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  2. Posted · Edited by Wile E. Peyote

    Hi,

     

    We are looking for an Aboriginal writer/researcher to help write a chapter in an upcoming book.

     

    The book is about the intersection between race and drug prohibition, and the chapter we are writing is about the intersection of drug criminalisation and Australian Aboriginal culture within research. My co-author for this chapter and I both specialise in Australian drug policy but only have a small amount of experience writing about Aboriginal culture. 

     

    We are hoping to find a third author to help us write this chapter, and we would really like to include an Aboriginal perspective as much as possible. If you are interested, please get in contact via PM for more detail.

     

     A background in a sociology, cultural studies or policy would be helpful, but not essential. This isn’t a paid position, but the work will be published and there is funding available to travel to the UK to work with the editors and other authors for a workshop.

     

    Thanks!

     

  3. Posted · Edited by Wile E. Peyote

    I've been doing some research concerning altered states in traditional contexts for a couple of years now. It can be a very hard topic to get people to open up about, especially if you are planning to make the knowledge you find accessible to the public.

     

    In Alice Springs you might have some luck learning about uses of Duboisia, Nicotiana and Goodenia species. Discussion about pituri seems to be pretty open in contrast to some other plant preparations, and I have heard of people learning information about pituri in the Alice area.

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  7. Posted · Edited by Wile E. Peyote

    I am interested in shamanism and science but both terms have such diverse political connotations I tend to forego them from my vocabulary because everyone thinks the terms mean something different. Plus, as a young Australian invader without a science degree I don’t have much authority to speak about either topic.

     

    Spiritual is a somewhat accessible term, but I don’t want the religious connotations. Psychonaut is alright, but it has some negative association via implications of drugs and psychosis. Gardener and ethnobotanist are terms more preferred by me and many other Corrobboree participants.

     

    I feel desire for the same discussion that you want to appear in this thread, and I think ultimately what this requires to take place is an expansion of language.  

     

    Psychedelic experiences seem to encourage this expansion. Critical perspectives of psychoactive communities upon medicine and science also seem to help. Maybe all abnormal perspectives help with language innovation.

     

    Keep speaking to plants. Perhaps they can help with the name of this thread.

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  9. Posted · Edited by Wile E. Peyote

    I double boiled a combination of 250ml water, 1½ tsp agar and 1 ½ tsp malt extract in jar with lid slightly ajar until everything dissolved. When the jar was cool I added 2ml of peroxide. Then I poured a few cm of this mixture into each of my plastic containers, before taking small pieces of flesh from inside my pleurotus specimen, placing a piece in each container.

     

    Since then, the containers have sat inside a sterilised glove box in a darkened room at a temperature between ~15 and 22 degrees. The container pictured is the only one with any growth.

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    Sorry about that, I'll get a better image.

    That was my understanding, too. Is there something that could be inhibiting growth?

     

    I'm wondering if the problem was the environment of the dish, the flesh I cloned or my malt extract and agar medium. Any suggestions for how I might get a better understanding of where I went wrong?

  15. Posted · Edited by Wile E. Peyote
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    Incrementally dosing an a/b extract of ~5 or so seeds produced only some threshold effects. Putting a few drops of peppermint essential oil on my tongue seemed to result in an almost immediate change; strong feelings of sedation, nausea (which receded with purge), and some very memorable CEVs. For a good portion of the night I was not sure if I was asleep or awake, but it was a very relaxing, almost opiate reminiscent experience. Woke up feeling great.

     

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    I like to conceptualise god as ultimate complexity. Digital technologies are powerfully symbolic of what contemporary societies understand as the most complex. For me, the god as computer programmer metaphor has some value for the present.

     

    I also think this ultimate complexity god conceptualisation is useful for evaluating religions/ideologies/disciplines/philosophies in general.

     

    Science conceived as unbiased or homogenous does not account for subjectivity, cannot account for the ultimate complexity and is thus not a complex philosophy. However, science conceived of as a self-critical method, as Anodyne has described it, can account for both objectivity and subjectivity. In Anondyne’s sense, science does manage to parallel an ultimate complexity philosophy.

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  25. Posted · Edited by Wile E. Peyote
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    Thanks guys,

     

    Some info on their growth since putting them in the ground; the main column on back right (which I think is a bridgesii x psycho0) has grown ~15cm and the two pups have grown ~40cm + each since I removed them from the pot. The centre left has had ~30cm of growth on one column, while the back left’s smaller column has grown ~20cm in height and gained ~5cm in girth. Bottom left and bottom right have pupped since being put in the ground.

     

    How do I decide between staking and pruning back left?

     

    I am thinking I will remove front left and front right and put them in pots until they are bigger. They were damaged by a friends dog, but I don’t think I could bear to throw them in the bin. I didn’t trim the roots of any cactus before I put it in the ground, will I need to trim them after I dig them up, before I repot them?

     

    I was intending to build this garden bed up to the height of the wooden railway sleepers on the border of the area. Should I remove all the cactus before I do this? I was contemplating putting the additional soil mix in without removing the cactus (besides bottom left and right, which I will remove), to avoid damaging the roots – but maybe the roots need a trim, in which case I will need to dig them up.

     

    I think the problems are soil and planting methods – the other trichocereus that I have not removed from pots are doing well. I didn’t do much to the soil in the garden before I planted it, but it was good stuff in the pots.

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