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    can psychedelics help us see through propaganda?

    I am planning on doing a blog about this subject, and thought I would ask at various forums dedicated to psychedelics and experience about this to deepen the research: I am going to think of 4 significant set and settings for psychedelic experience. IF you can think of any others please don't...
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    LSD or Mushrooms...?

    Well I had LSD given to me when 15--though I didn't ask for it it just kinda happened. So LSD was my first psychedelic. years later I discovered magic mushrooms. Just remember that both are a magical door you go through and explore deeper-than-usual--than usualy ordinary life--ALSO keeping in...
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    Other Forums

    Hey Nanacapilli I am a member of entheogendotcom and find it a really cool intimate forum with some very interesting members there. Come and join :)
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    hmmm. need some sex help

    The very old goddesses and gods NAMES are connected with entheogens. As J.M.Allegro reveals in his book The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, Aphrodite (from which we get aphrodisiac) and Dionysos --the god of ecstasy-- are both deeply connected with entheogenic vegetation, are the very entheogenic...
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    Writing a paper on integration of negative trips.

    I found this so amazingly healing and insightful Cortexelus. I had an opposite experience many years ago on a powerful magic mushroom trip. Me and a friend had piscked fresh Liberty Caps on the day we tripped. He had chosen some music but wouldn't tell me what it was (it was Oxygene). As we eat...
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    Depression?

    Hey Nanosage really sorry to hear that you feel so down. PLEASE watch that vid close 'stop taking the pills' because what its saying really exposes what is going on. OK, you say you dont really know why you feel so bad? I am sure many people dont--but thats only because we are made to believe...
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    Sex, psychedelic?

    you are trying to put --eg, 'psychedelic' over here and 'sexuality' over there in careful boxes of your analysis and that is not how it is at ALL. Of course sex is ecstatic---! It is completely sensual, and can--depending how OPEN you are to the experience and the other, be it one person, two...
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    WHY?

    the thing about CHAOS~~~~~is this. your likkle one-step-at-a-time choppity chip chop analysis measuring stick cannot and will never fathom 'it'. it is the infinite giggle SOURCE of your giggle. Feel me? :D
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    Must Watch video about Drug War Caste System Made in America

    Hi all, I so much would really love you to watch this very important video, Yes it is over an hour, but it is SO worth the effort to watch and listen to. It is about how the Drug War --which has been the 'baby' of America has created the highest prison population in the world where the highest...
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    Suicide

    Usually in western culture--which has forgotten its indigenous traditions with entheogens---theres a danger to use drugs, like cannabis, and even psychedelics, as a form of escape. In a way this could be understandable because the culture many of us live in is oppressive and has no place for...
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    The Insane so-called 'war on drugs' please view all links

    Here it is: http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10080] Drug Decriminalization in Portugal: Lessons for Creating Fair and Successful Drug Policies [/url] why aint this hyperlinked right. what have i done wrong?
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    The Insane so-called 'war on drugs' please view all links

