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Day 6: I woke at around 2:45 am today and have been awake since. Today was pretty good though. I got lots done, and was in a great mood. I'm allowing myself a couple of rums tonight. The dose went down like nectar this morning, again 60ml. I was expecting a gradual build up of effects, not sure why, but I think I may actually be experiencing some tolerance now. I had a pinch of snuff this afternoon and the caapi seemed to like me using it's ally tobacco, as I felt very good indeed. I think I have got into the habit of convincing myself I need the "other" things to get through the week when I have actually coped just fine without them. That's a good learning for me and a big step after 20+ years of relying on substances to help me at night to forget my problems and sleep. This is not a silver bullet that "cures" you in any sense. It needs to be coupled with the will and actions to do the work on yourself. But I think it's worth exploring further. And I will. I wont be posting daily, but I'll update this thread from time to time. I'll update tomorrow after the full 7 days is done as I intended, and might have some more insights to add, but I hope this is of some use as it stands. I have tried to be open and honest as much as possible. Happy to talk to anyone via pm that is interested in more detail that I havent posted so far.

Your gonna need flowers at the very least.... Want a proper ID, gonna have to key it out. [email protected] Edit - Flora Neotropica Journal Article Banisteriopsis, Diplopterys (Malpighiaceae) Bronwen Gates Flora Neotropica Vol. 30, Banisteriopsis, Diplopterys (Malpighiaceae) (Feb. 18, 1982), pp. 1-237 Edit- if it is from a reported sterile line its gonna have to be from a voucher source...

My good friend Dimitri always knows how to pry my third eye right open...

Hey guys, Thought I might start showing off a few plants that I grow. Cheers,

So good to see you once again - I though that you were hiding from me. Gonna throw this out there and see what it grows into. Ive incorporated meditation into my life ever since my awakening (debateable term but I'm gonna roll with it). Pretty much for the last year and a half I've done at least 15mins a day. Miss a few days here and there and usually sit for 30-45mins. Some days I've done multiple sits for up to an hour or so each. But it's become a part of my life. When I look back to when I started, I remember sitting in the dark just trying to stop the ramblings in my head. I'd try lots of different tactics to mediate and begin to form what worked for me. The experience I had that led me to begin mediating taught me what it was, how it's done, what it feels like and what your aiming to achieve... well in th way that those experiences do. Everything... And I mean everything lined up and made complete sense at that time in a way that's uncomprehendable. It was like being shown how a puzzle goes together, then given to you in pieces to try figure it all out again. So that's what I did. Well what I'm doing. Some people have asked me 'what sort of meditation do you do?' Generally I get these questions from people who have never investigated meditating first hand. But some are versed in these manners and I've never really understood how there are 'types' of mediation. I perceive it as all as mediation in the true sense of itself. Sure there's breath work, or energy manipulation or though stilling or yoga or whatever but ultimately I see them as a different road to reach the same point. What works for one may not for another and hence the 'types' of mediation. Maybe I'm misguided on my view but that's is my perception. Ive had some weird and amazing sensations or experiences while meditating - some repeatable some I've never had again. Once I moved from root to crown slowly and opened each level then dropped back to root and i could feel a sensation as if the energy below me was rising up in a circle around me about a meter in radius. Almost like it was raining upside down or the earth was trying to repel rather than attract. I could feel the deep dark red in a third diamentional view radiating around me. I sorta had a thought once it was like Thor striking the ground and the ground shook dust rose and the vibration emanated out from the centre. Very very hard to explain it it was very powerful. But hope that gives you an idea. As I got better and better at meditating, I'd get more and more visuals, sensation, control and be able to get deeper quicker. Then I got to a point where I would get white flashes to the point where my head would be engulfed in a blinding white light. Even glimpsed the puzzle picture door once. At first I had to open my eyes to see if there was an external light source. 95% of my meditation are before bed in the dark, no lights. And even today there are times I have to verify there's nothing shining on me. But slowly I'm rewiring my brain to know it's not an external source so that I can distinguish the internal from external and carry on. This is where I'm asking for your experience, opinions, or just other perspectives Im now at the point where I perceive that I can open my third eye. Let me see if I can explain this in a way that can be correctly interpreted. You have 5 obvious senses as we're told and the 6th apparent untold sense we don't obviously recognise. The way I see life is with my eyes. As like most of us. So my life, my entire perspective of everyday life, my centre of direction, my view point, my... my eyes... I am my eyes. You are your eyes. It's your window to the world. Think about it - then realise your thoughts are actually coming from above your eyes. Yes that's it you guessed it... the brain lol... or I'd rather use the term the mind. But you don't perceive with your mind. It's the processor, the central hub, to gather what is perceived from the other senses, then relayed back to you in the voice and image in your head. And what other ways it does this. So so before I proceed look at it this way. Blind guy. From a very young age I've always wondered, 'what does a blind person see?' And 'what does a deaf person hear?'. I know their blind and or deaf but what replaces that perception. So a blind guy can't see so how could he be his eyes. He can't. He would most likely be his ears - or nose to a degree... I don't know. But if he is his ears, then he would perceive from the sides of his head as the main focus rather than the front. Make sense? So what I'm saying is I can move my perception to my brow. But in doing this my eyes involuntarily... switch off? It's like my eyes either roll down or up or god knows where and my perception has shifted. But upon trying to 'look' around my eyes sorta fire on and off and I feel like I'm all crazy googley eyes until I find a perception spot whether it's my eyes or brow. With enough focus you can 'look' around slowly by what feels like a cross between looking horizontal/vertical and widening the field of view. But once again I think this requires a bit of brain rewiring to know it's not visual from your eyes so that the energy used to move your perception there isn't wasting as much on switching off your eyes. Ive heard/read people look up at their brow to open their third eye. I've never done this as a common practice while meditating. I've tried but I felt this was a misinterpreted truth when I tried. So to me the aim was focus there not look there. Which yes while it's easier to focus on something your looking at... it's not your eyes that perceive this experience. So when I say my eye switch off and move (sometimes up) involuntary, I don't think it would be them getting stressed and conking out on ya staring straight up trying to 'see' the light. Maybe this is the sixth sense. If it was, I would probably call it focus. Thoughts?

