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.

I think you will find that almost all the evils of "Christianity" are actually the evils of the Old Testament YHVH

There are not any UFO style aliens. What is described in witness reports is just too primitive technologically. Do you really think superscience aliens need to give BillyBob the anal probe for scientific reasons?

There is only one scientific basis for morality and that is Game Theory. Having said that, it involves people. The bottom line of any workable morality is keepiung ones work. Do not makle promises you cannot keep. Do not break promises because otherwise only fools will trust you and you will...

The best way to actually create new neurons in the brain is exercise. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 053719.htm A study published today in the journal Neuroscience, journal of the International Brain Research Organization, confirmed that exercise increases the chemical BDNF –...

The really bad thing about meth is that if you do it often enough (and I don't know what "often" means for any individual) it will fuck up your dopamine system. The bottom line being it can chemically destroy your ability to feel happiness. AFAIK, on a permanent basis.