Entheogen Revival

Tryptamines, the mayan calendar and the entry to the dream time at the point of galactic alignment. In this post I will attempt to shed some light on an idea which becomes clearer to me with the more perceptual work I do. The activation of our species has been accelerating for some time leading up to the turn of the galactic tide, the galactic alignment, the 26,000 year grand cycle of the galaxy.  As the natural mechanisms of reality become more transparent to us and we start to see the cause and effect throughout our entire experience we begin to overcome ever more transparent karmic cycles of spiritual development and journey into unexplored unity consciousness, the absence of everything which feels bad, and the presence of everything which feels good. With this new understanding we realise that our home is in our mind. One mechanism has become apparent. One which seems to have everything in place, just waiting for the right moment, perhaps a sort of cataclysmic spark to set it in (perpetual) motion. The fact that all of the earth’s landmass fits together like a jigsaw puzzle would suggest that at some point the earth was a lot smaller and the land was actually one piece. The earth has expanded and the land broke apart, a massive continent was formed. We know it as Gondwana which included africa, south america, australia, india, arabia, antarctica and balkans. With more expansion Gondwana broke apart and the countries have moved to their present positions. A lot of the evolution of the flora and fauna has evolved differently because of the climates in their different planetary locations.  Colonisation of Australia and the massacres that occurred during that time has caused almost all of the indigenous plant teachings of australia to be forgotten. Fortunately, the entheogen culture has survived in the dense uninhabitable amazon jungle and the recent few generations of australian students of the ayahuasquero or shaman have extensively tested and studied the plants of australia to find sources of the same tryptamines produced by the south american plants used in ayahuasca which allow the shamans to pass into the dreamtime. South america and Australia have recently reconnected a deep spiritual relationship through tourism and the awakening offered by ayahuasca which has filtered through into australian culture and the plant teachings have helped to integrate remerging timelines of the inhabitants of the once physically conjoined continents. The east coast and central australia is home to hundreds of species of acacia which have varying amounts and types of tryptamines. These trees are so common that the eastern seaboard of australia is considered a natural hot-bed of tryptamines.  The medicine is there, waiting to be explored.. or perhaps it is part of a bigger picture. The south american toad bufo marinus has bufotenin, a form of dimethyltryptamine in its venom. Since it’s introduction to australia in 1940, bufo marinus a.k.a the cane toad has been running rampant through the same area of Australia which is inhabited by the acacia trees which are rich in various forms of dimethyltryptamine. There is a massive amount of tryptamines being produced by nature in this area. It is actually quite amazing how fast this toad has spread through australia, watch it explode in 1970…    Interestingly synchronised with a nation wide movement of surfers and hippies which also moved to the area at the time. Since the 70s these cultures have developed relationships with nature in this area and have explored and integrated the plant tryptamine teachings. Consciousness is operating in harmony as usual.  South America was once joined to Australia, the plants resonate in harmony even now, connected through the mysterious tryptamines they produce. The south american cane toad also producing tryptamines, thrives in it’s new home of australia.  These tryptamines have telepathic effects in humans which also produce dimethyltryptamine in their pineal gland which if left uninhibited by the avoidance of toxins like flouride and mercury is the psychic center of the human brain, the most receptive area to telepathic energy.  By the point of galactic alignment, this area of australia will have the densest coverage of tryptamines coursing through the bodies of the people, the animals, and mostly the plants. At the alignment point, this area of the earth will be exposed to the center of the galaxy, with the least possible energy systems in between to filter and alter the energy source. The source energy beaming from the galactic center into the earth and the vibrational frequency of the tryptamines will resonate at such a volume that a portal will open to a dimension only described by indigenous people as the dream time. 

Tryptamines, the mayan calendar and the entry to the dream time at the point of galactic alignment.

In this post I will attempt to shed some light on an idea which becomes clearer to me with the more perceptual work I do.

The activation of our species has been accelerating for some time leading up to the turn of the galactic tide, the galactic alignment, the 26,000 year grand cycle of the galaxy. 

As the natural mechanisms of reality become more transparent to us and we start to see the cause and effect throughout our entire experience we begin to overcome ever more transparent karmic cycles of spiritual development and journey into unexplored unity consciousness, the absence of everything which feels bad, and the presence of everything which feels good. With this new understanding we realise that our home is in our mind.

One mechanism has become apparent. One which seems to have everything in place, just waiting for the right moment, perhaps a sort of cataclysmic spark to set it in (perpetual) motion.

