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  1. Posted

    Adrian,

    I would have sent this to your private message

    box but it is currently full!

    Carl used to send an email around a month or so

    before each event. The list of email addresses

    would be a good resource to chase up.

    On second thoughts, there might be privacy issues

    about passing it on. Perhaps Carl could do a

    post out officially passing on the organisation

    role to yourself with directions for people to

    join a list of your own.

    This would have the positives of protecting

    peoples privacy, having some sort of semi-offical

    hand-over and also cleaning off the dead names

    from Carls current list.

    [ 15. February 2004, 00:47: Message edited by: somnif ]

  5. Posted

     

    quote:

     

    ..without your knowledge...then how could you know?

     

    Good point probably should've used the word

    preknowledge.

    Actually, you find out in court.

    Or in my gnomes case it was when gnomes father was

    talking to the lady who lived directly opposite

    who mentioned how some police etc. had set up shop

    in her front room with cameras. God knows what

    they told her it was all about, but suffice to

    say gnome was regarded by her and her family with

    a new degree of suspicion :rolleyes:

    51st post of the following thread adds a little

    more detail:

    1-4b thread

    [ 22. July 2003, 21:34: Message edited by: somnif ]

  6. Posted

    Hmmm, Smacko's perhaps?

    I worked for a couple of summers in a Sheltered

    Workshop along side the intellectually disabled

    which was hand packing Schmacko clones for the

    Japanese market.

    We got to take any incomplete schmackos home and

    my White Dog got a couple a day for about two years

    afterwards. His lust for the strips never wore off.

    I had a friend who would eat them for a bit of a

    show and he seems to be still alive today so it is

    probably reasonably safe to experiement.

    [ 21. July 2003, 07:28: Message edited by: somnif ]

  7. Posted

    It is not exactly a practical classification

    system when, if you regard Rev for example,

    he actually fits into all four categories

    Acutally, this got me thinking (or whatever

    you call that process that goes round and

    round between your ears after being up for

    over 24 hours)...

    How about an ethnobotany 'purity' quiz, for

    example, it could have a section "Customs & the

    TGA" with question such as follows:

    Section: Customs & The TGA

    --------------------------------

    1 point: have you ever imported a plant

    for its medicinal properties?

    2 points: was this plant a customs prohibited

    item?

    8 points: did this *subsequently* become a

    prohibited item due to your

    particular importation?

    2 points: ever have a customs officer knock

    on your door?

    4 points: ever have a customs officer film

    your house without your knowledge?

    6 points: ever have customs search your

    property (with the help of the

    Local plods)?

    1 point: do you read the TGA scheduling

    comittee meeting mintues?

    2 points: have you owned a plant which has

    *become* illegal due to TGA

    scheduling?

    6 points: have you ever put a submittion in

    to the TGA with regards to

    attempting to stop the proposed

    scheduling of a plant/substance.

    Section: Community

    3 points: have you had a public argument

    with Mulga (5 points if you *are*

    Mulga)?

    3 points: have you had a public argument

    with Torsten (5 points if you *are*

    Torsten)?

    5 points: have you managed to sustain a

    public argument with Torsten and

    Mulga at the same time.

    1 point for everytime you've left a post

    in EA or SA stating you've had a

    gutful and will no longer be

    posting there anymore. (-1 point

    for each time you resumed posting)

    etc. etc. too tired to take it any further for

    now :P I also think some of my procedural stuff

    is wrong eg. I am uncertain if the TGA can

    schedule an actual plant. Oh, and my point scores

    are pretty random and could do with some refining.

    [ 21. July 2003, 12:12: Message edited by: somnif ]

  8. Posted

    Ah, it *was* a good day!

    It was good to see you all there.

    I arrived late as usual missing a good chunk of

    the day.

    Tom's talk on saliva research was especially good.

    Wira's reading from his book makes me wish him

    a speedy publishing so I can soon read the rest

    of it!

    etc.

