Do you use Oracles? what is your relationship to oracles? which ones do you like? is it all bullshit and wishful thinking or are synchronicities at work? personally I'm finding great merit in using oracles right now. it is absolutely astounding, but I often get such accurate results that I...

I have been dabbling around with nitrous for some time now, every now and then for the last 2 years I did it, sometimes socially with friends, sometimes alone. I tried it with weed, with ketamine, and sober, once with alcohol. It gets a bad rap right now in the news, and it seems that most...

I've come to realize that everything that clouds the mind is equally present in the body. in buddhism they call it "sankaras" or something like that, wilhelm reich called it the body-armor, lots of other people probably found similar things. it seems as if all emotions, thought forms and...

great article, with a somewhat visionary text at the end. much recommended, maybe we can discuss some of it :) Environmentalists For Secession? « occupysecession

thought it was a nice read: Was Psychedelic Guru Terence McKenna Goofing About 2012 Prophecy? | Cross-Check, Scientific American Blog Network

lately it came to my awareness that all this plastic everywhere is fucking crazy. go to a supermarket and try to buy something that is not wrapped in something that withstands the natural cycle. it is really hard. so, for the next 4 weeks, I will not buy or use anything with plastic on it. this...

by Charles Eisenstein continued there, strongly recommended read for everyone who is interested in the detoriation of community and life in general in our culture: http://www.shareable.net/blog/at-UN-Hap ... e-ballroom

What I really loved about travelling in rural India, even though I couldn't put my finger on it at the time, was the sense of aliveness of the landscape. The trees seemed more alive than in the scientific sense of the word. Not merely exchanging gases and nutrients, they seemed to posses a...

"People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you're not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening...

split off from a thread because it was too off-topic powerful in separating people and creating contention and strife :\ got firsthand experience on that one. we belief only because we are afraid, if we weren't afraid we wouldn't have to believe.

an amazing documentary on the effects of globalization and industrialization on life in Ladakh, wholeheartedly recommended: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 9183318053

has anyone of you taken one of those courses by S.N. Goenka? I took a 10-day course starting from 28th of december and it was crazy. you accept a few rules, you shouldn't talk to other people, verbally, bodily or otherwise, you cannot take any books, mobile phones or mp3-players with you, etc...

I know I've been bashing Spice for being so angry all the time, but boy I gained understanding for him these days. I'm so fucking enraged at the whole plunder of our world. the systematic subjugation and sheer destruction of the natural inborn creativity and zezt for life in children, preparing...

Forget about “medical marijuana.” Isn’t it time to legalize heroin in the United States? Recreational cocaine? Ecstasy? LSD? How about the whole nefarious basketful of so-called ‘harder’ drugs? Yes, it is, says Dr. Ron Paul, a fourteen-term libertarian congressman and obstetrician from the...

.. or at least your view/idea/experience of it. I'm a book-rat, and I wouldn't be where I am if it wasn't for a few books that I stumbled upon. in the case of the present author, it was definitely these 3 books: The power of now by Eckhart Tolle - made me realize that spirituality can...

I posted about it in another thread, but I think it's worth one on its own. When I come down from a trip (well, a good trip in nature, not some clusterfuck in a cementbox or smoking-chamber aka a club), it feels as if I have an uncanny sensitivity for what my body needs, and more so what it...

Legislation being proposed in Australia would criminalize most permaculturists, farmers, gardeners, nurseries and bush regenerators by banning any plant that contains DMT – a naturally-occurring hallucinogen. Five plants are currently criminalized, but the new list will include hundreds...

I think we should have a thread to share our recipes and related stuff, so here it is. links to recipes are welcome, and even more so if you write them yourself. one of my favourite dishes is called "majdara masfaieh" according to this arabian cookbook, but I find nothing of the kind when...

lately I've found some (for lack of a better word) enjoyment in praying. several books talked about praying, one fell in my hands, by Gandhi, that is all about praying. however, it doesn't provide any prayers, such as all the other books, which is kind of annoying after reading tenths of pages...

browsing forums like these, one often reads about killing the ego, smashing it, maiming it, crucify it or what have you. why? what is it that wants to kill the ego? what shines forth when the ego disappeared spontaneously during a psychedelic experience? isn't this that shines forth nothing...