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  12. Posted

    I would just like to share some dreams that are on the tip of my neural tongue, so to speak.

    My housemate and I were in a control room of a futuristic, mechanised, computer assembly factory, a la kamino in the clone wars. There was a dull orange glow in the room, and we were attempting to fix the on board computer of our "space ship", which looked suspiciously like our ute. She was controlling a mechanical arm that removed a big glossy yellow resistor, and then reconnected it to the power supply. At one point I realised she had failed to disconnect the battery while doing this, as I could see and led flickering and the cooling fan humming. I was nervous she had wrecked our spaceship, but lo and behold it started!

    And then I woke up, feeling amazing; rejuvenated, like it was my brain that was actually getting worked on. It felt very similar to a dmt trip I had once after not sleeping for a few days where female beings emerged from the sun and untangled knots in cables in my head.

    The dream space is a great source of healing and inspiration!

  14. Posted · Edited by ∂an

    For me it's the meaning or feeling imparted, rather than the degree of lucidity, that makes dreaming such a valuable experience. My most profound dream states seem to occur when I feel totally immersed in the dream persona, and not aware of my usual reality. Here i often re visit spectacular places, such as a cathedral embedded in a rocky cliff surrounded by an emerald forest with surrealist art hanging on the walls, the hill behind the house that i grew up in as a child, and a certain valley with eroded red stone. the peak of these dreams Is often accompanied by tryptamine like hallucinations, especially moving patterns on natural surfaces such as a rock wall or sodden earth. I am not sure to what extent I am lucid in these dreams, but it feels very distant from my waking self. The awareness that I am dreaming seems to often be accompanied by the fall back to waking consciousness.

  15. Posted

    the active ingredient in kykeon was probably lsa's from claviceps paspali, which was spread from wild grasses to cultivated barley (http://www.psychedelic-library.org/paspali.htm). If morning glories and are anything to go off, lsa's can certainly deliver the psychedelic experience.

    but until someone makes such a drink and successfully gets loaded off it, it's open to conjecture.

    As for soma, which has been suggested to be amanita muscaria, a combination of Syrian rue and a tryptamine is more likely IMO.

  16. Posted · Edited by ∂an

    Yeah hawaiian baby woodrose can pack a punch. Especially after fasting. I have been reading about the ellusyseeeleusinian mysteries where participants underwent a 6 month preparation and a 9 day fast prior to imbibing the kykeon. The power of any entheogen, even ones of questionable activity by LSD standards, must be magnified many times under such circumstances.

    Amanitas and morning glories have a few things in common, incidently. They both exhibit high batch variability, can make you sick if not prepared correctly and allow sleep more readily than other psychedelics.

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    IME amanita is more of an ordeal medicine than a true entheogen; it tastes foul and inevitably makes you sick if you take enough to get a substantial effect. But it still has its uses - I used it in combination with Syrian rue to induce sleep during a period of insomnia a few years ago.

    By the way, next time you have some HBWR seeds, try just chewing on them for 5 minutes then spitting out the mush ie buccal absorption. Amanita has a much stronger taste than that I think.

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  20. Posted

    I would like to take cuttings from this peruvianus and propagate them in their own pots. I was thinking of cutting the two smaller arms (upper right of the picture) as close as possible to the main 'trunk'. They are about 15cm long.

    Does this sound like a good idea? Is this a good time of year to make cuttings? Any tips appreciated!

    Cheers!

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  23. Posted

    My first thought was: If look implies seeing with human eyes, then reality really looks like you and I see it.

    But to what extent is the picture of reality in our minds eye the result of a convolution of the data streams from all our senses? Does a deaf person see the world the same way a hearing person does? The phenomena of synthesia suggest probably not. And how much artistic license does our mind have over our picture of reality? The evolution of art from 2d pictographs to 3d "photo" realism suggests our brain does significant post-processing of the data stream.

    The appearance of reality seems to be dependent of both the sensing organ and the brain that processes it.

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  24. Posted

    As others have aluded to above, our consciousness and perception of the world is evidence enough that there is not nothing. That there is something rather than nothing really is some sort of miracle: why should there be anything when nothingness is so seemingly easy to maintain?

    Maybe then there is both nothing (non-existence, the mother or empty plenum from which the universe emerged) and something (the dimensions of existence that grew from the primordial event). These emerging dimensions must be coupled in such a way that means their sum also results in nothing, otherwise there is the conundrum of where the seed for the somethingness came from in the first place.

    I think organic life is just one manifestation of a more versatile and much stranger force in the universe that abhors emptiness and seeks to fill it with a teeming multiplicity of creativity and beauty. This force is what drove the smooth nothingness to split into a set of richly textured dimensions.

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