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    encountering evil

    i don't see it as a problem that i'm having with tripping. i see it as phenomena that can occur with high doses of mushrooms. i think it's part of the package and is probably quite common when talking about higher doses. i'm not really asking for help just asking for other peoples experiences. i'd still be interested in hearing your experiences though thunder as i don't think they are any less valid or interesting
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    aboriginal bush-spirits

    i have had a couple of aboriginal spirit encounters... not like the one's you have described. only happens when i'm in the bush but has happened in different areas. particularly strong at waterfalls. among some of the most profound experiences i've been fortunate enough to have had... i too would be interested in hearing a more detailed account if you feel up for sharing.
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    encountering evil

    thunder if you haven't had encounters whilst tripping how have you had them? just wondering. we might not be talking about the same type of things in that case. these have mainly occured on large doses of shrooms. i wouldn't class any of these trips as bad. i don't think there is such a thing. i'm not disturbed by these or having problems with them. i'm just curious as to others experiences. i guess i am referring to these things as 'evil' because thats how they feel in contrast to other things i encounter. i know when i go to a good place and i know when i'm in a bad place. sometimes i see delightful beings of light that play and make me giggle and show off their tentacles and tricks and show you what to do with your life...othertimes i'm head to head with dripping mantis creatures that swarm all over me and at times completley take me over...one could view it as ego dissolution but it feels more like possession of my mind by an alien source. and of course whilst this is happening you say: 'you have no right, this is my mind etc' and you try to ignore it or go someplace else but it doesn't work like that. it's wierd but i'm sure someone else has had similar experiences?
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    encountering evil

    yeah thats pretty much what i do..tell them to fuck off. but even with all the willpower and might in the world it doesn't seem to get them to budge or relent. it's not like complete trips are filled with evil stuff...it's generally in the first couple of hours when things are really intense...going in and out of worlds and occaisonally running into seemingly evil forces... soon enough they dissapear and you go to another place with different stuff...i guess it's to be expected.. you can't have one without the other and it's often the darker/scarier trips that provide the most learning.
  5. interesting comments about the moon. i have heard others say this as well...makes sense of course, these things are very magikal and ritualizing their use is in my opinion crucial to surviving intact...if only my neighbours dogs didn't bark their massive heads off everytime i step into my garden. otherwise it would be a perfect place to be. i've noticed stronger experiences when combining with lemon juice...anyone else confirm the tripling of potency with vitamin c? that sounds pretty revolutionary if thats the case...
  6. yes 5 is plenty. 4 is still plenty. 3 is still PLENTY!!!! that said it's all set and setting. lemon juice tea...dark room on your own with no music.... 3gm is more than enough to violently break you on through to the other side. these things are extremely powerful and often underestimated. a solid mushroom trip is just as far out and full on as any ayahuasca or DMT trip. there is sooooo much more to these things than giggles and pretty colours and i think a lot of people don't realise just how full on they can be.
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    Janes Addiction Tour Australia

    damn...i was just about to score some sweetly priced tickets off ebay. glad i saw them when they came out a few years ago...without original bass player mind you. organisers of slendour as putting the living end in their place...somehow i don't think thats going to cut it. bummer.
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    shaman-australis advertising

    i swear when i've typed san pedro into ebay.com.au down the bottom of the page there has been little links to the SAB store....you probably know about that though.
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    Albert Hofmann's letter to Apple CEO Steve Jobbs

