rich—I could make money by giving people treatments." Once he sees that other people’s abilities have come out he gets even more agitated. He gets obsessed with getting abilities, with getting the Third Eye, and with getting healing skills. Now think about it, isn’t that about as far as you can get from the nature of our universe, to be True, Good, and Endure?! He’s simply turning his back on it. To put it a little more seriously, he’s practicing in an evil way! But he isn’t aware of it. The more he thinks like that, the worse the thoughts are that his mind emits. That kind of person doesn’t have a handle on it, he doesn’t know he should take virtue seriously, and he thinks that by doing those movements he can get gong, and that he can get whatever he wants by seeking after it—he thinks that’s how it is.

A person attracts bad things precisely because his thoughts aren’t proper. Then the animal sees it, "This guy wants to get rich off qigong, and that guy wants to get famous and get abilities. Boy, his body is pretty good and what he has is pretty good. But his mind is really bad—he’s after abilities! Maybe he has a master, but even if he does, I’m not afraid." It knows that the master of a true cultivation will see him seeking abilities like that, and the harder he seeks after them the less likely the master will give him them, since that’s exactly an attachment he should get rid of. The more he thinks that way, the less the chance he’ll be given any abilities, so basically the more oblivious he is to how it works, the more he wants them and the worse his thoughts get. Finally that master gives a deep sigh when he sees that this guy is finished, and he won’t have anything more to do with him. Some people don’t have masters, and maybe somebody who happens to pass by will look after them for a while, since there are so many Enlightened Beings in different dimensions. An Enlightened Being might take a look at him, watch him and follow him for a day, and leave him after he sees that he’s not good. The next day another one comes by, takes a look at him, finds out he’s no good, and off he goes.

The animal knows that whatever kind of master he has, be it a regular one or a passing-by one, his master won’t give him what he’s seeking. Animals can’t see the dimensions where Great Enlightened Beings are, so they aren’t afraid, and they’ve taken advantage of a loophole: our universe has a law, that when somebody wants to seek something, or wants something, normally he shouldn’t be stopped. It takes advantage of that loophole—"He wants them, then I’ll give him them. It’s not wrong for me to help him, right?" So it gives them to him. At first the animal doesn’t dare get on his body, so it starts by giving him a little gong as a test-run. The person keeps seeking it, and one day he really gets it, and he can even heal people. The animal sees that it’s worked pretty well, and it’s just like playing a prelude before the show really starts. "He wants them, so I’ll get right on his body. And once I’m there I can give him more, I’ll pour it on!" "You want the Third Eye, right? This time I’ll give you it all." So it gets right on him.

While he’s having that thought about wanting it, right there doing that, his Third Eye pops open, he’s able to send out gong, and he’s even got a few little abilities. He’s beside himself with joy, and he thinks that he’s sought and sought these things and finally got them, and he thinks they came from his practice. But actually, his practice didn’t bring him anything. He thinks that he can see through a human body and see where the problems are in someone’s body. In reality, though, his Third Eye isn’t open one bit—it’s that the animal is controlling his brain. That animal sees things with its eyes and then reflects what it sees into his brain, and he thinks his Third Eye is open. "Want to send out gong? Go for it." When he holds out his hands to send out gong, the animal’s little paws extend out from behind his body. When he sends out gong, the forked tongue from the little snake’s head comes out to lick the sick or swollen area. There are a lot of things like this. Those spirits that possess these people come only because they asked for them.

So he seeks after them, he dreams about getting rich, and about getting famous. "Okay then!"—he gets abilities, he can heal people, and he can see with his Third Eye. That makes him happy. The animal takes a look, "You want to get rich, don’t you? Okay, I’ll make you get rich." It’s way too easy to control an ordinary person’s head. The animal can control a lot of people and make them come to him for treatments, and they’ll come in droves. Oh my goodness!—while he sees patients right here, it’s stirring up reporters over there to promote him in newspapers. It manipulates ordinary people to do these things. When someone who comes for a treatment doesn’t pay him enough, he won’t let them off the hook, and he’ll make you have a headache. What it comes down to is that you just have to give him a lot of money. The guy pulls in both fame and wealth—he’s made a bundle, he’s become well-known, and now he’s a qigong master. People like him usually don’t care about character and they’ll dare to say anything, "I’m second to none but Heaven." They go as far as saying they’re the reincarnations of well-known deities, like the Queen Mother or Jade Emperor, and they even go as far as saying they’re Buddhas. They haven’t really gone through character cultivation, so they seek abilities when they do their exercises and end up getting possessed by animals.

Maybe some of you are thinking, "What’s wrong with that? It’s okay as long as I can make money, or get rich, and I can get famous." That’s what a lot of people are thinking. But I’ll tell you, that animal isn’t doing it without a purpose, it turns out, and it doesn’t give you something for nothing. There’s a law in this universe: no loss, no gain. What does the animal get? I talked about this earlier, didn’t I? It’s trying to get that bit of essence in your body to cultivate into a human form, so it just gathers the essence from the human body. But there’s only this one share of essence in a human body, and if somebody wants to cultivate, he only has this one share. And if you let the animal take it from you, you can forget about cultivating—how would you cultivate then? You’ll have lost everything, and you won’t be able to cultivate at all. Maybe some people will say, "I don’t want to cultivate. I just want to get rich. All’s well as long as I have money. I couldn’t care less!" Look, I’ll tell you: you want to get rich, but after I explain how it really works, then you’ll change your mind. So what happens? If it leaves your body not too late your limbs will feel like lead, and you’ll be like that for good, because it drained you of too much of your essence. But if it leaves your body late, you will become a vegetable and lie in bed for the rest of your life hanging on by a thread. Even if you had money, would you be able to spend it? Even if you had fame, would you be able to enjoy it? Wouldn’t it be horrible?

These things have become really serious and they’re common among people who practice qigong these days. The animal doesn’t just possess the body, it also kills the person’s master soul, and it burrows into the person’s Niwan Palace and squats there. The person looks like a human being, but he’s not. You even see things like that nowadays. Mankind’s morals have changed, so when some people do bad things, and you tell them they’re doing bad things, they just don’t believe you. They think that making money, wanting money, and getting rich are their birthright, and that these are the right thing to do. So they harm other people, they hurt others, and they’ll stop at nothing to make money—they’ll do anything! The animal won’t gain if it doesn’t lose. Would it give you something for nothing? It wants to get the things that are in your body. Of course, we’d say that people invite all those troubles just because that idea they have isn’t right, and their thoughts aren’t proper.

Let’s see what our Falun Dafa has to say about this. When you cultivate in our discipline, as long as you can always keep up your character, "one good can overcome a hundred evils"—you won’t run into any trouble. On the other hand, if you can’t keep up your character well, if you seek after all sorts of things, you’re sure to invite trouble. Some people just can’t let go of the things they used to practice. We all know that you have to commit to one discipline when you do qigong—in true cultivation you just have to. Some qigong masters have written books, but so what. You know what, their books are such a mess they’re like those things they practice—snakes, foxes, and weasels, they’re all in there. When you read those books that stuff will jump out from the words. I have to tell you, those fake qigong masters outnumber true qigong masters by a lot, and you can’t tell who’s who. So you have to know what you’re doing. It’s not like I won’t settle for anything but your cultivating in my Falun Dafa. Actually, you can cultivate in the discipline of your choice. But there’s an ancient saying, "No true teachings for thousands of years, better than wild heresy for one day." So you really have to know what you’re doing, and really cultivate a true teaching. Don’t mix anything into your cultivation—don’t even add thoughts. Some people’s Law Wheels have gotten all out of shape. Why is that? They get defensive, "But I didn’t practice that other qigong." But whenever they do the exercises, their thoughts just keep pumping in the things they practiced before—wouldn’t that add it in? That’s all I want to say about spirit possession.

Cosmic Language

What is "cosmic language"? It’s about a person suddenly being able to speak gibberish, like mumbo jumbo, and even he doesn’t know what he’s saying. People with telepathic abilities can get the general idea, but they can’t make out the specifics of what he’s talking about. And some people can speak a few languages. What’s more, some of them think they’re just incredible and think they’re really talented and have an ability. Let’s be clear, that’s not an ability, and it’s not a cultivator’s talent, and it doesn’t stand for your level, either. So what’s it about? It’s actually that your mind is being controlled by a foreign spirit. But for some reason you think it’s pretty good, you like having it, and you’re happy to have it. And the happier you are, the tighter its grip on you. If you think of yourself as a true cultivator, how could you just let it control you? And its level is really low. So a true cultivator shouldn’t invite this kind of trouble.

Human beings are the most precious, and they’re the wisest of all creatures. How could you be controlled by those things? You don’t even want your body anymore—how sad! Some of those things latch onto the body, and some don’t latch onto the body but they still manipulate you and control you, even though they’re at a little distance. When you want to speak it, they’re all too glad to do that, so you’ll go and spew mumbo jumbo. And it can be passed on—another person comes along and wants to learn it, he gets up his nerve and opens his mouth, and he starts spewing it, too. Those things actually come in nests, and when you want to speak it one of them will pounce right on your body and help you speak it.

