Ishmael Fleishman

I have recently discovered these via the McKenna.academy and on YouTube. I have downloaded over 50 presentations for archiving and they are invaluable resources, having watched a few several times, just to grasp the depth of knowledge made available. I recommend that everyone with any interest in plants devour them. https://mckenna.academy/?speakers-program=espd50 https://mckenna.academy/?speakers-program=espd55 PS. The YouTube algorithm does not bring these up, instead serving up usual regurgitated dribble that passes for facts on psychoactive plants/fungus. Which makes me wonder what other content is being obviscated by an algorithm.

@Alchemica Sorry that are feeling lost. Ceremonial Cacao bars jump out to me. I think it is the best idea because people love chocolate, however getting something that tastes good would be a challenge. Because people will compare into to a sugary inferior chocolate bar taste. Rose and saffron are not the usual flavors Australian consumers. Very Arabic/Indian. I am not sure if Kanna can be hidden, that green vegetable taste would a challenge. I am a foody and avid home cook. So flavor is something that is important to me. Maybe selling it also as a block to melt down into a drink. The same way Mexican drinking chocolate is sold. I would be interested in a legal harmine addition to Ceremonial Cacao. ++++++++ As for money - I hate it but if you cannot cover costs with a small profit to expand your service and product - the products will not be sustainable. ++++++++ Tea is always popular but it is also a saturated market.

Came across this regarding DMT and on how DMT relates to inflammation. A few interesting things is that are covered in this research - most of it is beyond my understanding - one is that serotonin receptors are not they key to understanding DMT psychedelic activity and more.

Any thoughts?

I am actually thinking to integrate ceremonial Cacao as part of a San Pedro ceremony.

Has anyone enjoy Cacao? Ritually, Recreational or Medicinal? Do you have anything to share? I have never been a chocolate bar fan, and commercial drinking chocolate was always a kids drink. Then I discovered raw cacao and have developed a deeper appreciation for cacao. I have been trying to find a copy of Jonathan Ott The Cacahuatl Eater: Ruminations of an Unabashed Chocolate Addict without luck. Anyone have a copy? I really like Jonathan Ott - he seems to a lesser known figure but his knowledge, wit and intellect is mesmerizing. I have been making raw Cacao with chili and vanilla. Still have not made the jump to ceremonial. However I am interested in pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica potentiaters for cacao so far I have found: Chili - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chili_pepper definitely my favorite Annatto (Bixa orellana) - "slightly peppery with a hint of nutmeg" and flavor as "slightly nutty, sweet and peppery". Magnolia - Magnolia mexicana (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnolia_mexicana#Human_use) Psilocybin mushroom (potentiated by the rumored MAOI in chocolate is interesting) Cymbopetalum penduliflorum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymbopetalum_penduliflorum) Bourreria huanita (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourreria) vanilla (Vanilla planifolia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla_planifolia silk cotton tree (Castilla elastica) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castilla_elastica honey and the syrup of the maguey cactus mecaxochitl (‘cord-flower) - NO IDEA WHAT THESE ARE - YET tlilxochitl (‘black flower’) - NO IDEA WHAT THESE ARE - YET I found this: https://www.mexicolore.co.uk/maya/chocolate/aztec-and-maya-chocolate - Need to dissect the content.

Any one have an ID on this columnar cactus 8 Ribs Blue Skin Long Brown Spines.

The damage is not rot. Its damage from when it was harvested and dropped. Going by what you have said. I will just leave it standing up until it has roots.

I was just thinking - could I just lay the tip cuttings log style on their sides putting the damaged parts face down and out of sight and that way it might pup and put roots out at the same time? Thoughts?

I will leave it for a year to let it recover and root then next pupping season off will comes its head.

At the moment these two cuttings do not have roots, if I cut of the top would that be a concern? Happy to trim off the tops and try to graft the remnants and get some pups from this beauty. Considering I will be getting another more cosmetic sample shortly.

I meet my source today to pick up the first lot of the aforementioned cactus. These two samples are the less cosmetically perfect versions I hope to get the nicer example in two weeks. According to my source this was liberated from a large stand from a garden in my local area by some less then reputable people before passing through multiples hands to arrive at me - it should be called "half-inched". However nothing beyond that is know about it. My source tells me that it lacks a white flesh being green all the way through, will need to confirm and I am told that it is very strong medicine. The spines are massive certainly longer then anything in my collection and it is by far the most Glaucous of any of my cactus. I think this is certainly one of my favorites. Wondering about the damage on the top, I could cut it off however I feel given time it will grow into a fine example. I was also gifted with a 5 rib Echinopsis scopulicola I think.

