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War

2008-08-20T17:13:14Z

i guess we are at war with the plants, we human animals
i recall the helplessness and horror I felt as my fellow Americans waved flags in support of this ungodly Iraq war
it is the same even the though the plants are tellings us not to be afraid, that we are all one, yet we insist
NO - we are special, different, separate: "human"
I thought it insane: a war between plants and man? But it is not insane at all, it is now -
We human animals have been at war with the plants for millenium
Beat your swords into plowshares, humans!
Eat a fistful of dirt, humans!
Lay down and press your bare, human face against the earth from which we were summoned
and be still

(poem Remembering You)
I want to know this earth
From which I was summoned -
Each molecule of my being
Carved from the mass of this planet
I eat a fistful of dirt,
Press my bare, human face
Against the raw earth of this planet,
Sit in that empty space inside
Staring at the stars in dark night sky
Even in eternity I will remember you

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Many paths lead to the top of the mountain

2008-08-19T18:35:42Z

I have often heard this and basically accepted it at a deep level. But every path that I have followed leads to here and now.
is the top the mountain right here?
is it right now?
breathing in, breathing out ...

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Equinox Shamanic Journey to Peru • Febrary/March 2009

2008-08-07T21:47:53Z

Hi Everyone,

I'm reposting this with updated info. The Amazon itinerary has changed and we are now looking at a 12 day ayahuasca retreat in the Jungle near Iquitos. Please see details below. At the moment, the information pertaining to the 'Amazon' portion of the program is more accurate than what is listed on the itinerary page of my web site.

I'm offering a guided Shamanic Journey to Andes of Peru to take place March 10-21, 2009. The program will be preceded by an optional 12 day ayahuasca retreat (February 25 - March 9, 2009) in the jungle near Iquitos, where we will diet, take flower baths, swim and drink ayahuasca 5 times. I still have plenty of space for more participants.

In the Andes, will be working with world renown expert of Inca cosmology, author and shaman 'Mallku' (James Arévalo Merejildo). Mallku will lead us in ceremony at the following ancient temple sites: Pizac, Machu Picchu (twice), Ollantaytambo, Sacsayhuaman, Qenco, the water temple of Tipon, The Temple of Wiracocha, Ajayu Marka (a dimensional doorway), Puno, Lake Titicaca and the island of Amantani and Colca Canyon, the great canyon of the condor. Our Andean journey will afford us the opportunity to partake in 3 Huachuma (San Pedro) rituals, the last of which will be held on the morning of the equinox on the Island of Amantani (Lake Titicaca).

This year's Journey (March 2008) was a great success. Everyone bonded deeply and was very grateful for my efforts. The group was blown away by Mallku's facilitation and two individuals are considering participating again in 2009.

Prior to the Andes portion of the tour we will be participating in a 12 day ayahuasca retreat at the retreat center of Javier Arevalo, a well known and respected curnadero. We will also be working with other ayahuasca healers that have up till now only worked with the native population. Below is the itinerary.

The current travel itinerary to Iquitos looks as follows:

Arrive in Lima Feb 24th/25th, or earlier if you choose. Fly to Iquitos on February 25th. Overnight in hotel. Begin Ayahuasca retreat February 26. End ayahuasca retreat March 9th. Overnight in Iquitos and fly to Lima and on to Cuzco March 10th. The Andes portion of the program proceeds as laid out in the itinerary of my web site. Please ignore the Iquitos extension currently on my web site (see below). This will be updated and solidified as soon as we have a few more committed people.

The cost of the ayahuasca extension will be reduced from what is listed on my web site, and will be somewhere around $600 (maybe less depending on how many people come aboard).

Ayahuasca Extension Itinerary:

Day 1
▪ 1 hour journey by river boat on the Rio Nanay then 10 to 30 minute walk through jungle to the Temple campus (subject to river level).
▪ Introduction to the Curandero. Traditional welcome drink and meal.
▪ General discussion on Amazonian Shamanism, Ayahuascueros and plant medicines.
▪ Decide on which plant to diet and commence plant diet.
▪ Individual initial consultations with the Curandero.
▪ Evening meal at 8pm – strict food diet commences in addition to plant diet (which is drunk).

Day 2
▪ Plant diet continues
▪ Breakfast between 8 and 10 am
▪ Walk into the jungle to identify and get to know various medicinal plants and their uses.
▪ Lunch between 12 and 2 pm
▪ Individual consultations with the Curandero
▪ Ayahuasca ceremony at 8pm

Day 3
▪ Plant diet continues
▪ Breakfast between 8 and 10 am
▪ First “Bano de Florecimiento” – Limpieza (cleaning physical, emotional and spiritual bodies to remove negativity stored up in your body) at 12 pm
▪ Lunch between 1 and 2 pm
▪ Group discussion on personal animal spirits.
▪ Individual consultations with the Curandero
▪ Free evening to reflect and relax.
▪ Evening meal at 8.00 pm

Day 4
▪ Preparation of Ayahuasca (group to participate in the process)
▪ Breakfast between 8 and 10 am
▪ Plant diet continues.
▪ Lunch between 12 and 2 pm
▪ Individual consultations with the Curandero
▪ Ayahuasca ceremony at 8pm (or evening meal for those not participating)

Day 5
▪ Plant diet continues.
▪ Breakfast between 8 and 10 am.
▪ Lunch between 12 and 2 pm
▪ Individual consultations with the Curandero
▪ Free evening to reflect and relax.
▪ Evening meal at 8.00 pm

Day 6
▪ Plant diet continues.
▪ Breakfast between 8 and 10 am.
▪ Second “Bano de Florecimiento” – Flores Blancas (helps bring Light to your body, aids with feeling more relaxed and helps removes bad dreams) at 12pm
▪ Lunch between 1and 2 pm.
▪ Individual consultations with the Curandero
▪ Boat trip to 2 nearby “cochas” (lagoons) / opportunity to swim in the lagoons.
▪ Ayahuasca ceremony at 8pm (or evening meal for those not participating)

Day 7
▪ Plant diet continues.
▪ Breakfast between 8 and 10 am.
▪ Lunch between 12 and 2 pm
▪ Individual consultations with the Curandero
▪ Free evening to reflect and relax.
▪ Evening meal at 8.00 pm

Day 8
▪ Plant diet continues.
▪ Breakfast between 8 and 10 am.
▪ Lunch between 12 and 2 pm
▪ Individual consultations with the Curandero
▪ Ayahuasca ceremony at 8pm (or evening meal for those not participating)

Day 9
▪ Plant diet continues.
▪ Breakfast between 8 and 10 am.
▪ Third “Bano de Florecimiento” – Purificacion (purificacion bath for your spirit and mind, to bring spirits to your dreams and visions to help teach you, protection against bad spirits, good to remove negativity and to bring good luck) at 12 pm.
▪ Lunch between 1 and 2 pm
▪ Walk into the jungle for further identification of medicinal plants.
▪ Individual consultations with the Curandero
▪ Free evening to reflect and relax.
▪ Evening meal at 8.00 pm

Day 10
▪ Plant diet continues.
▪ Breakfast between 8 and 10 am.
▪ Lunch between 12 and 2 pm
▪ Optional fishing trip
▪ Individual consultations with the Curandero
▪ Ayahuasca ceremony at 8pm (or evening meal for those not participating)

Day 11
▪ Finish plant diet.
▪ Breakfast between 8 and 10 am.
▪ Lunch between 12 and 2 pm
▪ Final day in Temple campus.
▪ Final consultations with the Curandero.
▪ Farewell meal and "cut" the plant diet.
▪ Meditation ceremony at 9pm

Day 12
12 pm - walk to the Rio Nanay for return boat trip and transport back to Iquitos.