    yeah ol hofmann did pretty well.. glad to see he lived to such a ripe old age, shame he didn't ever get to see his creation get the treatment it deserved. thunder...i agree. it's like aldous huxley said, psychedelics should be given to the people at the top of certain areas e.g physicists, architects, artists, scientists, mathmeticians...they are the ones who will probably come out of trips with breakthoughs and new ideas. solutions to questions would probably come about much quicker.... not that the rest of us shouldn't be able to use them for recreational or spiritual purposes...but it's like 'should we give the acid to jimmy hendrix and see what he can do on the guitar? or give it to the kid who is just starting to learn the guitar?" anyway i think Steve Jobs needs to man up and take a stand and support the research...if i stand up and say 'hey LSD has potential' then no one will give a shit but if someone like Jobs who is a successful, influential man stands up then people might go 'wow, he took LSD and look at him now...he's changed the world!'...that or there'll be a massive witch hunt.
  11. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ryan-grim/re...b_b_227887.html Steve Jobs has never been shy about his use of psychedelics, famously calling his LSD experience "one of the two or three most important things I have done in my life." So, toward the end of his life, LSD inventor Albert Hofmann decided to write to the iPhone creator to see if he'd be interested in putting some money where the tip of his tongue had been. Hofmann penned a never-before-disclosed letter in 2007 to Jobs at the behest of his friend Rick Doblin, who runs an organization dedicated to studying the medical and psychiatric benefits of psychedelic drugs. Hofmann, a Swiss chemist, died in April 2008 at the age of 102. See the letter here. Written just after his 101st birthday, the letter's penmanship is impressive for a man of his years. I showed it to my grandmother, Ruth Grim, who was 8 years Hofmann's junior and did amateur handwriting analysis as long as Hofmann had been tripping. Without knowing who he was, she said in an e-mail that "something happened early in his life that made him twisted about things. Maybe he felt threatened. Also--creative with his hands, hard on himself, thinks a lot, stubborn, careful with the way he expresses himself, not influenced by other's thinking." Doblin says Hofmann often said he had a happy childhood and wouldn't characterize him as twisted. Hofmann, for his own part, often referred to LSD as his own "problem child" and in his letter he asks Jobs to "help in the transformation of my problem child into a wonderchild." He specifically asks Jobs to fund research being proposed by Swiss psychiatrist Peter Gasser and directs Jobs to Doblin's Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. Doblin and Hofmann were close; Doblin gave the doctor his first tab of ecstasy in the '80s when it was still legal, he says, and Hofmann loved it, saying that finally he'd found a drug he could enjoy with his wife, no fan of LSD. Doblin provided a copy of the letter to me; Hofmann's son, Andreas Hofmann, executor of his father's estate, authorized its publication. The letter led to a roughly 30-minute conversation between Doblin and Jobs, says Doblin, but no contribution to the cause. "He was still thinking, 'Let's put it in the water supply and turn everybody on,'" recalls a disappointed Doblin, who says he still hasn't given up hope that Jobs will come around and contribute. That Jobs used LSD and values the contribution it made to his thinking is far from unusual in the world of computer technology. Psychedelic drugs have influenced some of America's foremost computer scientists. The history of this connection is well documented in a number of books, the best probably being What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer, by New York Times technology reporter John Markoff. Psychedelic drugs, Markoff argues, pushed the computer and Internet revolutions forward by showing folks that reality can be profoundly altered through unconventional, highly intuitive thinking. Douglas Engelbart is one example of a psychonaut who did just that: he helped invent the mouse. Apple's Jobs has said that Microsoft's Bill Gates, would "be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once." In a 1994 interview with Playboy, however, Gates coyly didn't deny having dosed as a young man. Thinking differently--or learning to Think Different, as a Jobs slogan has it--is a hallmark of the acid experience. "When I'm on LSD and hearing something that's pure rhythm, it takes me to another world and into anther brain state where I've stopped thinking and started knowing," Kevin Herbert told Wired magazine at a symposium commemorating Hofmann's one hundredth birthday. Herbert, an early employee of Cisco Systems who successfully banned drug testing of technologists at the company, reportedly "solved his toughest technical problems while tripping to drum solos by the Grateful Dead." "It must be changing something about the internal communication in my brain," said Herbert. "Whatever my inner process is that lets me solve problems, it works differently, or maybe different parts of my brain are used." Burning Man, founded in 1986 by San Francisco techies, has always been an attempt to make a large number of people use different parts of their brains toward some nonspecific but ostensibly enlightening and communally beneficial end. The event was quickly moved to the desert of Nevada as it became too big for the city. Today, it's more likely to be attended by a software engineer than a dropped-out hippie. