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  1. Posted

    Kalpataru Tree

    Beatroots

    Auditory Canvas

    Biolumigen

    Kaminanda

    Mumukshu

    Anchor Hill

    Random Rab

    Tribone

    Icaro

    Yestegan ChaY

    Animatronix

    Schlang

    Citta Flow

    Spundose

    Eurythmy

    Merkaba

    Shwex

    ^

    Not dub. Not sure what words could honour sucha zone of listen-able treats. I was taken with the term 'psybient' for a while, but it doesn't cover all bases.

    I reckon all of the above deserve a mention. Not a definitive or tidy list, but they're the ones that have truly grabbed my attention in the past couple of years. Not sure if all will fit the genre classification, but they're atleast in the same field, or mostly and are slightly edging into another.

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    Dcliw crazy Antarctic weather spontaneously makes you into a community person. Just had a hair-razing mish up my hill with a little old lady who got off at the same stop as me. Usually the bus will take ya all the way up the hill but black ice and semipermenant frost made things unsafe for buses, but also unsafe for unwitting walkers. Me and this little ol' lass stuck together and helped each other out through the super steep and super slippery bits, extending steadying hands every-so-often where needed and holding on to each others things where we struggled.

    Turns out we live on the same street and I felt great when she said how glad she was to have some company on the trip to make sure if she fell there would be someone there to help.

    Crazy winter over here. Jack Frost is out with a vengeance.

    I saw this amazing art technique in a school newsletter which I wanna try if its still frosty tomorrow. As far as i can establish the kids had taken very liquidy water paints, created a colourful ensemble and then while still very wet laid the paper out onto the frosty grass. The liquid in the paint then froze into fractal-looking painty ice crystals which remained after the paper had dried.

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    Hey Mesq, just wanna say i absolutely love your music and am very impressed. I still remember when i first heard it and thought 'yusss.. finally someone has made some tunes for my kinda ears'

    so lush and twinkly, harmonic and crunchy.

    Theres a track called 'lamentation' which really takes the cake for me, came across it on a VA album a friend gave me and i loooove it.

    Thank you for doing what you do. Keep it up, i love your work!

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    "In April of 1958, a 22 year-old Hunter S. Thompson wrote a letter on the meaning of life when asked by a friend for advice. What makes his response all the more profound is the fact that at the time, the world had no idea that he would become one of the most important writers of the 20th century. Therefore his beliefs about purpose were hypotheticalthey were statements of faith.

    But if its true that our beliefs really do become our reality, then theres no better example of a life fully realised than the one of Hunter S. Thompson. Let his perspective inspire you:

    April 22, 1958

    57 Perry Street

    New York City

    Dear Hume,

    You ask advice: ah, what a very human and very dangerous thing to do! For to give advice to a man who asks what to do with his life implies something very close to egomania. To presume to point a man to the right and ultimate goal to point with a trembling finger in the RIGHT direction is something only a fool would take upon himself.

    I am not a fool, but I respect your sincerity in asking my advice. I ask you though, in listening to what I say, to remember that all advice can only be a product of the man who gives it. What is truth to one may be disaster to another. I do not see life through your eyes, nor you through mine. If I were to attempt to give you specific advice, it would be too much like the blind leading the blind.

    To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles (Shakespeare)

    And indeed, that IS the question: whether to float with the tide, or to swim for a goal. It is a choice we must all make consciously or unconsciously at one time in our lives. So few people understand this! Think of any decision youve ever made which had a bearing on your future: I may be wrong, but I dont see how it could have been anything but a choice however indirect between the two things Ive mentioned: the floating or the swimming.

    But why not float if you have no goal? That is another question. It is unquestionably better to enjoy the floating than to swim in uncertainty. So how does a man find a goal? Not a castle in the stars, but a real and tangible thing. How can a man be sure hes not after the big rock candy mountain, the enticing sugar-candy goal that has little taste and no substance?

    The answer and, in a sense, the tragedy of life is that we seek to understand the goal and not the man. We set up a goal which demands of us certain things: and we do these things. We adjust to the demands of a concept which CANNOT be valid. When you were young, let us say that you wanted to be a fireman. I feel reasonably safe in saying that you no longer want to be a fireman. Why? Because your perspective has changed. Its not the fireman who has changed, but you. Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man, and hence your perspective changes. This goes on and on. Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective.

