Source – naturalblaze.com “…According to some depression rating scales, however, psilocybin had the greatest effect on overall mental wellbeing. And a greater proportion of patients treated with psilocybin showed a clinical response compared with those treated with escitalopram (70% versus 48%). More patients in the psilocybin group were also still in remission at six weeks…
Source – nexusnewsfeed.com “…Since time immemorial, psychedelic mind-altering experiences have been common among humankind’s shamanic journeys. All is one. That is one of the feelings contemporary users of mind-altering plants describe….Spiritual leaders have expounded upon these connected truths for centuries. All is one… Spiritual guru Deepak Choprah, psychologist Timothy Leary, author Mike Pollan, chef Anthony Bourdain,…
Source – newdawnmagazine.com “…Crowley may have influenced the band’s lifestyle, most evident during their post-1965 “experimental” phase. Crowley was notorious for his drug use, indulging in alcohol, heroin, cocaine and psychedelics. Coupled with his libertine views on sexuality, Crowley could be viewed as the quintessential rock star, decades before such creatures roamed the earth. The…
Source – commondreams.org “…David Caldicott, a clinical senior lecturer in emergency medicine at Australian National University, told The Guardian that Friday’s surprise announcement is a “very welcome step away from what has been decades of demonization.”. Caldicott said it is now “abundantly clear” that both MDMA and psilocybin “can have dramatic effects” on hard-to-treat mental…
Source – wakeup-world.com ‘…Why spend years meditating and practising self-denial when you can just alter your brain chemistry directly, by taking psychedelics? It soon became apparent that this was naive, and that regular LSD usage was much more likely to generate psychological breakdown than spiritual awakening…It’s not enough to dissolve the sense of self –…
Source – wakingtimes.com – “…This mind-light from the forehead is also identical with the 3rd Eye of Shiva, which when opened in the individual burns away the concept of ego-bound consciousness, and when opened collectively has the potential to burn away the ties and fetters of the Old World Order” Cannabis & The Pineal Gland:…
Source – wakeup-world.com – “…We have to return to nature. But that doesn’t mean that we have to abandon our homes and build huts made of branches. This is just another extreme. A return to nature means opening our hearts and minds to the intuitive learning from plants, which truly are the greatest and oldest…
Source – thewayofthepsychonaut.com “…If I am the father of LSD. Stan Grof is the godfather. Nobody has contributed as much as Stan for the development of my problem child – Albert Hofmann, discoverer of LSD“ The Way of the Psychonaut Vol. 1: Encyclopedia for Inner Journeys The Way of the Psychonaut is one of the…
Source – grahamhancock.com “…The presence of psychoactive plants in Judeo-Christianity, in ancient shamanism, and in the classical cultures of Greece and India raises intriguing questions about their broader role in the development of consciousness and culture. Did visionary plants play a seminal co-evolutionary role in the expansion of the human mind, as proposed in Terence…
Source – wakeup-world.com CBD Oil 101: A User’s Guide By Ty and Charlene Bollinger A quick search on the health benefits of CBD oil will bring up over 1,000 peer-reviewed research articles. There is absolutely no doubt that cannabidiol (CBD) is a truly amazing plant substance with many health benefits. But if you are considering…
Source – newagora.ca “…Ayahuasca is no mere joyride, for kicks. The medicine allows you to experience, with more intensity of feeling and awareness, both your weaknesses and limits, and your core strength and integrity….Putting all my planning charts and self-evaluations aside, I can say it was a path of connection to source nurturing energy. What…
Source – bitcoinmagazine.com “…I’m not the first to draw a link between psychedelics and Bitcoin. Articles about billionaire investor Christian Angermayer have highlighted at least one anecdote of psilocybe mushrooms assisting with the understanding of Bitcoin. However, I believe this won’t be the last time we see these two topics mentioned together. If my intuition is correct,…
Source – themindunleashed.org – “…The history of Western culture in the last two thousand years could be seen as the “Empire of the Mind conquering the exterior world and extinguishing the interior one, with the result that we have atrophied our spiritual connection.” – Rak Razam Ayahuasca and Iboga – Messengers of Truth from Mother…
Source – wordporn.com – “…Our society is absolutely designed to shut down 90% of the potential of the human creature…what it comes down to is special interests, that there are those who run things in society and that there are those who are there to kind of serve them…our society has created is a realm…
Source – wakeup-world.com “…Obviously, industrial cigarettes are laced with hundreds of chemical additives, whereas therapeutic tobacco as used by Amazonian shamans needs to be pure. In the Amazon, the plant is used as a poultice, and an analgesic; applying tobacco to the wounded part of the body is the foremost healing practice in the region….Nicotine…
Source – wakeup-world.com “…Says Dr. Sanchez: “One of the advantages of cannabinoid-based medicines would be that they target specifically tumor cells. They don’t have any toxic effect on normal non-tumoral cells. This is an advantage with respect to standard chemotherapy that targets basically everything.” Cannabis and Cancer: Censorship and Conspiracy By Ty Bollinger The cannabis plant (also…
Source – tim.blog “…A lot of it was the ideas that would be a modern mystery school, modeled after Eleusis — or not modeled after it, but in that spirit, a place where people could come together and share ideas and marvel at the cosmos and marvel at existence and do what natural philosophers do,…