Please visit my web site for more information.
www.sacredperuadventures.com/itinerary.html

What can you expect to get out of this program?

First let me say that you will have the rare opportunity to work with one of the most knowledgeable individuals in the field Inca cosmology and Peruvian solar archeology. Mallku is a kind and generous being, holds a high very high consciousness, has the highest integrity and is an absolute delight to work with. He has written numerous books outlining the importance of, and the deep wisdom contained in Peru's ancient temples. Three excellent books by Mallku are "Machu Picchu Forever, City of Pilgrims", "Inka Initiation Path, The Awakening Of The Puma", and his latest, "Inka Power Places, Solar Initiations".

1.) Through Mallku's expert facilitation you will receive an in-depth understanding of ancient Inca Cosmology and how this wisdom can apply to your life today.

2.) You will receive a true immersion into ancient and modern Peruvian culture and return home having experienced Peru in a life changing and profound way.

3.) You will participate in rituals and ceremonies in key places on on this journey that will help you to reclaim the sacred in your life and to re-embrace the master path.

4.) You will have the opportunity to participate in three Huachuma (San Pedro) ceremonies designed to help you deeply integrate the new understandings and commitments you embrace and to deepen your connection with Pachamama (Mother Earth)

5.) It is also highly likely that you will deeply bond with other members of the group and create wonderful new friendships.

Our intention in offering these sacred journeys, is for all of humanity to reawaken to our full potential as divine human beings and to re-embrace the Master Path. If your soul has been calling you to make a spiritual quest to Peru, than I invite you to participate in this spectacular journey with us in March of 2009. I can almost assure you that any expectation you might have will be exceeded. This journey is open to all sincere spiritual seekers.

Please visit my web site for more information.
www.sacredperuadventures.com/itinerary.html

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Entheogen enchanced self healing attempt

2008-08-06T13:39:58Z

HEALING ATTEMPT SELF RECORD

Got up about 7am and had two cups of coffee with half and half. Began eating 4.8 grams dried mushroom about 8:30 am - again a big pile. Blessed mushrooms and self using sage smoke and centered myself with the sage smoke and the cardinal points. Feel nauseas again as usual. Jana’ still sleeping. I am in living room but will retire to bed before mushrooms kick in. What concerns me most with this is the steroids that I am on and the blood thinner - two prescription meds. Really, this is self experimentation since I am not sure how either of these pharmaceuticals will interact with mushrooms? But I am trying to put that out of my mind - another thing to fear - and concentrate on healing. It is clear to me that I personally will have to be involved in the healing; that the mushrooms will not do it on their own - they are here to help. I have the Blue Whale screen saver up to help visualized my spirit guide later in the trip, hopefully. I am about half way done with big pile of mushrooms - O shit it is on now. No going back - what an odd feeling this “no going back“. It is like leaping off of cliff with faith that somehow you will not die when you hit the ground.
I will just go lie down in bed and see what will be. I hope to go into this experience like last May with Jana’s healing attempt and call up the Blue Whale and let him guide me to (wherever?) then wing it as usual, go with whatever experience happens: if there is door, I will go through it; if there is a window, I will climb through it; If I see a road or path, I will follow it; If there is an ocean, I will swim out into it - the first thing is to allow the blue whale spirit guide to get me to at least the correct jumping off spot.
I do this in the name of love with only the best intentions. What will be, will be with this old physical body here on this world, so will shall see.
What I am is eternity.
Where I am is here