    ...and CS even turned up along with his other

    special kohorts: in that respect it was like

    chill space here a couple of years ago I took

    me a few moments to recognise CS as he was lacking

    the self titled top and leather that he had worn

    in the past.

    I hope Creach found a way home as I lost him

    somewhere along the path.

    I hope Darklight did ask Bockie about his

    Fuktwerk (sp?) - clue: it is attached to the

    side of his house.

    Thanks for putting in the time to organise it,

    Carl (and others).

  10. Posted

     

    quote:

     

    But those highler level experiences can be very inlightening - unless they turn dark.

     

    That about sums it up :)

    I wasn't really trying to say that high level

    experiences are bad, I just remember how my gnome

    was put off by an unexpectedly intense first

    experience and considered never exploring shrooms

    again. Using well controlled doses from threshold

    level and up was the best way to regain gnomes

    confidence.

    Even dark experiences can be important/useful.

    However it is much easier to say this a few years

    after the event rather than during the days

    following the 'opps'

  11. Posted

     

    quote:

     

    germinating ephedra is the easy part, making them to continue growing strong and fast is the tricky part.

     

    Exactly. Any clues on how to get the buggers past

    the 3rd week? Is mass planting the way to go?

  12. Posted

    George, my gnome went through almost exactly the

    same experience as yourself her first time with

    subs.

    My gnome was at home with her rather conservative

    parents when she decided have a few fresh shrooms,

    then a few more, then opps, then she thought that

    the bedside lamp was her arm, then complete

    depersonalisation, then ?, then finding herself

    watching life evolve on the shower basin.

    Many lessons learnt. Some cosmic. More practical.

    It took her a while to make the choice to try

    shrooms again but this time with some sort of

    reasonably accurate measuring device which takes

    a large chunk of 'opps' out of the experience.

    Low dose shrooms are really fun. Unexpected

    high doses give an appreciation for what

    schitzophrenia might feel like. One positive

    which came out of this 'opps' situation was the

    discovery of the anti-depressant effects which

    my gnome would get for a couple of weeks after

    the trip.

    It sounds like you did no lasting damage except

    for teaching yourself a lesson of the power of

    shrooms :-)

    Give it a rest for a while, but don't be afraid of

    exploring low doses if you feel the calling. Low

    doses are very different and much more controlable

    than high doses.

    [ 02. July 2003, 05:31: Message edited by: somnif ]

  13. Posted

     

    quote:

     

    was it glass that did the score for a Z & 2 noughts?

     

    Michael Nyman did that soundtrack (as well as many

    others). I recommend the Gatacia soundtrack which

    has a slow brooding sort of feel about it (a couple

    of years since I have listened to it though)

  14. Posted

    I went and saw Einstien On The Beach by Philip

    Glass when it was on here in Melbourne during

    1993 or there abouts. It was a amazing. The

    production seemed to be driven towards distorting

    your sense of time. Being err, slightly altered,

    enhanced the whole experience. It was a *long*

    production, over five hours long if I remember

    correctly.

    I really enjoy Glass's music but I have found

    that his newer stuff fails to surprise me.

    Having just downloaded the Naqoyqatsi soundtrack

    I am again not surprised but impressed. It sounds

    wonderful. Better than Kundun (spelling?) which

    was the most recent CD of his I have purchased.

  15. Posted

     

    quote:

     

    BTW, I can confirm the effect of low dose Salvia on orgasm.

     

    Hmmm, somnif is looking at his hypothetical Saliva

    with renewed interest.

     

    quote:

     

    A borderline subthreshold sublingual dose of salvia was brought right into the superthreshold range at orgasm.

     

    What sort of dosage of plant material would you

    be looking at to get to this point? When you say

    sublingual I assume that the method is to chew

    and then hold under the tounge over a period of

    time?

  16. Posted

     

    quote:

     

    what would several disprin pills and coffee do...