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google, are longtime Burners, and the influence of San Francisco and Seattle tech culture is everywhere in the camps and exhibits built for the eight-day festival. Its Web site suggests, in fluent acidese, that "[t]rying to explain what Burning Man is to someone who has never been to the event is a bit like trying to explain what a particular color looks like to someone who is blind." At the 2007 event, I set up my tent at Camp Shift--as in "Shift your consciousness"--next to four RVs rented by Alexander and Ann Shulgin and their septu- and octagenarian friends from northern California. The honored elders, the spiritual mothers and fathers of Burning Man, they spent the nights sitting on plastic chairs and giggling until sunrise. Near us, a guy I knew from the Eastern Shore--an elected county official, actually--had set up a nine-and-half-hole miniature golf course. Why nine and a half? "Because it's Burning Man," he explained. Our camp featured lectures on psychedelics and a "ride" called "Dance, Dance, Immolation." Players would don a flame-retardant suit and try to dance to the flashing lights. Make a mistake, and you would be engulfed in flames. The first entry on the FAQ sign read, "Is this safe? A: Probably not." John Gilmore was the fifth employee at Sun Microsystems and registered the domain name Toad.com in 1987. A Burner and well-known psychonaut, he's certainly one of the mind-blown rich. Today a civil-liberties activist, he's perhaps best known for Gilmore's Law, his observation that "[t]he Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." He told me that most of his colleagues in the sixties and seventies used psychedelic drugs. "What psychedelics taught me is that life is not rational. IBM was a very rational company," he said, explaining why the corporate behemoth was overtaken by upstarts such as Apple. Mark Pesce, the coinventor of virtual reality's coding language, VRML, and a dedicated Burner, agreed that there's some relationship between chemical mind expansion and advances in computer technology: "To a man and a woman, the people behind [virtual reality] were acidheads," he said. Gilmore doubts, however, that a strict cause-and-effect relationship between drugs and the Internet can be proved. The type of person who's inspired by the possibility of creating new ways of storing and sharing knowledge, he said, is often the same kind interested in consciousness exploration. At a basic level, both endeavors are a search for something outside of everyday reality--but so are many creative and spiritual undertakings, many of them strictly drug-free. But it's true, Gilmore noted, that people do come to conclusions and experience revelations while tripping. Perhaps some of those revelations have turned up in programming code. And perhaps in other scientific areas, too. According to Gilmore, the maverick surfer/chemist Kary Mullis, a well-known LSD enthusiast, told him that acid helped him develop the polymerase chain reaction, a crucial breakthrough for biochemistry. The advance won him the Nobel Prize in 1993. And according to reporter Alun Reese, Francis Crick, who discovered DNA along with James Watson, told friends that he first saw the double-helix structure while tripping on LSD. It's no secret that Crick took acid; he also publicly advocated the legalization of marijuana. Reese, who reported the story for a British wire service after Crick's death, said that when he spoke with Crick about what he'd heard from the scientist's friends, he "listened with rapt, amused attention" and "gave no intimation of surprise. When I had finished, he said, 'Print a word of it and I'll sue.'" The letter from Hofmann to Jobs, transcribed below if you have difficulty viewing: DearSteve - Dear Mr. Steve Jobs, Hello from Albert Hofmann. I understand from media accounts that you feel LSD helped you creatively in your development of Apple computers and your personal spiritual quest. I'm interested in learning more about how LSD was useful to you. I'm writing now, shortly after my 101st birthday, to request that you support Swiss psychiatrist Dr. Peter Gasser's proposed study of LSD-assisted psychotherapy in subjects with anxiety associated with life-threatening illness. This will become the first LSD-assisted psychotherapy study in over 35 years. I hope you will help in the transformation of my problem child into a wonder child. Sincerely, A. Hofmann * * * * * Dear Rick, Thank you for all you do for my problem child. I am pleased to add whatever I can do from my part. I learned much from your great letter, to do things after waiting for the right moment, how clever and careful you organize and do your work. I do hope that my letter to Steve Jobs corresponds to your expectation, especially what regards the choice of the writing paper. [Doblin had asked Hofmann to use his personal letterhead. It's not what you're thinking.] I believe that I followed your prescription. Hopefully Dr. Gasser will be successful with his request. Cordially - Albert
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    Still around?