So how’s that allowed to happen? Again, like I said, it wants to raise its level, but there’s no hardship over there so it can’t cultivate or improve itself. So they came up with an idea—to help people do good things for others. But they don’t know how. Yet they do know that the energy they send out can have the effect of slowing people’s sicknesses down a little and relieving the pain sick people have at the time, but it can’t cure the ailment. That’s how it is, and they know that using a person’s mouth to send it out can have that effect. Some people call it Heaven’s language, and then there are people who call it Buddha’s language. That’s blaspheming Buddhas! That’s just reckless!

You know, Buddhas don’t speak frivolously. If they went and said something in our dimension, they could cause earthquakes in the human world—it’d be terrible! Just think about that thundering sound. Some people have said, "I saw with my Third Eye that he talked to me." He didn’t talk to you. And the same goes for those people who saw my Law Bodies. They didn’t talk to you. The thought that he sends out is in stereo sound, so when you hear it, it sounds like he’s talking. Usually he can speak in his dimension, but once it’s transmitted over here you can’t hear what he says clearly. That’s because the concepts of space-time are different in the two dimensions, in our dimension, a small block of time is about two hours nowadays, but in that large dimension, our small block of time is equal to a year in their time. Our time is slower than theirs, it turns out.

There’s an old saying, "Only one day in the heavens, but a thousand years on Earth." That refers to the unitary paradises where there’s no concept of space and no concept of time, or to be more specific, the worlds where Great Enlightened Beings stay, like the Western Paradise, the Emerald World, the Falun World, the Lotus World, and so on—it’s those places. But the time in those large dimensions is faster, contrary to what you’d expect. If you’re able to receive and hear their talking (some people’s Celestial Ears are open, and when those Ears are open they can hear them talking) you can’t hear them that clearly. Everything you hear sounds the same, like birds chirping, or like a turntable playing at a fast speed—it’s all garbled. Of course, some people can hear music and they can hear people talking. But they have to have an ability that serves as a vehicle to eliminate the time difference before the sound is transmitted to your ears, and only then can you hear it clearly. That’s how it works. Some people call that stuff Buddha’s language, but nothing could be further from it.

When two Enlightened Beings meet they know all that there is to know with just a smile. That’s because it’s silent, mental telepathy, and what’s received has stereo sound. When they smile at each other they’ve already exchanged their ideas. They don’t just use that one form, sometimes they use another method. You know, in Tantrism Tibetan lamas take doing hand signs seriously. But if you ask a lama what hand signs are, he’ll tell you that it’s "meta-yoga." And what exactly is that? They don’t know themselves. It’s actually a language of Great Enlightened Beings. When there are a lot of people, they make those large hand signs, which are incredibly beautiful, and they make all kinds of large hand signs. And when there’s a small audience they use the small hand signs, and they’re beautiful, too, they use small hand signs in all kinds of poses, and they’re really involved and rich since they’re a language. These all used to be Heaven’s secrets, and now we’ve unveiled them all. What they use in Tibet are only a few movements that are just for doing their practice. They’ve catalogued them and made them into a system. Those are only a one-dimensional language for their practice, and they just have that handful of practice forms. Real hand signs are a lot more complex.

Full book can be downloaded here:

http://www.falundafa.org/book/eng/pdf/zfl_new.pdf

posted in Psychonauts - 0 replies

animals

ben — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:33:37 GMT

Number of animals killed for meat PER HOUR in the U.S.: 660,000

Occupation with highest turnover rate in U.S.: slaughterhouse worker

Occupation with highest rate of on-the-job-injury in U.S.: slaughterhouse worker

Number of people killed by Hiroshima bomb: 140,000

posted in Psychonauts - 26 replies

Spiritual Life and Death

ben — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 08:24:07 GMT

(This was in the "animals" topic but I thought it would be good to put it in its own topic.)

Nobu wrote:
> come partake of ritual and ceremony with me' and I shall show you that everything is alive'

Come partake of Communion with me and I will show you that almost everything is dead.

" A Gentile does not die, for they have never Lived in order that they may die. Those who have believed
in the truth have found Life, and this one is in danger of dying, for they are alive." --Gnostic Gospel of
St. Phillip

posted in Psychonauts - 2 replies

Tripping from a Mushrooms Point of View

bearsky — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:26:21 GMT

Tripping from a Mushrooms Point of View

Hey, you, are you ready to trip on some humans?

Wha?

Well, I hope so cause they’re coming our way - what, have you never tripped on humans before?

No, honestly, I haven’t ever - “tripped” like you say.

Oh, wow, a neophyte, huh? Okay, they’re getting close so I think this shit is going down - just listen up cause we’ve been eatin by these humans lots of times. First of all, bro, relax. You’re in for a quite a ride. Don’t let it get to you, right? Just enjoy it - sort of go with the flow all the way?

Sounds maybe easier said then done?

Not so hard to be cool. Let yourself break up and flow through them, it’s wild beyond your wildest imaginings, trust me on that. We may end up in the same one but doesn’t matter since once we fill out their nervous system it’s WAY too cool to describe - you’ll see soon enough. Even if we’re not in the same one, we can hook up again once our symbiosis with their full nervous system is complete - here we go … laugh, bro, laugh, this is going to be a blast -

posted in Psychonauts - 6 replies

Mimosa Hostilis

robert — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:37:11 GMT

Friend got some mimosa hostilis, was wondering exactly how to make the cold tea as far as dosage and how powerful of a trip that dose would cause typically. And is the dmt something that would be dissolved in the water or is it peices of plant matter and resins that are the dmt.