     

    These two in combination seem to been particularly

    nasty on the stomach in my experience - always have

    something to eat before taking asprin.

    If you are not sure if your headache is due to

    caffine withdrawal or not, this combination makes

    sense. Beyond that...nope.

    Mattax, that is a very informative reply that you

    just posted.

    [ 12. June 2003, 06:07: Message edited by: somnif ]

  17. Posted

     

    quote:

     

    If their baby PhD student (really, not even a mature scientist in their testing room) had said it was good, it was good and damn the know-nothing customers.

     

    Said baby PhD student didn't work for a company

    called Pan perhaps?

    Given the date you wrote this is a pretty good case

    of foretelling future news events; you didn't know

    something we didn't eh?

  19. Posted

    Okay, here is a list of the SVCD that I have put

    together so far. I have no idea about how, or if I

    am going to distribute these. If someone wants to

    take on the job I'll send them a copy of the whole

    lot, otherwise if anyone is *really* desperate for

    something I could probably make and post a copy

    for $5.00 but don't expect a rapid turn around

    time (busy trying to get softwar out the door at

    the moment)

    I would like to create a system where the list can

    continue to be expanded with other peoples

    contributions. I can do transfers from VHS, Div X,

    DVD to SVCD.

    A couple a clearly still under copyright but I am

    not sure that they are available in Australia.

    These are all on CD-R in SVCD format. Most Windows

    DVD playing software (Power-DVD, Win-DVD etc.)will

    play them okay as well as many stand alone DVD

    players. The following link shows a list of DVD

    players which are compatible with the format:

    http://www.dvdrhelp.com/dvdplayers.php?DVD...&Submit2=Search

    Okay, the list follows:

    ------------------------------------------------

    SVCD list: note summary text stolen from all over the net.

    acapulco_gold: 1972 marijuana smuggling fictico-"documentary". For a tad more info see

    http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&id=18004...cf=info&intl=us

    assassin_of_youth: ASSASSIN OF YOUTH is yet another drug film from the 1930's, this time concerning a young reporter who goes undercover as a soda jerk in order to expose the marihuana use that is rampant among the teenagers. For a review see http://www.digitallyobsessed.com/showrevie...iew.php3?ID=754

    a_vein_hope_four_corners_heroin_trial: 4 Corners documentary on United States intervention on the proposed Heroin Trials in the ACT. For more background information have a look at:

    http://www.hoboes.com/pub/Prohibition/Law%...0Heroin%20Trial

    chemical_tomb_plus_narcotics:_pit_of_dispair: Two drug "educational" films from the Prelinger Archive.

    The Chemical Tomb (color)-> Hippies dance barefoot while bongs and sitars blare on the soundtrack, and normal American youth are turned into deranged, chemically fueled addicts. Yup, they're "The Turned-On People" who risk "placing their psyche in peril." Ether, bennies, airplane glue, paint thinner, yellow jackets, red devils, blood reds, rainbows, hashish, acid, and pot -- all explained by a DR. JOHN T. BURROUGHS, Director of Narcotics Education for the Los Angeles District Attorneys Youth Advisory Council. Scary says, "Tomb raiders!" For the info or to download Chemical Tomb see http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?id=370

    Narcotics Pit of Dispair-> John, an erstwhile young high school student on the track team with a pretty girlfriend, a nice car, and a lot going for him, falls in with the wrong crowd. He starts to smoke, has a beer, and before he knows it he's smoking a joint, which of course leads to heroin. Soon he's selling his mother's silverware to pay for his fix. Eventually, he gets caught and is sent to treatment.... which works beautifully. Or does it? The ending is unclear. No dialogue from the actors in this, just a heavy-handed narrator. Watch out for the sinister bongo music. To download or for more information see:

    http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?id=725

    cocaine_fiends_plus_the_menace: The original source material is so bad for these two that it would only suit someone who has a specific interest in them. More info can be found here: http://www.geocities.com/tubular42/cocaine...ne/cocaine.html and also http://www.ihffilm.com/ihf/r720.html

    dealing_with_the_demon_part_2:

    dealing_with_the_demon_part_3: Missing Part 1, but each part covers a different aspect of heroin issues so they work okay without it. Originally screened on SBS and made by an Australian called Chris Hilton.