    So it would seem foolish, would it not, to adjust our lives to the demands of a goal we see from a different angle every day? How could we ever hope to accomplish anything other than galloping neurosis?

    The answer, then, must not deal with goals at all, or not with tangible goals, anyway. It would take reams of paper to develop this subject to fulfillment. God only knows how many books have been written on the meaning of man and that sort of thing, and god only knows how many people have pondered the subject. (I use the term god only knows purely as an expression.) Theres very little sense in my trying to give it up to you in the proverbial nutshell, because Im the first to admit my absolute lack of qualifications for reducing the meaning of life to one or two paragraphs.

    Im going to steer clear of the word existentialism, but you might keep it in mind as a key of sorts. You might also try something called Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre, and another little thing called Existentialism: From Dostoyevsky to Sartre. These are merely suggestions. If youre genuinely satisfied with what you are and what youre doing, then give those books a wide berth. (Let sleeping dogs lie.) But back to the answer. As I said, to put our faith in tangible goals would seem to be, at best, unwise. So we do not strive to be firemen, we do not strive to be bankers, nor policemen, nor doctors. WE STRIVE TO BE OURSELVES.

    But dont misunderstand me. I dont mean that we cant BE firemen, bankers, or doctors but that we must make the goal conform to the individual, rather than make the individual conform to the goal. In every man, heredity and environment have combined to produce a creature of certain abilities and desires including a deeply ingrained need to function in such a way that his life will be MEANINGFUL. A man has to BE something; he has to matter.

    As I see it then, the formula runs something like this: a man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES. In doing this, he is fulfilling a need (giving himself identity by functioning in a set pattern toward a set goal), he avoids frustrating his potential (choosing a path which puts no limit on his self-development), and he avoids the terror of seeing his goal wilt or lose its charm as he draws closer to it (rather than bending himself to meet the demands of that which he seeks, he has bent his goal to conform to his own abilities and desires).

    In short, he has not dedicated his life to reaching a pre-defined goal, but he has rather chosen a way of life he KNOWS he will enjoy. The goal is absolutely secondary: it is the functioning toward the goal which is important. And it seems almost ridiculous to say that a man MUST function in a pattern of his own choosing; for to let another man define your own goals is to give up one of the most meaningful aspects of life the definitive act of will which makes a man an individual.

    Lets assume that you think you have a choice of eight paths to follow (all pre-defined paths, of course). And lets assume that you cant see any real purpose in any of the eight. THEN and here is the essence of all Ive said you MUST FIND A NINTH PATH.

    Naturally, it isnt as easy as it sounds. Youve lived a relatively narrow life, a vertical rather than a horizontal existence. So it isnt any too difficult to understand why you seem to feel the way you do. But a man who procrastinates in his CHOOSING will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.

    So if you now number yourself among the disenchanted, then you have no choice but to accept things as they are, or to seriously seek something else. But beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life. But you say, I dont know where to look; I dont know what to look for.

    And theres the crux. Is it worth giving up what I have to look for something better? I dont know is it? Who can make that decision but you? But even by DECIDING TO LOOK, you go a long way toward making the choice.

    If I dont call this to a halt, Im going to find myself writing a book. I hope its not as confusing as it looks at first glance. Keep in mind, of course, that this is MY WAY of looking at things. I happen to think that its pretty generally applicable, but you may not. Each of us has to create our own credo this merely happens to be mine.

    If any part of it doesnt seem to make sense, by all means call it to my attention. Im not trying to send you out on the road in search of Valhalla, but merely pointing out that it is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it. There is more to it than that no one HAS to do something he doesnt want to do for the rest of his life. But then again, if thats what you wind up doing, by all means convince yourself that you HAD to do it. Youll have lots of company.

    And thats it for now. Until I hear from you again, I remain,

    your friend,

    Hunter."

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  7. Posted

    I was here.. Zipping about, feeling, dancing, laughing, talking, vibing, taking it all in and reconfiguring what had been absorbed into some non-linear configuration of sense. Sooo good!

    I didn't take any photos, but I found these three on the events fb page, taken by a fulla called Tom Fox.

    Captures the splendour quite elegantly!

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  9. Posted

    It is powerful stuff indeed, i wouldnt be surprised at all if there was some kind of psychoactivity associated with it, although maybe not in the general sense we use this word to signify. Essential oils can have such an incredible effect on the state of conciousness, yet sniffing an oil isnt generally considered partaking of a psychoactive substance (thank goodness)

    I love it.

