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Feel free to add urs! Pulling myself back onto the rails (thanks for the heads up torsten, I listened to you, I always do) I've been thinking about the things that make me happy that have nothing to do with drugs. I'm a drug pig, it's all or nothing for me, so I'm trying to err on the side of nothing for a while ;) Conversing with old people. I love those old school manners and respect. It's such an easy conversation. I love my oldies. Seeing an old couple walk hand in hand. Sunsets. When my daughter sings along to whatever's on the radio when I'm driving. Propagating plants Hard manual labour with easy going, funny guys in the sun. Testosterone, endorphins and vitamin d. I know it's odd but it's a pleasure in my life. My mums hugs. Real chicken soup!! Perky firm female breasts, u know the ones where the nipples point upwards. Toned up, attractive, friendly, easy going guys with defined chests working shirtless. Spin fishing in the Lachlan with my best friend skinkdog. When my cat mr.bigglesworth sits on my chest and purrs when I get home I. The morning. Something about a cats purr ? The vibrations and all? Listening to cicadas, frogs and crickets. Combination of the 3 is amazing. Pruning roses, smelling roses, particularly mt. Lincoln and Peace. providing money to support my child. At the moment all of her special needs are met.The ability to provide for her financially in all aspects. When the stars are all out shining vividly Chai tea. My rexy. Camping ( though never done it without dwugs, maybee it's not so flash. Plan is I'm going to do a lot more of the things I like doing that don't involve drugs. Particularly nos

You have a beard now, Incog?! Hubba hubba! Here's a little sneak peak of us at the Oberon camp in a few weeks... Not all woman are turned off by beards and facial hair. My wife would divorce me if I got rid of my moustache. And many of our female friends feel the same. I think the taste for hair is cultural/regional. And I've gone through periods where I didn't shave for 18+ months and I never get an itch. And I've got very sensitive skin too. Never get skin flakes either.

Yeah, that brings back the memory of being in high school alright... I have a strong "feel good" feeling when i massage/scratch on the back (all non sexual) girls, not just my girlfriend but in general. I guess it's a good thing for both parts. Strange thing is, that it's almost an obsession, now when Emelie has been in Asia for 6 weeks i discovered that it's definitely an urge to satisfy. Making a fire is satisfying the caveman in me, just as much as just digging a hole in the ground. I work at a school with kids around 8yrs old... and Jesus god it's cosy on another level having 15 kids around you in a circle eating fruits and being amazed by the book I'm reading to them. Spiders making a web. The smell of forest soil. To have dirty hands (soil or similar) after a long honest day of work. Planting seeds (the period from when i acquire them until the first set of leaves) Having friends laughing and having fun even if it's "on me" too few people are like this. Finding, anything general exploration, guess it's the sapiens in me again lol. Helping others, older women the most.

ok i know there is always cuts going for sale here but thought i would throw some cuts up here if people are interested, please reply which plant you want, so others dont go for the same. All plants are in the ground, and wont be cut unless sold, which is why i prefer pickup i am in western suburbs of melbourne but can meet in footscray most days of the week if easier, getting to the post office is a right chore, but if i post buyer pays postage, where suitable express post will be sent, either 500g or 3kg depending on the size and weight of plant. i am not up with the price of plants these days, so if you think i have overpriced please make a suitable offer for consideration. 1. 30cm semi monstrose/melted wax - $30 have had this clone for over 6 years, came orginally from an elderly victorian collector somewhere in the eastern suburbs. Super Pedro bought from Vic Markets about 7 years ago, been in ground for 6 years, and now this has become one huge monster of a plant, towering over 6 feet with multiple basal pups that are thicker than my arm. 2 cuts available, this is going to be heavy for postage 2a. 30cm $30 2b. 30cm $30

have you also thought about growing a nice patch of back and shoulder hair? Its all the rage now days. There is nothing superficial about:

when a woman hugs me. and we have to act like, 'aw yeah it's just a hug, we're friends, tee-hee..' but the reality is, every time some girl comes up to me, goes 'hey how are you??' and then hugs me, all i can think about is how nice she smells, and how awesome she feels. that's my piece

fairy, nature, animals, gourmet pizza, ramen, vietnamese rice noodle soup, fairy's dogs, exploring the forth drive, exploring everything, naruto, autechre, interesting conversations, interesting movies, interesting art, interesting people, people in general, human behaviour, asian culture in particular chinese tea, japanese manga and anime, martial arts, yoga, meditation, yin yang, abstract, language, accents, many words, the sounds of many words, the shape of many words, the meanings of many words, the corroboree, and most of all being a douche.

