Everything You Need to Know About Ayahuasca
Ayahuasca, or yagé, is an entheogenic brew that stems from the Amazon, the exact dates/place of origin are unknown, and can only be theorized. One certainty about the history of ayahuasca, is that by the mid-nineteeth century it had come to the attention of Western ethnographers, and was already wide-spread among numerous indigenous
Read MoreModafinil & Ayahuasca – Are There Contraindications?
I recently found myself in a situation where I would be taking modafinil and ayahuasca in close proximity to each other, and I wasn’t sure if this was a bad thing. I received a beautiful gift of a jar of ayahuasca honey – a highly concentrated syrupy reduction of ayahuasca. For those of you familiar…
Read MoreThe Mountain Lion by Phil Lewis
“The lessons we learn from the wild become the etiquette of freedom.” ~ Gary Snyder Art by Phil Lewis
Read MoreThe Muse Of Conscious Awakening by Martina Hoffmann
“To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.” ~ Hermann Hesse Art by Martina Hoffmann
Read MoreGuide to Microdosing With Modafinil for Entrepreneurs & Other GSD Kind of People
I first heard about Modafinil from my private, invitation-only virtual community of location independent Internet entrepreneurs. I must say I was intrigued, but as a “plant medicine” person, I had made a conscious choice to steer away from taking “drugs made in a lab”. It was mostly guys raving about it in the forums, how…
Read MoreVajrasattva by Alysha Graham Picard
“Enlightenment is ego’s ultimate disappointment” ~ Chogyam Trungpa Art by Alysha Graham Picard
Read MoreThe History and Future of LSD
A Little History… Artwork by Alex Grey LSD was first synthesized in 1938 by Albert Hofmann while he was in Switzerland working for the pharmaceutical-chemical department of Sandoz Laboratories, with his co-worker professor Arthur Stoll (founder/director of the pharmaceutical department). During their experiments, Hofmann wound up deriving a chemical called ergotamine, which comes from a grain fungus that typically grows on rye – and the…
Read MoreSan Pedro: The Master Teacher and Spiritual Healer
San Pedro cactus (Trichocereus pachanoi), otherwise known as the Cactus of the Four Winds, Huachuma or Saint Peter’s Cactus, is a fast growing columnar cactus native to the Andes Mountains – which can grow up to 20 feet high. It is usually found in Peru, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Ecuador – but is also cultivated in many other parts of the world. San Pedro has a history of being used in Andean medicine for healing and religious divination for thousands of years, and archeologists
Read MoreIs MDMA (Ecstasy or Molly) ‘Penicillin For The Soul’?
What is MDMA? MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine), was first developed in the early 1900s in Germany as a parent compound to be used to synthesize other pharmaceuticals. It was patented in 1914 by a drug company called Merck, and at first, scientists originally thought it could be used as an appetite suppressant. During the 1970s, in the United…
Read MoreWhite Lotus Handala by Miles Toland
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” ~ Gandhi Art by Miles Toland
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