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You Hip to the Entheogen (R)evolution?
(April 04, 2001 - by Josh Wickerham - The Michigan Daily)
The last decade has been secretly psychedelic. And we have all been primed and ready for an explosion of consciousness. To get to that point, we must have an idea of where to direct our energies. The best way to do this is through a common goal of cognitive liberty.
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The Drug War Is The Inquisition
(01 November 2001 - by Dan Russell)
Racism, of course, was originally a form of anti-tribalism, driven by the economic value of enslavement. We are no longer overtly racist, in our public laws at least, but we are still politically driven by industrial power centers, still brutally anti-tribal, structurally violent, to millions of our children, our tribal primitives, and to our shamanic adults. Our contemporary slaver war, our Drug War, is a direct descendant, via the Inquisition, of Roman slave law, called Prohibitio by the Romans, Prohibition.
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Annual Causes of Death in America
( - by Church of the Divine Sage)
The REAL truth is the most sobering statistic.
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Ayahuasca: Human Consciousness and the Spirits of Nature
( - by Ralph, Ph.D. Metzner (Editor))
Anything with the name Ralph Metzner even remotely attached to it is a safe buy. An elder statesman responsible for dramatic shifts in consciousness within this nation and throughout the world...
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Conocybe siligineoides - Conocybe
( - Labiatae - Tropical and warm zones of Europe, Africa, Asia)
Conocybe Siligineoides is a sacred fungus endemic only to Mexico.
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Coryphantha compacta - Pincushion Cactus
( - Cactaceae - Southwestern North America, Mexico, Cuba)
C. compacta is believed to be the Tarahumara híkuri known as "bakánawa." Bakánawa, like most híkuri, is both respected and feared as a god, and considered to have a soul and human emotions.
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Cystisus canariensis - Genista
( - Leguminosae - Southern Europe, northern Africa, western Asia; Canary Islands, Mexico)
GENISTA (Cytisus canariensis) is employed as an hallucinogen in the magic practices of Yaqui medicine men in northern Mexico.
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Desfontainia spinosa - Taique
( - Solanaceae - Tropical and moderate zones worldwide)
Desfontainia spinosa, a beautiful shrub 1-6 feet in height, has glossy dark green leaves, resembling those of Christmas holly, and tubular red flowers with a yellow tip.
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DMT: The Spirit Moecule
( - by Rick Strassman, M.D.)
Covering a groundbreaking psychedelic substance that is actually found in human cerebrospinal fluid, Rick Strassman tells a first-person story of his research on the profoundly mysterious substance dimethltryptamine (DMT).
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Duboisia hopwoodii - Pituri Bush
( - Solanaceae - Central America)
The pituri plant had enormous economic value to the Aborigines. Pituri roads existed with extensive trade networks that extended from northern to southern desert areas, which permitted Aborigines to trade the plant.
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