Source – zerohedge.com “…New research found cannabis compounds, cannabigerolic acid (CBGA) and cannabidiolic acid (CBDA), can block the ceullar entry of COVID-19 and emerging variants from infecting human cells…Richard van Breemen at Oregon State’s Global Hemp Innovation Center in the College of Pharmacy and Linus Pauling Institute discovered the pair of cannabinoid acids (CBGA &…
Source – naturalblaze.com “…The 65th President of Bolivia from 2006-2019. Evo Morales and the Rehabilitation of Coca explains, “coca leaf and natural coca alkaloids will contribute much to medicine and nutrition — helping to solve health problems that cost the world over one trillion dollars a year. Sadly, the negative association of coca leaf with cocaine… has denied coca…
Source – themindunleashed.org – “…Playful, prankish and/or ornery “Machine Elves” (or “gnomes” and “tykes” as McKenna puts it) who often focus on joking or helping to clean the individual. Anthropomorphic beings (who appear to be “extra terrestrial” or “ultra-dimensional” teachers or guardians) including reptiles, bees, spiders, cacti, mantises, arachnids, robots, jellyfish, octopods, and…. clowns” Mystery…
Source – thefreethoughtproject.com “…For around $30,000, someone building a new home can have enough hemp blocks shipped to them in around 6 to 8 weeks…Walls made with hempcrete blocks are fireproof, mold proof, pest proof and long-lasting compared to timber-framed homes, which can be constructed of poor quality materials. Hemp block walls also solve the…
Source – zerohedge.com “…Psychedelics, used responsibly and with proper caution, would be for psychiatry what the microscope is for biology and medicine or the telescope is for astronomy – Stanislav Grof” Visualizing The History Of Psychedelics, Part 2 In part one of this two-part series, we unearthed the story behind the prohibition of psychedelic substances, and how…
Source – zerohedge.com “…Certain psychedelics work by binding to serotonin receptors in the brain which produces psychoactive effects. Research suggests that when this happens, the structure of the brain changes—such as the number of connections between neutrons. This means that psychedelics could have the potential to rewire or repair circuits in the brain, hence their reputation for…
Source – zerohedge.com “….Hunter appeared to be obsessed with making and starring in porn films with prostitutes, videos and photos on his laptop show….Hunter photographed and filmed himself, often with two prostitutes at a time, in explicit videos that he then posted on adult website Pornhub under the username ‘RHEast’ SM:…Am I to believe this…
Source – wakingtimes.com “…According to the recently released Uniform Crime Report police arrested 545,602 people for cannabis related crimes in 2019. That arrest rate is 9% higher than the 495,871 people arrested for violent crimes the same year. As Forbes points out, cops aren’t arresting cannabis kingpins with thousands of pounds of pot, they like to…
Source – wakingtimes.com “…For thousands of years, the plant has been used across the globe therapeutically – dating back as far as ancient Egypt and ancient Greece….In recent years, demand for medical marijuana products has exploded as consumers clamor for products containing cannabis derivatives like cannabidiol or CBD” UNITED NATIONS OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZES CANNABIS AS MEDICINE…
Source – aier.org “…Ideally, we can expect a “peace dividend” from a scaled-back drug war that frees up resources for uses other than policing and incarceration. There is also some evidence that legalizing marijuana sales leads to higher home values….at the very least it suggests that pot legalization hasn’t exactly created drug-addled, post-apocalyptic hellscapes” It’s…
Source – drweil.com “…Another study, from the Netherlands, also published in August 2018, concluded that microdoses of psilocybin don’t affect abstract reasoning or the ability to solve problems and think rationally. But it did show improvements in the types of thinking regarded as the underpinnings of creativity, including mental flexibility and the ability to focus…
Source – psilocybintechnology.com – “…Terence McKenna – a renowned mystic and psychonaut – broke the traditional mold when he presented his theory of how humans advanced so quickly in such a short space of time. The theory, which is known as the ‘stoned ape’ theory looks at the question from outside the box. But is…
Source – inverse.com – “…Through anonymous online surveys, 3,476 people reported supernatural encounters that they had while on psilocybin (magic mushrooms), LSD, ayahuasca, or DMT…Forty-eight percent of people who had a mystical experience on DMT said they witnessed “Ultimate Reality,” compared to only 16 percent who chose to identify the subject of their encounter as…
Source – truththeory.com – “…During Santo Daime religious services, the brew is usually ingested in small doses spread out over a few hours, while ayahuasca is typically consumed in larger doses in a shorter amount of time….Santo Daime churches have also silently traveled the United States in recent years, operating legally but still maintaining a…
Source – leavingbabylon – “…Psychedelics at one time caused a moral panic in America….I believe that if conservatives dared to venture into the psychedelic world, they could positively affect its cultural context, as well as add invaluable insights and language not linked to the left counterculture” Pollan’s psychedelic adventure One of the recent books that…
Source – counterpunch.org – “…Boyle’s work takes place inside Leary’s group of psychedelic pioneers. The story takes us from their assembly at Harvard to his retreat in Mexico and finally to the Hitchcock Estate in Millbrook, NY…Leary stood in the middle of the bridge between the US culture of the past and the new one…
