HIGH SOCIETY: How Psychedelics Act On The Brain To Relieve Depression – By Clare Tweedy

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…

COSMIC COWBOY: ‘The Way Of The Psychonaut’, The History & Sience Of Mystical Experiences

Source – nexusnewsfeed.com Psychedelic-Induced Mystical Experiences Throughout History Ken Jeremiah’s 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. Actor Nick Kroll reported that it was “ good to be one with the eart h,” and Carrie Fisher, best…

ARCHONS, OVERLORDS & MAGICK: The Beatles, Aleister Crowley, & The Mystery Of ‘Paul Is Dead’ – By Andrew Arnett

Source – newdawnmagazine.com The Beatles, Aleister Crowley, & the Mystery of ‘Paul Is Dead’ BY ANDREW ARNETT CROWLEY – TOP ROW, FAR LEFT, SECOND FACE – ON THE ALBUM COVER FOR SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND. Aleister Crowley’s penchant for photobombing some of the world’s most infamous conspiracies is often a topic for debate, but…

HIGH SOCIETY: Australia Becomes First Country To Legalize Therapeutic Use Of MDMA & Psilocybin

Source – commondreams.org Australia Becomes First Country to Legalize Therapeutic Use of MDMA and Psilocybin One expert called the move a “very welcome step away from what has been decades of demonization.” Brett Wilkins Trisha Suppes, founder of the Bipolar and Depression Research Program at the Palo Alto VA Medical Center in California, points during…

HIGH SOCIETY: ‘Chemical Enlightenment?’, Can Psychedelic Substances Bring Personal Transformation? – By Steve Taylor, Ph.D

Source – wakeup-world.com Chemical Enlightenment? Can Psychedelic Substances Bring Personal Transformation? By Steve Taylor, Ph.D. In the 1960s, there was a popular belief – popularised by psychedelic pioneers like Timothy Leary – that drugs such as LSD could provide ‘chemical enlightenment’, a way of circumventing the years of arduous spiritual practice which monks and other spiritual put…

HIGH SOCIETY: ‘The Third Eye’, Cannabis & The Pineal Gland

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:…

COSMIC COWBOY: ‘Journey Of Consciousness’, The Way Of The Psychonaut – By Stanislav Grof , MD, Ph.D

Source – thewayofthepsychonaut.com The Way of the Psychonaut Vol. 1: Encyclopedia for Inner Journeys The Way of the Psychonaut is one of the most important books ever written about the human psyche and the spiritual quest. The new understandings were made possible thanks to Albert Hofmann’s discovery of LSD—the microscope and telescope of the human…

HIGH SOCIETY: ‘The Psychedelic Gospels’, The Secret History Of Hallucinogens In Christianity – By Jerry & Julie Brown (Archive)

Source – grahamhancock.com The Psychedelic Gospels: The Secret History of Hallucinogens in Christianity by Jerry B. Brown and Julie M. Brown The Psychedelic Gospels It is our pleasure to welcome Julie and Jerry Brown, authors of The Psychedelic Gospels: The Secret History of Hallucinogens in Christianity, as our featured authors for November. Their book takes the…

HIGH SOCIETY: What Psychedelics & Bitcoin Have In Common – By Maxx Mannheimer

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,…

HIGH SOCIETY: ‘Ayahuasca & Iboga’, Messengers of Truth from Mother Earth – By Dylan Charles (Archive)

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…

MIND GAMES: ‘The Spirit Molecule’, Consciousness & Freedom Over Darkness & Control – By Graham Hancock (Archive)

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…

HIGH SOCIETY: ‘Plant Teachers’, Ayahuasca, Tobacco, & The Pursuit of Knowledge – By Jeremy Narby Ph.D

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…

COVER-UP: ‘Cannabis & Cancer’, Censorship & Conspiracy – By Ty Bollinger

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…

MEDICINE WHEEL: Cannabis Compounds Block COVID-19 From Entering Body – Study Finds

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 &…

NARCO-POLITIK: ‘Tobacco & Coca’, From Sacred To Addictive – By Neenah Payne

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…

COSMIC COWBOY: Mystery School in Hyperspace, Who are the DMT Entities? – By Graham St. John

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…

RESILIENT LIVING: As Wood Prices Surge 400%, Hemp Homes Are Cheaper, More Efficient & CO2 Negative

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…

HIGH SOCIETY: Visualizing The History Of Psychedelics (Part 2)

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…

HIGH SOCIETY: Visualizing The History Of Psychedelics (Part 1)

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…

NARCO-POLITIK: ‘The Cannabis Conspiracy’, The Police State Marches On

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…

MEDICINE WHEEL: United Nations Officially Recognizes Cannabis as Medicine in Historic Vote

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…

HIGH SOCIETY: It’s Time To Admit, Drugs Won The War On Drugs

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…

HIGH SOCIETY: ‘Microdosing’, An Overview – By Dr. Andrew Weil

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…

HIGH SOCIETY: Atheists Found ‘God’ or ‘Ultimate Reality’ After Taking Psychedelic Drugs (Flashback)

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…

HIGH SOCIETY: ‘How To Change Your Mind’, A Mind-Bending Perspective On Psychedelic’s

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…

HIGH SOCIETY: ‘Outside Looking In’, Down the Rabbit Hole with Timothy Leary (Flashback)

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…