Johnny
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http://realitysandwich.com/29950/how_shipibo_healers_treated_my_brain_tumor/
This is also a report from the temple and Shipibo.
Isn't that stuff illegal?
http://realitysandwich.com/29950/how_shipibo_healers_treated_my_brain_tumor/
This is also a report from the temple and Shipibo.
Isn't that stuff illegal?
Certainly is. However it is legal to grow, you can even buy it on the internet if you live in the right part of the world.
Personally I do not think the law is too concerned, there is no black market for it. And as soon as we realize it can help the scourge of dangerous addictive drugs we can actually be effective in treating that and the real criminal element. Safety is an issue. I am pretty brave or stupid in that regard but using any MAOI can be dangerous if mixed with other things.
It is with great joy in our hearts that we write to update our community with news that the criminal charges against Taita Juan have been dropped as of today, November 16, 2010. At some point within the next couple of days, the court will begin the process of transferring Taita Juan out of prison and into the immigration authorities who will make arrangements for his return to Colombia. We will have more details by the end of today, in the meantime thank you again for keeping this prayer alive and strong. We did it!
Good news in Peru, with the following announcement..
Peru declares ayahuasca part of cultural heritage
The Government of Peru declared the traditional knowledge and the use of Ayahuasca practiced by the indigenous communities of the Amazon forest to be national cultural patrimony. Ayahuasca is more commonly known in Brazil as Santo Daime. The decision of the peruvian Government, signed by the Director of the National Institute of Culture, Javier Ugaz Villacorta, was published on the Saturday edition of the country’s official daily newspaper, El Peruano.
Also, Jeremy Narby or Benny Shanon would be good people to interview. Benny Shanon's book The Antipodes of the Mind is the most comprehensive account of ayahuasca I have read. He is/was a psychologist and has taken ayahuasca over 100 times. His book contains the results of a study he carried out - it's like a thematic analysis of the most common themes experienced by people who have taken ayahuasca.
Jeremy Narby's work on intelligence in nature is wonderful:
. Safety is an issue. I am pretty brave or stupid in that regard but using any MAOI can be dangerous if mixed with other things.
Or indeed some foods - cheese or Marmite, for example. I guess the best thing would be to look at the restrictions associated with MAOI anti-depressants and follow them.
David
Isn't that stuff illegal?
Certainly is. However it is legal to grow, you can even buy it on the internet if you live in the right part of the world.
Personally I do not think the law is too concerned, there is no black market for it. And as soon as we realize it can help the scourge of dangerous addictive drugs we can actually be effective in treating that and the real criminal element. Safety is an issue. I am pretty brave or stupid in that regard but using any MAOI can be dangerous if mixed with other things.
Ok.I am going to listening to this interview this evening then I will comment further, Thanks for your clarification.
A few weeks ago, I happened to catch an interview on the radio with another David, David Nutt, professor of neuropsychopharmacology in London, on his research into psychedelics (LSD, psilocybin, MDMA) to treat psychiatric disorders. He's pushing to break the taboo against such medical studies (and apparently there's now a greater opening among medical scientists into researching the potential benefits of such drugs). He says he expects MDMA to be legal (in the UK? Canada?) to treat PTSD in five years. The interview can be heard here.Legal or not, University of Greenwich is not afraid to hold a grand convention on psychedelics, coming July 2015 (thanks to David Luke, parapsychologist and psychedelist)!
I've been thinking seriously about maybe going to the temple later this year or early next year, perhaps for the one month deep immersion sojourn.
A few weeks ago, I happened to catch an interview on the radio with another David, David Nutt, professor of neuropsychopharmacology in London, on his research into psychedelics (LSD, psilocybin, MDMA) to treat psychiatric disorders. He's pushing to break the taboo against such medical studies (and apparently there's now a greater opening among medical scientists into researching the potential benefits of such drugs). He says he expects MDMA to be legal (in the UK? Canada?) to treat PTSD in five years. The interview can be heard here.
EDIT: It's Nutt's colleague, Canadian Mark Haden, also interviewed here, who says he thinks MDMA (ecstasy) will eventually be made legal in Canada to treat PTSD.
The psychedelics may invoke a temporary state of neural plasticity within the brain, as a result of which the person may experience changes in sensory perception, thought processing and self-awareness,” Rucker speculated. He added that psychedelic drugs can act as a catalyst that stirs up the mind to elicit insights into unwanted cycles of feelings, thoughts and behaviors. These cycles can then be faced, expressed, explored, interpreted, accepted and finally integrated back into the person's psyche with the therapist's help.
To prepare the mindset of the person, Rucker said that a high level of trust between patient and therapist is essential. “A good therapeutic relationship should be established beforehand, and the patient should be prepared for the nature of the psychedelic experience,” he suggested. The ‘setting' of the drug experience should also be kept closely controlled — safe, comfortable and low in stress.
I underwent an incredibly transformative experience whilst on a large amount mushrooms which immediately changed my life forever.
I used to feel no empathy, remorse, guilt, or genuine connections to anyone I came into contact with. The worst part was that I thought EVERYONE felt the way I did, but was convinced that they all just lied about it to keep up social norms and to be accepted. I purposefully hurt a lot of people by using them as disposable pawns to simply get what I wanted. I was extremely violent and did a lot of things I am now ashamed of, but at the time I didn't seem to have a clear sense of ethical living. I knew what was considered "right" and what was considered "wrong" by watching other people, but I didn't actually feel a sense of guilt when doing wrong things.
Ego death immediately and permanently changed my perspective on life. I now feel genuine emotions and have real connections and love toward people. I feel remorse and deeper emotions that were extremely difficult to adapt to, but have made my life much richer in the end.
Jim, thanks for posting this. As a longtime advocate of responsible psychedelics use, I love reading this.
You should be really really careful and think thrice before deciding to have such trip. At least, choose the right people who would help you to go through this. There are a lot of Ayahuasca retreats in Peru, I visited one a couple of years ago. I won't say it's something everyone should experience, cause you should see for yourself. But here's a retreat I chose after a thorough research https://dmt.vision/en/. Even if you don't have guts to do it, you'll have a nice time being put on a plant diet, have a massage and relax.Ayahuasca is in my mind *the* experience anyone can and should have,