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So, while moving through the routine passed over a thousand times before, and to enter into ten thousand again, I noticed a colloquialism which I used that evoked something deeper.
Out picking mushrooms, and instructing a friend on the techniques and identification procedures, I informed him that one develops a psychic attunement to the mushrooms, to where they want to grow.
"Listen to them, they lead you directly to them"
Naturally part of this arises with experience... they like second growth forests, avoid cedar, enjoy minor slopes, etc. etc.
But even with these criteria, one can stumble obliviously and miss them entirely.
I have on more than one occasion walked directly over a log only to turn around and check underneath it to find one that would otherwise completely elude my sight.
This got me thinking;
the described Telepathy of Australian Aboriginies, their ability to dowse with merely their hands, the sensitivity to greater weather patterns...
All of these feel 6th circuit.
I certainly appreciate the 6th circuit energy-field awareness as an extension of the 2nd circuit physical-territory awareness. (Naturally both extend to realms beyond those mentioned in the example, but for brevity/clarity's sake...)
And now I wonder to what extent said circuit really remains unawakened, as opposed to generally suppressed, but quite natural and available.
It strikes me that the same truth might apply to the other 4.
Given that;
We have a body, replete with nervous system.
We result from and continuously mingle with Genetics...
and inescapably exist as part of quantum fields...
Do said circuits really requires intense focus to activate?
Or merely a gentle awareness?
Plants and the wilderness (deoxy.org/bewilderness.htm) seem to maintain a 6th circuit symphony.
I question the belief that said circuits require higher degrees of evolution to activate.
I enjoy basking in them in the mean time.
Out picking mushrooms, and instructing a friend on the techniques and identification procedures, I informed him that one develops a psychic attunement to the mushrooms, to where they want to grow.
"Listen to them, they lead you directly to them"
Naturally part of this arises with experience... they like second growth forests, avoid cedar, enjoy minor slopes, etc. etc.
But even with these criteria, one can stumble obliviously and miss them entirely.
I have on more than one occasion walked directly over a log only to turn around and check underneath it to find one that would otherwise completely elude my sight.
This got me thinking;
the described Telepathy of Australian Aboriginies, their ability to dowse with merely their hands, the sensitivity to greater weather patterns...
All of these feel 6th circuit.
I certainly appreciate the 6th circuit energy-field awareness as an extension of the 2nd circuit physical-territory awareness. (Naturally both extend to realms beyond those mentioned in the example, but for brevity/clarity's sake...)
And now I wonder to what extent said circuit really remains unawakened, as opposed to generally suppressed, but quite natural and available.
It strikes me that the same truth might apply to the other 4.
Given that;
We have a body, replete with nervous system.
We result from and continuously mingle with Genetics...
and inescapably exist as part of quantum fields...
Do said circuits really requires intense focus to activate?
Or merely a gentle awareness?
Plants and the wilderness (deoxy.org/bewilderness.htm) seem to maintain a 6th circuit symphony.
I question the belief that said circuits require higher degrees of evolution to activate.
I enjoy basking in them in the mean time.
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Re: 6th Circuit Foraging Fun
Mon, November 3, 2008 - 12:21 AM<<Do said circuits really requires intense focus to activate? Or merely a gentle awareness? >>
Not either/or but and/or. Plus there are other routes to activating circuits, some of which occur naturally the longer you live. I tend to open the circuits through a rigorous ritual discipline i call paratheatre. TRIP magazine once interviewed me on how these rituals act on brain chemistry and central nervous systems in similar ways that mushrooms do.
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Re: 6th Circuit Foraging Fun
Mon, November 3, 2008 - 12:35 AMMuchas gracias.
I find Para-Theater, at least, at the most surface level that I can recognize it (having never participated, but investigated to a slightly more than "name only" depth through the various resources you have made available) as one of the most accurate practices plausible.
The ability to distinctly *call off* the para-theater, and return to "normality" (as such... The Banishing/Personal Composition/Grounding and return to the first four circuits... hah, tricky fun times. Bloomin' status quo. So... entropic.) strikes me, most immediately, as the area in which I need focus.
