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    I think it's pretty clear that the 4 dimensions of space and time that we experience orignated from a very small and dense "point". This can be discerned by measuring the temperature of the cosmic microwave background, the relative Doppler shift of bodies in the universe and working out how long the universe must have been expanding for for these observations to make sense. But as far as where the material for the Big Bang came from, whether or not there are other universes and why life should be a product of an expanding ball of space-time, these are wide open questions that we should all ponder!

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    i grow Sutherlandia frutescens., also known as Çancer Bush.

    Taken as tea occasionally. No noticeable effects to report (other than lack of cancer :wink: )

    Never smoked it, never even contemplated it, never heard of it being used this way till now.

    probably for the best, smoking might negate any cancer fighting qualities. any tips on where to get seeds or a plants?

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    An interesting article titled "Entheogens of Africa" in Issue 2 Volume 3 of the Dragibus magazine lists a number of plant species that are used as "cannabis substitutes" (i.e. mixed with tobacco and smoked). These species and the parts used are:

    Cineraria aspera (?)

    Cullen obtusifolia (leaves and stems)

    Sutherlandia frutescens (seeds and leaves)

    Nenax microphylla (seed)

    Apart from the medicinal use of Sutherlandia frutescens (Wikipedia: An infusion made from the leaves is a traditional remedy for fever, chicken pox, flu, rheumatism, hemorrhoids, diarrhea, and stomach and liver problems), there doesn't appear to be much ethnobotanical information online about these plants. Does anyone have any experience with growing or using them?

    Cheers,

    ∂an

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    Nice amanitas!

    Looks like that one is growing mold due to the upturned cap collecting water. Throw it back in the habitat you found it and dry the others thoroughly? Agree with the above comment about discarding the stems too; the red skin is the good part.

    I think fly agarics were traditionally dried over a fire, and I have heard that heat helps the conversion of ibotenic acid to muscimol. A bit of heat probably isn't a bad idea, but the sun might be good enough too.

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    For me, plants communicate primarily through their visual appearance. Whether it be the contrasting green and gold of wattles, the blue glow of gum trees or the moss and lichen encrusted bark of Antarctic beech, the primary message of plants seems to be the beauty of existence and the virtue of patience.

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    Love these beautiful fungi; the purple and red colouring is so striking, and their habitat of old (melaleuca?) trees is very different from that of other actives. I hope I am lucky enough to one day see them in person! Thanks for sharing these photos.

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    "The difference, I would argue, lies not so much in the phenomenology of the internal psychedelic experience, but in the external container; the experience of the shaman and their icaros, and the ritual provided in the ceremonies themselves."

    I think a botanical community such as ours demonstrates that it is not just the ceremony that makes plant based psychedelics more rich, but the interaction and study of plants and the natural world that inevitably occurs if one does not rely on someone else to hand you the sacrament on a silver platter. Growing and preparing plant, fungi and animal based psychedelics is perhaps the best preparation for the ensuing experience. The alchemy of making synthetic compounds is perhaps also a good teacher, but ultimately reduces to cold hard science rather than the mystery of life.

    Really great article by James Oroc!

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    Let's estimate 150 orange trees per acre, and conservatively suppose that each tree contains one kilogram of leaves. Then in the state of Florida alone, where approximately 550,000 acres are under cultivation, the crop would contain somewhere in the neighborhood of 80 kilograms of bufotenine -- roughly 5 million doses -- and 5 kilograms of DMT -- roughly 150,000 doses.

    Just in case anyone is thinking of raiding the local citrus farm... this equates to approximately 1 microgram of bufotenine per kilogram of leaf, and less that 0.1 microgram of DMT per kilogram of leaf. This is one hundred thousand times less concentrated than in mimosa hostilis.

    I don't have access to read the full journal article, but I would be interested to know why they selected citrus trees and whether or not they are claiming that citrus trees have more tryptamine alkaloids than other plants. Also the hypothesis regarding biodefense against predation seems strange given the very low concentrations.

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    A non-fiction book that has changed my life is "The Gnostic Religion: The message of the Alien god & the beginnings of Christianity" by Hans Jonas. In early psychedelic experiences I encountered Christian imagery and teachings that led me to explore the mystical strain of Christianity in Gnosticism. This book is superbly written with many translations of passages from gnostic texts. It helped me see beyond the shallow facade of modern Christianity as projected by the roman catholic church, and into the complex,vsophisticated and transcendent spiritualities that were being developed in the early Christian world.

    Perhaps most importantly, it introduced to me the concept of the demiurge and the idea that the purpose of life is the sculpting of the soul.

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    Cool find! especially in june.

    Yeah it looks like a blue staining panaeolus (copelandia), but the usual habitat for those in NNSW is cow dung. Blue staining is a universal feature of active (magic) psilocybes, but does also occur in other mushrooms so its not a fool proof way to Id.

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    Gorgeous Sanguinea! Love those brugs, I've got my first Sanguinea seed pod ripening now. It is a little sad to see that tiny, tiny pin that won't get to mature now he's been picked. :(

    Hopefully you get many more taking his place soon!

    Yeah I have a (bad?) habit of when picking a mature mushroom trying to retrieve the whole specimen, which unfortunately in this case brough that little guy up to. Stamets advocates this in his psilocybin mushrooms of the world book, and since reading that many years ago the idea has stuck with me - especially when trying get a proper Id. Now that I know what to look for ill pinch instead of pulling...

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    Wherever our minds and souls and realities ultimately reside, they are experienced in our brains, which is what this article is about.

    I agree, however I think the more interesting question is where this ultimate residence of consciousness is.

    Stiefel seems to have really been smitten by Crick et al and the claustrum as the "conductor" of the "dynamic field" of consciousness (see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3935397/). The words conductor and field seem to indicate a non-local model of consciousness.

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