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https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2025/01/mind-blindness-decoded-people-who-cant-see-with-their-minds-eye-still-activate-their-visual-cortex-study-finds fwiw

https://foodmedcenter.org/study-spotlight-take-away-with-chef-dr-mike-planting-a-seed/ 2023 study shows plant consciousness and intelligence ...

Love the way the colours change throughout the year. But still no clue as to genetics.

Looking for viable seeds, plant, etc. M. hirsuta or related species.

Great lecture for anyone interested in music ...

A bit of "legend" I found at another website https://trichopedia.org/clones/ogunbodede/ The ogunbodede clone is named after the lead researcher who compiled a chemical analysis study in 2010. According to legend, Ogunbodede sourced many plants for this study, but one box got lost in the mail. That box had two cuttings from a pachanoi in Matucana, Peru. After almost a year MIA, a beat up box arrived with two cuts that had almost mummified during the journey. One was used in the analysis and the data was an outlier more than two standard deviations above the mean. Instead of looking into the variable that caused the discrepancy, they included it in the report as is. The other cutting was planted, and dispersed throughout the cactus community with the Ogunbodede name. Sacred Succulents did most of the original dispersion. As for looks, it has that smooth Matucana pach vibe. Short spines and a nice green dermis help set it apart from other pachanoi varieties, but it's indistinguishable from other Matucana or landrace pachs.

^ yes, vascular bundle of the core is (generally) too thick on mature-growth San Pedro; it will tend to push the button off the rootstock. Young growth, pups work best. Tricho seedlings is probably my favourite (most foolproof) grafting method, as you can sit the rootstock (just a few inches) on its own roots in a small glass jar, then hold everything (including the button) in place with a taut layer of cling film, 3 days max.

I've had success grafting both halves (top and bottom) of various LW buttons to San Pedro pups / tricho seedlings. But these grafts invariably throw new pups rather than grow as a single giant button. +1 on barely watering a LW, even if grafted to a tricho rootstock.

Spines are a good clue.

Kratom degrades quickly, in a matter of months after leaf is harvested.

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

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/oct/30/victoria-medical-cannabis-driving-licence-cancellation-exemption-proposal ^ Victorian drivers may get some reprieve.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/discover/palestine-plants-symbolic-meanings

I seem to cultivate more snails in my garden than I do plants. I don't mind them. I usually throw them over the front fence, onto the nature strip. But wouldn't you know, some of them cross the footpath, climb the brick wall, heading back to their favourite spot in my garden. I've read about snail homing before, so it was interesting to observe. Found this guide to studying snail movements in your garden: http://www.urbanfieldnaturalist.org/resources/guide-to-snail-homing snailhoming-printshortedge.pdf

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.

Could it be Lord Elon's StarLink satellite train? What a blight on the night sky.

Not so "safe and effective": https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/the-pfizer-papers-prizers-crimes?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=676930&post_id=150351239&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=axosb&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-30/min-min-lights-seen-in-outback/10317058

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.

In that case I'll definitely be hunting for roots. Do mesembrine alkaloids (like SSRIs) inhibit the effects of other psychoactive plant medicines? Or would they (like MAOIs) potentiate them? I have my suspicions, but wonder what others might be able to report.

Compared with S. tortuosom, I'd say fermented/dried A. cordifolia doesn't taste as good in a tea. And neither (for me) did it have as noticeable an effect. I took my samples at different stages of their respective growth cycles (Sceletium stems were dry and woody. Greener Aptenia material yielded a more vigorous fermentation). Alchemica is vastly more experienced in growing, preparing and researching these plants, worth contrasting with my subjective impressions: