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Thanks P.D. , let me know if you need anything from here

I'm interested, would you send to Indonesia?

Whether the Creator can be called "God" or not depends on our concept of God. I would prefer to call this unique Being the "Creator". Since we are all created by the Creator's will and not by coincidence, there must be some purpose for our life on earth. Why doesn't It interfere with human's world, I think it's simply because It wants us, humans, to represent It on earth, to do good things on earth just like It would do, and make the world a better place for our children. That's why every person will be responsible for the result of his actions that are carried out through himself all through his lifetime (Hence the concept of Heaven and Hell follows). If we would live under FULL control of the Creator, then we would be better created as animals, or trees, or puppets. Living this life as humans is really an honor given to us by the Creator.

Morning Onemind (you know where I am) I like your words about this belief being a psychological tool to make someone feels good and firm inside our mind. I also believe that the freedom to choose their own idea, choosing what to believe or not believe is the right of every humanbeing and it must not be interfered by any government or any group of religion. I was born in a country where almost all people since childhood are kinda pushed by their parents, government, teachers or community into believing in their parents' religion, without having a chance to really search and learn. Some of them never really understand about their religion for their whole life, yet they use it as their identity, take it with them everywhere with arrogance, or use it for their own profit. Instead of digesting what they read from the holly book and apply it wisely in accordance with the situation, they blindly ingest it word by word and claim that they know what their God wants. I think I know what you believe now. I think you believe (or follow) your heart. I think you'll be fine, mate

Hahaha I knew you would say something like that. I hate dogma, and anything that sounds like dogma...but I tend to think there must be something, some purpose of this life, a mistery...I mean why? Why does God create bad people and good people, why doesn't God interfere with injustice? Onemind I was curious, do you ever believe in something, not God but anything...anything that makes you feel good when you are here on earth. In other words, what is life to you?

I guess you're man with heart by not joining the army and that feeling of uncomfortable with so much violence and injustice. But sorry I think you're being ambigous here. First you seem to believe in God's non-existence because there has been no power trying to stop the injustice from going on, but then you say, "but if He doesn't care and does nothing, to hell with fucken...etc ", which is a conditional statement. There is a difference between not-believe and not-understand something. When we were born, our spirit was pure like a white paper, I guess that may be some kind of the nearest reflection of God? Once in the past I had a big quarrel with my wife, we both shouted to each other, throwing things onto the floor etc, but what happened next was that my 3-year old daughter came between us, hugging both of us, and as I hugged her back and looked into her eyes, I felt something very strange was cooling me down, melting my ego and arrogance away. At that moment I felt like I was saved from being mentally too far from God or something. This morning my daughter (shes 4-yeard old now) came to me and said "papa I see a black little ant in that water again, lets help him out !" Again I felt warm inside. These warm feelings, sense of happiness...doesn't it mean that Someone actually cares about us? And about those bastards who think they did something nobel by blowing themselves off killing innocent people, or sending troops out of greed and arrogance, making children lose parents, parents lose children.....does He ever care about it? Does He, or will He do something about it? I have a feeling that it would be too soon to make such evaluation right now.

I say you're an honest person. I have as well a genuine believe in the Creator, its just that I feel I don't understand the Creator sometimes. Thats because I cannot imagine something who is totally different from us, the creature. The more I try to understand some things, the more I'm stuck in a state of confusion. But deep in my heart I feel the existence of that Being everytime I remember how fragile we are and the nature is. I have experienced things unexplainable by the science I've been studying. I was used to believing that no one can see things through a solid barrier such as walls or from remote places. But as I posted earlier I had a girl friend who is very unique. When we played master mind (the board game with six coloured pegs) she always won the game at her first move, and it happened every time we play. She was able to read things I wrote in a different room, she always knew what I had in my pocket etc. I knew that she wasn't cheat, and I was scared at that time. It has made me somewhat changed my orientation in viewing things. Somehow my experiences with her gives me a clear fact that some people and (maybe all of us under certain condition) might be able to see or perceive things without using the eye. My theory is that these electrical signals in the brain could be transmitted via other medium or be put directly into the brain and then we could view objects without actually having the light coming to the retina, or we could sense the feeling of having eaten delicious food without having to eat, or could hear beautiful musics without sound wave stimulating the ear drum. So where is the creator of these electrical signals? It is a question difficult to answer since we perceive places and distances merely through our limited senses (We cannot even see an object moving at very high speed like a bullet projected from a rifle). I guess scientists should find out more on Einstein's relativity theory. If the being (that ppl call spirit) can travel or vibrate at the speed of light, then all the dimensions will be perceived differently and we might begin the spiritual journey to the unseen world?

