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There's a new survey on subjective effects of Kambo for anyone interested who has done a session before. http://kambo-survey.net/

I'll happily stand down from any prizes mate. That way you only have two to work it out amongst. Thanks heaps for the competition though. Was great seeing everyone's pics!

I totally second this G!!! I love Spoogies gardening shenanigans.....never does anything at less than 110% effort!!! Wish I had half as much energy as you Spooge mate, and good to see Olive is still pitching in with the work too

Think I'm all sorted now. Big big thanks to all the awesome folk who got in touch to help me out. Never ceases to amaze me how great the people on here are, thanks again and all the best!!!

G'day folks, Just wondering if anyone can spare any rue seeds and are happy to post to Perth. Fling me a PM if you can help and I'm sure we can come to some sort of an arrangement. Thanks for checking out this post too... Cheers!

Thanks mate. Got em this morning. Very generous too, cheers.

Very fucking cool man!!!

Hi Bardo, I would love to take some off your hands. Very generous of you to offer.

Cool pic Matt!!!

Awesome Infinity!!! I love a good photo comp. I'll kick off proceedings with an MRI of my own brain circa 2016.

Take care whilst doing the weeding!!! https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/father-left-horrendous-leg-injuries-14718670

Had a cup of tea with the leaves this evening. Around about 5 g chopped fine an left to steep in hot water for about 20 min. Very mild effects but seems to be a little bit anxiolytic and a slightly stronger, but still very mild sedative effect. I read that paper comparing between galphimine B and lorazepam, and can't see anywhere near the same effect as any benzo from an acute dose. Perhaps it needs to be chronic treatment like in that paper to get a reliable effect? At least for me.... am sort of leaning more to the placebo effect over any acute dosage benefits. Or maybe tea is the wrong method? Might try smoking next time?

Arrived today. Thanks Al! Capped exactly 1 gram and took about two hours ago. Possibly feeling slightly calmer but hard to tell as I was already quite chilled. Will experiment more over the weekend and report back to you. Thanks again mate.

Thanks. I'd be lying if I said I understood a lot of that, but in essence I think I get what you mean at least in part.

Yes please mate. More than happy to provide some bioassay feedback too if that's what you mean by opinion.

This is in no way meant to sound like I'm being a smart arse, it's an honest request....but could you translate any of that in to plain English by any chance? As a neuroscientist and practicing Buddhist with views somewhat unorthodox for a neuroscientist, I honestly still can't make sense of barely any of that, but it sounds quite intriguing. Honest question mate, no offense intended brother

Some new surveys from Professor David Nutt and Dr Robin Carhart-Harris of the Psychedelic Research Group based at Imperial College London. Please participate if you can, and pass on to other interested parties. More info Microdosing https://microdosingsurvey.com Ceremonial Use https://ceremonystudy.com Global Psychedelic Study https://global.psychedelicsurvey.com

Couldn't agree more....he's king of the subs!

I think maybe the most valuable asset she has is having a friend like you in all honesty mate. Good on ya, I hope if I was in a situation like that I would behave half as well as you are. All the best to your friend and yourself...I hope she finds relief in some form.

As someone who is based in a psychopharmacology lab who has colleagues that work with Stephen Bright I have to say you summed up the situation perfectly dude. Great post! And @Hendry sad to say as far as Australia @Mapacho is spot on. If I remember correctly, UCLA are doing the psychedelic studies in regard to mortality in cancer patients. Maybe check that out. If you find any papers you can't get access to then your welcome to pm me and I'll see if I can help.

Source... http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2018/03/30/blind-person-lsd/ ***Scroll to the end for the original journal article*** How do blind people experience psychedelic drugs? This is the topic of an interesting, but unusual, paper just out in Consciousness and Cognition. The paper’s authors are University of Bath researchers Sara Dell’Erba, David J.Brown, and Michael J.Proulx. However, the real star contributor is a man referred to only as “Mr Blue Pentagon”. Blue Pentagon (“BP”) is the pseudonym for a 70 year old blind man who reports taking large quantities of LSD and other drugs during his career as a rock musician in the 1970s. (“Blue Pentagon” was his favorite brand of LSD.) How the researchers came to meet BP is not stated. Much of the paper consists of BP’s accounts of his experiences under the influence of hallucinogens, and this is what makes the article rather unusual, as parts are more reminiscent of a late-night conversation than an academic paper. For instance, here’s how BP describes the impact of LSD on the perception of music: During my psychedelic experiences, whenever I listened to music, I felt as if I was immersed in the most beautiful waterfall ever. The episode of the waterfall was the nearest I ever came to experiencing anything like synesthesia. The music of Bach’s third Brandenburg concerto brought on the waterfall effect. I could hear violins playing in my soul and found myself having a one hour long monologue using different tones of voices. I remember they sounded extremely unique! LSD gave everything ‘height’ …The waterfall experience was limited to one specific piece of music: Bach’s Brandenburg concerto number 3. It was almost tactile, but it was so outside my normal parameters of experience that it was the only way I could express it. BP goes on to discuss trippy tactile experiences: I felt like I was in a fairyland, in a surreal reality where everything I touched was extremely velvety, almost as if it had a very soft patina on top. Sometimes I could not clench my hands as tight as I wanted to, or maybe I did and did not realise. Once I took acid and marijuana at the same time and I wanted to feel everyone’s faces so that I could tell each person what I thought of them just by touching their faces. It was a very strange experience as their skin felt so soft, but their eyes, noses and mouths were in some way distorted. One thing BP says he never experienced were visual hallucinations. Notably, he was born blind, and had never experienced sight in his life. Dell’Erba say that this is the first qualitative account of LSD experiences in a congenitally blind individual. The lack of visual hallucinations in such cases has, however, been reported previously. The authors also emphasize the synaesthesia-like nature of some of BP’s reports, notably the Bach-waterfall experience quoted above, which they say could be described as auditory-tactile synaesthesia, albeit the experience may have gone beyond these two senses: “BP… could only make reference to the non-auditory aspect of the musical experience by describing it in tactile terms” At the end of the day, then, it sounds like ‘you had to be there’ in order to know what it was like for BP to take LSD. The original paper Consciousness and Cognition... pdf.zip

Another study, this time by Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Only a short one about 5 min long... "We are looking for any and all individuals who have ever used a psychedelic (including MDMA). If this is you, we kindly ask you to fill out our 5 minute questionnaire, so that science can benefit from your experience! The questionnaire is completely anonymous and confidential. For more information, you can follow this link to the survey: https://maastrichtuniversity.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cNr4SHEEidiUBMN "

JHU School of Medicine is looking for volunteers to complete an anonymous survey. From the website - "We are researchers at Johns Hopkins University working on a research study regarding the experiences of people who have had encounters with seemingly autonomous beings or entities after taking DMT. This anonymous internet survey involves asking about your experiences, including the short-term and long-term effects. If you have ever had such an experience, we would greatly appreciate it if you would complete our survey. If you know of others who have ever had an experience of encountering a seeming autonomous being or entity after taking DMT, please send them the link and encourage them to participate. This includes people who had such an experience long ago. As you may know, our team has conducted survey and laboratory studies investigating the phenomenology of psychedelic substance use and this new survey is an important extension of our published and ongoing research. If you are interested in participating or would like to know more about the study, please click the link below to the secure study site. We anticipate that it will take you approximately 20-40 minutes to complete the survey. Your participation is completely anonymous." If you'd like to participate, here's the link... https://jhmi.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eqvCfk2u19kSzm5

#2 Might be Tipuana tipu?