Not true. Edit: Also, my face refused to properly grow pubes

I haven't had a drink in almost four years thanks to a healthy dose of a plant based entheogen I never looked back

It will be pleasing to me, if down the track.. the forum is littered with hippy's sharing their sentiments on various ways to approach these divinity. That's all. Opening the pandora's can of respect worms, that newcomers may sense there is more going on that we may build upon the presuppositions which serve. Shamanic ecstasy is totally possible. It's more or less our birthright(s) to experience deeply altered, revelation, healing and pleasurable states of being. I'd have it be commonly known, that the best way to do this is not to down a litre of poison but instead to just be in love with the green all around us. It's one thing to chase a high..grow a plant..call yourself an ethno whatever.. and another to live a shamanic worldview..to know your connection and place to nature.. etc etc. yeh, thanks again for 'listening'. There's no real point here, maybe just wanting people to 'dig a lil deeper' when it comes to the experiences they're really looking for : ) peace and mud

lol! I think its probably cos 46.5 million americans are on foodstamps, and foodstamps dont allow 'all you can meat'.

thanks for the kind words bop, I cant "come back" though, too poor for internet. I would post some more poems but they're all angsty and shit, bout how hard it is to be a middle class mostly straight white male, plus I want to get paid for those. If I do some more wordplay I'll post one just for you bully

lol, thanks Zen. Missed out on Adam by a a day.. cos the roads were blocked. Today they copped the jedi mind trick..

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Hi Quixote, the plant in the picture is not what was originally meant with Trichocereus Macrogonus. Macrogonus was said to be a very spiny and glaucous form of Peruvianus. Compared to this one, it was not so fat and a lot more spiny. I saw pics from what backeberg understood as Macrogonus and it was so spiny you could barely see the body. Apart from the fact that it wasnt found again ever since, i really believe that Backeberg had pictured the right species in his books. I posted a pic of the plant somewhere in a thread around here. Just use the term backeberg and you´ll probably find it. The one in the picture is probably something from the Terscheckii/Pasacana/Werdermannianus Group but with the wrong label. I can see that it seems to have swollen and curved spine bases whats typical for some plants from that group. Michael is probably right with Tacaquirensis. Macrogonus isnt an accepted name and is not valid anymore under use of modern taxonomy. One of the reasons is that it is considered a variety. Most forms of Pachanoi, Macrogonus and Peruvianus are so closely related they belong together. Btw, if you buy a plant with a certain label, it doesnt have to be the correct one. I assume that more than half of the Trichos sold on the worldwide market have a wrong label. So you´d better not use one plant as a reliable way of ID´ing them.

Kony is bad news, that's for sure. But like everything in life, things are a little more complicated. Read here. And here. It seems the question isn't whether or not Kony should be toppled (though, there's the question of whether there is anything left to topple anymore), the question is, who are the guys behind this particular campaign, and should they be the spokesmen for the movement? More pertinent perhaps: should donations for this cause go through them? There's some questionable history there... Cynicism is gross, especially when we're talking about lives, but mindless activism doesn't do anyone any favours either.