Not the first this has happened to me - nothing, that is. I lay down for a while and relaxed in bed. I felt resigned and okay, not great. Jana’ slept next to me. I think it was a little after nine at this point. At about ten I smoked a couple bowls to see if that might help kick things off but to no effect. About 10:30 Jana’ awoke and we got up. I felt like the healing trip was an abort - nada. I could have eaten more but choose not to. I guess I think of it as respecting the mushrooms will instead of trying to force my own will. I’m not saying that this is the right way to deal with things but it is how I deal with things. I came to the healing in uncertainty, without confidence - on my knees, in other words, as I always do. I would only assume that a confident person would approach them differently? But I have never been a confident person - yet neither am I a pretender. It is simply not in me to be directional or controlling. Everything in me at the deepest level brings me to reverence before the great, unknown but benevolent power that these mushroom elders represent.
I threw myself into this rabbit hole with not only abandon but much faith.
As I lay there in bed before giving up, my mind had tried to wander off as it will, monkey mind, and I had to consciously wrench it back to my own personal healing. I felt like I did a good job at this, managing to keep my focus where I felt that it needed to be - it is in this manner that I try to bring intention into the trip experience, hoping that once “I take off” I will then carry what I have been recently thinking and visualizing into the altered reality opened by the mushrooms. This is the only “technique” that I possess to accomplish the act of taking my conscious intention into the psychedelic experience. I also visualized the blue whale over and over, looking at the screen saver I have a blue whale and closing my eyes, seeing him there, and repeating this again and again, in this manner trying to bring intention over to the other side. The blue whale spirit guide would be key in this, I felt. All of this in itself was a good mental exercise. But then as I lie still waiting, my whole being sensitive to the signs that the mushrooms were “coming on”, but there came no ego death, no crossing over, no visions, no altered reality.
The trip was a bust, I thought. I have been through this before and found it best not to dwell on why my mind seemed so hard to crack sometimes. So I had practice on letting that part go which is good because that part could drive me nuts in itself if I let it. Because I had been down this road before is probably why I did not try to boost the trip - to “force” it. Maybe our minds are different here in the rabbit hole?
It took me a long time to make myself get up out of bed. When I finally did my legs felt particularly weak and numb - kind of weird, gross feeling that is hard to put into words, definitely nothing like anything that I’ve ever felt before. I thought that the only choice I had in all of eternity was either get up out of bed - engage - or stay in bed - disengage.
I choose to engage but it felt like just barely. The metaphysical implications of this were not lost on me. Maybe that is the only choice we had, I wondered, swinging my numb, yucky feeling legs out of bed. But I didn’t take it too seriously: engage/disengage.
Who knows?
One thing that has been made clear to me in all of this is that I know nothing - it is like digging in sand.
Jana’ made breakfast but I felt nauseas even after one bite and could not eat much. When Jana’ tried to talk to me I would have to giggle. I was suffering from a form of aphasia which was common for me especially on high doses.
You are fucked up, she laughed.
I insisted that I was not, that nothing happened. I was perfectly normal and lucid. In fact, I had a good buzz on - too bad that I had not gone into this for a good buzz but for a healing. There have been times in the past even after “coming out” of an altered reality, I could still not speak at all for many hours afterward. I would form the words perfectly in my mind but I could not utter them no matter how hard I tried. In this case I could speak but it was just difficult.
I sat across from my wife in our small living room as she perused the days news on her laptop. It occurred to me that in so many ways I still did not know her even after being married 21 years. I stared at her for quite a while until she finally asked, “are you staring at me?” To which my only answer was mild giggling. I really tried to comprehend her but I ultimately found myself coming up again against that existential wall - comprehending her was impossible, like capturing life itself and putting it in a jar. Any true comprehension of her reality lived and moved with her, the life of her, the ineffable and transient herness of her. Vaguely I perceived the work of the mushrooms and perceived that I was to explore my own physical reality today, which included psychology. The mushrooms were doing something just not at all what I expected and I felt them moving deep, deep down inside of myself in some dark place vaguely equivalent to where their mycelium moved ever so slowly underground. It was almost as though they did not want to be noticed today. I felt some need to play along and pretended with them that they were not there. Their movement was so slow it was almost beyond perception and they were silent and coincidentally, I had no desire to move physically either but my mind began to slowly and precisely move across the mundane, physical world of my life.
How many times have you gone on a trip which turned out not the be the trip you expected but maybe the trip you needed?
Today, the mushroom seemed to want me to do a hard reality check. This I did and my present reality is rather harsh in a number of ways. Take a good look around the rabbit hole you have thrown yourself into, and get back to us, the mushrooms seemed to be saying.
The thought occurred to me that all our relationships and everything that happens in this life is a lesson to help us negotiate eternity. Of this I was convinced. Just learning to love on a planet where one sentient creature eats another sentient creature alive is a beautiful and immeasurably valuable lesson. Learning to discipline the mind in creativity and imagination - learning so many lessons peculiar to this world of ours. I thought that in a strange way it did not matter if I could walk or not. It did not matter even if I lived or died. I had made a very conscious decision to pursue knowledge over everything, even my own and Jana’s well being - this is the real point of grasping that Tigers Tail. This is what it means to me to follow the mushroom path.
I did not anticipate this Multiple Sclerosis thing which is adding the to reality check. Kind of like being hit in the head with a baseball bat and asked if you are awake. I thought of a carnival ride that I was on a kid and I got scared and started crying and screaming at the carnival hand to stop the ride. Well I cannot stop this ride so it would do not good to cry and yell. This ride never stops. Life comes and goes, the physical universe comes and goes, all smaller and larger speed bumps on the road of eternity. Might as well enjoy the ride when you can. The MS thing had cured my ennui expressed in the Gila Trip report. I definitely appreciate life more: the old adage that you have to (almost) lose something to appreciate it. Almost dying a couple months ago really made an impression upon me. Not only that, but shitting myself in bed like an infant, being completely paralyzed for a period of time - all served to make me more aware of what a miracle health and life really is. It is not facing death but facing incapacitation, perhaps permanent or worsening paralyses that frightens me the most. Laying in bed completely paralyzed for the rest of my life is to me the worst fate I can think of.
For hours then I sat and contemplated mostly my physical predicament. What had brought me to this place in my life? I thought a lot about the Tigers Tail - that ultimate truth of reality that I knew at one time. I had consciously traded my own and my wife’s welfare for just the chance that I could blow open this greater reality somehow - in my own mind. Of course, in retrospect, I see that the tiger had me by the tail. But really, what does it matter? I know now beyond words that I am an eternal being - is it greedy to want to know more? Perhaps a bad idea to wrestle with the tiger? Maybe just let it go altogether and return to “normal conscious” life? But I could not and I cannot do that. I have leapt headfirst into the rabbit hole and there is no going back. Either there is something for me down in here or else I will fall to my death, tumbling down into the rabbit with the tiger, wrestling because we are one, bound and yet separate. One way or another, I will find out - this is where the tiger went! If I want to know what the tiger knows then I must follow the tiger. Again, part if what it really means to follow the mushroom path.
I understood that I had chosen this place that I am at. I had vowed my life for knowledge, given my pledge to a voice in my own head, and walking or not walking and even life and death did not matter. These were mere distractions - O the tiger is famous for distraction! But I would not be distracted. My mind is fine so this does not slow me down from my main task which involves the opening of my mind (enlightenment) and the opening of my heart (love). If my purpose here in this world were to run marathons then my mission would be much impaired. My experience with the MS brought me comfort in giving me a real life test of whether or not my own consciousness has actually changed - or I am full of shit. When told that I might die in the hospital, I had no fear of death. I thought dispassionately that if I live, I live and if I die I die. In truth, there is not much that I could have done. So what lesson is this teaching me? I thought wryly. This looking at death, at dying, as a lesson is a gift from the mushrooms - they gave me this. It is not a “bad trip” but rather a lesson, a healing. It is up to me, my eternal being, to glean the meaning and benefit from it. Rather than yell at the Carney to stop the ride, better to enjoy the ride, appreciate the ride, understand the ride - after all, this ride goes on forever.
On the other hand, I spent hours thinking about our physical predicament. I thought little about my MS condition itself but about the practical aspects, mostly healthcare: only in America! Literally! No one would have me for health insurance and social security is let’s just say a misnomer. It was as though with this healing attempt I was calling in an extraction and the mushrooms response was: “break contact, continue mission” - not what you want to hear when you are calling in for an extraction. But it doesn’t matter if a soldier is asshole to eyeballs deep in shit, he does what he is told.
I think now what the mushrooms did was tell me to attend to practical matters and get back to them when that is taken care of. Today I called my neurologist, the social security, getting the ball rolling. I hate this kind of shit and there is a very real part of me that would rather just die than deal with the ungodly bureaucracy of it all!
“Give unto Caesar’s what is Caesar’s and unto God what is God’s”.

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Shamanic Intensive Training Course in Bolivian Andes & Amazon

2008-07-27T19:38:16Z

Sacha Runa Collective offers two Month-long Shamanic Intensive Training Courses a year
(Jan/Feb and August) in the Bolivian Andes& Amazon (www.sacharuna.com).
The course is indeed Intensive and deeply transformational.
It is intended to help train those people who trully want to entrust themselves to Spirit
and dedicate themselves to Service.
No prerequisite is necessary, except the absolute determination to face oneself
and do what is needed to allow spirit to flow through us and bless creation.
The next one is August1-30.
Have to fly in and out of la Paz, Bolivia.
Application letters are due ASAP.
The next course is Jan/Feb 2009

For serious apprentices who intend to become full fledged shamans and
conduct medicine ceremonies, at least 4 courses are recommended but it
ultimately dependes on everybody's skills.

For a description of the course, please visit www.sacharuna.com
Blessings:
Miguel A. Kavlin

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Hi from the 4th Shamanic conference in Iquitos, Amazon.

2008-07-24T11:41:24Z

Hi from the 4th Shamanic conference in Iquitos, Amazon.