posted in Psychonauts - 1 reply

NAHUALLI ENCOUNTER JOURNEY a sacred journey across mexico

darkodelik — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:59:07 GMT

http://www.fifthsunjourneys.com/index.html
http://fifthsunjourneys.blogspot.com/

NAHUALLI ENCOUNTER TRIP

...A journey exploring the ancient civilications and indegenous legacy of Mexico. Travel through relics of the Aztecs, Toltecs, Otomi, Zapotecs and Mixtecs, experience traditional medicine(teonanacatl sacred mushrooms) and let your spirit soar and feel negative energies lift away with a cleansing Limpia and Temazcal Ceremony( The Temazcal Ceremony is recognized as a ritual ceremony place that improves both spiritual and emotional health)and relax in the healing waters of hot thermal springs alongside awe inspiring waterfalls.
DAY 1
We start our journey in the Zocalo, the heart of Mexico City, once the great capital of the Aztecs, Tenochtitlan. Here we will visit the museum and ruins of the Main Temple and the incredible murals of Diego Rivera, that depict life in prehispanic Mexico and its dramatic history. After lunch, we will visit the Archeological Museum, where it is easy to spend hours wandering through the most important artifacts and treasures of all the cultures of Mexico, both ancient and current.
DAY 2
Today we travel to the impresive ancient ceremonial centre of Teotihuacan, one of the most important archaeological sites in Mesoamerica and at least 3000 years old. Once the largest city in the Americas, whose influence reached as far south as Honduras in Central America, Teotihuacan was of great importance, because according to legend it was the place where the fifth sun was created. We are able to climb the impressive Pyramids of the Sun and Moon and walk down the Avanue of the Dead see the intricate Quetzalcoatl Temple. After this we drive to Meztli Calli, a contemporary ceremonial and cultural center where we will indulge in a Temazcal, a traditional steam bath and spend the night.
DAY 3
Today we make our way to Tula, the legendary capital of the Toltec Empire, which was founded in 750 A.D, during the downfall of Teotihuacan. Famous for its magnificent sculptures of Toltec warriors, there is no other place quite like this. We continue our way to Grutas de Tolatongo, a beautiful place to explore and relax with caves behind a waterfall, and thermal waters of renowned healing properties. These thermals are fed from an underground spring at temperatures of 95 -100 degress farenheit. The warm currents of moisture have formed stalactites and stalagmites within the cave. Here you can witness the birth of the Tolantongo River where both the waterfall and the underground stream join together.
DAY 4
Today we drive North to the state of San Luis Potosi, where we will visit the astonishing surreal gardens of Las Pozas (The Pools). Built by the British eccentric, poet, artist and supporter of the arts, Edward James, it is a strange and amazing place to be, with surreal sculptures and unearthly structures being engulfed by the surrounding jungle. Quietly nestled in the foothills of the Sierra Madre Mountains, we will be able to wander through this strange fantasy world, swim in the clear waters and weather permitting, camp nearby.
DAY 5
Today we continue driving to the north, as the landscape changes from jungle to desert, we head to the Catorce mountain range and the isolated yet magical town of Real de Catorce. Founded in the year 1639 as a silver mining town, it sits at the altitude of 2,750m, and is accessed through a long tunnel through the mountain that surrounds it. This place has long been a pilgrimage site for the Huichol people, who arrive to the valley of Catorce to collect peyote, and to the sacred lands of Wirikuta to deliver the holy offerings to their gods. It also has being discovered by the international community, drawn by the desert ambience and reputed spiritual energy.(special oportunity here )
DAY 6
We travel South today to the World Heritage listed Colonial town of San Miguel de Allende. Standing out amongst the beautiful old buildings is the towering cathedral build in a Gothic style. There is a large foreign community of artists and a vibrant cultural scene, buzzing with cafes, markets, historical buildings, and interesting shops filled with locally made art and craft. We will have a free afternoon to explore the picturesque town and sample some of the delicious food on offer.
DAY 7
Today our destination is the Ceremonial Centre of the ancient and ongoing people of Otomi, in the state of Toluca. Within the same land that their ancestors deemed sacred, the traditional people in recent times have built an incredible architectural feat, rich with symbols, geometry and fluidity to honor and preserve their culture. Nestled in amongst the surrounding forest, the centre is used by the Otomi to perform their ceremonies. Here we will visit the museum, have the chance to see and buy Otomi art, and camp in the beautiful forest nearby.
DAY 8
We continue our journey to Xochicalco, one of the most exciting and richest archaeological sites in all Mexico. The name Xochicalco means "Place of Flowers", and was one of the most important cities along with Teotihuacan and Tula. The flourish of Xochicalco came after the fall of Teotihuacán, and the architecture and iconography shows affinities with both Teotihuacan and the Mayans and it is probable that the city of Xochicalco was a multicultural city, making it unique in
Mesoamerica. We then make our way to nearby Tepozotlan, a magical town amongst the mountains, also known as a mystical center, where we climb to the Tepozteco pyramid, considered a powerful energetic place. In the evening we stay in teepees at a local eco village.
DAY 9
We eat breakfast early; we travel to the Cacahuamilpa caves in the state of Guerrero, an incredible experience and one of the largest cave systems in the world with two subterranean rivers. It is a "live" cave system, meaning that groundwater still filters down into it, and that the formations there are still growing. Inside the cavern system are ninety large salons separated by large natural rock walls and connected to one another. After exploring the caves we will drive in comfort to Oaxaca City to spend the night there.
DAY 10
In the morning we have a early breakfast in Oaxaca City’s bustling market and then head just outside the city to the enormous Tula Tree. With the widest trunk in the world, the tree is over 2000 years old. We then drive to Teotitlan del Valle , a weaving village world renowned for the use of natural dyes, where we see the process of making woolen rugs. We continue on to Mitla, an important ceremonial site, meaning place of the dead, with geometric designs that have influenced the folk art for thousands of years. On top of the mountains we will visit the petrified
waterfalls at Hierbe el Agua where we can swim in the stunningly beautiful mineral springs. We finish our day trip with the mescal factory to see the process and sample the different mescals. The evening is free to rest , visit the pitcuresque zocalo or sample some of the best bars.
DAYS 11, 12, 13
We leave early into the mountains to San Jose del Pacifico where we will undertake a three day guided healing experience with qualified guides and thearpists from this area who have upheld the traditional use of the sacred mushrooms or Teonanacatl, at the Maliollin Traditional Medicine Centre. The guided journey will incorperate different activities to connect with self, and the group will be staying comfortablely in the centre’s own log cabins for the its duration. More information on the Indegenous Experience.
[This Indegenous Experience has been designed by the healers from 38 years of experience and based on the melenial wisdom of the ancestors of the region with the objective of pulling us out of the daily life confusion and suffering.
The program consists of various activities which motivate the participants to engage and interact with the teonanacatl. In addition you are invited to enjoy the incomparable nature and environment, habitat of the sacred teonanacatl, the delicious culinary options, the quality and comfort of the furnished log cabins, the peaceful living and trecking. You will be cared for and guided in every moment by the spiritual healer and experienced terapists.
This program of self healing is directed to those who want a higher quality of living or have trouble living and finding their place in this marvelous universe; to those who are open to finding and speaking with their internal healer.
CREATIVE AND PROJECTIVE EXPRESSION With the help of the clay we establish and internal dialogue, form to our images and emotions.
The figures project our personal moment and establish topics with which we`ll work throughout the various activities
RITUAL TO RETAKE THE STRENGTH FROM OUR ANCESTORS Through this therapeutic transgenerational ritual of family constelating, we put the participants in contact with the strength of their origins and recover their family sytem without excluding anyone. We retake the place that corresponds to us, receive the ancestral blessings, sincronizing ourselves with our particular destiny and accept the responsability that bonds to it.
CEREMONIAL DANCE Through movement of our body temple we activate the energy in our cells and connect with the harmony that is nature. The dance awakens the conscience, elevates the spirit, honoring life and death. The sound from the drum unites with our heart beat bringing us closer to mother earth and this life given by the gods.
CEREMONIAL TEMAZCAL The presence of water, heat and darkness inside the womb of the temazcal, propiciates the power of rebirth and in darkness we see through the eyes of our soul, allowing us to comfront the causes of our pain and fears, healing the body, mind and spirit.
CEREMONY OF THE TEONANACATL (Sacred Mushroom) Within the forest, amongst the teonanacatl, we coexist with it and sense the light and shadow
of our being, descovering the true healer within each of us.
DAY 14
After the healing journey we travel down the mountains to the beautiful beach at Zipolite, on the southern coast, to relax and process our experiences of the days before. Here we will be staying at Shambala, a peaceful place with its own meditacion areas, vegetarian restaurants and amazing view with islands dotting the coastline. You will be able to spend the day resting in a hammock, wetting yourself in the surf and getting amoung the alternative vibe that has been alive since the 70s. Feel free to wander about the town, there are many great places to eat and fresh coconuts and mangos are in abundance. In the evening we will all share a meal together at a restaurant on the beach to end our journey as a group and wish each other well for the future.
The price include
ACCOMMODATION(comfortable nice bungalows , ecovillages ,cabins,hostals)
TRANSPORT ( vehicle equipped with air conditioning and tv
ENTRANCE to all the places (arquelogical sites ,waterfalls rivers,markets,museums, ceremonial centers
TEMAZCAL (2 Mexican tradicional steam bath)
CLEANSING (with an expert shaman)
3 DAY HEALING EXPERIENCE WITH SACRED MEDICINE
NAHUALLI ENCOUNTER JOURNEY $1500 USD for 15 day experience
For more info dont hesitate to contact us ,If you planning to travel to Mexico this is a great opportunity to realy get a whole vision of the ancient practices of Mexico .
you can book in our website or just send an email to: fifthsunjourneys@gmail.com we will be glad to hear from you . the form of
payment can be via paypal .
http://www.fifthsunjourneys.com/index.html
http://fifthsunjourneys.blogspot.com/See More

posted in Psychonauts - 0 replies

boom!

Hector — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 02:58:21 GMT

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

boom!

bitch.

posted in Psychonauts - 2 replies

Boom Festival

Will — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 03:07:29 GMT

Here it is, a great annual gathering. Check it out if you don't know about it. Coming next month:

http://www.boomfestival.org/boom2010/

posted in Psychonauts - 0 replies

the merits of inner travel.

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:28:53 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0PUj8PvYlo

posted in Psychonauts - 5 replies

A simple visual experiment with purple afterimages , which can be done at home without any drugs .

tree — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 02:17:53 GMT

Clcik on the following hyperlink and read about a simple visual experiment which involves purple afterimages , which can be done at hime without any drugs :http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/afterimage/index.html

posted in Psychonauts - 0 replies

Theory Of Soma

Elston — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:24:06 GMT

Hey all!
as u can see im pretty new here an i wanted to put forth a theory of soma, the ancient plant of the Indian Gods. I don't know whether it has already been posted here but i've been doing some research and to my understanding, soma is made from not one plant but a mixture of many plants. Note that it is also mentioned that soma is present in all plants as well as in ourselves. It is said that when the the plant is crushed, it exudes a milky white substance which has many charecteristics similar to DMT. eg: DMT is enlightening and gives us a sense of Ananda or 'Bliss' and also lets us see beyonnd the material world into the wold of Gods/The unconciousness realms. It is said that soma is sent from heaven by the Gods. Note also its similarity to "Manna" as mentioned in the Bible. Baack to the topic, Indians used a mixture of metaphors and actual reality to keep everyone guessing. When they sent soma from heaven, they could hav meant our brain which also secretes a copious amount of DMT when meditating thus giving us enlightenment and seeing beyond material realms. If that be so, then the so fabeled soma which is present in all plants and creatures is nonetheless DMT as each creature secretes DMT. Animals do that with the help of the pinneal gland(also known as the third eye in metaphorical terms) which secretes DMT in small amounts all the time but goes into excess if we meditate or have a Near Death Experience or while Sleeping or even the help of outside sources/outside soma. It is only when we are able to access our inner soma are we able to feel bliss and joy engulf us and the material world melts before us and the true nature of all matter is shown to us. Anyones free to comment as its just atheory and i want to see people racking their brains a bit. :)

posted in Psychonauts - 44 replies

Psychiatry vs Plant Teachers

bearsky — Mon, 17 May 2010 14:25:17 GMT

First I like to say that I am broken and may never be fixed properly but yet I still have value. It is a very simple statement that should find relevance in our throw away culture - just because something’s broke, don’t mean it ain’t still useful! There’s way too much stuff going in the landfills. So us broken ones make such use of ourselves as we can, eh?