Fuck, sorry, chnt. That's exactly how I took your reaction to this article. I know you weren't upset. I mean no backlash against you. You iz cool, yo. For what it's worth, it doesn't seem like the above posters are attacking you either. They're scratching their heads about the philosophy that informs the article that you posted. No one seems to be shooting the messenger. Let me give a little background to my rant above. I've read about this Jennifer Aya-ston-gate affair in numerous places, and the tone is often like the one in the Huff Post article you provided. I also read Reality Sandwiches every now and again (there's lots of good stuff there too; like the pieces by Nese Senol, for example), and I flick through other ethnobot/psy head forums and there seems to be some sort of building Us versus Them mentality. Yeah, it has always been there, but it seems to be reaching some sort of new fever pitch in "Our community". And the worst part is that there's a combative element that suggests that if you don't follow the Psychedelic Party line to the letter, then you're probably just as bad as the head of the Narc Squad or some media-hungry conservative minister in Alabama. Don't debate! Follow! One example from a few days ago: There was an article that someone linked to on the facebook EGA group that read: "Louisiana Legislator Seeks to Ban Herbal Tea". Intrigued, I clicked on it and after the usual The Man Wants Us Dumb So That We Don't Rise Up and Buy The Man's Big Pharma Medicines rhetoric, it turns out that this isn't about "herbal tea" and all that that term implies in popular culture, it's specifically about Kratom tea. The article then goes on to say that it's harmless and mild and has been used with little problem in SE Asia for ever. Well, while I don't think the US should necessarily ban Kratom, I do think that bullshitting isn't doing us any favours. Nor is sensationalism, for that matter. And what more is a headline like "Legislator Seeks to Ban Herbal Tea" than sensationalism? When Joe Average reads a headline like that do you think they think of chamomile tea and rosehip infusions, or do they think of a potentially addictive quasi-opiate? The journalist (or sub-editor) is being manipulative. And we don't tolerate that sort of media propaganda when it's used against us, yet it's ok for us to use it? There's more to it than this, and the issue runs deeper, but this isn't the place for it. I'm sketching out a little article. I'll post it when I finish. In conclusion, thanks for the link! I hold my rants back pretty well these days, so it means something when an article lets it all out!

I think it's a teach your kids to swim video. edit: just watched it, had to skip through a lot... the propaganda was getting to me. I don't support any invasion of any sovereign nation, sorry. the triangles at the start were creepy

$100 already and still a few days out... *so* desperately want this as a birthday present for my sweetheart... <sigh> decisions....