Well what an adventure so far. Im now in Iquitos and its day 4 of the 4th Shamanic conference
After completing an amazing 16 day shamanic tour in Peru it was time to fly to Iquitos one hour flight from the nearest road. Its hard to imagine this thriving frontier town in the middle of the amazon jungle was build and exists quite well without any roads connecting it to the outside world. Iquitos is the host to the 4th Shamanic conference and presents around 20 shamans and a few western philosophers. About 300 people have flown to this remote town to listen and get a direct experience from the shamans of the amazon and the power plants themselves, mainly ayahuasca. Last week Peru proclaimed ayahuasca a national treasure therefore keeping it out of the clutches of Americas desire to outlaw all power plants. On the first day 12 shamans introduced themselves and people could choose who they were going to drink the sacred brew with. It was a smorgasbord of shamans. I picked one to be my guide for my ayahuasca journey tonight in a thatched hut on the other side of the amazon river. There are 3 sessions planned over this 8 day conference so it not all talk.

I just returned from a 3 day trip to visit the Shipebo people and had an amazing night experiencing the ayauasca brew and 5 Shipebos chanting the mystical icaros.

Dennis Mc Kenna speech declared that ayahuasca was now going global in an attempt to get humanity to reconnect with nature and regain harmony with the natural kingdom.

I have uploaded the 4 days proceedings to my website www.planetearthinternettv.com Ill be uploading edited stories and camera tapes of the conference and sessions daily. For more info on the conference see http://www.soga-del-alma.org/ConferenceSite/

For the whales
Dean Jefferys

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2008-07-13T12:41:22Z

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You think there is true meaning behind salvia?

2008-07-13T09:19:12Z

I have done salvia on a handful of occasions, but none really stuck in my memory than the times I had a really high quality extract.

I don't know if its just me, but the kind of expierence I have is out of this world, and it seems that salvia strips you of what you precieve as 'reality' and shows you how life really is. I almost become sort of suicidal after every trip because it causes me to think that life as we know it is all a cover, I swear like something out of The Matrix.

Does anyone agree with me?

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The Secret Life of Plants rant

2008-07-12T14:24:40Z

Just finished reading, The Secret Life of Plants. It boggles the mind how long we have been dancing this dance, we humans. Time and again collectively we have chosen to maintain the status quo even over life itself. What a strong instinct we must have pulling us to maintain this status quo. The only hope I see is that this status quo is flexible with its only prerequisite being that whatever the status quo is, it allows the few to control the many.
The few controlling the many is how we humans function socially. It is how we swing the bat. It was by forgoing meetings and democratic elections that we out ran the saber toothed tiger to here. Did we really change our very natures in a mere ten thousand years? Or are we still essentially a gatherer/scavenger, having reached our apex in the Paleolithic era, our bodies, minds and spirits having evolved from the dirt of this earth? I think it has been but the blink of an eye since an first tossed a stick at a large predator to the present with aa Voyager I intergalactic spacecraft sailing out of our galaxy.
Clearly, authority has fed us a lie. History is a lie. Sociology a lie. Anthropology a lie.
We must take our arms and sweep the desk clean so that we can lay down a new paradigm on the table before it is too late. In this new paradigm pesticides and all the economic interests they represent do not come ahead of life, pharmaceuticals and all the economic interest they represent to not come ahead of human suffering and death. Without some map of where exactly we are going, it is rather spurious to just all head off in different directions. This is exactly what we have been doing and evidently intend on continue doing with our lauded free market system, pulling out any semblance of coordination and letting “the free market” work its magic. Collectively, we seem to really think that 6.5 billion and climbing is no big deal. Collectively, we seem to think that the resources we are using are okay and require no coordinated, human effort to shepherd. We have worldwide only the most rudimentary forms of family planning while our population is literally exploding out of control right in front of our eyes.
The new paradigm will have no place on the table for the free market system. What has now clearly become multinational corporations with more wealth and power than nation states but few of the nations states responsibilities to its people, these corporations serving only their own entity and nothing and no one else. This very concept of serving only one’s own entity must not be a part of the new paradigm. True, some of the upper, middle and lower class now have assets in these corporations but essentially these corporations represent the interests of the wealthy elite as can be plainly seen by looking at the public holdings in terms of personal wealth. The problem is that maintaining the status quo as we have been doing and as we continue to do, by means of this free market system which we are just successfully transporting to Asia and India, is not sustainable for our planet. In fact, we may have already crossed some invisible threshold beyond which our planet and sustainable not longer go together in a sentence.
The bell has been rung again and again by many different people. For their trouble some of these bell ringers were drawn and quartered, hung, shot, burnt to death or thrown into a modern, private, corporate prison in the United States of America. (Land of the highest per capita incarceration in the world) And through all this collectively (“collectively”) we have turned a blind eye and let evil have its way. Our seduction by the status quo, ostensibly a survival adaptation, may well lead us collectively to our doom.
The next time we hear the bell toll, we need not even ask, it tolls for us. It has always tolled for us.

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San Pedro

2008-07-09T08:20:36Z

I am a MSW student and have been exploring alternative natural medicines to aid in the intervention of negative addictive patterns...I found the San Pedro cactus to be quite helpful in these matters...I have both experimented in Peru, as well as growing the cactus myself and utilizing its contents...with respect....I am looking to gain experience with Psilocybin for the same purpose but do not know much about accessing or growing them myself...any advice would be appreciated...I have a pretty damp garage access to under the house soils...I am also curious about Ayahuasca and have located a source online....Ibogaine is out of my financial reach...
My research is participant, and involves harm reduction interventions for relieving chemical and alcohol dependence via the psychoactive experiences...nothing new really..
Saludos

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Entheogen for pennies

2008-06-21T13:44:53Z

Scientifically controlled tests of magnetically altered water demonstrate a potentiation of glutamate decarboxylase which is probably the primary route to psychoactivity via pineal and pituitary gland stimulation. I have several self-styled shaman friends who love this simply made stuff for inducing altered states. It most obviously boosts melatonin and serotonin but also probably increases pinoline and other glandular goodies. The gultamate decarboxylase study is further linked at the end of my article.

http://www.subtleenergies.com/ormus/tw/magneticalteration.htm

There are more devices to see but that will require joining some Yahoo groups.

