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Deep grooves instead of aureoles.

Good to know. I've often used scoria in the bottom of pots for drainage, or as top dressing, never had any issues with it before. But will definitely take that advice on board. Will do, thanks. This is the only cactus I've come across that didn't respond to TLC -- if anything, it showed signs of rapid deterioration from the moment I received it.

On this specimen, aureoles are about one inch apart -- but two inches between aureoles wherever these indentations occur. So it's a case of dropping an aureole, as well as interrupting rib growth.

Not construction workers but "neo-Nazis" -- this a bit rich, coming from the ABC.

https://chacruna.net/mexico-psilocybin-symposium-therapy-culture-decolonization-philosophy/?mc_cid=45b17b62a7&mc_eid=cbbc326c01 A free virtual symposium ... I think it may have just started.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_Yuga I always thought the Age of Kali was named for the goddess, not some demon.

I'm sorry to hear about the headaches and tinnitus. Hopefully they will pass. Unfortunately those symptoms are so general they could be just as easily attributed to other proximate causes, the rollout of 5G infrastructure including near-orbit satellites, for example. I've lived with chronic tinnitus for almost 20 years. Surprisingly, one adapts. My question would be, how do your symptoms work their way into the established scientific data on vaccination safety? Since this is an ongoing biomedical experiment (on a planetary scale), follow-up data should be pursued as a matter of urgency. Unless, of course, this is all just a box-ticking exercise for corporate benefit, in which case ... we all lose, vaccinated or not.

Is this a sacred variety? https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/265302421297?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D1110018%26algo%3DHOMESPLICE.COMPLISTINGS%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20210609144404%26meid%3Dbcd8d78f67214d688aab1e542752f3a7%26pid%3D101196%26rk%3D5%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D265304197997%26itm%3D265302421297%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D0%26pg%3D2047675%26algv%3DItemStripV101HighAdFeeWithCompV3Ranker%26brand%3DCactus&_trksid=p2047675.c101196.m2219&amdata=cksum%3A265302421297bcd8d78f67214d688aab1e542752f3a7|enc%3AAQAGAAACAGLON9YwwJSq00YIER4%2BH0f0BDT5s%2FzIMUoo3CYSX4xGDmEZMHEIb5BAIW7y05ag4SZSdlgfzfTNIBJXm48MOkjhlHsxElGZ6HdlOd%2B5DhQY%2FYNkHTC71F%2BjiMfC%2Fdmg0GVk15kuILcIZ1U6VhpStgSqzttEWNy2WhZteEKBEKVNqsGTqu9wjQFRkHWEDGAtUdLE7aW%2BzA18LKM4%2FN5HZNHgRN57FTPrbK46M4OMzkkNxVtC9oeaoK9d217ennOiKpxzsOFfcdjzhtVHmi1idfwJU4VUjFzv2mRteKQrm39P2odN0z%2Be%2F1O0jASOX8%2FqdlWe6nx52C8LR6iMY66nO9tq6XRHIvnOxidSBfJm9kWoJRJ8LVk9WcZtdcJ7QOnOdy%2FWfIDorWKu37Yk1SzfPhu64xPBzkCzjMcb4kPDnWn7v%2Btdm8Kz16b8vDi9OxViNsVOo407UmlamILGpVkI4f0j1CUVhO7UDrAYEfyxPPEdu6O7Xe0cjg8J%2F8gKMjDiFT5Odd2%2F9eSLlWyMnH1GGEHIc7mw0hOzcfqJ%2F3Jw%2BuXSI45NUTZ69hWEWxHY6M%2BzKASrr5%2F8og3f6MfOZKTSfawHTPNCdadj%2B9SSTENnoTah0gEP3c1vDfjq8aBrCJS9p9f9NzFojktnpovw8WGMQaJqaHZ2wWC6WsGC6VzzTtw2|ampid%3APL_CLK|clp%3A2047675

An eBay seller is promoting the name of cactus collector "Victor Honeychurch" - maybe from Riverlands - (SA?) - as a source of historic Trichocereus peruvianus varieties. I bought a cutting of "Victor 4" (of 6 or so different ones). I'd heard of Fields and Dawson collections, but Honeychurch? Anyone here have any info?

oh well

History tells us that biological components of a vaccine will escape into the wild and mutate. Polio, a case in point. Chalk it up to the law of unintended consequences. The biosphere is telling us something of the toxicity of human economic and ideological systems; planetary bio-feedback we ignore at our peril. Pro-vax wishful thinking to the rescue? Maybe, but not without significant casualties in the process. Political freedoms, for one. On the plus side, technological fixes are good for economic growth, at least in the short term -- I dread to think of the intergenerational debt being foisted on us in the name of public health. Pfizer et al., meanwhile, are laughing all the way to the bank, devoid of any responsibility for adverse outcomes. If that's the "new normal" then count me out.

Have you tried diatomaceous earth?

I have suffered tinnitus, the result of an ear infection & ruptured eardrum, for almost 20 years. Recently I was reading on a Tinnitus forum how some people claimed that psilocybin had helped or even cured their tinnitus. Others claimed the reverse effect -- that psilocybin made their tinnitus worse. I seem to fall into the latter camp, with an uncomfortable amplification of my tinnitus under the influence of psilocybin in particular. Now, I wonder if this effect could vary depending on the source (different mushroom species, for example). The worst of all my tinnitus episodes preceded what I suspect was an episode of Wood Lover Paralysis. I'm still astonished that an internal perception of sound -- with no external vibrational sound source -- could be so frighteningly painful. I think treatment of tinnitus is a promising avenue for therapeutic psychedelic research. Anyone else have experiences to share of tinnitus (ringing in the ears) as part of their experience?

https://psychedelicreview.com/wood-lover-paralysis-unsolved-mystery/ Weird.

Building hospitals would have been a better investment ... than Astra-Zeneca. But I see no mad rush to bolster the health system -- only the failing economic one.

Placebo effect?

https://scitechdaily.com/psychedelic-drug-psilocybin-magic-mushrooms-spurs-growth-of-neural-connections-lost-in-depression/

The only time my tinnitus has ever disappeared, more or less completely, was for a few hours after local anaesthesia from a dental procedure. Anyone can report on tinnitus effects or therapeutic benefits of dissociative anaesthetics?

Great to hear, confirmation of existing studies that show passiflora spp. useful in treating various addictions, including nicotine. A friend had some (rogue passionfruit rootstock) that was accidentally cut & withered on the vine, in full sun. That batch tasted a lot like tobacco, to me.

Tricho bridgesii var. lageniformis forma Elongatus. [...] grows over 1 m high, grows very slow, very big white flowers. [!] https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/402887922223

I guess City Lights was there at the inception of the (self-styled) psychedelic revolution -- Leary, Ginsberg, Burroughs, et al. Michael Pollan about as far removed as one can imagine from that earlier milieu--perhaps strategically so, given the legal and political backlash against 60s counterculture which quelled psychedelic research for half a century. It's great to see City Lights still a hub of psychedelic culture; Ferlinghetti would no doubt have approved. Though I do wonder about cultural elites who serve as gatekeepers, the likes of Pollan (at least, that's my impression of him, having heard him lecture on psychedelics once before). I will try & give these videos a run, thanks trucha for linking. Shine on, City Lights!

Thanks - must be the only link I didn't try!

Has anybody still got a copy of this to share?