The fact that all of the earth’s landmass fits together like a jigsaw puzzle would suggest that at some point the earth was a lot smaller and the land was actually one piece. The earth has expanded and the land broke apart, a massive continent was formed. We know it as Gondwana which included africa, south america, australia, india, arabia, antarctica and balkans.

gondwana

With more expansion Gondwana broke apart and the countries have moved to their present positions. A lot of the evolution of the flora and fauna has evolved differently because of the climates in their different planetary locations. 

Colonisation of Australia and the massacres that occurred during that time has caused almost all of the indigenous plant teachings of australia to be forgotten.

Fortunately, the entheogen culture has survived in the dense uninhabitable amazon jungle and the recent few generations of australian students of the ayahuasquero or shaman have extensively tested and studied the plants of australia to find sources of the same tryptamines produced by the south american plants used in ayahuasca which allow the shamans to pass into the dreamtime.

South america and Australia have recently reconnected a deep spiritual relationship through tourism and the awakening offered by ayahuasca which has filtered through into australian culture and the plant teachings have helped to integrate remerging timelines of the inhabitants of the once physically conjoined continents.

The east coast and central australia is home to hundreds of species of acacia which have varying amounts and types of tryptamines. These trees are so common that the eastern seaboard of australia is considered a natural hot-bed of tryptamines.  The medicine is there, waiting to be explored.. or perhaps it is part of a bigger picture.

The south american toad bufo marinus has bufotenin, a form of dimethyltryptamine in its venom. Since it’s introduction to australia in 1940, bufo marinus a.k.a the cane toad has been running rampant through the same area of Australia which is inhabited by the acacia trees which are rich in various forms of dimethyltryptamine. There is a massive amount of tryptamines being produced by nature in this area. It is actually quite amazing how fast this toad has spread through australia, watch it explode in 1970… 

Bufo spread 

Interestingly synchronised with a nation wide movement of surfers and hippies which also moved to the area at the time.

Since the 70s these cultures have developed relationships with nature in this area and have explored and integrated the plant tryptamine teachings. Consciousness is operating in harmony as usual. 

South America was once joined to Australia, the plants resonate in harmony even now, connected through the mysterious tryptamines they produce. The south american cane toad also producing tryptamines, thrives in it’s new home of australia. 

These tryptamines have telepathic effects in humans which also produce dimethyltryptamine in their pineal gland which if left uninhibited by the avoidance of toxins like flouride and mercury is the psychic center of the human brain, the most receptive area to telepathic energy. 

By the point of galactic alignment, this area of australia will have the densest coverage of tryptamines coursing through the bodies of the people, the animals, and mostly the plants. At the alignment point, this area of the earth will be exposed to the center of the galaxy, with the least possible energy systems in between to filter and alter the energy source.

The source energy beaming from the galactic center into the earth and the vibrational frequency of the tryptamines will resonate at such a volume that a portal will open to a dimension only described by indigenous people as the dream time. 

5-hydroxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine a.k.a Bufotenin. This mysterious tryptamine is found in several plants but is commonly known as “toad venom” after its most common natural source, the venom from about 50 different species of common toad, most belonging to the Bufo family. An american toad is pictured above, Bufo alvarius. In Australia, bufotenin can be found hopping all over the east coast in the poison glands of Bufo marinus a.k.a the introduced “cane toad”, pictured: Bufotenin (5-OH- DMT)  DMT and 5-MeO-DMT are some of the main active constituents to the most powerful south american snuff known as yopo which is prepared from the powdered seeds from 4 species of the Anafenanthera genus which is a plant belonging to the pea family native to south America. Anafenanthera seeds can be crushed and smoked and have now become commercially available online and the yopo visions have spread throughout the world. for further reading on bufotenin and snuffs see the J. Ott.’s entry on the sonoran desert toad bufo alvarius, here.


5-hydroxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine a.k.a Bufotenin.

This mysterious tryptamine is found in several plants but is commonly known as “toad venom” after its most common natural source, the venom from about 50 different species of common toad, most belonging to the Bufo family.

An american toad is pictured above, Bufo alvarius. In Australia, bufotenin can be found hopping all over the east coast in the poison glands of Bufo marinus a.k.a the introduced “cane toad”, pictured:

bufo marinus - cane toad

Bufotenin (5-OH- DMT)  DMT and 5-MeO-DMT are some of the main active constituents to the most powerful south american snuff known as yopo which is prepared from the powdered seeds from 4 species of the Anafenanthera genus which is a plant belonging to the pea family native to south America.

Anafenanthera seeds can be crushed and smoked and have now become commercially available online and the yopo visions have spread throughout the world.

for further reading on bufotenin and snuffs see the J. Ott.’s entry on the sonoran desert toad bufo alvarius, here.