I noticed yesterday that all the pups are on the side of the cactus that gets the most sun. Then my friend said I should rotate the pot to stimulate more pups. Then I thought that the cactus should be put on a slowly rotating turn table. :-) The best solution for maximum sun exposure. At this point I think I have an eight ribbed Trichocereus Matucana peruvianoid synonymous with Rosei

I have made deal for the above cactus an exchange of plants and cash. Pick up this Thursday. I have a been looking online and the above example looks very much like a Trichocereus ROSEI 2. My questions is would a Trichocereus ROSEI 2 come in 8 ribs or can it develop 8 ribs. If not this must be a Matucana peruvanoids going by what has been said above and what I have read again online. UNRELATED QUESTION 01 I have two thick Trichocereus growing in massive pots - they were 1 meter long cuttings about 1.5 years ago and have grown over 600mm in the the mean time. This year they are throwing their first pups, one has 4 pups, and one has 5 pups. My question is how many pups can a single plant put out in one season? UNRELATED QUESTION 02 On one of the Trichocereus has a pup growing from an areole, the a second pup has also come out directly above the first one on the next row of areole. I can see that they will both be competing for the same grow space. What should I do? Should I try to grow them both and let them fight it out OR try to graft one once it gets big enough to liberate? Or kill one now?

I am not a fungus guy - I enjoy eating them but not much into psilocybin. I looked into growing edible mushrooms from liquid/spore on grain and it was all to much for me. I just do not have the space or equipment to make a clean space to undertake work that I perceive to be like a laboratory. So I never got past the research stage. Then one day I found some mushrooms growing on some eucalyptus mulch in a hospital garden. I went home got some x-large zip lock bags, disinfect the bags with alcohol and washed my hands with alcohol and I dug up a few good handful of mycelium. I then took a clear shoe box size plastic tub, I washed it out, and again flooded it with more alcohol. By this time I smelled like a cheap distillery. I then took the cardboard and packed it into a pot and boiled it for an hour until it was sterile. I drained the hot water off and then transferred the cardboard to the plastic tub pulling the cardboard apart into sheets. Between each layer I sprinkled some of the mycelium. I then covered with a lid and left the plastic tub in the garage on a shelf. To be honest I was not expecting anything. I did not have clean air and I did not have a spore free, bacteria free laboratory setup. I honestly expected that I would maybe end up with some mycelium, and some mold and some other funky stuff. Over winter their was little action, the container environment was moist but not flooded. However after a few months I saw the Mycelium spreading, the fine white tendrils spreading over the cardboard. As spring has advanced those tiny patches have spread. It still has a long way to go. Maybe 15% of the cardboard is covered - looking from the outside. However their are no other growths or colors forming. Fingers crossed. Probably by the end of summer I expect to get a nice white mass of mycelium. I have not opened the lid fearing contamination. Now I hope to have the same mycelium growing that I put into a larger tub, but I do not know I might have button mushrooms growing. But it is not about the end product it is about the exploration of ideas and process. QUESTIONS: Why is direct propagation of mycelium not more common practice? Is their anything I can do to help it along or speed it up. - It has just been sitting in a dimly lit garage for a few months on a shelf. Simply ignored for the most part. I was planning once I got enough mass of mycelium to relocate it into the garden. Or maybe getting a large shallow tub and filling it with sterile eucalyptus mulch and seeing if the mycelium will eventually fruit. Keen to find out what I have been growing all this time. I realize that this method is bloody slow. However if it works and I do not need thousand of dollars of lab equipment - then I am happy to wait. On YouTube I have seen people growing edible mushrooms in a outdoor raised garden beds. Just dumping spores and mycelium into organic material and later harvesting oyster mushrooms and more just from an open garden. Which I think is kind of cool. Closer to gardening then a laboratory. But so far so good fun in my little experiment, watching the mycelium grow in the clear tup is rather exciting. - I need a girlfriend me thinks.

I am interested in growing edible wood loving mushrooms on logs in the garden when things settle in my living situation. I will then look into putting my mycelium into a purpose built bed. If I have a variety of mycelium then that it is what I have. Less efficient but it is simpler in my situation.

I can see a similarities in the Areoles with the Roseii 2 that I. A friend of mine is selling it for $150 - yes she is beautiful - and I do not have a an 8 rib example. so I am looking to purchase it. I have asked him about its pedigree but I am waiting to hear back. As for identification someone should make up a flowchart for Trichocereus - like how many ribs does it have? More then 6 More then 8 More then 12? etc etc...

How do I tell a peruvianus from a birdgesii?