    I don't have to tell people here--I hope?--how insane this so-called war on drugs is. It has caused SO much destruction, and continues to. I want to link you to some very vital links--PLEASE check them out? OK the first one is very direct, and one of the speakers who used to be part of the 'war...
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    Remember I mentioned that great interview you did with Christian Rätsch? He differentiated between 'duality' and polarity, so do I. It is unclear what you mean with what you have just said. I am being clear when I say that duality is the belief there is some kind of duel between so-called...
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    I actually have read quite a few books of Grof's but not LSD Psychotherapy--I had wanted to but then I went onto to something else. Not sure where your hostile manner comes from really. Why you angry? All i am saying is that unlike say the real wild ecstatic rituals of our ancestors as most...
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    Well STUFF your 'mystical'--you are making me hate the 'mystical' because in your defense of 'it' as something far superior to real life experience you aim to demean real life experience. I do not. I see all experience as sacred be it called 'ordinary' OR 'mystical'. If you gain deep...
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    Have YOU ever experienced losing someone you love in a road accident, or them being murdered in front of your eyes, etc etc etc. Stop trying to make out only 'ego deather in a described Hoffman trip' are the only ones with any intense mystical experience. Every experience is unique. How come I...
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    Maybe we're getting lost in semantics, I dunno. I meant that we experience so-called 'ego death' all the time. We change. thangs happen and we change course, hopefully for the good. Some people will drink themselves to death, etc. haha, of course you can agree or disagree with it. I am...
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    Forget semantics--I will try to be more clear for you: Ego death then, rather than 'psychedelic experience. But I am questioning Hoffman's assertions ABOUT an 'ego death'--as though so-called ego-death is only possible in a dramatic psychedelic cybernetic formula. basically Hoffman would claim I...
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    I would like to explore this question. In anceint meaning of 'being possessed by god', THE most profound mythic god you need to research is Dionysos. This 'god' has always fascinated me. He is ambiguous of gender, is known as the 'god of many names', and these include 'Liber' --origin of our...
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    Well, no, that is how you interpret your psychedelic experience (or how you claim Hoffman is doing, or both), I have had psychedelic experience and I don't interpret things like that. For me what you and Hoffman are doing is making an abstraction about what reality is suppsed to be. But I sense...
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    Do you not exist? or have you ever remembered yourself not existing to compare with someone existing? It is very disrespectful and insensitive and unintelligent to presume that because an individual has not had a psychedelic 'ego death' that they were never really alive or in control. Get...
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    well I think that sets up a duality between 'ordinary life' which can include people who have never had psychedelic experience, and people who have had psychedelic experience but have not had an 'ego death', and those like Hoffman who claim that they or those they presume have had...
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    One of the reasons I started this thread was---I find his termonology rigid, mechanistic, and I have even said brutal---which I don't find helpful. Ok, I admit he is unique, fine, but just because something is unique doesn't mean I think it is helpful. But I was very curious as to where he is...
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    Depends what you mean by 'orgasm'. As you know when on psychedelics you can feel orgasm just touching someone's hand, or looking in their eyes, etc etc ;) So there is that, and it makes the rumble desperate booze tumble for a cum pale hopelessly in comparison. So don't begin thinking it is a...
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    I just feel the paradigm/myth we are in definately must affect how we think of ourselves and others. I think males have been driiven intoa corner of what being male HAS to be like. There is so much conformity. Not allowed to cry---thats a BIG emotional abuse. Femininity has been put down for a...
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    Yes I know what you mean 8) Do you ever take a psychedelic trip outside in nature? Do you find it differerent from taking one inside? I can understand the sense of 'possession'--a term somehow translated from Greek term for 'enthusiasm'. So the story goes that the Celebrants of the Dionysian...
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    so your ignoring Braineaters questions too?
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    I initiated the thread cause I said I was curious about Hofmann's whereabouts, and added I didn't really dig his terminology etc and then you came in sayting i MUST know that I am a computer, and the mind is a computer, etc.....? Every link I have posted I obviously have posted because I find...
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    Maxfreakout 8) Don't presume to be my teacher teaching me how I should think about 'egodeath' and 'what Michael Hofmann means'. OK? I am telling you what I mean in relation to what you think he means. Stop assuming my links are 'irrelevant to the conversation', which is trying to undermine my...
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    To YOU maybe it is. Not to me. You seem to want to impose your worldview on everyone, and show the angy demand "!!!". Is that your ego death in action....or what? What is it maxfreakout? you demand I believe that right?....or else what? What will you do? Stab me with more exclamation points...
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    The so-called "perennial philosophy"(philosophia perennis "eternal philosophy") has been critiqued by feminists. The 'Perennial philosophy', also known as the 'monomyth', 'the hero's journey' gets a good critique here: Chapter 3: The Feminist Critique of the Separated Self
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    I have not had DMT or Salvia, but have had LSD and magic mushrooms, and I do not feel disconnected to consensual reality, but deeply seeing it in a deeper way, and also with nature. So I don't like the term 'disconnected'. Of course I am aware many people classed as 'mentally ill' do feel...
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    "My point was just to make the connection between tripping and psychosis. In the psychiatric literature 'psychosis' means disconnection from reality, delusory beliefs and hallucinations. Ego death theory gives an ultra-clear definition of precisely what psychosis is 'loosened cognitive...
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    sorry you don't make sense to me maxfreakout. You don't seem to dig the quotes I gave you one saying "However the research is confounded by a poor definition of a 'drug induced psychosis'"--that seems clear to me...and "Poole and Brabbins (1996) argue that psychiatry has no consistent definition...
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    Maxfreakout, if you are going to quote me try and not make out I am saying something I didn't say. Ie., you have me quoted saying 'schizophrenia and psychosis are mental illnesses'- and the next slice you pick seems to make out I am saying what your saying...? so its confusing -I DON'T say that...
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    "Is it schizophrenia or an LSD psychosis? Warner and Taylor (1994) have suggested that reports of prolonged psychoses may actually be reports of the normal incidence of psychosis within the general population, and the use of LSD is co-incidental. This could be established if the psychoses...
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    well thee whole idea from the mental health movment about what 'psychosis' IS is confused, so calling psychedelics a psychomimmetic is double confused. So whats your point?
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    I can't answer directly because I am not sure how you mean? This is what I mean though: I think that the suppression of entheogenic experience is obviously a huge essential cause of mental dis-ease, and I do not mean 'disease' as the proponents of the mental illness model mean. I more mean that...
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    who knows, maybe i am not understanding. Thats why I ask questions. Asking questions is a good way not to get caught up in a cult! ;) And I hope we agree that that can happen at least, right...? you said above: "Yes the theory is based very heavily on one particular essay from Watts called...
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    it takes a person to create a theory. He as a person has formulated his theory which I am finding fault with.
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    No I dont think I misunderstand. I understand what I am understanding, though that might seem like mis-understanding to you. Hoffman has no right to judge other peoples intelligence like he does. And then have the nerve to preach 'EGO' death'--as though he is privy to a state of intelligence...
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    It is very brutal----the terminology. You know Max, I found myself listening to the interview you did with Christian Rätsch. It was a really great interview, you asked some really great questions. I always know when I am into an interview when I look at the time not as in wondering when its...
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    Sp. What was your experience that was so great you feel everyone should follow your religion?
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    Enactive, Creative Cognition "Dr. Michael Wheeler explains how strong version of the view that the brain is self-organizing systems oppose the traditional understanding of it as picking up and processing information."
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    'ADHD' is a toxic myth, and a 100 percent fraud. I dont wish to derail thread, but I feel I need to say this. If you want to start a thread about 'ADHD' do The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes Patients "Of Normal Children"
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    So let me see, you are saying the brain isn't a computer but the mind is?? Try this then? Review - Why the Mind is Not a Computer - Philosophy
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    did you miss the video link above?
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    Max said: "The 'computer' comparison is not meant to be understood metaphorically but rather literally, the human mind IS a computer, - ie an information processor. Just like all computational systems, the human mind is vulnerable to Gödelian logical incompleteness, and that is the cause of ego...
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    " Jaron Lanier, philosopher, visionary, digital guru and an architect of Virtual Reality - is worried. Individual creativity has begun to go out of fashion. People are being restricted to what can be represented on a computer. Not only is individual creativity old-fashioned, but individuals...
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    Ananda Bosman and Hadronic Mechanics & Entheogens

