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This account was written in 1969 for publication in Marihuana Reconsidered (1971). Sagan was in his mid-thirties at that time. He continued to use cannabis for the rest of his life. It all began about ten years ago. I can remember another early visual experience with cannabis, in which I viewed a candle flame and discovered in the heart of the flame, standing with magnificent indifference, the black-hatted and -cloaked Spanish gentleman who appears on the label of the Sandeman sherry bottle. I want to explain that at no time did I think these things ‘really’ were out there. While my early perceptions were all visual, and curiously lacking in images of human beings, both of these items have changed over the intervening years. The cannabis experience has greatly improved my appreciation for art, a subject which I had never much appreciated before. A very similar improvement in my appreciation of music has occurred with cannabis. There is a very nice self-titering aspect to cannabis.

10 Scientific and Technological Visionaries Who Experimented With Drugs Same here. We evolved along with, and because of, our diet. There weren't any classifications of "illegal drugs" back then, and these things flourish in all sorts of conditions in the wild - it's hard not to imagine at least occasional consumption. Considering mankind's predilection to experimenting with consciousness, along with the unique effects of these substances (including euphoria), it was probably more than occasional. If these fungi were part of a diet over time, they'd likely have some effect on our development. I just love the idea of psychoactive botanicals spurring hominid consciousness to a higher quantum state — the booster shot needed to make that leap forward in intelligence. SExpand Exactly! Speaking of dendrites, it amazes me how closely underground mycelial mats (a sample of one on the right) resemble the brain's neural network (and, too - on the left - an image of "dark" matter).

Infected Mushroom « psytraveller.net Infected Mushroom is an Israeli psytrance /electronica duo formed in Kiryat Yam, Haifa ( Israel ) in 1998 by the producers Erez Eisen and Amit Duvdevani . Both founding members currently reside in Los Angeles, California ( USA ). Eisen and Duvdevani first began to play together in 1998. Erez Eisen was born on 8 September 1980 in Qiryat Yam, Israel . Eisen had collaborated with DJ Jörg and other notable psytrance artists by the age of 18, and has released three albums and a multitude of tracks under different psytrance monikers including Shidapu and Shiva Shidapu. Amit Duvdevani was born on 7 November 1974 in Israel , and had a similar musical background. He was conscripted into the Israel Defense Forces, where he was first nicknamed Duvdev. Their 2000 album, Classical Mushroom, contained “Bust A Move”, one of their most lauded productions. The duo’s 2001 B.P. Converting Vegetarians (2003), was a two-disc set. Legend of the Black Shawarma was released in 2009. Comments comments

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Carl Sagan on Mary Jane. GREAT READ. by _david Jun 29