Looking back at this now three years since my break from … let’s say psychiatric treatment mostly in the form of powerful anti-psychotics and anti-depressants as well as toward the end tranquilizers to quell the true psychosis brought on by these medications! … I’m prepared to say that psychiatry is not all bad. Even a dull knife has its uses. I think this most fair of me especially given the circumstances.

Right now I am using a low dose of Cymbalta because it helps me walk. There are times when anti-depressants can be helpful pretty much exactly as are pain meds after a physical injury or surgery. I think they are particularly useful in this manner exactly - unless one is a true Luddite, why suffer after surgery when you can pop a few narcotic pain killers for a few days? Since our emotions are exactly physical like our bodies not separate or anything, the same is true for antidepressants. I would say also like pain meds, I wouldn’t want to take Cymbalta particularly at a high dose for years and years just as I wouldn’t want to take Vicadon for years and years. For such conditions that are genuine - meaning accurately diagnosed - Bi-Polar I or Schizophrenia, the same class of drugs that I speak of disparagingly can be life saving - both in terms of allowing one to not die but also in terms of allowing us to take control of our lives and really live.

I have known Bi Polar I and Schizophrenic people all my life. I practically grew up during the Prosac revolution. I understand the difference between whale-shit-at-the-bottom-of-the-ocean-depressed and hyper-mania. I’ve witnessed what happens after twenty, thirty years of this medication and it is not pretty. But I can also recall what it was like thirty years ago for these individuals and I recall well how the medication brought them back to life. By all of this I mean to say clearly that I intend to advise nothing for anyone else only wish to express and understand my own existential position here. I in no way whatsoever indorse going off of meds. I do indorse getting involved in any treatment 100 percent - even if our 100 percent is not exactly all that much!

And I say just as with our physical body, we must take 100 percent responsibility for our minds which is not so easy as it first appears if you happen to be one of us whose brain is not quite right, for one reason or another. When I had my so called “MS attack” three years ago, I was completely paralyzed from head to toe and half out of my mind. I was incapable of taking responsibility for my body and hanging onto consciousness with bloody nails so not even capable of taking emotional or mental responsibility for myself.

It was through that experience that I came to understand the horror or mental derangement as well as physical disability. I was the caribou eaten alive by the wolf. As an eternal being who was never born so can never die; who has never known beginning or end; separation; pain; horror; love; joy - well hell, then I am blessed here greatly having had the grand tour that this magnificent earth can offer a conscious human - having experienced directly love and horror, my God man how could I not be grateful?

Anyway, all this to say that I have known complete physical disability, hallucinogen induced mania and psychosis as well as psycho-pharmaceutically induced psychosis. So when I asked my psychiatrist about my mushroom experiences, after having explained them to him, I really wanted some kind of “scientific” opinion. He said that such experiences were simply the product of our own drug addled mind. He insisted that I was “manic” and wanted me to move up to the worst class of anti-psychotics immediately. I explained that I had already sold my house and quit my job and was preparing to leave the county within a couple weeks and that our relationship was over. He obviously felt that I was mad as Loon! I explained how concerned I was for my wife’s health and our future. I explained that having been hyper manic, I knew what that felt like and that if I were in such a condition, believe me, I would have no concern about the future and failure would be forgotten because mania is pretty well the opposite of psychosis in that you feel invulnerable and “madly” optimistic! There can be no paranoia because you are invincible! I went on to point out that he knew nothing about psilocybin and apparently had no interest to learn since the last he even heard of it was in med school from which he graduated thirty years ago. I was desperately trying to communicate but I’m sure he took it as hyper manic hostility or whatever? I was thinking, my God man, doesn’t he read trade magazines or attend conferences? So eerily similar to “confrontations” with doctors later about MS attack!

Let’s just say that my last visit with the psychiatrist lasted more than the accustomed fifteen minutes of talking about the medications and the side effects of the medications and what new medication could possibly offset the side effects of the first … augh! So I explained that I knew what mania felt like because I was really hyper-manic after my breakthrough mushroom experience for a good solid week. What I wanted was some understanding of what had been (what was since at that time I was actively “hearing voices”) my bizarre experiences. I knew that he represented what you can call the establishment view but since I had worked with him, I felt like I owed it to him and myself to really bring this at him and boy I did just that. But all it told me was the same thing the voice in my own head had already told me - the establishment is simply butt wrong. In a very real way, useless. Actually, more than useless - harmful. If life were a novel then this was a foreboding expression of the theme: let go of all convention if you want to LIVE!

Such has my life been since 2/25/07, a year later almost to the day I’m hit with this devastating nerve attack and after wrestling with this now for two years, I find once again how useless establishment medicine is to me. Even after this long no diagnosis and no treatment to even alleviate symptoms? As in so many ways, the establishment functions best when there is conventionality. Not so much when there is originality. Lately, it has been a struggle physically but I would not change anything if I could. This is the mushroom path and I’ll admit at first glance that it might not be looking like a picnic but I feel genuine gratitude having been blessed with spiritual life, meaning, direction, purpose. So bring it then MS or Madness or whatever. I signed up in a blood oath to serve The New Creature and the mother of my body (Giaian Mother) so I will bring this broken mind and broken body to the fight so long as I have the strength.

Right now the battle for northern New Mexico rages along with my first mission assigned by the Mother of us all, opening my heart. So much more painful and difficult than opening my head, man! Who would think, with the head being so hard and the heart so soft? The Mushroom Chronicles churns in my belly like an undigested meal. No great wonder then if the book is shit! But all of life now is alive and these problems are real life problems not self induced or drug induced madness. Maybe it is just me, I prefer dealing with flesh and blood humans more than intellectual or spiritual phantoms. It is merely the difference between feeling sorry for myself and living. Psilocybin mushrooms saved more than my life. After three solid years I still cannot fully articulate how profoundly these simple fungas have helped me and loved me. Thank you again Terence Mckenna.

Everything that ever was, ever will be, or is right now, is perfect …

posted in Psychonauts - 2 replies

Botticelli's Venus and Mars 'high on drugs'

Thu, 27 May 2010 13:31:34 GMT

Datura

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/7770099/Botticellis-Venus-and-Mars-high-on-drugs.html

posted in Psychonauts - 11 replies

drawn by the sun

JohnWilly — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 15:06:33 GMT

The asteroid exploded in Earth's atmosphere near the city of Bone in South Sulawesi on October 8, 2009. Eight days before the explosion, also in Indonesia, a magnitude 7.6 earthquake left 1,100 people dead in Sumatra. This quake, like the 2004 and 2005 Indonesian earthquakes, occurred on Sumatra's West Coast. It occurred on the anniversary of seismologist Charles Richter's death. Richter, while at the California Institute of Technology, created the widely used Richter scale for earthquake measurement. The day before the earthquake, on September 29, 2009, the most powerful earthquake that year caused a tsunami which killed 200 people in the Samoa Islands. The longest total solar eclipse of this century had taken place two months earlier on the anniversary of Giuseppe Piazzi's death. There won't be a longer total solar eclipse until 2132, says NASA. Giuseppe Piazzi, of course, discovered Ceres, the first dwarf planet discovered, and his death came 18 days after the deaths of U.S. presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson in 1826.

Six weeks after the lunar occultation of Ceres, the total solar eclipse of 2010 occurred on July 11, 2010. Exactly nineteen years before the total eclipse, another very long total solar eclipse happened. The totality of the July 11, 1991 solar eclipse lasted nearly seven minutes; we won't see a longer eclipse in the next hundred years. The last longer eclipse, I introduced earlier -- the 1973 total eclipse on the anniversary of the Siberian asteroid detonation.

July 11th, the date of the 1991 and 2010 total solar eclipses, is U.S. President John Quincy Adams's and Venetia Burney's birthday. In 1930, Venetia Burney recommended the name for Pluto, the dwarf planet newly discovered by Clyde Tombaugh. President Adams, son of the aforementioned U.S. President John Adams, was like his father born in Massachusetts, the state whose coast is the embodiment of the human face. The elder Adams died, of course, on America's birthday, July 4th, the day President Thomas Jefferson died, and Giuseppe Piazzi died 18 days later. Piazzi and Clyde Tombaugh, along with Michael Brown, discovered the five known dwarf planets in our Solar System.

from my project. evolving/improving
www.facebook.com/sullivansun

posted in Psychonauts - 1 reply

Three years since first "healing attempt" for my wife?

