Uncoiling the spiral: Maths and hallucinations. December 2009 You can read a more accessible version of this article here.
Think drug-induced hallucinations, and the whirly, spirally, tunnel-vision-like patterns of psychedelic imagery immediately spring to mind. But it's not just hallucinogenic drugs like LSD, cannabis or mescaline that conjure up these geometric structures. People have reported seeing them in near-death experiences, as a result of disorders like epilepsy and schizophrenia, following sensory deprivation, or even just after applying pressure to the eyeballs. So common are these geometric hallucinations, that in the last century scientists began asking themselves if they couldn't tell us something fundamental about how our brains are wired up. Computer generated representations of form constants.
Geometric hallucinations were first studied systematically in the 1920s by the German-American psychologist Heinrich Klüver. Www.maps.org/news-letters/v20n1/v20n1-40to41.pdf. The Spiritual Origins of Santa Claus. I decided to do this piece because my daughter is at the age where the whole tale is crumbling, and this is never a pleasant thing for kids.
It isn’t cool that we lie to our kids in this way in the name of, “Aww, but it’s Christmas… what is childhood without all the bullshit we spin around them all year with bunnies and eggs, flying reindeer and pissed off pumpkins that all have no connection to anything whatsoever, no compelling morality tale nor awakening message? You’re an awful parent if you deprive them of all that!” Well, there are many cultures that don’t spin all these larks for their kids, because children are quite capable of spinning a world of wonder around themselves without our help, in fact, they’re infinitely better at it. I want my daughter to know what the Santa myth stands for, what “gifts” were brought, why, by whom and finally: what’s in it for her.
It all begins with a mushroom. The Shamanic Origins of Christmas « SeventhSwami.com. Modern Christmas traditions are based on ancient mushroom-using shamans by: Dana Larsen Although most people see Christmas as a Christian holiday, most of the symbols and icons we associate with Christmas celebrations are actually derived from the shamanistic traditions of the tribal peoples of pre-Christian Northern Europe.
The sacred mushroom of these people was the red and white amanita muscaria mushroom, also known as “fly agaric.” These mushrooms are now commonly seen in books of fairy tales, and are usually associated with magic and fairies. This is because they contain potent hallucinogenic compounds, and were used by ancient peoples for insight and transcendental experiences. Soma, Divine Mushroom of Immortality. -By George Wong Introduction Amanita muscaria, or the Fly Agaric, is not a well-known mushroom based on its scientific name or common name.
Yet the picture on the left of this mushroom will probably be familiar to the reader. In recent times, it is the mushroom that has been adopted as the “prototype” mushroom in western cultures. Book Review. By Andy Letcher Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins, NY Hardcover, 2007, 360 pp; ISBN 9780060828288 Paper, 2008, 383 pp; ISBN-10 0060828293, ISBN-13 978-0060828295 Although this book was originally published two years ago, it was recently made available in paper (and if you’re like me, that means you can now scoop up used hardcover copies on the cheap!)
And with the theme of this bonus issue…what better time to take another look at this terrific read. The first thing that caught my attention about this book was the commentary about the author, on the inside dust jacket. It describes Andy Letcher as “a freelance writer, lecturer and musician living in Oxford, UK,” as well as being a former eco-protestor who once lived in a tree house and who sings and plays the mandolin and English bagpipes in an acid folk band.
Oh, and he has two PhDs; one in ecology from Oxford University, the other in religious and cultural studies. Thankfully, Shroom is not that. 'The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross' by John Marco Allegro. The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross (1970) is a book by the British archaeologist John Marco Allegro.
His early career focused on studying the earliest manuscripts of the Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls. With this book, however, many say that it ruined his career, although others say it gave him the fame that he deserved. The basic idea behind the book is that primitive religions were based on fertility rites (rituals that recreate the reproductive processes of nature either symbolically or through sex). Santa Claus and the Magic Mushrooms. AtlanteanConspiracy Have you ever wondered why on Christmas we cut down/carry evergreen trees inside our houses, decorate them with fancy ornaments, and place presents underneath them?
“So, why do people bring Pine trees into their houses at the Winter Solstice, placing brightly colored (Red and White) packages under their boughs, as gifts to show their love for eachother and as representations of the love of God and the gift of his Sons life? It is because, underneath the Pine bough is the exact location where one would find this ‘Most Sacred’Substance, the Amanita muscaria, in the wild.”
