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Just pay postage or pickup Sydney. Let me know if you have anything for trade (not compulsory happy to send for just postage cost). No cacti pls, Unless you think I really need it. Interested in aya vines that are not cielo, psychotrias and other cool things. 🙂

https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-cure-or-kill-the-deadly-serious-world-of-poison-gardens-and-why-i-planted-my-own-238080

I totally neglected looking into Carpobrotus sp. at all but wondering if they have been explored more recently by anyone? Carpobrotus edulis has long been used as food and in traditional medicine in South Africa. This plant is used by the traditional healers to treat tuberculosis, diabetes mellitus, sores, high blood pressure, intestinal worms and constipation. "...contemporary bioassays of this species in the US have [in some instances] revealed it to sometimes be more potent than Sceletium tortuosum, though of similar quality (pers. comms). C. rossii which is much more common than C. edulis in Australia ... appears to be inactive" - Garden of Eden, S. Voogelbreinder Leaves from C. edulis have a nutritional profile suitable for human consumption. - in vitro biological activities were described for C. edulis including antioxidant, immune modulating, antimicrobial; anticholinesterase and anti-tumoral activity - antidiabetic, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties validated - Exerts a high in vitro anti-neuroinflammatory activity and contains compounds with the potential to prevent neuronal cell damage Primary literature interest in the medicinal effects has been through the phenolic fraction, of which is particularly abundant. Some phytochemical analyses have noted: β-amyrin, oleanolic acid, uvaol, monogalactosyldiacylglycerol, catechin, epicatechin and procyanidin B5 Máximo P, Ferreira LM, Branco PS, Lourenço A. Invasive Plants: Turning Enemies into Value. Molecules. 2020 Aug 1;25(15):3529. doi: 10.3390/molecules25153529. M.I. Rocha, M.J. Rodrigues, C. Pereira, H. Pereira, M.M. da Silva, N. da Rosa Neng, J.M.F. Nogueira, J. Varela, L. Barreira, L. Custódio, Biochemical profile and in vitro neuroprotective properties of Carpobrotus edulis L., a medicinal and edible halophyte native to the coast of South Africa, South African Journal of Botany, Volume 111,2017,Pg 222-231 doi:10.1016/j.sajb.2017.03.036 R.B. Mulaudzi, A.O. Aremu, K.R.R. Rengasamy, S.A. Adebayo, L.J. McGaw, S.O. Amoo, J. Van Staden, C.P. Du Plooy, Antidiabetic, anti-inflammatory, anticholinesterase and cytotoxicity determination of two Carpobrotus species, South African Journal of Botany,Volume 125, 2019, Pages 142-148 doi: 10.1016/j.sajb.2019.07.007. Omoruyi, B. E., Bradley, G., & Afolayan, A. J. (2012). Antioxidant and phytochemical properties of Carpobrotus edulis (L.) bolus leaf used for the management of common infections in HIV/AIDS patients in Eastern Cape Province. BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 12(1). doi:10.1186/1472-6882-12-215 B. Ibtissem, C. Abdelly and S. Sfar, "Antioxidant and Antibacterial Properties of Mesembryanthemum crystallinum and Carpobrotus edulis Extracts," Advances in Chemical Engineering and Science, Vol. 2 No. 3, 2012, pp. 359-365. doi: 10.4236/aces.2012.23042.

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It's a good day. The lophophora seeds have germinated after a week, they are next to a window with bright indirect sunlight and led lights of a night. The plants belonged to a very dear friend, now free from this mortal coil, I miss him. It's nice to be able to germinate the seed, he would be stoked. I did not expect to get this far so any advice would be appreciated