bearsky — Sat, 29 May 2010 13:59:38 GMT

(long one)
Healing Experience 05/26/07

DOSAGE: 6 grams dried psilocybin mixed cubensis strains. The cakes were mixed when put in fruiting chamber and I was not around at harvest to try to identify, including lots of Aborts, stems and nasty pieces: for this particular Experience I thought that the knurliest, nastiest, abortive pieces, the better.
(Mind) SET: mixture of fear, self-doubt, determination and Chutzpa. We had closed on our house and I had paid up all the bills for a month just in case I ended up in a mental institute from this experience. I was physically exhausted from both preparing to close on the house as well as my annual killer sinus infection. This particular Saturday morning was the first possible moment that I could have attempted a healing. In retrospect, I should have waited a week or two. I had spent hours during the last two days canceling and paying off credit cards, steadily chipping away at the unexpectedly enormous task of “dropping out of society” –it sounds so irresponsible and one would think therefore so easy, like growing pot (it’s just a weed, right?) but in fact is not the least bit easy. What I now think of as the mushroom entity which cohabited my body for a period of approximately four months vied for my attention which was fully committed to taking care of Jana’ and managing everything else, including an extensive “finishing” of our two year remodeling project. The pressure was unbelievable – it was not until the four months were almost over that I truly felt I was not going to go completely insane. Up until this healing experience and until the mushroom entity/entities (whatever it was it was not “individual” like us but a “collective”) left me on 6/19/07, I had been getting a lot of extraordinary information. I wrote it all down diligently but for the most part still had no idea what “it all meant” and this was frustrating at the deepest level. It is not lost on me that I dedicated the remainder of my life force to something, which I did not completely understand, and to a cause only faintly understood. This is faith in action, I believe: I had that mustard seed of faith. Something in me recognized the value in taking the mushroom path and this same aspect of myself recognized the value of the mushrooms visions and “words”, regardless of whether or not I fully understood them.
I woke nauseas and at first seriously considered putting it off to the next day. I walked over to the 7-11 next to our motel along a path strewn with panties and used, discarded condoms and got a cup of coffee, walking back to our motel along the same path. Jana’ was still sleeping just to the right of me and the large pile of dried mushrooms sat before me on top of my notebook where I had written intentions, invocations, petitions and declarations in preparation for the healing experience. My stomach settled down a little so I decided to go ahead. Other than the specific, emotionally charged, prayerful, writings, I practiced no
2
other ceremony, having decided early on in my entheogen usage for better or worse not to “make a big deal of it”. While I self consciously avoided outward ceremony, I reread my invocations and did my best to center myself internally. The sun is not the sky, I told myself, not in my eyes – the sun is in my mind. I had also assigned a picture of a Blue Whale onto my laptop screensaver and many times just looked at it there before me, closing my eyes trying to visualize the whale. I was not yet certain that the Blue Whale was actually be my power animal. Even if the Blue Whale were my power animal, I had no confidence that I could “control” the power of six grams insofar as having the presence of mind to “consciously” call upon the Blue Whale once “inside” the trip. (If you’ve tripped on Acid or whatever, do you have the presence of mind to focus on something you thought of before tripping?) In my one breakthrough high dose experience, I had been instantly transported to what I can only call another reality. My concern was that if I were to be similarly “transported” in this experience, I would not be able to take any kind of control in the experience at all, definitely not enough to have a premeditated, “conscious” thought. This in itself would not be in any way bad, but would, I felt, preclude me from any healing of my wife. I feared getting “lost in the trip” believing that I must stay conscious for this healing to work. I cannot say why I felt this way exactly. In the instances of shamanic healing which I had read the shaman was always conscious. In my breakthrough experience it had been like being in a dream only much more realistic – cohesive, organized – but I felt no more ability to take control of the experience than I have ever felt the ability to take “conscious” control of a dream state. So I focused on the Blue Whale often during the previous evening as well as this morning, looking at the Blue Whale screen saver and then closing my eyes trying to visual this picture. I had never been able to visualize anything until recently and now my visualizing ability was not strong but vague. I felt that somehow everything depended upon this Great Blue Whale spirit guide. Only a few days before this, I had recalled a long forgotten dream from almost thirty years earlier. At that time I was on a deeply spiritual path and was in the habit of keeping a dream journal. One night I asked God to give me a symbol, which I could have for my own, as a testament of our relationship. (I have always been of the opinion that it never hurts to ask) That very night I had the most incredible dream of my life. I recalled completely the dream and wrote down in a long lost dream journal. In the dream I was an awed child on a dock when the side of the head and the enormous eye of a Great Blue Whale rose up out of the water shimmering in the sunlight more beautiful than anything I could imagine. I reached out in my child wonder and touched the Whale just above the eye, stroking it with my tiny child’s hand. I felt as though the Whale and I were both basking under the blessed auspices of God shinning down as the sun. Everything was whole. Everything was perfect. I felt total ecstasy, total love. How on 02/25/07 I could have “forgotten” that dream is beyond me. In that experience I had desperately sought spiritual help from within the experience, to no avail. I had even called upon dead relatives. The fact that I did not make this Blue Whale connection then baffled me. Perhaps losing this dream from my
3
adolescence is the perfect symbol for losing my way in my life. I hadn’t thought of it in years but I recalled that even at the time I knew that this was an important dream, although I did not then associate it with a animal guide, being ignorant of such things then. I “thought” of it during a period when I was asking for a power animal very much with the intention of calling upon a power animal to help with this healing attempt which I had planned for Jana’. There was little doubt in my mind that this was my power animal and that in a very real sense it had been “given” to me again. When I was originally given this I was not coming from any Shamanic tradition but more of spiritual Christian tradition. I did recall that in my fatherless, lost, little white, suburban boy way, that what I had asked God was exactly a spiritual guide – just not using traditional native terminology.

SETTING: I will keep this one short: almost as bad as the mindset, one room motel in a pretty lousy part of town – already mentioned the path to the 7-11, you get the picture. Dubious set, terrible setting.