My apologies for the verbose nature of this post, and I will surely lose many before this convulsion ends. After a recent experience, I have been pondering the question of the nature of reality. This is a preliminary attempt to synthesise several interrelated ideas on the outer limits of thought. Many of these ideas have been postulated by the likes of Animism, the Buddha, William Blake, Carl Jung, Alan Watts, Aldous Huxley, Terence Mckenna, Ram Dass, Neuroscience and even Cosmology; however never fully expressed as follows: ONE - The structure of the brain limits our capacity to experience reality, and all we believe to be real is a transcribed interpretation of what is out there. This phenomenon is often described as the reducing valve, and therefore, what we consider to be reality is an insipid facsimile of reality's true breadth and scope. TWO - Psychedelics are one possible means by which we may, for a short time, where total immersion in reality becomes possible. Width mediation and enlightenment are the others. THREE - The multiverse, with the help of plants and fungi, are teachers that produce compounds to help these stupid big-brain primates called humans understand the true nature of the multiverse. We suffer because we are attached to our reducing-valve-induced delusions. FOUR: Psychedelic compounds are not hallucinogens; they do not make us see or experience what does not exist but allow us to fully comprehend what is. FIVE: That consciousness is not the product of the brain. It is not merely the result of incessant firings of mechanistic neurons; the brain is a consciousness transceiver tuned into the multiverse, a node on a trans-dimensional information super interchange. That our consciousness is the collective unconscious part of an unceasing ebb and flow between all creation from the beginning to the end of time and beyond, permeating the multiverse. A force no less real than that of gravity and possibly just as subtle. SIX: To fully engage with reality means tapping into a trans-dimensional multiverse we experience as consciousness. A multiverse filled with beings, creatures and all of us, the very Godhead itself. Now my musing is this - If there is any validity to this understanding of our place in reality. Then reality is something stupendously wondrous, even more so than the fervent delusion of a madman. Yet, I can hear the reductionist carrion call who rejects such notions as the ravings of madmen, who argues we are all just meat machines, nothing more than glorified bags of excrement strung out on a chemical soup of misfiring neurotransmitters suffering with contemptible delusions groping in the dark, staring at the shadows on the cave.

My hope is to start a conversation. I have no answers. Micromegas you have correctly pointed out the core of my question and my OP is very much a question My OP was a question as much as it was a summation of my understanding. My summation does contain a "leap of faith". Because religious revelation provides a language for an ineffable experience. In my OP I asking very much what is real? This is why I muse about points 1 - 6 and if they are true then However in saying the above I am questioning - however can something so stupendously wondrous be real? and why I finish questioning are we Leaving open the possibility that the and it being nothing more then a personal psychological construct. However I feel that these experiences are part of a collective human experience - maybe they are just a shared delusion of human consciousness but even that would make then stupendously wondrous.

I am interested in the preparation, dosage and consumption of Peruvian "Singado, or singar” Tobacco Juice in the Northern Peruvian Curanderismo Tradition. I have found been unable to find a definite reference recipe for its perpetration. I have seen instruction that came from Don Eduardo Calderon Palomino that was a mix of mapacho, alcohol, water, sugar and spices. Another recommends mapacho powder soaked in a 10% alcohol solution for months then filtered and another version adds honey to the mix. Then other references talk about mixing in some wachuma tea with the tobacco juice. Then their is the question of dosage, their are references to a small shell but to my Western mind that is not a unti of measure I am comfortable with. I have seen the wachuma ceremonies performed and the shells are not that small. See attached still from Eduardo Calderón- the Healer 1978 El Tuno. Chamán y curandero de Las Delicias - Trujillo If you have seen episode one of Netflix How to Change Your Mind you have seen this scene with the tobacco juice measured in a syringe before being injected into the nasal passage. Then I just came across the idea that Singado is a more modern version of the ancient practice of imbibing yopo (Anadenanthera peregrin). Has anyone got any experience with Peruvian "Singado, or singar” Tobacco Juice and its relationship to wachuma. I have also noticed that some form of tobacco juice is being used in Neo-shamanic and psychedelic therapists as way to break through "energy blocks". I have also heard of the juice being rubbed into the inside of the elbow to help people break through difficult moments - allowing the users mind to focus and not to be distracted. Since nicotine and possible other alkaloids can be absorbed through the skin, this also makes sense and would be slower to come on then administrating via the sinus.

Micromegas thank you for your account and first hand experience with tobacco juice. I will need to digest your information. The value and purpose of alcohol would depend on the abv. I have seen recipes with as little as 10% alcohol and this can only be as a solvent however once you get to 38% abv then you are using the alcohol as a preservative. This is why wine at 15% abv will go off but whiskey at 40% abv will not. I will try looking online again but I have not been able to find much information.