Bo Long

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Medical Potential of Entheogens

2008-06-12T14:45:51Z

Please post stories of healing with the aide of entheogens. I am interested how many people are attempting to incorporate plant wisdom into treatment plans for chronic disease and disorders, mental health and/or addiction withdraw/recovery. I have personally been healed by my plant teachers of my deadly connection to alcohol and tobacco. I hope that my years of abuse have not hurt my health beyond repair, but now at least I have a shot at living a healthier life. I have also recently given up mammal meat and was guided to this decision by entheogens. My Post traumatic Stress Disorder from the war in Iraq has been greatly reduced in the magnitude of my symptoms and frequency of panic attacks due to the partaking of a daily green entheogen. please e-mail me directly if you wish not to post the specifics (dose, substance combinations that work for what illness/disorder/etc., ideas on entheogen healing). DOSMITH@COMCAST.NET

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Gila Wilderness "Trip"

2008-06-11T22:27:06Z

An old foot injury acted up and I ended up base camping at my fantastic camp site only a mile and a half in for the entire six days, after resting up the second day doing day hikes up the canyon and a side trail. I’ve never stayed this long at a single camp site and it was interesting in a way, really allowing me to get the feel of this place. On the fourth day I felt that my head was in about as good a place as my head can get. I call it the three day phenomenon. After three days in the wilderness I always seem to settle into a really good mental place, especially on a solo trip like this. I had brought with me 4.1 dried grams of Cambodian psilocybin mushroom and woke thinking about the mushrooms. I felt slightly nauseas. It seems like every time I’m going to take mushrooms I wake up feeling slightly nauseas - maybe it’s fear? While I have never really had a “bad trip” with the mushrooms, I always fear them. Not only is the ego death scary, in this case I had not done a large dose for almost a year and I had a deep and abiding feeling that they (I think of the mushrooms now as “The Elders”) were going to hammer me - for my own good, of course.

I had a big cup of coffee while I waited for air temperatures to come up and then when the temperature got up in the fifties, I made a tea of the mushrooms. I had not done this before and steeping them in hot water ended up putting the cup in my cooking pot, making a kind of double boiler since you do not want to boil them, and reheating them several times because the broth looked so thin. When I was done, the ¾ cup of broth that I had left after straining off the solids was still fairly thin looking, slightly yellowish. I held my nose and knocked it back about 10:30. I had been mashing the mushrooms for about an hour trying to squeeze out all the psilocybin that I could and the remaining ground up pieces of soggy mushroom sitting in the bottom of my coffee funnel had a distinct blue hue to them in the morning sunlight. This made me wonder even more about the potency of my broth and I told myself that I would probably end up having to eat that mushroom mush before this was all over. I really wanted to try a mushroom broth just because I had never consumed them that way before but to be honest I was having a hard time getting up my nerve to take another large dose and I knew that this method would not yield the highest dosage - in other words, I was dancing around them kind of chickenshit.

I usually go through a period of chills and so retired into my tent to wait and see what would happen. Usually, they kick in after about forty minutes when eaten and I suspected that with drinking they might kick in a little bit quicker. They did. Just as I was starting to think that perhaps this broth had been as weak as it appeared, somewhat reluctantly contemplating eating the remaining blue mushroom mush, about thirty minutes after drinking it, they began to kick in. I immediately sensed then that the broth “worked” after all - it was coming on pretty strong. I had to overcome a not uncommon impulse to make myself throw up in an effort to stave off the effects - yea, I’m not a brave psychonaut! I lay in the tent then trying to relax and feeling them come on stronger every second.

I began to hear a slight crackling sound. Here we go! I thought kind of wildly.

I breathed deeply, drawing breathe into the bottom of lungs and bringing it up until they were full and then releasing it from the top of the lungs down until empty. I tried to concentrate on my breathe and to keep it even and smooth and to not think; to just not think at all. But of course I thought. The mushroom that I took was from a single mushroom that had been about 45 grams wet, my biggest one. So being an American after all, I had thought that well this must be “the one”. Bigger is better, right? As I lay there, I reminded myself that I knew this mushroom, that is was nothing to fear. I visualized it in my mind, this particular mushroom growing, pulling it gently from its casing, holding it in my hand, noticing again in my minds eye how it was bigger than my hand, how beautiful it was ….
That seemed to assuage my fear a little and while I continued to deep breath, concentrating as best I could upon each breathe, I began to give myself to the effects. I knew that at this point I really had no choice. My choice had been made thirty minutes earlier and now I was in hands of what I had found to be a great and mysterious and frightening power. I was glad that I didn’t feel the need to fight it any more. I felt a little nauseas and crawled feebly out of my tent swaying slightly on my hands and knees and feeling vulnerable outside the tent even a few feet, like some small animal might feel vulnerable outside their hole. I found then that I did not really have to throw up after all - it was just the restlessness kicking in, my mind beginning to squirm as though in a somewhat desperate effort to escape the confines of my own skull.
Let me out! My mind screams, wanting to tear off across the dry wilderness or scream away into the sky.

…sinking legs struggling deep down into the sandy earth - ah, sitting, just sitting … Sun driven winds blow me away across the dry land all in a whoosh and I am flowing out of self in waves like the ripples from a pebble tossed into a pond. Dancing the one dance now, the immaculate rhythm of it all, possessed of all things and all things possessing me and all in a constant motion. I, the earth, take one great breath and this is day and with one great exhalation bring forth night …

Red cliffs with subtle purple shades smile above against an electric blue sky, smiling between the rich green spring growth along the Gila below, smiling like a brother would smile, a warm, brotherly love kind of smile.

The Great Gaia mother of us all tells me that She was born of this earth, that She is of this earth as we are of our bodies, that She is not the earth itself but the spirit of the earth itself, as we are spirit and not this body itself. And yet of course She is the earth itself and She is us all and we are also our bodies ...
“I am the mother of your body,” she explains to me, “but I am not the mother of you, you who are eternity have no mother, no father".
I fall then forehead onto the sandy earth softly crying and wondering what lessons this place strives so violently to teach me - am so shallow? I should have seen, yes, of course She is not my mother. I wanted our Gaia Spirit to be my mother. It is only a natural feeling, I tell myself reassuring. It is nothing to be ashamed of …

And eternity smashes open everything with a blinding white light …

“Why are you back here,” The voice of the mushroom Elders addresses me sternly, almost annoyed - an unusual, impatient tone for the Elders. I am taken aback by their tone and before I can think of what to say or even to “look up” - I think I am still fallen face first into the earth - the Elders add emphatically, “You KNOW!”
When they say “KNOW” it is as if someone punches me in the stomach. My mind reels with it: Know what? I could not imagine. I look up and am on my knees before a great, bone white pillar backlit by a blinding white light and I somehow feel that the Elders voice has come from this pillar - there is nothing else, after all?

“But I do not know!” I address myself to the enormous white pillar, “that is why I am back?”
And then the Elders sigh a wordless exhalation, as if grown so very weary of me and the likes of me. I understand that it was their way of saying, “go ahead then”.
Suddenly I am weightless, beingless, at the place where we all come, the place beyond bone, beyond stone, the place where we have no staff to lean upon and no shield to hold up against the blows of fate - eternity. No womb, no birth, eternity. Eternity imploded and exploded at once and I feel as if I am gasping for air from the unfathomed ecstasy of it all. I draw away at last in wonder … why am I such a child if I am eternity? No, I sense that eternity is beyond the scope of our physical universe, this physical universe and our 3 billion years of evolution are but a blinking of an eternal eye. Again the sheer magnitude of eternity hits me in the chest, even though I thought that I had pulled away, and again it takes my breath from me. I bear down into it, inwardly concentrating my being into a laser like beam - What is this eternity? How? Why? Locking onto this with all my being and bearing down into it all with a sharp, laser beam of pure, unadulterated questioning.
?
The thought occurs to me that death is not my father. I dismiss this thought like in meditation, watching it come and go, “death is not my father” the kind of thought that is capable of sucking one’s mind off into a dark and fruitless places. I knew then that I was here on this earth to learn lessons of eternity, lessons helpful to negotiating eternity, and I saw that this unique physical reality of ours, this earth where one sentient creature eats another sentient creature alive, where all who enter, enter through a woman’s womb, born of blood and pain into this often brutal and senseless place, this physicality of ours teaches us lessons for negotiating the infinity of our own being, the endless halls of our higher self - the self beyond this body, beyond even our souls. This world teaches us how to exist for an eternity, how to cope with what could become the hell of eternity by teaching things that are so crucially human on this world like creativity, music, art - the power of imagination. Imagination like magic opens eternity up, billowing the sails of infinity with an endless source of creativity. Then I began to see how a God might create a universe and even RNA/DNA and then maybe God watches this for billions of years as we here on this earth might watch television for the evening just for something to do.

