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 – 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 – 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…
Source – newdawnmagazine.com – “…The First Human Be-In…Many people contributed to the creation of this grand event…30,000 people came to the Be-In in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. The Be-In was designed with no particular stars of the show, the speakers all limited to three minutes each. There were bands, but none were promoted. It…
Source – thegrowthop.com – “…An oral spray derived from the cannabis plant containing a 1:1 ratio of cannabinoids THC (the psychoactive, intoxicating component of cannabis) and CBD (a psychoactive but non-intoxicating component) — assisted in reducing the number of days patient with cannabis dependence consumed the drug by approximately 40 per cent compared to those…
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 – thehempire.com – Rudolf Diesel, the inventor of the diesel engine, designed it to run on vegetable and seed oils like hemp; he actually ran the thing on peanut oil for the 1900 World’s Fair. Henry Ford used hemp to not only construct cars but also fuel them: When Henry Ford told a New York…
Source – naturalblaze.com – “…If their findings are correct, researchers say that cannabis works in a similar way to nicotine. In a study out of the Institut Pasteur in France, researchers led by Jean-Pierre Changeux, a neurobiologist at the university, found the potential of nicotine patches in preventing infections from SARS-CoV-2. The French study assumes that…
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 – elephantjournal.com – “…The soul wants to meld with the One. The One is love, light; the One is peace, compassion. The soul wants to meld with that. The reason we are addicted to power is because of separateness—separate nations, separate states, separate religions, and separate people. When you are separate the whole universe…
Source – grahamhancock.com – “…We are living in a world where nuclear bombs are legal and plants are not. And this insanity we call civilization. As I imagine civilized society, it would be a place for cultivation of consciousness, prosperity and peace – exactly opposite to what we see today” “Psychedelics are illegal not because…
Source – marinecorpstimes.com – “…Like most hallucinogens, LSD mimics the effects of serotonin (a mood regulator),” the author says, and activates enhanced mental acuity in the areas of learning and memory…With microdoses of psychedelic drugs, meanwhile, military personnel can potentially “connect seemingly unconnected pieces of information and create revolutionary new solutions” SM: …The hope hear…
Source – themindunleashed.com – “…In advanced forms of ayahuasca inebriation. the seeing of light is accompanied by profound religious and spiritual feelings,” Shannon says…Encountering the divine is one of the most powerful experiences associated with high-level Ayahuasca inebriation,” Shannon told the Guardian” Israeli Researcher Says Moses Was High On Psychedelics When He Spoke To God…
Source – statista.com – “…Portugal’s radical move to put an end to the carnage should prove an example to other countries dealing with similar problems, especially the United States where opioids have killed more people than the totality of American military casualties in Vietnam, both Iraq wars and Afghanistan combined” Then & Now: Portugal’s Drug…
Source – trueactivist.com – “…Preliminary investigations by medical researchers from McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Tufts University indicate that pot actually improves cognitive performance…The first benefit reported is that medical marijuana led to patients excelling at brainteasers with enhanced speed and accuracy”: Harvard Study – Smoking Cannabis Actually Improves Brain Function – By Amanda…
Source – greenmedinfo.com – “…Hemp plastic is a “material of the future” that could drastically cut down on the need for plastics and their devastating toll on the environment. In some cases, standard plastics may be reinforced with hemp, which may account for up to 80 percent of the plastic’s weight. Hemp can also be…
Source – capitalistexploits.at – “…Years chanting, worshiping gurus and taking magic mushrooms may appear at surface to be a detour on the road to success, but research is beginning to indicate that these activities, and others like them, may be beneficial to our ability to “think differently”… Friedland and Jobs’ ability to think differently from…
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 – collective-evolution.com – ‘…It doesn’t matter whether you are a master meditator, veteran psychedelic user, a yogi master or whatever other method we may use sober or not, none of it matters if we are not actively doing what it takes to change our lives on a daily basis based on what we see…
Source – galacticconnection.com – “…The risk of going too far down the road of chemistry, or anatomy, is that you lose sight of the wider meaning held within plant medicines like ayahuasca. The point of developing a Third Eye is to see through the veil of ordinary perception and into the ultimate truth of reality”…
Source – wired.com – “…McKenna is the most loved psychedelic barnstormer since Timothy Leary, the self-appointed guru of LSD who died in 1996 amid a flurry of digital hype about online euthanasia and his plans – which he scrapped – to undergo cryonic preservation. Like McKenna, Leary was an intellectual entertainer, a carny barker hawking…
Source – psypost.org – “…Researchers found that subjective ratings of life satisfaction, depression, anxiety, and mindfulness improved on the day after the session, and this effect persisted for four weeks. The findings are in line with a previous survey of 362 adults, which found that approximately 80& of respondents reported improvements in anxiety and depression…
Source – naturalblaze.com – “…Many of us know intuitively that something is not right in today’s supposed ‘best economy’ as we witness first hand, increased levels of stress, anxiety, emotional violence, addiction, insomnia, depression, chronic illness and suicide…much less is broadcast is the fact of how cannabis as an elixir for the mind and soul…
Source – theconversation.com – ‘…Microdosers scored higher on measures of wisdom, open-mindedness and creativity. Microdosers also scored lower on measures of dysfunctional attitudes and negative emotionality, which is very promising. Subtle changes, not hallucinations” ‘Microdosers’ of LSD & Magic Mushrooms are Wiser & More Creative – Thomas Anderson & Rotem Petranker We just ran the…
Source – wakingtimes.com – “…We have big brains and complex nervous systems, we don’t always use them to great advantage, but I think the plant is trying to say “use them to good advantage, think about this.” In other words, “wake up.” And if enough people do that, and enough people with the power to…