I feel there must be some context before reporting the experience itself. This experience was a straight out a healing attempt on my part. Jana’ had a rare complication to a surgery that caused almost constant nausea such that for two and a half months she could not eat or drink, even water. She was kept alive with intravenous nutrition and hydration with a stint in her arm in a home care situation with regular nurse visits to at first our house and then a series of motels as we waited (and waited …) for medical care that never came. In our opinion her surgeon had abandoned her – our Gastroenterologist said that this was common with this type of surgery when the surgeons had the admittedly rare problem such as Jana’s and the term used in the business is “cut and run”. Although pursuing both standard medical care and alternate medicine in the form of a Biofeedback/Hypnosis Clinic run by a team of doctors and clinical psychologists, we had no diagnosis, no course of treatment; precious little relief and no surgical “fix”. So it is important to note here that we were awaiting at the time an audience with the purported expert on this abomination of pure free market greed masquerading as a medical procedure which my wife had suffered - just want to be clear that we were aggressively pursuing “normal” medical care for Jana’ at the time. I had not said it out loud but at about this time I had gone from being deeply frustrated and angry about her horrendous suffering over these months to actually fearing for her life. It was just dawning upon me that she may not be so much recovering from an unfortunate surgical complication as dying. Part of this was my being so consumed with the extraordinary tasks at hand and part of it was my – misplaced – faith in our vaunted American medical care system. From one week to the next assurances came. Maybe this, maybe that, and before we knew it months had passed with nothing to show for it.
This Experience was on Saturday only a week after closing on our house – the first big commitment to what I could not help but think of as the mushroom path, just a pinch of tongue and cheek. I had gone to a chiropractor that Thursday and had a good experience that really seemed to help my back. Then I
4
noticed later that afternoon and into the next day, Friday, the day before this Experience, that I was extremely emotional and I had several truly cathartic and healing emotional experiences, accepting and integrating long disintegrated aspects of my emotional self. I must add as relevant here that one of these powerfully integrative experiences involved my own desire to heal. I had always interpreted my “healing fantasies” as self-aggrandizing “manic” symptom of my manic depression. While I had these “manic experiences” only once or twice a year, they were always the same in kind: I would find myself fantasizing about healing “humanity”, discovering a cure for cancer, for example. These fantasies could be quite elaborate or just involve a laying-on-of-hands of someone around me who happened to be sick or even someone I saw on television. I had learned even before the mushrooms to use my fantasies as indicators of my feelings, many of which I have difficulty feeling directly: partly a man thing and partly genetics, I would guess. But I have learned to work around my own dysfunctional emotional state and pretty quickly now recognize my fantasies for the feeling status they represent. (If I “found myself” fantasying about bashing someone’s head in I was angry. Instead of interpreting this healing fantasy as a symptom of mental illness, I simply saw it now as a legitimate if latent desire to heal. There is nothing dysfunctional about such a fantasy. It beats all hell out of spontaneously fantasizing about destructive behavior. Also, these episodes lasted literally only minutes and again happened only a couple times a year. Because a psychiatrist had told me that this was pathological, I had believed it to be so: yes, a clear sign of mania. I did not consider myself a Shaman in any way whatsoever. What I had faith in was the mushrooms. I hoped in fact that somehow the mushrooms could work in spite of me personally to heal Jana’. It was on this day that I fully realized or accepted the fact that I am already completely healed insofar as I can be and that now if was up to me to take it from there: Live! Create! Grow! This chiropractor cracked me good and I am convinced released energy somehow locked up in my spine/nervous system, although I absolutely hate the New Age sound of that! This energy is not metaphysical but is somehow a physical part of our world and is no less real than were microbes before we developed the technology to apprehend them.
This attempted healing was out of desperation. In all probability, the reason that my wife could not even swallow and water, more or less food, having to be kept alive by intravenous nutrition and hydration supplied by a 24 hour feed through a TPI line into her upper arm, was a mind/body reaction by the nervous system caused by the trunks of the very sensitive Vagal nerve being cut in one of those operations with a ninety nine percent success rate. This is what I had come up with after finally getting involved more in what was happening to her after realizing that her doctors were essentially doing nothing for her. She had already found hypnosis to be helpful but not curative. This fact and a strong suspicion both from her surgeon and my own reading on the matter that there was some kind of mind/body connection problem, led me to believe that the mushrooms could be helpful. I know they can be curative of most emotional problems of non-organic nature. I do not by any means consider mushrooms a panacea but I had been thinking about this since becoming convinced that there was some mind/body connection fix out there that could help Jana’. My opinion right now – subject to change without notice – is that the mushrooms themselves cannot cure a physical injury. I have read of instances where Shaman taking the mushrooms and harnessing their power, performed feats of physical healing. A little over a month after the experience, I now consider myself a bastard Shaman: that is, I healed myself but have not had any training beyond that, no Father to teach me the ways. Fatherless and teacherless, I relied completely on the mushrooms to guide me. At the time, I not only did not consider myself a Shaman of any sort, I found this idea offensive. Just eating some mushrooms in the suburbs does not a Shaman make! I have done considerably more than that. I have healed myself using my unorthodox, bastard techniques and that is the first step for a Shaman. I deserve my title of Bastard Shaman. I would just note that I came to this conclusion after the attempted healing experience and ironically enough in spite of its apparent failure.
I admit that at this point I consider the healing Experience a failure and even though I fully expected failure there was a part of me that wanted success as much to heal Jana’ as to confirm the extraordinary reality of what has happened to me. That having been said, elements of this were definitely a success: the Blue Whale actually turning out to be my power animal; my ability – twice – to manifest the Blue Whale after having “gone in”; and the way the experience unfolded exactly as I evoked in writing– all three of these aspects really amazes me, still. On the other hand, Jana’ and I could look at it from a different perspective and call it a success since it was not long after this that she did turn the corner – no help of the medical community. In fact, not long after she got an infection in her pic-line which went untreated for three weeks – more doctor incompetence and ended up with Jana’ in the Hospital in a potentially deadly situation with this infected line running up her arm to with only inches of almost inches of her heart. It was when some days later when released from the Hospital that she began to turn the corner. While I was relieved beyond words when Jana’ did turn the corner, it sure would have been nice if it could have happened, say, within the first week after this healing Experience. I remember afterwards telling Jana’ that there was a strong theme of time throughout the experience and that I felt the mushrooms were saying that it was going to take time to heal her. The only thing the medical community was saying was that she would “probably” recover on her own but it could take up to a year.
Jana’ was suffering a very real kind of extended torture – I would do anything at that point to make it stop. She didn’t want anything to do with a psilocybin enema I had devised after a little research. It was my belief that the mushrooms could possibly help her if she herself took them. I told her that I knew it was a long shot but at worst would do nothing at all and that with the amount that I would be giving her she could be assured of at least a good trip, if not some healing or even help with healing, possibly. What can I say: I saw it as a win-win. But evidently the psilocybin enema is a hard sell. What is with this fussiness about the enema? If I thought an enema of any kind might heal me and or enlighten me and knew that it was harmless what the hell: stick it on up there
5
and let it rip, baby. I guess after nine months before 02/25/06 having eaten such an array of vile and disgusting brews that the thought of being able to get the same trip with an enema instead of having to drink down two cups of San Pedro Cactus goop – well, let’s just say that a nice warm enema sounded doable to me. (Please try cooking down a whole cactus and chugging its thick, vile sludge for yourself before you judge!) I know how to prepare a psilocybin enema and since I have had almost no stomach distress eating large dosages of both fresh and dried psilocybin, I seriously doubted there would be any nausea involved with an enema administration. I explained to Jana’ that at the dose I would give her – the equivalent of five grams dried - she would basically be unconscious within a matter a minutes and I would be there to keep an eye on her. But such an idea was overwhelming to her at that point, spending her every waking minute either puking or trying not to puke.

So after Jana’ made it clear that there would be no psilocybin enema in her future; and given that I knew of no Shaman and that in indigenous society’s expert at the use of plant medicines the healer not the patient may be the one who takes the mushrooms; I decided to try it myself, waiting only to close on our house and get ourselves into as secure a position as possible before attempting it. My last high dose experience had been transformative but took at high toll, causing true mania with no sleep at all for five days. My thought was that if we stayed physically touching during the experience that our emotional connection and physical connection might allow me to act as a conduit for the mushrooms to do their magic. I had by this time complete faith in the mushrooms but in no way considered them a silver bullet: in other words, my apprehension in this healing experience was not so much for the mushrooms as for myself. I knew they would help Jana’ if they could. I had felt their incredible love, compassion, and power. I just really did not know if they could heal this problem. If the problem really was a body/mind, disconnect involving the nervous system (nervous systems are the mushroom’s specialty, mind you) I thought it is possible. I know for a fact that these mushrooms can heal emotional sickness and what my wife had in terms of her complications from surgery was, from everything I could gather, some kind of mind-body disconnect. Not exactly the same thing, but one has to stretch, right. I am not talking about again any new age crap. I mean a disconnect from her stomach being partially – mostly – amputated and the Vagal Nerve being cut – a physiological phenomenon creating a mind/body disconnect within the profoundly complicated and intimate neurological relationship of the stomach and the brain, a physical, not psychological condition. Because I had become convinced of this body/mind issue, I hoped the mushrooms could help. Her two brains – the one in the stomach - (the stomach with so many neural connections it has been called the second brain, I had learned) and the one in the head back in perfect sync so she could stop vomiting. This was also clearly to me some kind of nervous system problem and the mushrooms very realm is the nervous system – if they could possibly repair anything of our physical body, it would have to be something to do with our nervous system. In this realm physical and
7
emotional merge seamlessly. Only the most rigorous scientific reductionism or most outrageous religious dogma can pull them apart, one way or the other. My main point here is that I had some reason to believe that the mushrooms would help, not just a baseless new age fantasy.
This Experience was without a doubt the weirdest ever and was very different from my breakthrough experience. The second, deeper part did fall into a familiar altered reality characterized not by psychedelics but again a completely altered state of reality– a reality seeming to existing beyond our conscious bounds of space and time. The Experience at the beginning resembled less my recent large dose mushroom experience than LSD trips from some thirty years ago almost. Honestly, this Experience disturbs me at many levels, not the least of which was the profound sense of personal failure. You have to accept at least that in my mind – crazy or sane – I believed this could help Jana’ and I definitely felt that I did not do my best and let her down here. I’m not obsessing over it or beating myself up over it but feel it necessary to get down every aspect of these Experiences no matter how personal, uncomfortable or even insane sounding or unflattering as they may be. I do not know how to say this other than that I fear that I didn’t bring enough love to the table. Maybe it will be clear when I go into it, but I guess I feel as though it came close and somehow I was the problem – as if I were a weak connecting wire which was not strong enough to convey the energy from the mushrooms into my wife, maybe allowing it to bleed out, like a spark plug wire with a microscopic hole.
I have been called upon to write this all down and I have made a blood oath to the mushrooms to do whatever I can do to serve them out of a sense of gratitude the likes of which I never knew existed: no doubt in my mind that this gratitude is EXACTLY the feeling of countless other human religious converts over the ages; and even though I still consider myself an atheist, I believe I understand their feelings now. I just believe, subject to change, that the power I am dealing with is an intelligent life force sprung from what I now conceive of as “The Plant Consciousness” and that the Plant Consciousness is vastly larger, older, smarter and far more spiritually mature than our own human consciousness. I also suspect that this Plant Consciousness may be one and the same with the Planetary Consciousness – Gaian Consciousness. They may have been so closely allied for so long that they are virtually the same now, like an old soul-mated human couple perhaps. I am just not sure, yet.
I wrote my intentions and an invocation wherein I called upon Love Itself to heal Jana’. I also called upon my Great Blue Whale spirit to guide me in this healing; believing before “going in” that if, any success was to be had the only chance in hell hinged entirely upon the Blue Whale. The mushrooms would get me “in”, the Blue Whale would guide me, and then … well, I would have to wing it at that point. I planned this out a little more like a military campaign than a psilocybin trip or even a healing. I had never done anything like this with mushrooms before, never even considered it. I put the most spiritual force that I could into it before “going in”. On the one hand, I really did see this as a long shot. On the other hand, anything worth doing is worth doing right, so I went for
8
it. I said that I wanted no enlightenment this day; no pretty colors or visions; no spiritual wars: I wanted only to heal Jana’. Part of my invocation, which I took quite seriously on this Saturday morning …
Proceeding with love and gratitude
In my heart -
My sword in my hand …
Not a very good Haiku but sincere.
I wrote thinking clearly of Maria Sabina and her power chants, only performing this quietly while my wife slept and before I took the mushrooms, not after. I felt it necessary to bring as much personal power to bear upon this as I could – the exact opposite of my previous approach to a hallucinogenic mushroom experience which was open and supplicating. In this above Haiku, I seem to have concentrated all my ignorance, pretension and ego: this also is me trying to assert myself spiritually. In fairness to my self, it should be obvious how well I understood my own inadequacies in this attempt. On the other, the risks were minimal while the rewards, while a long shot at best, were considerable: you can not really imagine what a bummer it is to either be puking or nauseated 24 hrs a day … even a chance of helping was well worth it. I have to note that I felt it necessary be more of an Aggressor than a Supplicant, the exact opposite of previous approaches: in my notebook amongst my stoned scribbling is my demand upon Love, commanding love to heal her. At this point I could not sincerely bring myself to pray to God, but I could pray to love. In retrospect, I wonder if this was the correct stance? I was truly winging it and going with what I felt would give us the best shot: lot of faith in the mushrooms and a lot of hope in the Great Blue Whale. Really, it was not my style personally but I had a strong intuition of how to conduct the healing. Anyway, with a single reference to the aforementioned “sword haiku”, the mushrooms laid my ego to waste. Early on in this mushroom path I decided that there were some things that for better or worse I was just not willing to do because they made me feel too uncomfortable. It is for this reason that I did not and have not danced around with feathers chanting or beating drums. This is a good thing because Jana’ would not have tolerated that even from a real Shaman. She was pretty sick throughout this and mostly asleep and I pretty much was able to leave her that way throughout the whole experience, which was good. I have evolved a totally eclectic set of preparatory behaviors that I find helpful. The truth is that up until this healing Experience, such preparations were minimal. The main thing I did was pray. I would enter a prayerful state and, I believe, give myself, and open myself fully to the Experience.