Psylo your ranting comments are ridiculous

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/mar/01/consciousness-eight-questions-science Consciousness is at once the most familiar and the most mysterious feature of our existence. A new science of consciousness is now revealing its biological basis. Once considered beyond the reach of science, the neural mechanisms of human consciousness are now being unravelled at a startling pace by neuroscientists and their colleagues. I've always been fascinated by the possibility of understanding consciousness, so it is tremendously exciting to witness – and take part in – this grand challenge for 21st century science. Here are eight key questions that neuroscientists are now addressing: 1. What are the critical brain regions for consciousness? The brain contains about 90 billion neurons, and about a thousand times more connections between them. But consciousness isn't just about having a large number of neurons. For instance, the cerebellum, which contains over half the neurons in the brain, doesn't seem much involved. We now think that consciousness depends primarily on a specific network of regions in the cortex (the wrinkled surface of the brain) and the thalamus (a walnut-sized structure buried deep in the interior). Some of these regions are important for determining the level of consciousness (the difference between waking and dreamless sleep) while others are involved in shaping conscious content (the specific qualities of any given experience). Current hot topics include the role of the brain's densely connected frontal lobes, and the importance of information flow between regions rather than their activity per se. 2. What are the mechanisms of general anaesthesia? A good way to study a phenomenon is to see what happens when it disappears. General anaesthesia can be induced by many different substances (including propofol, one of the drugs that contributed to Michael Jackson's death) but the outcome is the same: total loss of consciousness. There is now increasing evidence that anaesthesia involves a disintegration of how different parts of the brain work together, a sort of "cognitive unbinding" rather than a general shutting-down. A key question now is how similar general anaesthesia is to other states of unconsciousness, such as dreamless sleep. 3. What is the self? All our experiences seem tied to an experiencing self, the 'I' behind our eyes. But selfhood is a complex phenomenon, encompassing a first-person perspective on the world, a sense of ownership of our body, actions, and thoughts, perceptions of our internal physiological condition, and of course the narrative we tell ourselves about our past experiences and imagined futures. We now know that these different features depend on different brain mechanisms, and can even be manipulated experimentally (for example, it's possible to generate "out of body" experiences in the lab). Understanding how the brain constructs the conscious self will help us better understand and treat psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, which involve a disintegration of selfhood. 4. What determines experiences of volition and 'will'? The question of whether "free will" exists is guaranteed to raise philosophical hackles. But what's not in doubt is that the experience of intending and causing our actions exists and is very common. Neuroscientists have studied this issue since the 1980s by looking for neural signatures of volition (the experience of intending to do something) and agency (the experience of causing an action). A growing consensus now rejects the idea of volition as explicitly causing actions, instead seeing it as involving a particular brain network mediating complex, open decisions between different actions. 5. What is the function of consciousness? What are experiences for? Researchers have now discovered that many cognitive functions can take place in the absence of consciousness. We can perceive objects, make decisions, and even perform apparently voluntary actions without consciousness intervening. One possibility stands out: consciousness integrates information. According to this view, each of our experiences rules out an enormous number of alternative possibilities, and in doing so generates an incredibly large amount of information. 6. How rich is consciousness? The vast majority of evidence about consciousness depends on subjective reports, for example when we say what we (consciously) see. A long-running debate has asked whether we are missing something by this method, if what we experience can outstrip our ability to report on it. Intriguingly, evidence is emerging that this may indeed be the case. This evidence may provide a basis for tackling one of the thorniest problems in consciousness science: distinguishing the brain mechanisms of consciousness itself from those involved in being able to relate what we experience. 7. Are other animals conscious? Mammals share much of the neural machinery important for human consciousness, so it seems a safe bet to assume they are conscious as well, even if they can't tell us that they are. Despite this similarity, animal consciousness is unlikely to involve conscious selfhood in the same sense that humans enjoy. Beyond mammals the case is much harder to decide. However, birds and cephalopods (such as the octopus) are particularly intriguing, being extremely smart and having surprisingly complex brains. 8. Are vegetative patients conscious? In the US alone, about 15,000 patients are in a "vegetative state", having suffered massive brain injury. The key feature of this state is that patients' behaviour suggests that they are awake but not aware. Brain imaging has revealed, however, that at least some of these patients are conscious, and has even facilitated communication between these patients and their families and doctors. We now need to improve the sensitivity of these methods and use them to guide not only diagnosis but also treatment. These are just a few of the active research areas in the neuroscience of consciousness. What's important is that we can make rapid progress on these and other key questions without getting hamstrung by some of the grand mysteries that still remain, most obviously: Why is consciousness part of the universe at all? But it's this question that still keeps me awake at night. Anil Seth is co-director of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science at the University of Sussex and chair of the 16th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, which will take place in Brighton, 2-6 July Will the next stage of our evolution be physical or mental?

3. Eileen recieved from Ed years ago, also a very large plant 3a. 40cm $40 3b. 40cm $40 3c. 40cm $40 3d. 40cm $40

I've watched (or sort of watched) a show on TV where they pull people over for mouth swabs and breath tests. From what I've seen the mouth swab seems to give a lot of false positives which is verified when they drag the victim into the bus for a more reliable test. I've seen instances on that show where the roadside test has given a positive result for amphetamines and THC and the follow up test has proven negative, but the second test has revealed another substance in their blood. The people who have been charged have been pissed off because of the way it's all conducted.If the first (faulty) test didn't give a false positive then the pigs wouldn't have had reason to ream their arse in the first place. It could be argued that the original test is faulty and the pigs are happy to use it because it gives them a reason to bend you over and give it to you up the arse. While they are in there they might be lucky enough to find something else by a fluke, something that they never would have had just cause to go looking for ie no reasonable suspicion. I'd like to see how it would go if challenged in court if their suspicion is based on a faulty test ie is their suspicion still reasonable ? I can see many excuses why the test could give so many false positives, but to me it just seems like a convenient way for them poke around in your most personal asset (your body & blood) and go through your car as well.

All sold... thanks for the purchases... regards, whisperz,...