I don't believe that someone doesn't really believe in the Creator. Its just that they imagine the Creator as a being present somewhere in heaven or far away "outside" of this material world we call the universe. Part of the reason for increasing interests on shamanic plants I think is because of their hallucinogenic effects that might lead them to the world of spirituality, or in another word they want to experience the world outside of this "real world". Speaking of the visions that people experience during the release of dmt, taking drugs, dreaming experience, etc. I think they belong to the same group, ie. perceptions. I believe that this material world (including atoms and the universe) is composed only of sensations, and the real absolute being is the Creator. Since material beings are each a perception, they cannot see the Creator, but the Creator sees the matter in all its forms (plants, animals, humans etc). When we see the blue sky its not because its an absolute reality but because what we perceive as "the external world" is only the result of the software in the brain being stimulated by the electrical signals sent to it by our sense organs. If these signals are blocked from reaching the brain, these perceptions will stop. The same situation applies to all our other senses: sound, touch, taste, and smell are all perceived as electrical signals in the brain. We may achieve that kind of stimulation by taking hallucinogenics as well, but generally I think this universe itself is a hallucination too. The fact that we cannot see the Creator is because our brain software is given only perceptions. This perception is transmitted by a source of perceptions into the brain software. Imagine that humans are the heroes in one of those virtual realistic adventure games, except that the heroes are given their own will. So when we die, that brain software (some ppl call it the soul or spirit) is simply disconnected from those perceptions (including the body) and we enter the world of the Creator, in which we will see what eye has not seen, what ear has not heard, and what has not entered the human heart.

I believe that when your soul leaves the body, its still there fully alive but becomes lack of expression. I like the analogy of a microphone and a speaker. When you take a microphone away from a speaker, he can no longer be heard by the audience. But he is still a speaker. I believe death experience is very similar to sleeping. In fact its analogous to a near-death experience. Sleeping is a different form of death, ie the state in which the soul leaves the body. While you're sleeping your body lies in bed where the spirit experiences totally different life in totally different places. In your dreams, you may "see" yourself on a beautiful island swimming at the beach, unaware that you're in fact sleeping in bed. This life itself is perhaps nothing more than a "dream" in terms of the next-life, the real-life, the eternity or whatever you may call. So what happens when you die? Given that analogy it would be the same as when you are sleeping. The body reduces all functions to a minimum, leading to disorientation in place and time and slower body movements. Your soul will separate from the body and you might find yourself waking up in the middle of a new place, your senses become incredibly sharp so you can see your whole life played back in front of you just like a video etc, etc.

First, remove the husk by pressing the whole fruit between the base of your palms. You'll see the brown, conical-shaped seed inside, its very hard so you need a food processor or coffee maker. If you dont have it, get one of those stone "cobek" and "ulekan" (mortar and pestle) from the local market. Prices vary between Rp 5.000 to Rp 30.000 (0.7 to 4 $AU), depending on the size. Its a common tool here so you might find it also in the kitchen section of modern supermarkets like Carrefour etc.

Sorry for posting such an old news. Some of you might have heard it before but I'll post it anyway. ======================== Two dead in piranha penis frenzy Source: Herald Sun (Au) Published: July 6, 2001 Author: AAP ======================== TWO Papua New Guinea fishermen have bled to death after having their penises bitten off by pirahna-like river fish. The fish, which zero in on urine streams in the water, have struck terror among villagers along the Sepik River, in northwestern PNG. Authorities believe the killer fish is an introduced member of the South American pacu family and a relative of the piranha. In both of last month's fatalities, the fish demonstrated a trait of the piranha by following a trail of urine in the water, swimming to its source and then biting it off with razor-sharp teeth. Some believe the killer may be a food-source fish introduced from Brazil in 1994 by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) and the PNG National Fisheries Authority (NFO). However marine biologist and aquaculturist Ian Middleton said he believed they were a different species, introduced from across the PNG-Indonesia border. He denied the fish were the descendants of the pacu species introduced to the Sepik River in 1994 and the Ramu River at Madang in 1997 by the FAO and the NFA as a protein substitute. "The killer fish have the most human-like teeth on the bottom jaw I have ever seen and quite possibly feed on insects," he said. Middleton said the FAO/NFA-introduced pacu grew to 20 kilos and had no teeth. Pacu are mainly vegetarian but will adapt to eat almost anything. Middleton said he believed the killer fish had started biting humans because of a lack of naturally occurring food. "The reason for biting people on their genitals I believe is a result of the fish detecting a chemical change in the water, swimming up the urine trail and biting the genitals." Middleton said this behaviour was well-documented in the Amazon, where other species of the piranha family attack in response to urine or blood. He said people along the Ramu River were now harvesting the introduced pacu and there had been no reports of attacks on humans. "I do not believe that in over five years of research and careful consideration that the FAO and the NFA would be stupid enough to introduce such a hazardous species, nor any relative of the piranha," Middleton said. However the Director of the PNG Office of Environment and Conservation, Dr Wari Iamo, yesterday expressed "grave concern and dissatisfaction" at the way some government agencies and donor organisations had gone about importing exotic plant and animal species. "A classic example is the salvinia molesta (a floating water weed) control program in the Sepik during the 1980s which cost millions of kina (dollars) because someone accidentally introduced the weed into the river system," he said. "In the last two decades various agencies and individuals have introduced over 30 species of exotic fishes into the country." http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1652826/posts