I often "play act" the energies I feel present in a moment, not always to the benefit of the parties present (and ultimately, there for, not myself, either)... (Leo Ascendant)
Having come to terms far more with the Body and it's needs, desires, and intention, totally separate from that of my consciousness, I once again find that acting in the here-now, has far more profound and startling effects then any other possible action.
Similarly, I enjoy recognizing that the body exists as the ultimate tool/instrument, through which all technologies we have devised operate, and which, near consistently, they mimic.
Any and all acts, therefor, of empowerment towards the body (Martial Arts, Yoga, Acrobatics, Acting, Singing/Beatboxing, etc.) provide more liberation than any other act I can conceive. And continue to act and remain in effect far longer than any other technology that we may require - although we've gotten better at making those compact and "at hand", to say the least.
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Re: 6th Circuit Foraging Fun
Mon, November 3, 2008 - 1:27 AMYes.
It strikes me that a certain degree of 6th Circuit harmony must exist in order for the facilitation of a healthy ritual environment - particularly one involving numerous people.
A sort of "clearing of the clutter"... "smudge" or "banishing"...
Hm.
Gnarly, dude.
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Re: 6th Circuit Foraging Fun
Tue, November 4, 2008 - 3:00 AMIf you're asking if the mushroom - the mycelium, the collective - is conscious, I'd have to say yes. Consciousness precedes matter, it doesn't require a primate nervous system to exist. Consciousness *designed* the nervous system. And the mycelia is a system far older, and apparently wiser, than our own. I have no doubt that it can "speak" to us, if we attune ourselves to listen.
LSD, as a semi-synthetic compound, amplifies awareness unconditionally. Set and setting are the key. The mushroom is different - it has a voice, a purpose, an agenda. To integrate us with first the Gaian mind, the planetary matrix. And then with the Universe, as a conscious citizen, an integral part of the pan-galactic union. Space Migration follows this, naturally - but not before. First is becoming one with the Whole Earth, recognizing all our relations, the sacred unity of life. A neurogenetic samadhi, well into the 7th Circuit, IMO. Just by a slower and somewhat gentler approach. -
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Re: 6th Circuit Foraging Fun
Tue, November 4, 2008 - 9:19 AMFor lack of confusion in communication - I foraged for Chantrelle mushrooms, delicious edibles, not psychedelics.
That said, I agree with the ideas you have put forth.
I found the whole experience quite curious, despite intimate familiarization with it;
That the psychic interplay, normally so involved with collective human settings, surfaced so profoundly, and so pervasively, in the wild, added a far deeper degree to my current grokking of the 6th circuit.
And, as stated above, it brought me to question just how "inactive" we tend to have said circuits, rather than simply "not attuned to, due to cultural conditions"
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6th circuit as bio-radar
Tue, November 4, 2008 - 10:49 AMOK, you were out stalking chanterelle mushrooms. Still, I think there is a 6th circuit function for tuning into the energy presence of plants, sort of like a bio-radar, that acts like what Castaneda called "the second atention". I understand the second attention as that awareness linked to presence, energy and phenomena, wheras the first attention (3rd circuit) is that awareness linked to language, thinking and the assignment of meaning. Both attentions are important and serve complimentary functions.
For those interested, I have written more extensively on these two types of attentiion at:
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Re: 6th circuit as bio-radar
Tue, November 4, 2008 - 10:36 PMIronically, I noticed this effect first in 2005 after returning from some Shamanic Dietas while walking through the woods and listening to the silence of the presence of flora and fauna alike, realizing how much noise humans brought with them.
But I never made the correlation with such experiences as 6th Circuit until I started socializing.
C6 in social settings can knock one's fricking socks off, or can/has to mine, anyways.
It feels as though one should work up to integrating it on that level first through immersion in the natural world - come to terms with it serenely.
I do feel genuinely intrigued about it's potential use in Dowsing, Geomancy, Plant-Spirit-Communication and similar activities though.
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