    Episode Two Summary-> An Unholy Alliance Examines the relationship between the drug trade and war, detailing the involvement of the CIA in Vietnam and Afghanistan during the Cold War.

    Episode Three Summary-> Containing the Fallout Investigates the spread of heroin use, its role in fueling the AIDS epidemic in Asia, and explores the most effective means of dealing with illicit drugs, using Australia as a test case.

    five_go_mad_in_dorcet_plus_five_go_mad_on_mescalin: not exactly informative but enjoyable.

    flowers_of_darkness_plus_terrible_truth_plus_drug_addiction: Three drug "educational" films from the Prelinger Archive.

    Flowers of Darkness->Traces the history of opium and how it has led to the present day usage of heroin. Examines the methods and procedures of organized crime in transporting the drug to the United States and its toll on the streets of AmeriIncludes methods of combatting the problem and interviews with addicts who discuss their compulsion for drugs. Narrator: Paul Newman. Directors: Charles E. Francis, William Templeton. Producer: Frank Kavanaugh.

    Terrible Truth-> Early (and sensational) film on marijuana use as a route to heroin addiction. Substance abuse, Drugs, Teenagers, California, Los Angeles. Ahh, those were the days. Join Phyllis as she moves from pot ("that's jive talk for marijuana") to heroin. Where are all these drugs coming from? "Some say it's the Reds. . ." (that's pogrom talk for communists).

    Drug Addiction-> Classic "slippery slope" narrative of post-World War II stoned slackerdom.

    http://www.archive.org/movies/movieslistin...0abuse:%20Drugs for more info on the above three.

    freakouts_and_flashbacks_01:

    freakouts_and_flashbacks_02: More "educational" films with a LSD bend. Includes "LSD-25", "LSD Insight or Insanity", "LSD Trip To Nowhere" and "Hooks"

    grass: Documentary on history of marijuana prohibition. More info can be found here

    http://www.currentfilm.com/dvdreviews4/grassdvd.html

    howard_marks_mr_nice: Documentary of marijuana smuggler Howard Marks who wrote a best selling book called "Mr. Nice" More info can be found here: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2003/4/prweb61725.php

    marihuana: 1936 Refer Madness type film. See http://www.digitallyobsessed.com/showrevie...iew.php3?ID=754

    mushroom_man_wasson: Documentary on Wasson taped from SBS

    refer_madness: See http://www.digitallyobsessed.com/showrevie...iew.php3?ID=754

    report_from_the_drug_front_swiss: Documentary on the Swiss Experiment regarding Heroin

    use.

    subject_narcotics_plus_perversion_for_profit: Educational style films.

    Subject Narcotics-> Produced for police orientation and training, this film presents drug addiction not simply as a crime but as a deepseated social problem. With dramatized sequences of addicts in shooting galleries and excellent footage of pre-renewal downtown Los Angeles, a neighborhood now lost. Produced and directed by renowned filmmakers Denis and Terry Sanders, who wrote this film with Jay Sandrich. See

    http://www.open-video.org/segment.php?seg_id=4355 for more info or to download.

    Perversion For Profit->Not about drug use at all but dirty books. From the Prelinger archive. Anti-pornography film produced by financier Charles Keating, linking pornography to the Communist conspiracy and the decline of Western civilization.

    See http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.p...ectionid=00895a

    technomania: 1986 documentary on the new music form of Techno! Probably interesting to

    those who were there ;-)

    [ 06. April 2003, 00:25: Message edited by: somnif ]

  20. Posted

    Looks like the Howard government is supporting the

    death penalty:

     

    quote:

     

    Australian Prime Minister John Howard said the execution of bin Laden would be welcomed. Asked by the US Fox network if he would welcome bin Laden being put to death, he replied: "I think everybody would." He said the al-Qaeda leader should be dealt with in accordance with US law, which allowed capital punishment.