I don't know if this is called telepathy but I have a personal experience. About ten years ago I had a girlfriend. She was a cheerful, normal girl with a good sense of humour. But one day I was amazed when I found out that she's unique, in that it seemed she has a sixth sense or something like that. It began when we played mastermind - you know the board game with code pegs of six different colours? I almost couldn't believe it as she always guessed the right pattern at the first turn, no matter how many times we repeated the game. At that very moment I began to think that this kind of thing was not a coincidence. Next, I asked her to sit about 5 meters from where I was, I took a piece of paper and started to write any random words that crossed my mind at that very moment, like names of city, country, my friend, family etc. I knew exactly that she didn't see or cheat. But she always knew what I was writing there. Then I moved to a different room and took a piece of thing and put it into my pocket. Then I asked her, "Now, what is it I'm putting in my pocket?" She answered correctly from the other room, every time I grabbed anything else from that room. I tried to get some explanation from her, but she couldn't explain it herself. The only thing she told me was: "I don't know how, but I can see colours". Then I had a conversation with her parents. They told me that it had happened since she was a child. Many times she saw some weird appearance such as a white human-like shadow walking (or flying) quickly across the room, or a group of people sitting or standing around a place where people died in the past, such as in a cemetary, location of a past deadly-car-accident etc. And the weirdest thing was that one day when she was ten years old, she told her parents that her uncle was dead. Actually his uncle was on a car riding to another town that morning, and later that night, they received a phone call from a hospital, saying that the uncle died of a car accident. A couple of weeks later I forgot where I put my motorbike key so I spent almost an hour searching for it until I found it in one of the rooms in her house, yet she kept saying that she honestly didn't have any idea where the key was. It was one of the funniest moment in my life. Weird, but it happens.

Be careful of excessive betelnut. As much as 2 mg of arecoline can have strong stimulating effects, so should not take more than 5 mg at once. Taken in powdered form, it should not be more than 4 grams. In long term, arecoline overdose may cause decreased cell's ability to live and reduced DNA & protein synthesis speed. Arecoline may also cause depletion of beneficial glutathione enzyme. Betelnut seed also contain relatively high amount of phenolic compunds - which are toxic. During the chewing process in the mouth, reactive oxygen species (free radicals) may form and this reactive oxygen species is responsible for the DNA damage of ephitelial cells in the mouth. The damage may develop into oral submucous fibrosis (OSF), a pre-cancerous condition. Other dangerous compounds in betelnut seeds are N-nitroso derivatives, ie N-nitrosoguvakolina, N-nitrosoguvasina, etc. These nitroso derivatives may cause tumour in pancreas, lungs, nose, and liver. The use of betelnut seed together with flupentixol and salbutamol may cause tremor effects, akithesia (the urge to move), asthma or alergy. Flupentixol is used to treat mild to moderate depression, and salbutamol is is usually sold as a cure for asthma. They may come under different brand names.