I am surprised that no one has anything to say about the use of tobacco juice through the sinus. I may just have to experiment very very carefully by myself. Maybe starting with 1/8 of a ml of tobacco juice in maybe 10ml of water and working up in dosage. Probably have to use weight instead of volume to get accurate measurements. I have about 100g of mapacho sitting in 400ml of 60% ABV rum for several months. I will dilute it down with 400ml of water and honey and leave for a few more months. I know from my days brewing beer that alcohol is a solvent and it extracts certain flavonoids and alkaloids but so does water only it extract different ones. This is why whiskey is aged in oak barrels between 50% to 65% ABV the rest being water and the water being a essential part in extracting flavor from the barrel. I think using honey will make the solution more viscous and better tasting if it gets down the back of the throat from the sinus. However nicotine is a powerful toxin. However I am an ex smoker I have a fair tolerance. However extreme caution is the order of the day. Would love opinions and experiences.

A kind member on this community gifted me some ceremonial cacao to compare to the supermarket bought raw cacao. I made the ceremonial cacao in the same way I would the raw - 50g of cacao, milk, sugar and chilli. In short the difference between these two items not comparable. The raw cacao is a kids drinks the ceremonial cacao is an entheogen. The ceremonial cacao started within 30 minutes as a tingle in the arms and body and a slight stimulating buzz but nothing edge after an hour or two gave way to a deep relaxation almost a feeling of floating in water. I could definitely feel that it made me more in touch with my emotions, not emotional just they I could feel more - maybe this is the opening of the heart people speak about. As the day wore on I could feel the effect, I not sure how to describe it however the best I can describe in the relaxation akin to a small to moderate amount of alcohol a feeling that has stayed with me and I could definitely feel it working its way through me throughout the day. I have noted that my stomach is unsettled and a little sensitive maybe not used to so much Theobromine. 10 hours post consumption and I can still feel it, relaxed ready for sleep. Maybe I am more sensitive or not used to the medicine. I did not do a full ritual, just centered myself with a prayer before ingestion. No real set setting and the like however I could see how ceremonial cacao could be a very effective entheogen. I feel that combined with another entheogens it could be a great part of a come up phase. I can see why traditionally ceremonial cacao was mixed with magic mushrooms the likes of Maria Sabina. Combining it with Wachuma is definitely worth considering. From my limited third-hand understanding cacao is a central Peru entheogen were Wachuma is more associated with northern coastal Peru. However it seems to that they would really go together so well. Maybe even smoking mapacho and drinking cacao would be interesting. While ceremonial cacao is four time the price of raw cacao I feel its like comparing a Honda to a Maserati. Its price would limit daily use but I do not think that any entheogen should be used daily. I will comment on the taste. The raw cacao taste much more akin to commercial chocolate the ceremonial cacao is earthier, less bitter then expected, less chocolate, it is just different to chocolate or raw cacao. Ceremonial cacao was no were as intense in flavor as I thought it would be. Possible because it is not as refined/processed and still contains all the cocoa fat which could possible dilute the chocolate flavor. I defiantly will be exploring ceremonial cacao again.

I have a dear and beloved friend a 57-year-old professional female who lives in Victoria. She has a history of anxiety, depression, insomnia and Excoriation disorder (obsessive skin picking). She was on several SSRIs, anti-psychotics, and more. None of the medications was working. So she had another friend offer her a cannabis joint. She has been having the occasional joint for 1 month during this time her anxiety, depression, insomnia and Excoriation disorder have gone away her skin is no longer full of holes. In a month she has tapered off all other meds. She was calling her experience with cannabis "amazing" and was glad to no longer take several pills a day. Today her family found out that she smokes 1 joint every few days. Their response was to book her into a private drug rehabilitation clinic for one weak. They have threatened to cut off all contact if she does not go. They are calling her a junky and that she will lose her job and that marijuana is a gateway to heroin and cocaine. Then her sister who works for the police has put a notice on her licence that the police must pull her over whenever they come across her and that is to be treated like a drug addict and will be tested for drugs. I feel that this must be illegal, abuse of police powers and police harassment. Police should not be able to target someone without criminal cause/justification?????? Her romantic partner even turned on her, her children, sister and parents have all turned on her for smoking a fucking joint. My friend is beside herself, she was having the best day and then her supposedly loving family does this. It just shows me how insane Cannabis Propaganda is and how it has fucked up people's minds have become regarding a plant that has been used for 10,000 years and while it is temporarily restricted it soon will be made legal in a few short years. Questions Can you be forced into rehab? Can the police target you without cause? How fucked up is this for a joint?