    hey dude..not sure how you'd go... i've heard the season is over for now but having not been to the blue mountains i'm not really sure what things are like there....don't like your chances but i'd love for you to prove me wrong
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    moon landing hoax, recent media buzz about moon landing

    not saying i believe everything on that page...just that i stumbled upon it today. it's still interesting though....as a rule i think it's healthy to question offical truths that the govt and NASA and whoever else give us... it's also healthy to question conspiracy theories as well
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    moon landing hoax, recent media buzz about moon landing

    woah...discovered a website that was pretty cool yesterday...went to check it again today and look what they had on the front page...sychronicity again...damn! http://realitysandwich.com/kubrick_apollo
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    moon landing hoax, recent media buzz about moon landing

    found this over here: http://www.theage.com.au/world/nasa-taped-...90717-dobs.html doesn't do much for their credibility. you would think they would have archived this stuff.....i guess now that the original footage is gone we'll never be able to examine it for evidence... what a shame. NASA taped over moon landing filmRichard Luscombe, Miami July 18, 2009 IT WAS mankind's crowning achievement, with millions around the world glued to their television sets as US astronaut Neil Armstrong took the first steps on the moon 40 years ago. But in the scientific equivalent of recording an old episode of a favourite soap opera over the prized video of your daughter's wedding day, NASA probably taped over its only high-resolution images of the first moonwalk with electronic data from a satellite or a later manned space mission, officials have admitted. The familiar grainy and ghosting images of astronaut Neil Armstrong's "giant leap for mankind" are all that remain from the mission, though the space agency has managed to digitally restore the footage into new broadcast-quality pictures that it released yesterday. "I don't think anyone in the NASA organisation did anything wrong. It slipped through the cracks and nobody's happy about it," said Dick Nafzger, one of the last Apollo-era video engineers still working for the agency at the Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland. In a technological feat that rivalled even putting Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin on the lunar surface, and one that has been largely overlooked since, a team of NASA engineers and contractors fed live video from the moon, via a series of relay stations in Australia and the US, to homes around the world. While Armstrong, Aldrin and Apollo 11 pilot Michael Collins trained for the mission, Nafzger and his partners had to work out how to broadcast live from 386,000 kilometres away. The images of Armstrong and Aldrin stepping onto the lunar surface and planting the US flag were seen by an estimated 600 million people. The tape recordings, taken for back-up, were an afterthought, Mr Nafzger said. "We all wish that somebody had said, 'Those tapes are special, let's put them aside,"' he said. Instead, their loss apparently went unnoticed for 35 years, until 2004, when an archive in Australia alerted NASA that it believed it had found the lost tapes, which it shipped to Goddard, but the tapes did not have moon footage. A NASA money-saving measure was to reuse the tape reels after several years. Agency officials ultimately concluded the original Apollo 11 tapes were lost forever. The newly released footage was taken from four copies, including one in a CBS television archive.
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    Evolver Spores

    just stumbled across this website today and found it interesting...talk about synchronicity apparently there is a meeting tomorrow night in sydney if anyone is interested....might go along and see what it's all about. http://www.realitysandwich.com/evolver_spo...reading_network
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    Apologies.

    hey dude hope you are doing okay, sad to hear you won't be around you kept things very interesting around here, saying things most of us were to scared to talk about or reveal. not to mention you have been very generous in the free trades thread etc...i'll miss talking about entities and spirits and greys and reptillians and everything else with you...theres not many people around that one can discuss such things with without them cautiously backing away. you've got a lot of knowledge and a hell of an open mind. can't wait to read the book. i'll still be here kicking around if you ever want to hang out, talk shit or do some gardening together. just get in touch. p.s reverse garbage has a shitload of fresh eucalypt mulch that will be very much to your liking. peace.
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    Happpy Birthday MORG!

    happy birthday morg. we'll have to catch up one of these days when i'm down your way. have an awesome day.
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    Beatle Mania