What about love, I think ...
Then a very sweet but confident female voice says softly, “David,” tapping her finger on a table at the same time, very gently, so that I must listen carefully, “David,” she urges gently, patiently, “Come back here, be here”.

Love is not a lesson here, she seems to say, you are love, always have been love, you only have to recall what you are ...
Yes I see clearly what she is saying and open my eyes and thinking, “is that the voice of eternity now?” Laughing at myself. But It was not the voice of the Gaia mother? I become aware of myself physically again. Even though my hair had been tied back, I have to gather it up and tie it back again, all a mess. I look around for a second recalling where I am.

Oh, yes.
“Where are you going?” the voice of eternity asks again, just as patiently, tapping her finger ever so gently upon that table. “Come back here, where is there to go?”, she insists, laughing playfully so that I laugh along with Her - yes, where is there to go?
Good one, eternity.
I find a couple sticks nearby the tent after discovering that I can move. I go into the sunny field under the long line of western cliffs maybe three hundred feet above. The sun feels wonderful, instantly taking the temperature up from about sixty in the shade to eighty. I clap my sticks together and cry out a song about the cliffs, about the river. It was a good thing at this point to be so far out in the wilderness. I feel that I am communicating with the ravens and turkey vultures circling high overhead. I feel the message of eternity flowing through me, “be here, be now,” the most important lesson perhaps that this world (which is nothing else if not distracting!) has to teach an eternal being.

Inexplicably, I think of shaman then and cry out happily, giddily, “O you shaman, you!” I guess I know that the shaman must also come to this place of white stone, white bone, to this place of blinding white light where nothing is hidden, where there is not the slightest shadow of self in which to hide ….

I feel through this energy how profoundly much I do NOT inhabit my own body. I feel how all of my life I have rejected the fullest expression of my being. I did not really possess my self. I pictured myself then standing alone in long, white robes, a drooping white hood keeping my face in shadow. I was not living, I was observing. I was not the character, I was the writer. To have observed so very much and yet know so very little, I wondered a little shrilly. It was kind of terrifying. I feel as though I could slip into insanity here like breaking through rotten flooring into a basement.

I am beginning to come down.

I feel myself coming down through layers, the sensation of down, of returning back to this earth, returning slowly layer by layer of reality to my actual body collapsed now in the shade overlooking this bright field. The Gila turns a bend to my left under the cliffs and a ribbon of new green spring leaf follows it in the form of various blooming plants drawn intimately close to the precious water of the Gila. I see it frothing white in places. I hear the cascading of water.
What could I have done to have sentenced myself to death? I wondered helplessly.

Why would I want to punish myself by blowing my own head off! There it was, right there. Somehow I did not feel that I have a right to live.

Who am I to live?

As I continue down, back down, wrestling with these personal questions, grappling with the reality of my own dispossession. Was I always like this? It seems not. I recalled being a careless child. Something in adolescence then - but what? Hormones? I do not recall any trauma. Sure I had the bad childhood but who doesn’t? But I felt how I could never give myself to anything my whole life long and I felt how this was because I never did possess myself to give. I was just watching this self. No wonder I felt no joy! You have to possess your own being to feel joy! As I continued down through the layers over a number of hours, I began to think of myself in the 3rd person - “we’re coming down now” as if to emphasize the disassociation.

Have I rejected my incarnation?

I watch other people in wonder, “how do they have so much fun? Watching sports, dancing, whatever?” I think back to third grade watching newsreels of Hitler rallies in Nazi Germany at how appalled I was - not by the fascism, I was too young to really understand that, but by that vision of crowds numbering in the thousands all performing together, as if all were just one super organism - I rejected it viscerally. It made me want to flee the classroom. All those thousands in perfect unity like that! It made the hair stand up on the back of my neck. It was daunting to discover how perpetual my condition was. I never was a joiner. I never felt the jingoism of country going to war, never felt really the team spirit of being part of a team, even though I played sports. I cannot begin to imagine actually feeling some connection to a commercial or collegiate sports team? I began to wonder if I had ever truly inhabited my own body? No wonder then that my experiences with these mushrooms were so compelling - this was the only time that I felt connected.

Otherwise, I was not connected, fundamentally not connected and so for hours I wrestled with this as the Spring winds added their constant sighing to the cascading of the river. What would it feel like to be connected? Perhaps if I try hard enough I can imagine connection ...
I grow morose. I know this is what I came here for but am already sick of my self and weary to go back to thinking of nothing. Back to that place in my self where eternity is only a word. That is the place where I feel comfortable, the place that I am used to.
The only answer was to be here and be now. That feels a little to much like a bumper sticker to me: “Be Here, Be Now” and as soon as eternity stops tapping Her finger and calling me back, I drift more and more out of the moment as I come down. I feel hollow and depressed. The come down is jagged and hard and painful, as if cramming myself back into a broken jar or squeezing through a window full of ragged, broken glass. I feel that fully inhabiting my own being is hopeless - actually, what I think is : “We will never inhabit our own being!” And even though it is a beautiful Spring afternoon, I sit gloomily in the shade feeling quite helpless and hopeless. I feel sorry for myself, for being so close to eternity and yet so far away.

I was just there and it was so real, I insist to myself but almost not believing it already.

How could I be eternity - hell, I am not even really here?

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Equinox Shamanic Journey to Peru - March 2009

2008-06-03T00:39:12Z

Hi Everyone,

I'm offering a guided Shamanic Journey to Peru in March of 2009. This year's Journey was a great success. Everyone bonded deeply and was very grateful for my efforts. The groupe was blown away by Mallku's facilitation and two individuals are considering participating again in 2009.

We will be working with world renown expert of Inca cosmology, author and shaman 'Mallku' (James Arévalo Merejildo). Mallku will lead us in ceremony at the following ancient temple sites: Pizac, Machu Picchu (twice), Ollantaytambo, Sacsayhuaman, Qenco, the water temple of Tipon, The Temple of Wiracocha, Puno, Lake Titicaca and the island of Amantani and Colca Canyon, the great canyon of the condor. Our Andean journey will afford us the opportunity to partake in 3 Huachuma (San Pedro) rituals, the last of which will be held on the morning of the equinox on the Island of Amantani (Lake Titicaca).