I wonder if I could get them to flower and produce viable seeds under timed light

Is it ok to compile any Diplop info I come across here ..? like this:- v1http://www.theplantlist.org/browse/A/Malpighiaceae/Diplopterys/ v2 superseded v1 http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Malpighiaceae/Diplopterys/ https://webapps.lsa.umich.edu/herbarium/malpigh/Intro/MorphFruit2.html https://webapps.lsa.umich.edu/herbarium/malpigh/Photos/StigCladePhoto/DipGallery/DipPhoto1.html holy heck I never found that many pics last time I dove in to Diplopstudies! .. or shall I make a separate thread mate and a link to this thread there? Oh yeah , perhaps those drip things under the leaf are nectaries?

if not cabbie then I wonder which? This isn't a genus I can find much info on let alone any pics .. The more ya learn the less ya know .. And this thread you made has been gold dust mate. Thank you very much indeed. wiki says: - Diplopterys is a genus of plants in the Malpighiaceae family. There are approximately 45 species within the genus: Diplopterys amplectens (B.Gates) W.R.Anderson & C.Davis Diplopterys araujei (Schwacke ex Nied.) Nied.[2] Diplopterys bahiana Diplopterys bracteosa Diplopterys cabrerana (Cuatrec.) B.Gates Diplopterys cachimbensis Diplopterys caduciflora Diplopterys carvalhoi Diplopterys cristata Diplopterys cururensis Diplopterys cururuensis Diplopterys erianthera Diplopterys heterostyla Diplopterys hypericifolia Diplopterys includens Diplopterys involuta Diplopterys involuta var. ovata Diplopterys krukoffii Diplopterys leiocarpa Diplopterys longialata (Nied.) W. R. Anderson & C. Davis[3] Diplopterys lucida Diplopterys lutea Diplopterys marsballiana Diplopterys marshalliana Diplopterys mexicana Diplopterys microcarpa Diplopterys nigrescens Diplopterys nutans Diplopterys paralias Diplopterys paralias var. latifolia Diplopterys patula Diplopterys pauciflora Diplopterys pauciflora var. latifolia Diplopterys peruviana Diplopterys platyptera Diplopterys populifolia Diplopterys pubipetala Diplopterys riparia Diplopterys rondoniensis Diplopterys rosea Diplopterys schunkei Diplopterys sepium Diplopterys spruceana Diplopterys uleana Diplopterys valvata Diplopterys virgultosa Diplopterys woytkowskii at least that's fewer than Virola I recall Plant Hunter (one of me fave old SABbers) once said that diplop has a round seed .. I wonder which one that is too.

Pachanoi 'Fields' x Peruvianus'Rosei#1' and bridgesii 'Psycho0' x open pollinated .. and more photos of the amazingly blue Pachanoi 'Fields' x Peruvianus'Rosei#1' Which almost looks like bridgesii hybrid to me, with these long distances between the areoles and this shape of the somewhat thin ribs.

if the shaman is a women would it be shawoman ?

that must be one hell of a night out

A 36cm variegated pach went for $980 the other week. a grafted CSD just looks like a standard TB but on it's own roots it's a monstrose.. Who really cares how much a trichocereus goes for?. I have spent 5 times a Ebay CSD in a night out, many times..

Zedo - SJW has complicated pharmacology, chiefly serotonergic activity, but also effects on dopamine & other types of neurotransmitter systems, plus a bunch of enzyme-inducing stuff... short story, it has lots and lots of drug interactions, some of them dangerous. I couldn't tell you off the top of my head if combining with caapi would be one of the risky ones, but personally I wouldn't chance it. At least not without doing some detailed research into both their pharmacologies first. At a glance though, I can tell you that SJW has been shown to downregulate 5HT2A receptors, which are thought to be important to psychedelic activity, so even if it isn't dangerous to combine with vine, it may dull some of the effects. Also, many of the actives in SJW aren't heat-stable, so smoking may not be a good ROA.