    The Beatles are the shit....anyone who hasn't checked them out properly is seriously missing out. they are way more than just a pop band with catchy songs. these guys really pushed boundaries...if it wasn't for them a lot of studio effects would not exist....this band managed to do everything. they had political songs (Revolution), heavy metal songs (She's So Heavy, Helter Skelter), love songs (Something, Yesterday), far out whacky songs (I am the Walrus) and lets not forget that they pretty much layed the ground work for psychedelic/electronic/trippy masterpieces with 'Tomorrow Never Knows'....if you haven't heard that song yet then you haven't heard where it all started....the chemical brothers wish they were this good...they nailed the LSD experience in a 3 minute song...all analog, no digital synths or samplers, all tapes manually looped....a lot of acid no doubt... 'Tomorrow Never Knows' is the be all and end all of music as far as I'm concerned. When the song came out on the album Revolver all the other sixties bands just shit their pants. anyway, i love the beatles...there is so much more to them than 'she loves you' etc....they got really interesting when they started smoking weed and dropping acid, they litterally pushed the studios to their limits by attempting to recreate their experiences.... stop being too cool for school. check them out damnit, you'll be surprised how much better they are than you could have possibly imagined!!! for starters get 'Revolver', 'White Album' and 'Abbey Road' and dig it!
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    Psychedelic Metal Bands

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    Psychedelic Metal Bands

    Om, Boris, SunO))), Sleep, Om, Electric Wizard are all awesome....sludgy stuff. I find Om particularly meditative and hypnotic. Though I don't think I could handle listening to any of those groups whilst tripping. I think it woud send me to some pretty dark places. Mastodon are metal band that reek of psychedelics. Their artwork is really cool and their lyrics are often about stuff like astral projection and wormholes and trippy things like that. Their last two albums are epic, prog-thrash-metal-trippy classics. Tool of course are one of the best and for me, were an introduction to a lot of things e.g alex grey, bill hicks, prying open my third eye etc. peace.
  22. i've heard if you are going to trip with a partner and you are going to do high doses it's best not to communicate at all if you can help it. you will both be on different wavelengths experiencing everything differently. i've heard of people who can't trip with their partners because they keep asking if they are okay and the partner gets the shits because their experience is interupted. and vice versa. on heavy mushroom trips its not unusual to begin chanting, groaning or emitting insect buzzing noises. at the time you aren't really aware that you are pissing off your tripping partner. in fact you totally forget they are there at all..obviously it must be distracting and unsettling for anybody else in the room. if you are tripping with people low 'recreational' doses are best, you can still communicate and will laugh your asses off. things get confusing if everyone is so out of it that they respond to a question you asked five minutes after you asked it. also...i know what you mean when you speak of a carnival vibe. this is something i've noticed only occurs with subs...it's like you've entered the most warped twisted funhouse/carnival place. i've read other reports of people visiting this area...don't know what the hell it means though.. subs in my experience are definitley a lot stranger, darker, celtic/fairie orientated than cubes and the realms you encounter seem very unique to the sub species.
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    Free Ethnobotanical's (Australian Members Only)

    i'll take that one thanks hunab.... VVVVVVVVVVVVVVV gets a sub print, some acacia maidenii seeds, some syrian rue seeds and some other seeds i've got laying aroundVVVVVV
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    different looks subs

    yeah what ever happened to the blue meanie website anyway?
  25. yeah dude start with something intense. you want to get the readers attention and suck them in with some wild story. think of how 'fear and loathing'..by hunter s. thompson starts with him in the desert driving off his face swatting imaginary bats as they circle him. you can slowly tell your life story throughout each chapter. e.g some of your trips no doubt relate to your childhood experiences so you can relay information as it becomes relevant, slowly laying pieces down until a full picture emerges....also think of how in 'true hallucinations' Mckenna is constantly going back in forth in history yet still following a narrative that keeps you locked in. thats if you want it to be a narrative...who knows...you could also organise sections around each different entheogen...kind of like the story parts of PIHKAL where they tell their life stories but base chapters around their experiences with different psychedelics.... i wouldn't worry about publishers or agents just yet. you need to have something written before you worry about that. publishers and the like are not going to be interested unless you've got something complete to show them... also you know i've got a massive bookshelf that you are more than welcome to raid if you want to look at how writers have tackled the subject. peace.
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