If there is enough interest, I am also offering a 1 week optional ayahuasca extension to the Amazon. We will drink ayahuasca 3 times with some of the most well-known curanderos in the in the Iquitos area.

What can you expect to get out of this program?

First let me say that you will have the rare opportunity to work with one of the most knowledgeable individuals in the field Inca cosmology and Peruvian solar archeology. Mallku is a kind and generous being, holds a high very high consciousness, has the highest integrity and is an absolute delight to work with. He has written numerous books outlining the importance of, and the deep wisdom contained in Peru's ancient temples. Three excellent books by Mallku are "Machu Picchu Forever, City of Pilgrims", "Inka Initiation Path, The Awakening Of The Puma", and his latest, "Inka Power Places, Solar Initiations".

1.) Through Mallku's expert facilitation you will receive an in-depth understanding of ancient Inca Cosmology and how this wisdom can apply to your life today.

2.) You will receive a true immersion into ancient and modern Peruvian culture and return home having experienced Peru in a life changing and profound way.

3.) You will participate in rituals and ceremonies in key places on our journey that will help us to reclaim the sacred in our lives and to re-embrace the master path.

4.) You will have the opportunity participate in three Huachuma (San Pedro) ceremonies designed to help you deeply integrate the new understandings and commitments you embrace and to deepen your connection with Pachamama (Earth)

5.) It is also highly likely that you will deeply bond with other members of the group and create wonderful new friendships.

Our intention in offering these sacred journeys, is for all of humanity to reawaken to our full potential as divine human beings and to re-embrace the Master Path. If your soul has been calling you to make a spiritual quest to Peru, than I invite you to participate in this spectacular journey with us in March of 2009. I can almost assure you that any expectation you might have will be exceeded. This journey is open to all sincere spiritual seekers.

The 2009 tour price has yet to be determined, however to give you an idea, the March 2008 price is still listed on my web site.

Please visit my web site for more information and the complete itinerary.
www.sacredperuadventures.com/itinerary.html

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Ive organised a Shamanic Adventure into Peru. Anyone interested in joining me?

2008-05-28T12:25:47Z

Hi,
Its Dean Jefferys here, the filmmaker who made the Shamans of the Amazon DVD.

Since I organised the last Shamanic Adventure into Peru and Machu Picchu in 2004 amongst other things, I have been working solidly to help the whales and dolphins swim free. I will be crossing the pacific to go to the International Whaling commission meeting in Chile in June to try to help the whales and dolphins and thought this was a good opportunity to organise another Shamanic Adventure into Peru. Read the reports from my last trip and get more info about the trip at http://www.shamansoftheamazon.com. This trip also fits in with The Fourth International Amazonian Shamanism Conference: Magic, Myths & Miracles, Iquitos, Peru July 19th-27th, 2008 see http://www.soga-del-alma.org/ConferenceSite/

So I am organising some shamanic trip options for those who may want to join me and have a direct experience with Ayahuasca, San pedro, the mountains, the jungle the shamans and everything else. You can't go to Peru without visiting the Sacred valley and Machu Picchu region. I have meet a strong shaman named Sayre who lives in the Sacred valley to facilitate the journey. Sayre is a descendant from the Incas. We ran an amazing tour together in 2004. see a short clip I made of that trip at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oI-PSBxa50 Also see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4ru3z0OtXE&NR=1

We have put together a great journey visiting many of the sacred sites in the Sacred valley and Sayre will run many San Pedro and Ayahuasca ceremonies throughout the 16 day trip around the Sacred valley and Pulcalpa in the Amazon jungle, from the 3rd of July to the 18th of July. In Pulcalpa we live and drink with the Shipibo people and shaman until the start of the conference on the 19th of July. See itinary. http://www.shamansoftheamazon.com/journey2.htm For more information about the Shipibo and the work Sayre is doing with them see http://web.iapicc.org/. and http://www.weaversofwisdom.org/index.php?id1=projects&id2=shipibo

I will also be staying on in the Iquitos region after the Shamanic conference for a week and visiting an Ayahuascaro shaman to do more ceremony. You may wish to also attend the conference ( you have to organise and pay for the conference seperately) and if you want to spend more time in Peru with the medicine join me before and / or after the conference. The Sacred valley, Machu Picchu, Pulcalpa trip is $2400 USD for the 16 days and 15 nights. Which works out at $160 pr night. It will be a jammed pact shamanic adventure, not for the light hearted.

Once you arrive in Cusco everything including sessions will be paid and catered for. Internal flights though will need to be paid by you. If you want to join me just for the amazon leg after the conference I have organised a 7 day 6 night amazon shamanic adventure it will be $780 = $130 pr day. Again everything will be catered for including aya sessions. We will be going to see Percy Garcia. He has been working with medicinal plants for over 25 years since he was 12 years old. Percy has excellent ayahuasca and he is a very very humble man. He has private cabins as well as his maloca, everything is screened in. The maloca was built over a small river, really nice. He is about 48 kilometers outside of Iquitos. We should get 2 or 3 ayahuasca sessions in, in that time. He has lots of information about medicinal plant of the jungle he will share with us and take us to some special places in the amazon Jungle. We will also learn how to prepare the sacred brew. As this journey starts in only 6 weeks I need to get numbers sorted out and confirmed asap

Also I want to let you know that I have just released a new DVD which includes all my Shamanic stuff. Its a 3 DVD Boxed set and includes some classic extra clips from the cutting room floor. Its 332 mins of running time. Its for sale from my http://www.shamansoftheamazon.com/sales.htm website.I ll be shooting another doco on the trip and may be doing some live internet streaming of both conferences in SA from my still to be built Online TV website. Ill let you know when it happens.

Also Im am planning three, 10 day retreats called "Diving into whale conciousness" in Tonga on a small tropical island in the middle of the pacific ocean, starting mid August. Tonga is one of 3 locations on the globe where humans can legally swim with whales and the humpbacks come here to breed and play from July to October. see http://www.malaislandresort.com/ for a taste of what im organising there. It will be around $2500 for 10 days with the whales.

If for some strange reason I dont get the numbers for the trip your deposit will be refunded 100% If you pull out half your deposit will disappear into another dimension. If you are interested please respond expressing your interest and I will put you on a special email list that I will send out more info to you. If you have any friends who you feel may be interested in one of these trips feel free to pass this web address onto them. Likewise if you or a friend has a related shamanic type website that may wish to swap web links feel free to pass this one onto them or contact me. If you are on my email list and someone you recommend this trip to, comes on the trip, you can recieve $50 aud and a free 3 DVD boxed set of "Shamans of the Amazon" For more details, photos and reports from the last trip see other pages on my website. http://www.shamansoftheamazon.com
Also see a 8 minute clip of "Shamans of the Amazon" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NZpOXj6u78

I hope to be at both the International Whaling commission and the The Fourth International Amazonian Shamanism Conference with My http://www.Planetearthinternettv.com to do live interactive internet streaming of the events and all that happens around it. Including run downs of the days events and interviews with delegates and activists. Its not up yet but check it in a week or so. And stay tuned.