05/26/07 Healing Experience

Starting eating six grams of dried psilocybin mushroom at 7:30am and finished at 8:05. I sat at a little table next to our bed in the motel, looking at my Blue Whale screen saver on the laptop screen and drinking 7-11 coffee quietly. Jana’ slept
9
just to my right and the dogs slept on the floor. After I finished my coffee, I went to the bathroom to brush my teeth. The Little Flowers are pretty funky tasting. I looked into my eyes in the mirror. I wasn’t sure if I was feeling anything yet: my biggest fear as always was that nothing will happen. My second biggest fear was that something would happen. I rang a little turtle, brass bell close my left ear, then close to my right, nothing. I noticed in the mirror a talisman Jana’ gave me which I wear 24/7. It is a dark dinosaur tooth maybe ¾ inch long but is actually the tip of a much larger tooth, the tooth of the largest carnivore to ever walk the earth, one hundred million years old. Hair stood up on my neck and then a charge of animal fear rushed through me. The largest carnivore to ever to walk the earth! I grabbed the talisman intending to rip it off but as I touched it, immediately I thought that I could use this. I just told myself to cool it. I knew that according to indigenous Shaman while most of us guys would immediately want to go with something like a Grizzly bear or a Lion for a spiritual animal guide, these were as likely to eat you alive as to help you. They are the providence of the most power Shaman and Healers. I believe this stuff. Every fiber of my being wanted to rip that thing off and get away from it. I think the mostly indigenous Shaman of our world have the most accurate and meaningful comprehension of reality. This is why the dinosaur fetish freaked me out and I couldn’t believe that I had been wearing the thing for a year without giving this aspect a second thought. As I have said, I was convinced that this healing called for forceful, aggressive power. Anyway, it is just a fetish, nothing to fear, I told myself. I tried to focus on using it to provide power in the coming experience and to let go of my fear of it.
I closed my eyes and grasped the talisman firmly but gently with middle finger, fore finger and thumb of each hand. Immediately my mind filled with fantastic hallucinations. I had not seen anything like this since my adolescent experiences with LSD. I was awed. What seemed to me to be Mayan masks appeared. The masks were almost twice the size of a human head and resembled a human skull. Upon each mask there were blood smears as if someone had taken their palm and pressed it into fresh blood and then smeared the mask with a human hand sized smear longer than wide. Each mask had smears in the same places, one upon each cheek almost vertical and horizontal smaller smear across the chin and then the largest horizontal smear on the forehead over the eye sockets. Each skull mask appeared to contain a real human skull inside, its blank eyes staring out of the mask’s blank eyes. There were thousands of these masks and each was identical but each appeared to be smeared individually so that while the patterns were the same on all the thousands, each was individual; perhaps representing a individual human life. I could see each mask separately and all together equally well. I had some sense that these represented human individuals’ long dead – maybe all individuals? – especially when the thousands seemed to turn into hundreds of thousands and then millions and all the while I was in front of the bathroom mirror with my eyes “closed”. The skull mask were just expanding outward seemingly into infinity from a point at the center of my “vision” when they began to slowly form into vertical
10
shapes which morphed into double helixes – two of them – each made up of countless skull masks with the skull strands of DNA slowing revolving around themselves like bands of a barbers pole. These two revolving columns of DNA like strands composed of the skulls really began to take on a cohesive form and the forms drew my “eyes” upwards as they began to spin like two columns of tornadic clouds. Whoa! My eyes snapped open no doubt a second before unconsciousness. This is why you should be lying down not standing up, I reminded myself. I had been sure that I had at least five minutes to play with. It had come on really fast. Okay, it got me. I had not even come close to this kind of visual experience on my other psilocybin trips. It was almost as if “they” were trying to draw me in. “I” noticed that the helixes were drawing me up and that the circling motion was what I had felt in my breakthrough experience just before entering an alternate reality, and unconsciousness. I would experience I whirling upward that … seemed … an awful lot like what was happening … and I said, no! No! Somehow I sensed the seduction of it all, skulls forming double helixes for god’s sake, who among us could resist that. In any case, the instant that I recognized what was happening, I had called upon the Blue Whale, never before having been able to “visualize” anything and much to my surprise, the upward spiraling helixes that drew me into unconsciousness morphed immediately into a Blue Whale much resembling the one on my computer screen. Wow, I thought. The Blue Whale then morphed further until just its one great eye filled my consciousness, as a zoom lens can fill a frame. It was then that I snapped “awake”, staring at myself in the bathroom mirror, grinning ear to ear.
Wow, the Blue Whale. The eye of the Blue Whale.
(The eye of the Blue Whale appears to be for me a portal – I have since tried to full my mind’s eye with it again without the use of mushrooms but as yet to no avail)
I knew it was about time to lie down, concerned that I could lose consciousness at any moment. I couldn’t help smiling as I shuffled over to our bed where Jana’ lie sleeping. I was sure that I would be out for a couple hours and tried to drink as much water as I could, finally laying down next to Jana’ in the fetal position facing directly the motel clock’s big, red, digital numerals on the nightstand. I pulled Jana’s hand over my side and she hugged me gently, her hand almost exactly over my heart. That will do nicely, I thought. I looked at the clock and it read 8:50am. I closed my eyes and the alien thought popped up, “you won’t need your sword today” a damning reference to my obviously presumptuous assertions of power, I thought: imagine the most humiliating thing that has ever happened to you. When “they” said, “you won’t need your sword today”, I felt my ego just crumble. It seemed to me to be the first time that the mushrooms had thrown a punch at me. I know this sounds oversensitive on my part given the seemingly innocuous statement, but that was very much how I took it. I felt some nausea but it wasn’t bad enough to worry about. The stuff with the sword bode ill to me, as well as laying low my ego. It is hard to explain but goes to the point of my trying to use personal power here – the sword – and my being aggressive rather than submissive. I had felt this was necessary but these
11
few “words” uttered by the mushrooms inside my mind instantly laid waste to my plan. Clearly, if assertion was the way to go at all, it was not for me in this instance. I tried to relax, looking almost forward to “unconsciousness” and that other state of reality. I felt a tightening in my chest when I closed my eyes, a surprise somehow even though I had felt it before. This tightening produced a very specific kind of fear I call elephant on the chest fear, and it was as though I could both feel and hear the elephant coming to sit on my chest. O God, I thought, here it comes. I have to be honest, I find this elephant on the chest thing terrifying. I tried to concentrate on breathing deeply and counting breaths, trying to relax my body. There was no where to run since the elephant was inside me. In spite of the fact that I had lived through it before, it still frightened me. As this elephant fear subsided, I had the unmistakable thought that I was entering a realm in which I have no power whatsoever; where I in no way belonged. I glanced at the dials of the clock, 9:00am. I felt beyond frightened at this point, all confidence gone. I just kept breathing deeply concentrating on my breathe and being open.
The elephant sat on my chest, again. Abject fear now, the feeling of death. I couldn’t run and it was clearly no use to scream so I just died.
No more than a couple minutes later, I whispered to Jana’ who had just stirred, “The little psilocybin fairies are locking and unlocking the millions of neural connections up and down my spine, it almost tickles. They are like children, so light and innocent and glad to be alive. They work joyfully and have billions of neural connections to manipulate. I admire their total love of what they do and total joy in life. I only wished I could live my life like these little fairies …”
And my wife said that was really nice, taking this first morning news very well. I told her to keep her hand on me and don’t worry. She went back to sleep immediately. All fear disappeared when the psilocybin fairies began fluttering up and down my spine. I had never felt this before or heard of it but it felt very real. The elephant vanished. The fairies were so full of love and so full of life, exactly as human children are when playing happily on playground - how could I be afraid?
(In retrospect, I wonder it what was happening was not a healing of me, of my nervous system. This is definitely a believer’s point of view. I had a MS scare earlier and it was still up in the air as to whether or not I could develop MS. Also, as I have said, I did go to a chiropractor so perhaps they could have something to do with that. I noticed also in reviewing my various invocations that in one I had written, “… heal Jana’ and I …” adding myself into the mix in my exuberance. This aspect nagged at me and over a year later, I had a severe MS attack becoming at one point completely paraplegic and almost dying from it. I am dealing with the aftermath now - June of 2008. This attack hit almost exactly a year after this healing experience - the attack hitting out of the blue on May 20th 2008.)