    Yes, that seems to make sense I put this question to someone else online and got quite an interesting response: "I don’t think there is an explicit definition of two schools of Taoism but I definitely think that in practice there are the two different schools; the philosophical and the folk...
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    Ananda Bosman and Hadronic Mechanics & Entheogens

    They aren't my words. They're Ananda Bosman's words....chill :rolleyes: Look. I am wondering about what he is saying. To wonder is to...wonder. To take into consideration from as many perspectives as may arise. I could be angry with what he is saying. When I am I wonder why I am being like...
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    I don't really dig that explanation of a 'frozen past'--it makes no sense to me. and is a conceptualization, and a conclusion. The 'past'--what is 'it'? For a start it is a term, an object, and conceptualization--just like we are 'educated' in ouyr modern culture to look at reality and divide...
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    Ananda Bosman and Hadronic Mechanics & Entheogens

    whaddya mean? 8) elaborate
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    It is clear to me that mankind--and this is known throughout its history, tends to use its present state-of-the-art technology to try and use to explain the natural world and the body and mind. Didn't Rene Descartes use menchaistic terms to desribe his theories, as has Freud, etc--so it is...
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    Ananda Bosman and Hadronic Mechanics & Entheogens

    is it the familiar desire by the patriarchal mindset to escape natural reality do you think? Here is a quote from Ananda's pages: "Since the first publications of this manuscript in March, Dr. Rogero Santilli has stunned the scientific world, by announcing in May 2006, the first prime time...
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    Good explanation, but I do not agree with your/Michael Hoffman's assertion that the mind is a computer. I am aware that it is common in these post modern times to use the metaphor, but not to confuse that with "is"!
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    Something doesn't appeal about the idea--if I have him correct--that there is a deterministic dimension where our actions are kind of like known I know Michael is very influenced by Alan Watts, who I have read quite a bit, and from what I dig of Alan's take on the timeless it is not NOT being...
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    Ananda Bosman and Hadronic Mechanics & Entheogens