Hello everyone, It has been a long time between posts. This might seem like a bit of a weird way to reintroduce myself to the forums, but I am on somewhat of a journey to understand a recent experience I had with a UFO. I say UFO, although this was the culmination of a period of 'experiences' that included dreams with a very tangible essence to them, UFO sightings, and recalled memories. This period ended with a sighting in Colac in Victoria at my mum and dad's. I was locking up the shed at approximately 6:30-6:45 at night; it was just past dusk when, standing at my car, I looked up and saw two lights next to each other—not too dissimilar to the collision lights of a plane's wings. Watching it, the two lights (one white, one blue) grew brighter and brighter and joined to become one larger, orange, golden-tinted light. It reached its peak brightness, dimmed down to become the two lights again, and faded completely, leaving me unable to see it anymore. I checked flight radar, but nothing was logged. I know some planes fly without transponders, but it was a quiet night, and this thing was silent. The night was still, and there was minimal atmospheric noise such as traffic, wind, etc. Stranger still was how I felt in the preceding days and weeks. It felt like a genuine mystical experience. I felt as though I had been through the most profound and pure mushroom experience of my life, mixed with the euphoria of MDMA. I felt connected to EVERYTHING. I was (and am still) so grateful for my life. Researching UFO experiences, I've learned that people often report feelings of elation. Naturally, this led me down a rabbit hole of podcasts, interviews with researchers, experiencers, investigative journalists, etc. The rabbit hole goes deep. It led me to the audiobook of DMT: The Spirit Molecule by Dr. Rick Strassman. Rick speculates about the possible connection between the UFO phenomenon and the experiences reported by the study participants. Although he was unfamiliar with the phenomenon at the time, he says that having prior knowledge may have helped contextualize the experiences of the participants. He references John E. Mack, who worked with abductees. John’s work in particular with the witnesses of the Ariel School event is worth exploring, even for the die-hard skeptic. I love Ricks writing style and many of his theories and insights into this molecule really resonate. I'm waiting on his book DMT and the Soul of Prophecy. Maybe it's nothing but his idea of theoneurology, to me, feels like it's right on the money. I'm excited to read it. Having my own experience, I find it interesting that it has brought me back into the fold of psychedelics—those plants and fungi that initially helped me develop my sense of spirituality and my place in the cosmos. I was always of the attitude that DMT would find me when I was ready. But now I think I'm ready to take the initiative and explore what this molecule has to offer me, with the hope that I might be able to learn more about these experiences, why I'm having them, and if there is indeed an extraterrestrial aspect to them. So that is more or less why I'm here: a rekindling of my interest in psychedelics as tools for spiritual development and personal growth. I'm wondering how I would go about finding an Ayahuasquero in Australia, or a shaman who works with plant medicine? I thought this would be a good place to start, perhaps someone here can point me in the right direction in terms of websites, communities. When's the next Entheogenisis conference? I do understand that there might be a concern for the mods here that I am essentially asking for guidance on finding a medicine who's legal status in this country is still a work in progress so please, let me know and I'll edit it out asap. I'm happy to answer any questions about any of my experiences. To be honest I'm still in the midst of processing it all and integrating it all. Which again is where I think I might find some assistance in Aya. It's good to see this little community still ticking along 🙏

i do a lot of astronomy, so watch the sky a lot... i noticed two, new types of what i believe are satellites. type 1, allways appear from the same location in the sky, with maybe a few minutes intervals (never took time)moving the same path. sometimes more than one is visible. type 2, very difficult to spot maybe a spy satellite, as they a stationary (allways remaining at the same location) they shine like a star of 3 mag, for maybe 30 seconds, and than stop shinning. after a few minutes they start to emit light again. visible, even late at night (maybe saw at 11 pm?). satallites are visable because the sun shines light on them, that makes those lights of my type 2 very puzzling. saw once an, ufo as a 14 year old, cylider shape with round "windows".

I've now watched 2 documentaries based on original post. The Phenomenon (2020) and The Ariel Phenomenon (2022). Both captivating (the latter featuring John Mack, the Harvard researcher mentioned above). Some of the Zimbabwean elders describe a cultural history of observing UFOs.

1, keep seeds always in the fridge. 2, sieve the top layer, of you seed germination mix. 3, never cover loph seeds with soil. 4, use only hydrophobic soil for lophs. 5, if obsessive, plant seeds with the white dot facing downwards, onto soil. 6, some people use a humidety dome for lophs, even for years after germinating (i would not). 7, learn to graft onto peres or pedro, lot's of info here on the sab forums!!😛 8, well come to sab!

https://russellbroadbent.com.au/australiansdemandanswers/ Some distinguished co-signatories in this parliamentary letter to Albo, calling for an immediate suspension of mRNA vaccine deployments in Oz, pending precautionary investigation of synthetic DNA contamination claims. Just saying.

It would be nice to see some folks from here submit something, Poetry and artworks are also fine and can be done via the submissions page.

Fck this weather....

you rise some very valid points. so, if one of the docs that worked at the surgery before, wrote down, "muscle pain" than thats it, even if you say, "it has to do with food" or the scans said " your lower verts are vacummed. asking for painkillers, unless you had an operation is a red flag for them, and you will get stigmatised. i complained once to a male triage nurse, and he run a vendetta against me, and i did not get a proper treatment. i am prescribed 400mg ibubrofene and i use this as an anty inflamatory, so for periodes one or two a day for a week or so, when telling this do the doc which filled in, he refused to writte me another script, for ibuprofene!! most doctors and the media are extreemly deluded, they think street drugs make addicted, and prescription drugs don't!!! if you say to them, i got hooked on the anti depressant, and have to increase dosage, they say it doesn't matter this drug is good for you. as a shaman i realised the ssri's are not good for me, and now the most modern research claims, ssri's don't fix depression and the benefits were overstated and the side effects ignored. i took once occasional a anti depressant/ anti psyhotic which name now escapes me, when i said to my doc, this makes me suicidal in a way i never experienced before, he said double your dose, what an idiot. i stopped taking it, and never had this feeling ever again. a friend of mine suicided whilst taken this pill.... doc's prescribe those drugs even to alcoholics, all though it very bad to mix them. one time, my diverticulits pain was soo bad, i took 2 oxicontin which i had left after an operation, they only masked the pain, and helped not much... i am lucky i am a shaman, and i can treat my issues at times with herbs. the other thing is to accept things for how they are.