Hey Crimzen - if you are good at wood carving you might consider idols. There might even be a market for them http://www.flickr.com/photos/debsden/favorites/?view=md http://www.flickr.com/photos/debsden/

Hi Max We did the photos a couple of weeks ago in Atlantis Bookshop

Duality is the mind's tendency to categorize things. In reality(?) there is an undivided whole but we chop it up into pieces because we find it useful. The way we cut it has great effects. Consider life and death. What is the undivided whole from which we define those categories?

Only just got round to reading the rest of this thread since I emailed Fran outside the list. Reminds me of the newage "bitchcraft" of Usenet. I love the techniques employed, the faux pity, the demeaning helpfulness, the pseudo-enlightenment and love-as-a-weapon etc Great lessons to be learned...

"Dear Significant Other - I have to confess I am a hopeless drug fiend hooked on mindbendingly evil substances - wanna snort a couple of grams of LSD or shall we chill out with the magic mushroom suppositories?" It could be worse:

a) He was lucky and any side effects were mild b) He just thought that having to piss more often was due to getting old, not taking ketamine c) He was just embarrassed and did not report it. I favor a combination of (a) and (b)

Consider this account of a Datura experience: http://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=1825 "I suppose everyone went to bed or something cause I wandered off to the dirt road, the one that goes through the pasture. I felt energized and had control of my body now, still delirious. I had...

I think so too. UFOlogy is a modern branch of demonology

Just STFU and tell someone else to change the channel...

I'll have five large cream cakes and a diet coke please...

As a followup to the sacrament thing - purification. Have a crap and have a bath/shower before you take it. Sense of smell and other senses are heightened, and you don't want to be distracted by your own stink. Do not eat before tripping - have an empty stomach, at least at the start. Have some...

Religion is the explanation people use to explain the mystical experience to themselves and others. The mystical experience is what it is. The religious explanation is just an explanation, which may be right or wrong (actually, mostly wrong IMHO)

They can certainly introduce you to states of mind that previously you would not have thought possible, or could even comprehend.

Check out this Xian page - makes some good points. http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/spirituality/aliens.html

Sorry about the spelling mistakes on my last post - typing on a small laptop. And "work" should have been "word" (I'm obsessed with work right now...) Anyway, Asatru is as Asatru does. If you Blot to the Gods you are Asatru.