    Hi can we have more in-depth discussion about Ananda Bosman please? I am wondering what you psychonauts here think about his claim that he can become a light body which is hyper dimensional---He MEANS he can actually become invisible. Is this BS.......? What does this kind of theory do for...
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    Yes I know what you mean. I find his words very clonky and hardly poetic And his idea of a static determinism thingy doesn't appeal. I found a very good critique of his work, but I dont want to overdo the negative. I admire his unique take, but not his insistance that ONLY his theory is the...
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    what's happened to Michael Hoffman from egodeath?

    hello, I have been looking over Michael Hoffman's website http://www.egodeath.com and notice that it is just too 2007 which is over 2 years ago now. I tried to find out what he is currently doing but cannot find out. So I am wondering if anyone knows here? I was shocked to find that author of...
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    Psychonautica 79 - Stan Grof seminar pt.6

    For a while you seem obsessed with Stan Grof?
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    Ananda Bosman and Hadronic Mechanics & Entheogens

    Hey CM, and you'll The other day at Youtube I just searched 'entheogenic healing' and found this video title Ananda Bosman Hadronic Mechanics & Entheogens which I found intriguing, and now am up to part 14. I came to these forums and typed name of the guy but didn't see any references, so...
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    ET's and UFO's

    YES!!! I saw it about 3 days ago, and it is one of the best films on UFOs etc I have seen, and really adds to The Disclosure Project! VERy impressed :)
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    Elfs and little metaphysical creatures

    I have always felt a closeness with the fairies or nature spirits. When I was very little I was trying to make a fairy garden in a little magical place in the family garden with little twigs, acorn shells, stones, leaves, and my grandpa saw me and taught me from seeing me doing this how to...
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    Jack Herer suffers heart attack

    smoking cannabis regularly cannot be good for the heart, especially in the long term because it increases heart rate, and tar etc will block arteries
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    "The End?"

    linear time is not a rule of the universe. It is a psycholigcal cage imposed on slaves--us via patriarchal mythology/propaganda. A good example of this is is anciently at near the beginning of writing with the Enuma Elish which is the myth of the solar hero god Marduk attacking the Great Goddess...
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    Adhd

    Yours is one of the most beautiful and powerful posts I have ever seen! Ie in the childlike direct way you exposed that shrink but you are wrong that adhd exists...it doesn't
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    Adhd

    The so-called disorder called 'ADHD' is 100 % fraud! I really recommend those who do not believe that read this book--and also checkout the history of psychiatry, and the other bogus 'diseases/disorders' they claim are biologically caused: The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of...
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    High School Teen Accepts Penalty for Marijuana Speech

    I know sugar and caffiene are drugs, and thus don't recommend them either! I am guessing by your response in favour of everyday-smoke-a-ganga that that is what you do?...Why? What makes you, if my assumptions is correct, need to be under the influence of THC (the active ingredient that makes...
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    High School Teen Accepts Penalty for Marijuana Speech

    I don't think marijuana should be banned, but I also am not cool with it being made to be a cool thing to smoke all the time neither I speak from experience because I toked from 15 and gave up 3 years ago after many many mannnny years of tokin every day religiously I dont like how only the...
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    Danger of Islam!

    I started the thread to explore the danger of Islam, but myself and others have also have pointed out danger of other fundamental beliefs, including scientism. Obviously because the thread is titled 'danger of islam' that is main focus, but there has been ample exploration of other toxic...
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    Danger of Islam!

    No....I am here. I am not disappeared. It was CMs great idea to translate psychedelic information into Arabic not mine I had assumed it would be a simple case of using Google translation, but CM said that it was more complex and needed translators who know Arabic---because for example, if you...
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    Psychonautica 71 - interview with Jan Irvin

    You know somethings you say there reminds me of reaction I have had reading this book I began reading ages ago. I had been put off it several years back after reading a review (cant remember why now), but when I started reading articles by him, I tended to dig what he said in the...
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    Psychonautica 71 - interview with Jan Irvin

    Hey Max was hoping you had some post of your latest podcast with Ralph Metzner. GREAT talk!! I was so onto it. But am somewhat confused about your confusion regarding somethings he said---like when he was speaking about 'asking the psychedelic experience' a question---and your respond saying...
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    Who thinks psychadelics are more than drugs?