     

    Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said few tears would be shed over bin Laden's death and indicated Australia would not raise its normal objections to capital punishment.

     

    If they changed our flag to the stars and stripes

    next week, I would no longer be surprised.

  21. Posted

    This is somewhat out of my depth, but I remember

    hearing a BBC World Service radio documentary where

    it discussed treatment of people who had unwanted

    voices in their heads.

    The treatment being discussed was to actually

    challenge the voice and in a sense show it's lack

    of power eg. voice says do something bad to

    yourself - person responds by challenging the voice

    to perform the act itself.

    Documentary noted that people who we taught to

    recognise the lack of power of the voices they

    were hearing lived normal lives.

    [ 06. March 2003, 22:29: Message edited by: somnif ]

  22. Posted

     

    quote:

     

    Auxin: ...just remember I keep a clublock in the boot

     

    of my vk at all times.

     

    Translation for our American Guest: the 'vk' is a

    Holden VK Commodore; as you might suspect being

    owned by CS it is a typical hoons (if that is

    still a current term?) car.

    The following is for reference in case you see one

    coming at you fast with the driver wearing a

    "Chemical Shaman" t-shirt:

    Commodore VK Picture Link

    [ 06. March 2003, 22:14: Message edited by: somnif ]

  23. Posted

    Gwydion,

    You have a wonderful knack for summarising political

    situations consisely with good, factual information!

    (note to others: have a glance through Gwydion's

    previous posts if to see what I mean)

    So where do you harvest the majority of your

    information from?

  24. Posted

    wyyrm,

    For a temporary visit while still continuing

    through your education, have a look into University

    Exchange type programs.

    Investigate some of the major universities here

    in Australia.

    Doing a google search with the following gives you a

    start: 'university exchange overseas site:edu.au'

    Or just click on this google link

    [ 04. March 2003, 22:17: Message edited by: somnif ]

  25. Posted

    Update:

    I managed to get a capture card and work out most

    of the issues with it. To go from VHS to SVCD is

    something of a fiddly process but I think I have

    mastered it.

    I struck gold with Michael B. from Melbourne: I've

    got seven or so Reefer Madness, LSD Freakouts style

    movies from him which I have transfered or am in

    the process of transfering.

    There are also a number of documentaries (SBS,

    ABC) on mostly legalistation related stuff.

    Quality of the encoding depends greatly on the

    source material and also how many minutes I've

    decided to stuff on a single CD-R; 45 minutes

    per CD-R (in SVCD format) is much better quality

    than VHS and a bit below DVD - 60 minutes is a

    little better than VHS quality - 75 minutes is

    tolerable viewing.

    Sound quality has been a little bit of a problem

    due to the crappy spare VCR I have been using

    (it was found on a nature strip during a council

    hard rubbish collection) but I think I have mostly

    solved the problem by pre-processing before

    encoding.

    When I have finished encoding this lot I'll post

    a list of what I've got and then perhaps we can

    work through some form of distribution of 'em.

    I've got plenty of material to work through with

    respect to the spare time I have, but in a couple

    of weeks I would be interested if anyone has some

    relevant video/DVD which they'd like to be encoded

    (rude home movies will be accepted or declined

    based on beauty, plot and aerobic dexterity )

    I am also interested in Audio recordings - I have

    collected a few relevant BBC radio doco's

    (Plants & Medicine, Receptors etc) and also a long

    Q&A with the author of Acid Dreams. You can fit

    heap of audio in mp3 format on to a single CD

    (say, 20 hours at voice quality) so let me know

    if you have anything which might be suitable.

    [ 01. March 2003, 23:25: Message edited by: somnif ]

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