–James Arthur, “Mushrooms and Mankind” (8) Santa Claus and the Magic Mushrooms. Magic Mushrooms and the Origin of Christmas - Is Santa a Mushroom?EndAllDisease. Have you ever wondered why on Christmas we cut down/carry evergreen trees inside our houses, decorate them with fancy ornaments, and place presents underneath them?
'The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross' by John Marco Allegro. Ayahuasca Retreats, ayahuasca retreat, ayahuasca retreats peru, Ayahuasca, ayahuasca journeys, ayahuasca retreats cusco, ayahuasca ceremony, ayawasca ceremonies, ayahuasca healing, ayahuasca peru, ayahuasca works. Articles and Research » Ayahuasca: An Ethnopharmacologic History Ayahuasca: An Ethnopharmacologic History© 1998 Dennis J.
McKenna, Ph.D. Introduction. The Psychedelic Tree of Life. , meaning “the great one who comes forth,” was considered the grandmother of all the Egyptian gods, except for her husband the sun god Tem or Atum (Amun-Ra).
Similar in appearance to later goddesses Hathor and Isis, Lusaaset is depicted as wearing the Egyptian vulture crown surmounted with the uraeus (Kundalini cobra) and solar disk between two horns. Egyptian goddess Lusaaset We can best understand the meaning behind Lusaaset and relevance to present day religion by exploring her corresponding symbols for birth and resurrection. Acacia – Spiritual Rebirth The ancient Egyptian goddess Lusaaset was associated with the acacia tree known as the Tree of Life to ancient Egyptians. More specifically, she was associated with the oldest known acacia tree at the time, which was situated just north of Heliopolis, Egypt, in the famous Garden of Heliopolis. Venus – Celestial Rebirth Lusaaset was also associated with the planet Venus and celestial fertility. Venus as dawn. The Psychedelic Library. Alas! The forbidden fruits were eaten, And thereby the warm life of reason congealed.
A grain of wheat eclipsed the sun of Adam, Like as the Dragon's tail dulls the brightness of the moon. . — Rumi: Masnavi I Ma'naviNew Additions to the Library - March 2008. Attn. If your having a hard time breaking through read this. - First steps in Hyperspace. So many threads all saying the same thing. "I cant breakthrough, what am I doing wrong? " has made me want to write this for a long time. This are my thoughts over my years using dmt with various smoking methods, tips for each method and some clues as to why your not breaking through.
These are all observations and ideas from my own personal experiences. Take what you can leave the rest behind. The Big & Dandy DMT Thread - The Fifth Symphony - Page 2. The Big & Dandy Changa Thread - 1st Toke Over the Line. Changa: Learning more. Interview with an Ozzy Changalero So anonymous changalero... How long have you been working with changa? How did you get introduced to it?
"What seems years ago now, I first came across ayahuasca from a documentary that was screened on TV, this must of been around 1996 or around that time, I was fascinated by it, and did some research into what this was. At that time I knew no one that knew of this or had heard of it. The Big & Dandy DMT Thread - The Fifth Symphony. The Big & Dandy Changa Thread - 1st Toke Over the Line. Never Call Them Archons - They Are Parasites.
This article has been 15 years in the making, as it took that long for me to be able to distill this information into an accessible format. This is going to represent a few very important pieces of the overall puzzle of how we are going to shift this planet and everyone upon it into an ascended frequency of being. One key aspect of this shift is going to be the “cleaning up of consciousness” of all of humanity, which is no small task, to be sure. This article will cover in detail the major obstacle to this consciousness clean-up, as well as a solution that needs your help to succeed. I briefly wrote last year about a “living cloud of shadows” surrounding this planet, populated by energy parasites. Category:DMT Containing Plants. WIKI -> Botanicals (link). DMT Containing plants The following is a list of plants known to contain tryptamines.
Acacia {{botanics_info|image:NoImage.png|Acacia obtusifolia| 0.4 to 0.5 % DMT/NMT in the dried bark (Csiro 1990) 0.15-0.6% DMT,NMT(2:1)plus trace betacarboline in bark, 0.06-0.2% leaves (Southern Cross University comissioned test 2001) 5-MeoDMT & bufotenine in some loctations (E., Entheogen Review 1995-6; Trout's Notes 2005-10) Is not fast growing in the wild and is under threat of serious overharvesting. Anadenanthera Common Reed Delosperma. DMT & The Pineal Gland. Where did I find all this out? (source list) So what should you take away from this blog?
Harbor - UCLA Psilocybin and Cancer. This is the first psychedelic treatment with terminally ill patients since the early 1970's.