    You are talking from complete and utter ignore-ance. All you are showing us is words that do not amount to much whatsoever when contrasted with the VAST amount of evidence that proves the sacred meaning of sacred vegetation and substances is central to the history of humankind. Unless you have...
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    Who thinks psychadelics are more than drugs?

    you LIKE foul-mouthed ignoramouses?........Are you a masochist? Why should you encourage people like this who bully, insult, and hate people like he does? You are just AS bad if you encourage such behaviour! It is like a problem family in a community, and people saying how great they are...
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    Legalize drugs to stop violence

    "despite the tar and toxic gasses released when the herb is combusted" well tar and toxic gases are tar and toxic gases is what i am saying, and they can have an effect. ..thjat can to toxic, just like any other substance ie., Chocolate is very very niiice. But abused and it can heve negative...
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    Legalize drugs to stop violence

    I personally wish there wasn't this emphasis on legalizing marijuana. I feel it takes from the energy/debate needed to demand de-criminalization of psychedelics/sacred medicine I have not doe a surbvey, but I am sure Indigenous peoples didn't toke on weed day in day out like a lot of...
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    The Economist: How to stop the drug wars

    One guy I admire is Dan Russell, author of Shamanism and the Drug Propaganda: Patriarchy and, Drug War: Covert Money, Power & Policy Apparently, according to Russell --and he gives many references and names many people involved--The powers that be want the so-called 'drug war' so as to keep...
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    Danger of Islam!

    Just received this: http://www.amilimani.com/index.php?opti ... 5&Itemid=2 An Appeal to Cultural Muslims An Appeal to Cultural Muslims Thursday, 12 March 2009 There are some 1.2 billion Muslims in the world, the overwhelming majority of which are Cultural Muslims who are generally called...
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    Danger of Islam!

    So you find it perfectly alright to find fault with zionism, and the Jewish people having a homeland, (a tiny tine little piece of land), than you do people criticizing Islamic shariah law and its brutal treatment of women, gays, children, etc? You don't have to answer, I already know what you...
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    Danger of Islam!

    He is! I'm not http://www.zionism-israel.com/his/anti- ... istory.htm
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    Danger of Islam!

    Why do you say this? "The other perfect example is the diference in the way that they report about the neo nazi zionist jews in israel and the islamic people in palastine ."
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    Danger of Islam!

    edited :)
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    Danger of Islam!

    I just received this post: Nearly 600 people joined the One Law for All anti-racist rally against Sharia and religious-based laws in Britain and elsewhere and in defence of citizenship and universal rights in Trafalgar Square and marched towards Red Lion Square in London. Hundreds then joined...
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    SAVE OUR SHROOMS campaign + news : launched !

    I am SO happy to hear about this. I was GREATLy shocked by the prohibition of sacred mushrooms, and am delighted that more and more people will fight this irrational war on sacred plants!!! RIGHT ON
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    Danger of Islam!

    I think this a great idea, and made easier now because of Google help in translation. I just worry that order of language might be out of whack . You sometimes see this when you use google to translate a foreign page to your language, they get the order of how one's native language is spoken not...
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    Danger of Islam!

    do you want to do it or not?
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    Danger of Islam!

    This is very interesting article: http://librabunda.blogspot.com/ William Dalrymple: Wahhabi Radicals Are Determined to Destroy a Gentler, Kinder Islam THE OBSERVER: Rahman Baba, "the Nightingale of Peshawar," was an 18th-century poet and mystic, a sort of North West Frontier version of...
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    Danger of Islam!

    hmmmm was it all ...hot air?
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    Danger of Islam!

    who are you aiming at CM? Do muslims in Holland, and the west know how to understand Arabic? Do muslims in countries that do have free access to internet? Tell me more why you think this idea of yours would be a good thing?
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    Danger of Islam!

    When i sued google translation for 'psychedelic' I got this: ???? Is that the Arabic word that means 'drug'? So I Googled the word and checked a few sites. The wikipedia one seemed very negativ about effects, but not sure if they are talking about psychedelics (of coursed i used 'translate...
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