In Indonesia, there are 3 worms that mostly infect human body through the soil, ie Large Roundworm or Cacing Gelang (Ascaris lumbricoides), Whipworm or Cacing Cambuk (Trichuris trichiura), and the Hookworm (Cacing kait or Cacing Tambang, which in Indonesia is mostly Necator americanus). There is also the Pinworm or Cacing Kremi (Enterobius vermicularis) that infects human from the air, and Tapeworms (such as Taenia solium etc). Anthelmintic properties of betelnut seeds has been performed in vitro (in a synthetic media) against tapeworms that are usually found in local dogs and pigs. As a comparison, modern drug "pirantel pamoat" has been used in the experiment. The dose was 15 mg of powdered betelnut seeds in 25 cc of distilled water and 1mg of pirantel pamoat powder in 1.000 cc of distilled water. After soaking period of one hour, 18 worms in betelnut solution are found dead, whereas none in the pirantel pamoat solution has been killed yet. After 4 hours of soaking period, the number of worms found dead is almost the same in both solutions. All worms in both solutions are dead after 10 hours of soaking period. In another experimentation, betelnut seed is compared with mebendazol, this time in vivo, i.e. using an experiment dog that is infected with the larva of tapeworms. The result is, though not as effective as mebendazol, betelnut seed solution can reduce the number of worm eggs as much as 74,3 % while mebendazol can reduce the number of egg as high as 83 %. However, the above experiments have not yet been applied to human. The Natives of Javanese and Balinese use to combine rhizomes of Curcuma aeruginosa and Zingiber purpureum as well as Piper betle leaves in their traditional medicinal plant recipes against worms. Here's one famous recipes: Ingredients: - 25 gr of "Temu Ireng" rhizome (Curcuma aeruginosa) - 15 gr of "Banggele" rhizome (Zingiber purpureum) - 5 Betel leaves (Piper betle) - 5 Ketumbar (Corriander) seeds Grind all the above ingredients and stir in a half cup of boiling water, let it cool, strain, add 4 grams of powdered betelnut seeds and drink the solution. All the above ingredients should be easily found in traditional markets in Bali. Note: - Another in vitro experiment also shows that Ascaris lumbricoides eggs are significantly reduced by soaking in solution of papaya (Carica papaya) seed extract. Local people also reports that papaya seeds are also effective against tapeworms. Traditional methjod is by using ground seeds as follows: Dry 1 bowl of papaya seeds, grind well. Mix with 1 bowl of milk or water. Dose (for adult): 1 tsp per day, taken about 2 hours after dinner. - In vitro anthelmintic activity against Ascaridia galli worm has been documented for the volatile oil of Zingiber purpureum. - Rhizome of Temu Giring (Curcuma heyneana) and seeds of Ceguk (Rangoon Creeper, Quisqualis indica) are also mentioned as having anthelmintic properties. - Quisqualis indica seeds are especially effective against pinworm. Dose: 2 grams (10 seeds) of Q. indica seeds, roast and grind. Add a glass of water, drink 2 hours after dinner. repeat 1 week later if needed. - Other tradtional practices to prevent tapeworm infection is by drinking coconut milk regularly. Also read: "Intestinal Worms: Coconut is Most Effective (by Mariana Fletcher Baxter)" from this URL: http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=18&i=226

Thanks for the link sobriquet, I bought those 200 mate seeds from German. Now I would really like to see how they go, this would be my third attempt.

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Wow, thanx darcy that's an interesting find, I didn't know that

P.H., do most of your leaves have the spikes?

Thanks ferret, I'm pretty sure this is a viridis. I just want to clarify previous things that people said, that this underside leaf formation is definite, I mean yes it's true that those tubes do appear but the probability may be low, at least in my case. I would be glad to hear what other ppl say about their viridis leaf though. Planthelper, what d'ya reckon...?

My Banisteriopsis caapi. Received as rooted cutting from planthelper in January 2005. A significant part of the root had outgrown the pot so I cut them back and it was just okay after that, no sign of stress. Here is the plant as of now (October 2006): And here's how it looked in February 2005: Anyone care to post their ayahuasca picture here?

My Banisteriopsis caapi. Received as rooted cutting from planthelper in January 2005. The roots had grown far out from the bottom of the pot so I cut them back and it was just okay, no sign of stress. Here is the plant as of now (October 2006): And here's how it looked in February 2005:

This morning I checked my plant for the sign of underside small tubes or darts at the leaf vein axils, and found that almost all the leaves on my plant do not have this unique characteristic. Only about 3 leaves have developed such thing. Here are the pics of four leaves I took. The first 3 leaves do have the "V-tube" characteristic, whereas the other leaves look just like the pict at the bottom right corner.

Thanks ferret. By the way, do you still remember where you obtained this? And was it from seed or plant?I was searching to make sure whether this is P. viridis or P. alba, and here's what Ive found: This morning I checked my plant for the sign of underside small tubes or darts at the leaf vein axils, and found that almost all the leaves on my plant do not have this unique characteristic. Only about 3 leaves have developed such thing. Here are the pics of four leaves I took. The first 3 leaves do have the "V-tube" characteristic, whereas the other leaves look just like the pict at the bottom right corner. Anyone has anything to say about this?