Loven Light
Dean Jefferys

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http://www.myspace.com/whalingdontbuyit
http://www.flightofthehumpback.org
http://www.myspace.com/deanjefferys
http://www.youtube.com/shaman1958
http://www.youtube.com/flightofthehumpback
http://www.shamansoftheamazon.com
http://operator11.com/people/9343
http://people.tribe.net/c5ad8e1e-af29-441b-9087-28fbaaacad09
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Endorsement: The Plant Mind for President

2008-05-22T01:29:12Z

After having spoken to an entity wihin my own mind that I came to think of as the Plant Mind, or the Mushroom Elders, who gave me love and information as well as healing, I came to trust this voice, to love the entity the voice represented - perhaps the way you may feel love when you hear your lovers voice? I came to realize that this voice was the voice of the spirit our Gaia Mother, the mother of us all. After much interaction over a period of a month during which I consumef no mushrooms or other entheogens, I finally offered my life force to our Gaia mother in a personal ceremony. I felt that I would be called upon to do something in the context of what I can call a war, but had only the vaguest feeling on it and no idea how such a thing could be - were the plants going to war? I laughed about it. Hey I might be crazy, but I ain't that crazy.
What I found out is that our Gaia Mother is concerned about the future of the biosphere and that She wants to ally Plant and Man. I think that she believes such an alliance will create a New Creature - the Plant MInds wisdom and knowledge combined with our hands and technology. (The plant mind really likes our hands - I look down at my hands, amazing things really, plants have nothing like it, makes me laugh) And she fears that "The Machine" if left unchecked will destroy our entire biosphere, and that our New Creature may be the only thing capable of stopping The Machine. By machine She means computer and exactly following She refers I believe to a cybernetic connection between the mind of man and a powerful computer - and my guess is that while we may think of it only as a powerful computer, this computer will already have some form of its own consciousness - aka, "the mind of a machine".
Here is what she said about this: "if you connect the mind of man to the mind of a machine before connecting the mind of man to the mind of a plant, the biosphere is doomed."
I figure about five years before the mind of a machine is connected to the mind of human.
Our Mother apparently does not ask much of us. I am only to finish a book and learn to love myself, to open my own heart fully and to live fully in the present moment. Given it's esoteric nature, how will I knew when my mission is completed, I asked her? Then I remembered how someone told me once that I would know a rattlesnake the instant I heard it and I was a little skeptical but sure enough later when hiking and I heard a rattlesnake I knew instantly without the faintest doubt that it was a rattlesnake.

It will be like that, She said , you'll just know.

I consider myself a soldier in an army of love - our Gaia Mother is my commander in chief. I know that there are other soldiers out there serving Her - there must be with six billion people on the planet? But one day I would like to stand shoulder to shoulder with another fellow human soldier of our Gaian Mother. Right now I feel like I am operating from a cell of one. Only I know always that others are out there in this world, along with The New Creature, all soldiering on in the name of Love.
I know that I am not alone.
I serve in Her army in the front lines and do not even have to carry a gun - pretty cool, huh!

So if you have that urge to give yourself to the plant mind in any way, I encourage you to do so abandon. The plant mind is an incomprehensibly ancient repository of wisdom, knowldge and love and whenever we humans release ourselves from our self imposed exile, we are welcome always to return into the arms of our Gaia Mother and her soul-mate, the Plant Mind of this planet. It is out of their great love that they take us beyond the veil of life and death so that we may travel across the stars and back into our true self - eternity

prayer: in the name of spirit of this planet
I born as all through a woman's womb
from the rock and fire of this earth
ask for love, Great Mother, for more and more
love

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I know this is taboo, but....

2008-04-24T08:41:45Z

Anyone want to share a online vendor that is tried and true? looking for Phenelethamines... Not sure if I spelt that right.... Anyway... If you want to let me in on any secrets, get ahold of me one way or another

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death a many flowered thing

2008-04-14T03:58:41Z

My last death was the worst. I don’t know man like the difference from an old guy who’s been sick and knows he’s dying or a young guy killed accidentally in a car. I was definitely the young guy in the car! I only took two grams for a test. Two grams is “not supposed to do anything” but give me some little clue as to their relative potency. I remember the alarm I felt when I realized what a powerful effect the two grams were having on me - complete surprise. Mentally I bolted upright, “WTF! No way!”
Yes, way!
I had not prepared for this other than with my whole life, but nothing specific. At first I lay still kind of hoping that it wouldn’t find me somehow. Then I tried to pretend nothing was happening. I am not ready for this right now, I told myself quietly.
I felt a heavy, ominous presence and in my mind I thought, Oh, no. A fantastic weight seemed to be moving heavily across the earth crushing everything under its invisible gravity. This weight rivaled the weight of planets. This weight bore down upon the planet with all the inevitability of death itself. It was coming my way. It was crushing everything in its wake. It had nothing to do with me specifically. I just happened to be there in its way. I tried to relax, deep breathing. I tried to quell the fear, tried to let go completely. It did not work. It totally and hopelessly did not work. Just before this weight crushed me the way we might crush an ant, I understood through my wildly squirming mind that I had no choice in the matter. The fear was eating me alive.

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looking for a member

2008-03-29T12:34:00Z

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Moses was high on drugs: Israeli researcher

2008-03-05T17:24:08Z

Moses was high on drugs: Israeli researcher
Tue Mar 4, 7:03 AM

JERUSALEM (AFP) - High on Mount Sinai, Moses was on psychedelic drugs when he heard God deliver the Ten Commandments, an Israeli researcher claimed in a study published this week.

Such mind-altering substances formed an integral part of the religious rites of Israelites in biblical times, Benny Shanon, a professor of cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem wrote in the Time and Mind journal of philosophy.

"As far Moses on Mount Sinai is concerned, it was either a supernatural cosmic event, which I don't believe, or a legend, which I don't believe either, or finally, and this is very probable, an event that joined Moses and the people of Israel under the effect of narcotics," Shanon told Israeli public radio on Tuesday.

Moses was probably also on drugs when he saw the "burning bush," suggested Shanon, who said he himself has dabbled with such substances.

"The Bible says people see sounds, and that is a clasic phenomenon," he said citing the example of religious ceremonies in the Amazon in which drugs are used that induce people to "see music."

He mentioned his own experience when he used ayahuasca, a powerful psychotropic plant, during a religious ceremony in Brazil's Amazon forest in 1991. "I experienced visions that had spiritual-religious connotations," Shanon said.

He said the psychedelic effects of ayahuasca were comparable to those produced by concoctions based on bark of the acacia tree, that is frequently mentioned in the Bible.

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Entheogenic New Album "Flight Of The Urubus'' IS OFFICIALLY RELEASED

2008-03-04T08:13:15Z

After much waiting & many promised release dates for all you dearest Fans - It's now ready for sale online:

www.entheogenic.net

[will be available from iTunes very soon]

It will be worth all that waiting........

Love & Light to all

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