I think maybe because chemical shaman was a loved member here and a lot of the older members would like a plant to remember him by. Ive bought memorial plants that really i wouldnt have cared how much they cost.

Where am I at now? Day 4: Less restful sleep last night, with a lot of dreams about inadequacy and frustration. Not quite sure what to make of these ones, or what action needs to be taken. I guess sometimes you just have to be patient. Still very clear dreams though. That's something I have noticed in the last few days. Dreaming is enhanced a lot. My dreams are usually chaotic jumbles of day to day life, which are not clearly recalled afterwards. Now I am really dreaming and I can remember every detail. I cut out the coffee this morning. Much better. No headaches or withdrawals, as I said I only have the one double espresso in the morning and that's it so I wasnt particularly concerned about leaving it out. I didnt feel like I was lacking energy or wakefulness because of it so I'll leave it out for the rest of this week until I finish. I was very stressed this morning, but I put my trust and faith in my ability to cope, and with you guys and the medicine on my team, who could stand in my way? I think I might up my dose again tomorrow to the original 60ml and see how I go. Now that I have a feel for integrating the feelings into my day, I dont feel so apprehensive about having them at work, but I do need to be careful just the same. I dont have the kind of job that I can just go and avoid people and situations, I'm on the frontline. Not too much else to report, I think that's a good thing though. Life seems to be pretty normal, but the good kind of normal, not the normal where I have a longneck as soon as I walk in the front door upon getting home. I'm not making any progress on my art project this week so far, but my days have been long. By the time I get the essentials done, and get a chance to actually sit down, it's around 10pm, and I'm exhausted so I have been going to bed instead. I appreciate all your messages, if I can help anyone out, please let me know. It's eye opening to see how many of us are suffering the same conditions in silence. Let's help each other and be supportive. Even here, where we are like minded, we dont always treat each other as well as we should. I think we can all heal ourselves if we have the right tools, it's not up to anyone or anything else to do it for us. Sometimes we just need the path to be illuminated so we can see it, and that's where the plants can assist us, but at the end of the day, we need to do the work ourselves. Jeez, listen to me, like I have the answers all of sudden! Words come easy, good actions are what's needed and I have a long way to go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEQDfhZm9pg For you my friend.

Recently sowed some seeds. Some came from eBay, some from interbeing. Big ups interbeing for your 2017 seed. 95+% germination rate! 100x Loph seed - eBay 1000x T Peru 'lurin valle' - eBay 50x T Bridgesii x T Peru KK1688 - eBay 25x T Peru 'Rosei #1' x T Scop - eBay 100x T Bridgesii 'Tig' x T Scop - eBay 100x T Bridgesii 'Psycho0' x OPEN -interbeing 100x T Peru 'Rosei #2' x T Peru 'MG Red Spine' - interbeing 100x T Peru 'Rosei #2' x T Peru 'John' - interbeing 30x T Pachanoi 'Rod' x T Bridgesii 'Cliff' - interbeing So over having limited stuff to buy here in WA.

A nice selection ..

Just post a time and place. Too much consultation will ruin your chances.

A tip I learned from a girl I used to work with in my teens was to wet the forehead above/afront of the third eye (which is a pain when it dries- if you're not in "the zone" before it dries and thus needs a bit of re-wetting , perhaps a slower drying thing would be useful like some religions have kinda painted on by the looks of it) this helped a lot in focusing on said third eye,.. and seems to help folk in general I like your technique a lot and really enjoyed the read.. great post man to wake to today , thank you for sharing your experience of "tek"

bridgesii 'Ben' X terscheckii hybrid 'Fields' terscheckii 'Long Spine' X OPEN bridgesii 'Ben' X terscheckii 'Dawsons" bridgesii 'Ben' X Sharxx Blue Iv got a few more grafted. Will post em when they have grown a bit

Hi All - This is a first post and these are my first try at growing cactus from seed with some Zelly / misplant seeds. The big zone is Red Grandiflorus x Yellow Grandiflorus and the other two are SS02xSS01 x Huarazensis and SS02xSS01 x Peru Clyde. I sowed them 2016-08-07 and have mostly let them be aside from occasional misting with distilled water. Almost all of the ones I sowed germinated and I'm going to do another round soon with more of his seed as well as some I got from spooge in his give-away here. Thanks again! I used the basic instructions off the misplant.net site. A layer of commercial cactus mix, wetted and sterilized in the microwave, then a layer of rinsed sand, also sterilized. I culled a few albinos seeing as to how I'm not setup for grafting just yet, though I hope to get around to it eventually. It's fun and exciting to see the little buggers growing so nicely and easily.

Trichocereus quickstart on the fridge /winter/ 3 months later /springtime/ grafting on the trichocereus rootstock or offshoot : 5-6 months after grafting at the end of the growing season:

Impressive Nice work

some wedge grafts done with 12 month old plants, found they took better this way. And some other grafts from feb now competing for space