Without really thinking about it, again I fingered the dinosaur fetish with both hands as I lie on my side, and again came the spiraling skull helixes picking up as if where we left off in the bathroom. I felt myself drawn up into the vortex
12
again and knew all too well that meant unconsciousness.
Immediately I called upon the Blue Whale. I am not here for the pretty colors, I proclaimed in my mind. In the name of love I ask you to heal Jana’, concentrating as much as I could and again seeing the otherworldly vision of swirling double helixes formed of millions of dead human skulls slowly break up and transforming into the Blue Whale, his side and head seen through air bubbles coming up from below with his gigantic body and bubbling up to the near surface of the ocean, his one eye staring right at me. I could not believe that I had conjured Him again, and my elation at this success suddenly found me in another reality witnessing what appeared to be an electrical storm in hell itself. I looked down as if I were God upon a pathetically tiny, frail and emaciated old man standing precariously in tattered rags upon the very tip of jagged mountain in the midst of this hellish maelstrom. Lighting and thunder and wind thrashed the frail, little man. His wisps of long, thin white hair on the sides of his head, a similar few strands down his back, white strands hanging from his ancient chin, and his last few pieces of what appeared to be a white cloth robe, all whipped wildly around him like the torment itself. I was thinking, what does it mean? Clearly, this meant something but what? I looked into the wretched old man’s eyes closer then, recognizing myself instantly and alarmingly. My god, that is me! I cannot describe the mixture of alarm and amazement at discovering that this was a vision of myself. Then I saw that his eyes – my eyes - were not wretched at all but absolutely blazing with defiance – no other word for it, blazing defiance. His body – my body – frail as it was stood firm and seemed to be saying, “fuck you,” to hell itself. Bony ribs protruded from an emaciated chest. I really couldn’t believe that it was me in this vision. I can’t tell you what a heart stopping effect this “vision” had upon me – truly startling. It was as if hell itself had pulled out all stops to destroy this old man – me! – but he – “I“ - stood implacably against it. I vaguely wondered if this was another effort – like the sword comment – to destroy my ego.
Pretty much just as I realized that the defiant old man was my self, I seemed instantly transported to yet another reality. This time there was no spiraling upward, just snap and there I was. Now work with me here because this part is really, really weird. Just to describe what happened I have to take some poetic license. While the mushroom “voice” is very succinct and direct, the mushroom realities can be pretty outrageously complicated. For instance, when I say that the Blue Whale is standing at my side, I on his right side, I don’t mean that a one hundred foot long, two hundred ton whale is “standing” next to me. Only that in fact was what happened in this part of the experience. I guess that in exactly the same way that my own body was not “there” but curled up on a bed next to Jana’, neither was the Whales body there – WE were there, our eternal selves, the Whale and I.
We were in a dreamlike place – vague, grey and white. It kind of reminded me of one of the old cheesy star trek sets. We “stood” upon this vague grey/white fog below two men who stood above us upon what appeared to be a much more substantial white, stone platform. These two men were obviously the
13
“healers” to whom the Blue Whale had brought me, amazingly performing his prime function as a power animal in guiding me in this spiritual realm. Here is where you have to again suspend disbelief for a moment - the two “healers” were what I can only describe as old CEO’s. I guess you could say that these two old, Anglo-Saxon men, both balding, both – for some reason – obviously corporate-status-quo types seemed to me to be masquerading as healers. I knew the mushrooms had a very strange sense of humor and wondered if this were not some kind of irony. I did not have the sense that they were retired doctors, but retired CEOs – the symbolic embodiment of what could be called my nemesis if there ever was one! They were the exact antithesis of what I expected. I couldn’t have been more incredulous if they had been the Olson twins.
Evidently, the old bald dudes in what I thought of as just ridiculous white robes thought considerably less of me than I thought of them. I was completely disoriented within the experience, thinking, “what the hell is this?” One of them said to the Blue Whale “standing” to my left, “is this what we are expected to work with now?” in a way of talking over me which disregarded my being most profoundly. The Blue Whale shrugged, as if to say, “what can I say, he’s with me.” There was no doubt that these two would have nothing to do with me if it were not for the Blue Whale. There was a look of disgust on their faces that I couldn’t even begin to articulate. The two were so indistinguishable that they seemed to function as one and I had little sense of their separate identities, to the point where I cannot recall the one or the other specifically. I was completely aware of the absurdity of all of this and was just dumbfounded. After a pregnant pause in which I perceived that somehow the Blue Whale had considerable pull with these two, whatever they were, and that they seemed to feel compelled to help the Blue Whale, if not me or Jana’, they both sighed disgustedly. “So be it,” the one nearest me said (on my “right”). He made three wide, dramatic circles with his right hand, reminding me of when Ed would introduce Johnny, that same kind of “flourish”, and when his arm came around for the third time, I felt a jolt of energy jump from my chest exactly where Jana’s hand still rested and into her hand.
Instantly I “woke” up, lying on my side looking at the red dials of the clock: 9:05. It seems that I was hardly out at all. That surprised me. I had really expected to be out a couple hours. It was definitely over.
Jana’ was still asleep. The dogs were asleep. I was perfectly lucid. I lay still for a while just running it back in my mind. Finally I stood up. Man that was weird. I felt fine, a little tired. It was an hour and fifteen minutes since I finished eating the six grams and I had no problem walking at all. I put my right index finger to my right temple and pressed gently as I closed my eyes– a wash of color exploded, wow! It’s working still, I whispered, smiling. I opened my eyes and again felt totally lucid. Man this was weird. I knew that I could lie back down and trip out or just stay up and trip out but I just choose not to – I had made a commitment to use these mushrooms to heal Jana’ not to trip myself. I did choose to go back to the 7-11 for another cup of coffee. I had felt that jolt of electric energy seemingly bounce from my chest into Jana’s hand after the third
14
flourish of the “healer’s arm” and this seemed to indicate some kind of success. I had to resist the urge to wake her up and ask if she felt better. On the other hand, I was left with a very odd feeling – ominous mixed with befuddlement, maybe. I didn’t at all feel as though what had happened could be characterized as any kind of success. I felt that something was … just somehow wrong … but I couldn’t begin to articulate this feeling. I felt fine walking over and back and immediately wrote up the experience enjoying my coffee while Jana’ and the dogs still slept. It was only 9:30am after all. It was relatively easy to write but I wrote in the form of a totally loose prose poem.
At some point it came to me that at exactly two hours after finishing the six grams, which would be 10:05am, I should put a drop of my own blood in a teaspoon of yogurt and have Jana’ eat it. I felt that this would give her access to the Blue Whale as a power animal if she wanted it at some point but can’t tell you why I thought this. It would also give Jana’ an inoculation of psilocybin, even if only symbolic with no potential for intoxication of course from such a minute amount. This concept of inoculation seemed very important. It seemed crucial. From about 9:40 until 10:05 I obsessed over the two hour time frame, sensing that within this entire obsession was a message about time, somehow interpreting it as meaning that the healing would take time. Something about the skull masks seemed to refer to time also. It definitely was not what I wanted to hear. It was a long twenty five minutes. I then found that I have a natural resistance to self mutilation. I finally managed to get a drop of blood just in time and convinced my sleepy wife to wake up to a teaspoon of plain yogurt topped with a bright, red drop of my psilocybin blood at exactly 10:05am. What a lucky woman she is. At this time it was hard for her to eat anything at all but she sipped this tiny amount of yogurt with a little protest and went promptly back to sleep and the healing experience, such as it was, ended.
I suffered no ill effects, no hyper mania, from this large dose.

posted in Psychonauts - 0 replies

Free psychonautical music from SpacEKrafT

STENZO — Mon, 17 May 2010 06:40:32 GMT

Download one track on the homepage

Or multiple tracks via the player on the Facebook site or the MySpace site links.

For fans of kraut/space/ambient/transportive music

Long pieces--DO NOT LISTEN WHILE DRIVING.

http://www.myspacekraft.com

posted in Psychonauts - 0 replies

Changa: the evolution of ayahuasca!

LLB — Fri, 07 May 2010 23:55:35 GMT

This site is aaaaaamazing!
no I am not the author, but have sent the author my art via another forum... so its all my art... but someone elses work.
Sites amazing.
http://www.changaya.blogspot.com

posted in Psychonauts - 0 replies