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  3. Posted

    Also does plant age have a major impact on alkaloid levels?

    in my experience with A. maidenii that is definately the case, along with other factors.

    but that also brings up massive moral issues with harvesting bark from beautiful old tree's.

    don't do it! unless you have grown them or they are on your own land etc.

    i have admittedly pruned the top most, branch ends from trees growing on my families land, which i certainly don't feel adversly affected the tree, but i don't do this any more. as so many people say so often, use the phylodes! if you don't have a species with phylode alk content, grow some!

    i also wanna hear peoples experience with A. baileyana as i have a few seedling growing myself!

  6. Posted

    i like the name "ethical living"

    or perhaps "low impact living"

    "sustainable living" is good but the word "sustainable" has been bastardized alot recently.

    for instance, has anyone heard john howards plans to burn Tassies old growth for electricity and call it sustainable, renewable, green energy :blink:

  8. Posted

    is everyone aware that if you buy a fish from the supermarket which goes by the name of "Freshwater Basa" you're actually getting one of those suckers!

    the Mekong river and other thai rivers are totally over-run with these catfish and they export thousands of tons of them to the world under the above name.

  10. Posted

    I bet a world wide war with everyone on LSD would be a much better idea than one without from the looks of that vid :)

    how about LSD grenades. they would blow up in a cloud of vaporized liquid.

    that would surly make peace :innocent_n:

    on second thoughts :unsure:

  15. Posted

    that is an awsome video and a good song. i think maynard is simply a true artist. GWB is simply a dopey buffoon and the american government makes me want to laugh, cry and spew at the same time. that would hurt.

    i think along with the mass scale horror and pain both GWB (and the rest of them) & hitler have both caused, i think what links them is that they are both twisted psychotic fuckwits who have somehow come to power.

  16. Posted

    actually its listed as an australian weed and supposedly grows wild around river banks throughout victoria, or so ive read. :drool2::rolleyes:

    sweet!

    it'd be full of seed but sweet to make hash from!

    my dad has told me stories from the seventies, when it used to grow wild all around the place but the police did a huge crack down and weeded it all out. supposedly (according to my dad) there used to be huge burn off parties where the cops would burn the huge weed bonfires.

  17. Posted

    I dont think he actually had any fears or paranoia about anything, other than the unknown.

    if nothing else, mushrooms are certain to thrust you deep into the unknown and even the unknowable!

    when our puny ego's (we all have one :wink: ) are confronted with infinity, it's an indescribably terrifying experience for our sense of self, which is utterly obliterated in the face of the infinite truth.

    my FOAF has found that seriously practicing certain meditation techniques has helped him enormously, to stay equanimous, no matter he experiences during a trip. it has helped him to deeply realise that everything is transitory and that every experience we have is just a passing phenomenon. this enables him to observe his terror and watch it pass away.

    with the childhood experience thing your FOAF was talking about, my FOAF can only give his experience and thoughts about it:

    my FOAF feels that when you are a baby you are completely in contact with the utterly infinite enigma of the universe. a baby has not developed it's ego yet and has not cut itself off from the truth.

    as we get older we learn to create our sense of self and all the illusions which go with it. this enables us to exist in the 3d world and to go about our business without being overwhelmed by the utterly infinite, fractalating soup of energy which is the universe and ultimately is what we are.

    when we are older and our illusions and ego are thoroughly ingrained in us, we decide to eat some mushrooms or some such psychedelic substance. this thrusts us out of our illusions and back into direct perception of the fractalating energy soup. this perception seems somehow familiar to us as this was our experience of life as i baby, but our ego's and our ideas about the world are so ingrained in us and so comforting to us that our ego feels very threatened by this, as it's entire existence relies on these illusions. the ego becomes utterly horrified by the fact that it in fact does not exist, hense the paranoia and terror, with a strange sense of chilhood memories.

    i don't know if this relates to your FOAF. just some idea's

  18. Posted

    lol, fuck, were people actually taking that apple post seriously? :rolleyes:

    i wasn't taking that apple post seriously :)

    teonanacatl made a really good point that tweaking your bio-chems in ANY WAY can give you a trip!

    i just also pointed out that if you stop drinking water, dying of thirst would be quite a trip, as would be say....eating 20 kg of urinal cakes!

  19. Posted

    "What would happen in these thousand year old, mythological places? Imagine the experience that would unfold deep within the great pyramid during a total eclipse.. it just scares me thinking about sitting in a thousand year old cave, in the middle of nowhere, knowing at this exact same spot someone had died, and was around during a time of spirtual and magical occurences."

    a fair few years ago now, me and a friend were tripping in a national park near my home.

    the place where we were, is a lookout right next to a big extinct volcano. the mountain is the most sacred of aboriginal sites for hundreds of kilometers around. it is said to be the place where Biami (aboriginal god of creation) stepped back into the cosmos after creating the world.

    years later i discovered that there is a signifigant ancient rock carving site literally 200m from where we were.

    i consider myself to be a relatively conscious person with a great deal of respect for the indigenous cultures of australia.

    after living in the bush my whole life and spending quite a bit of time with very conscious aboriginal folk, i feel as though i am (relatively) in tune with the environment and the spiritual forces of the land from which i come.

    my friend however, while being a great guy and a good friend, isn't a very universally conscious person and i don't really feel that he has any respect for these things at all.

    well we both had significant doses of mushrooms some time an hour or 2 before sunrise. the sunrise was a very profound experience to say the least. i felt like i was well tuned into the spiritual energies of this place (for want of better words) and my friend seemed to be doing ok as well.

    then i went for a walk in the bush and left my friend at the lookout on his own.

    i was away from him for about 5 minutes when i heard him yell. at first i sort of just ignored it but then i heard him yell again and he sounded utterly terrified!

    i walked back up to find him and he was sitting on the ground looking completely horrified. he told me he didn't know what was happening but that something was trying to attack him and we had to leave.

    so we got in the car and drove off with him curled up and freaking out and we literally got 1 km away from the place and he just snapped out of it and was completely fine again.

    depending on the way you see things you could interpret that as him just freaking out on mushies or that the "old fulla's" were trying to wig him out and teach him a bit of respect!

    who knows! but my own experiences have left me not having much doubt that these "spirits" are damn real! sometimes when walking in the bush (and i've experienced this many time, as have many others) you walk through a particular area and you just feel like you shouldn't be there! or you just start feeling very, very weird. or an incredible darkness might come over you or some such strange sensation. these feelings are very strong.

    my old aboriginal friends just laugh when i tell them of these things as to them this is just normal and they tell me i've just gotta trust my gut feeling.

    also when talking to these friends of mine, when they have taken me to sites such as the one which we were tripping next to, they have told me that it is very important to be very careful and respectful as the "old fulla's" don't take too kindly to disrespect and they are very capable of teaching you a lesson!

  22. Posted

    yeah, i signed it last week!

    c'mon everyone we should all be supporting this petition! we're living in a globalized world. things like this in other countries will have more effect on us then we might think.

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