    I suppose it could also depend on your relationship to the plant as to how it would affect you. I was introduced to it along with the notion that it is a very sacred and reveered thing and thus i approached it as such, using with great respect and appreciation. I havent noticed it affecting my dreams but in general it seems to elicit a deeply calming, rejuvinating and grounding response in me when i burn it. Ive used the ash on points of psychosomatic pain during bouts if mind exploration and found it to work wonders. I have found it to be profoundly helpful in times of crisis, or even when just talking about difficult and dark things with friends, and know a couple others who rely on it for spiritual fortification when things go haywire.

    ...Ima go burn some now :)

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    Dchiw you meet someone who gives off a bit of a creepy vibe to begin with, then they proceed to announce that the creature you share your name with is their totem animal and imply somewhat forcefully that because of this somehow you are like fated to fall in love with them or something.... And then they use a wide variety of words you don't understand to describe themselves in a rather drawn out manner, when you weren't really asking them about themselves, all you asked was if they mostly paint with oils.....

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    Plz sab-peeps, good vibes me. Having a really hard time today, so many things have built up and built up and I just kept on pushin thru and ignoring my own distress but I have really reached the end of my tether and those weights on the soul have all crashed down on me at once. I am weak, tired, loosing hope and quite simply feeling like utter shit. I trust in the ability of good intent to traverse time and space so if anyone out there has a good vibe to share, a long distance smile, a metaphysical hug, please do send em my way.

    Much gratitude and love to you all xo

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    Wow... They are beautiful. I'd never seen any in flower before, quite orchid-y.

    I don't have any of my own but seeing these pics have definately sparked my interest. I'm especially a fan of the T. mallemontii.

    I like the notion of 'show and tell' too... Was always the best part of school

    Here's a pic of what at a guess must be a few T.paleacea (and maybe another variety -smaller leafed one in the upper right corner) I saw at the local bontanic gardens anyway

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  20. Posted

    Hi, I was just wondering if anyone might have Rhodiola Rosea seed they would be willing to trade?

    I can't find any suppliers within nz, and am not so savy with credit cards and PayPal, but have some good seeds to swap. After finding out it suits a cool climate I am very keen to try growing some.

    Please let me know if anyone can help, I'd make sure you got a premium trade for it.

    Thanks!

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    On second consideration I would say the biggest problem is monsanto's bid to control the global seed supply. Not just a problem in terms of 'human problems' eg access to food and ability to grow food, but say they succeed, even to a certain degree, to put their nasty mod-cons into the majority of food plants, and then these altered gentics spread throughout plant populations through the pollination process, wouldn't this heavily impinge on nature's ability to regenerate itself if/when we eventually wipe ourselves out?

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    Mutant, have you suddenly developed a rare form of OCD which urgently requires knowledge of the top three things in every category? triquetragnosis?

    Films, philosophers and problems I can see the impetus, but animals (cute) and colours are just a little perplexing. I feel like you're up to something..

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  23. Posted · Edited by bogfrog

    1. Lynx, cause they scale cacti for ultimate vantage point, and those pointy ears... :wub:

    2. Tie between dolphins&whales...the stewards of our world methinks

    3. Cuttle fish! Extreme intelligence.. and they change colour to express how they feel, I mean c'mon.. That's awesome. But so are chameleons.. Idk now. It's hard to choose just 3. Bower birds are pretty choice as well, so creative..

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    Just a rough, uncoffee'd, not well considered attempt but I'm inclined to say (aside from your quite evident top three mutant)

    1. The education paradigm. Separate young children from their parents for extended periods of brain sculpting from the earliest age possible and continually reinforce the necessity of becoming something that your culture approves of rather than being who you are and learning from those who made you and truly have your best interests at heart.

    2. Over stimulation. Continual bombardment by media, too many choices which inhibit our ability to separate the wheat from the chaff and choose what is actually meaningful/beneficial. The relegation of consciousness exploration to an esoteric fringe-element, rather than having any kind of respectable standing or priority in education. The glorification of unconsciousness.

    3. Food that is not food. GE and nutritionally devoid 'stuff' which we put into our bodies which creates the illusion of having consumed some kind of fuel, when so often this 'stuff' does little but trick us and make us sick. Sort of connected also is the medication without consent issue. Here we have industrial toxic waste (fluoride) administered to the town water supply, which is medication without consent, something a doctor would be unable to do to one patient, yet city councils can unleash on a whole population.

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