Nick Sand, famed LSD chemist who developed “Orange Sunshine” tells of his part in the acid movement of the sixties and beyond in a sizzling conversation… Sand trained with Mazatec mushroom shamaness Maria Sabina and received his first illuminations in cosmic glossalalia with her, deciding to first synthesize psilocybin… When that proved too expensive to produce he turned his hand to DMT, creating the first street use of the tryptamine in the US and turning people on, including Richard Alpert from Millbrook… Sand went on to become the Chief Alchemist for the League of Spiritual Discovery–and was prosecuted for following his religion under his constitutional rights… The rest is history, and a very colorful one at that! Learn the secrets of pizeoluminescent-LSD as the inner light, the sacrifice the acid chemists took personally for their work, how Sand survived life in prison, his Eckhart Tolle connection–and how Richard Milhouse Nixon was dosed with acid, and much, much more in this very provoking interview…

Kratom (Mitragyna speciosa) is a tropical tree growing from 15-50 feet tall (5-15 meters) that is native to Thailand and Malaysia. It has broad, oval leaves that taper to points, yellow flowers that grow in clusters, and winged seeds. The primary active chemicals are mitragynine, mitraphylline, and 7-hydroxymitragynine, all found in the leaves. Kratom leaves have been chewed for stimulant, sedative, and euphoric effects by people in Thailand and South Asia for centuries. They can also be smoked, brewed as a tea, or made into an extract. Kratom use is relatively uncommon in the US and Europe, though it is available in raw and extract-enhanced forms from ethnobotanical vendors. Kratom leaves differ greatly in potency, depending on the type, grade, and freshness. Leaves with green veins are often claimed to be more potent than those with red veins, but there is contradictory evidence. Low doses are around 2-4 g of plain dried leaf, moderate doses are 3-6 g, and strong doses are 5 g or more. When chewed fresh, half of a large leaf (8-10”) is often enough to produce noticeable effects. Kratom is currently uncontrolled in the United States. In 1946 it was made illegal to buy, sell, or grow in Thailand, and in 2005, both M. speciosa and mitragynine were made illegal to buy, sell or possess without a license in Australia. Kratom leaves contain the indole alkaloids mitragynine, mitraphylline, 7-hydroxymitragynine, and numerous other alkaloids, including paynanthine, speciogynine, and speciofoline. Mitragynine has traditionally been cited as the primary active chemical in kratom leaves,  Mitragynine is a partial agonist of the mu- and delta-opioid receptors. This may account for its apparent efficacy in treating opiate withdrawal. Because kratom acts as both a stimulant and a sedative, secondary alkaloids may be pharmacologically important. Kratom grows wild in marshy regions in Asia and the Pacific Rim, especially Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo, and New Guinea. Kratom appears to have been used in Thailand for centuries, recreationally and as an antidiarrhetic. Its use as an opiate substitute in Malaysia was reported in the nineteenth century. Peasants have used it to counteract the tedium of physical labor, similar to the use of coca in South America. The chemistry of its alkaloids was investigated in the 1920s, and mitragynine was isolated in 1923. Kratom leaves became part of the ethnobotanical trade in the United States and Europe in mid 2000. In the early 2000s, stories about the use of kratom to reduce opiod withdrawal effects began circulating on web forums. Kratom is often described as producing simultaneous, contradictory effects. Users report both an opiate-like sedation and coca-like stimulation. The stimulating effects tend to predominate at low dose levels, which may cause alertness, energy, and mild euphoria. Higher doses tend to be more tranquilizing, causing an opiate-like dreamy reverie. Excessive doses can cause severe nausea. Kratom is sometimes used as an opium substitute and has been found to suppress symptoms of opiate withdrawal. As with opium, it is known for causing constipation, and is sometimes used as a treatment for diarrhea. A moderate kratom dose can cause strong effects lasting 2-4 hours, though residual effects can last hours longer. Users sometimes experience an afterglow the next day. Some visual effects are reported, including both open-eye and closed-eye effects, though they are considered fairly mild if they occur at all. Effects reported include wavering, shifting, and strobing in the visual field; some patterning with eyes closed; and increased closed-eye visualizations. Kratom is not known to be toxic, but it can be quite unpleasant at high doses, causing nausea and vomiting. Regular use can lead to physical dependency. Chronic heavy use is reported to cause darkening of skin, insomnia, dry mouth, and anorexia.  Care should be taken if combining with other sedatives (or stimulants) Use extreme caution if combining with MAO inhibitors. Kratom could be dangerous to combine with an MAOI. There are reports of physical dependency after frequent, heavy kratom use. Individuals who use it regularly or in large doses may find it difficult to stop. Withdrawal symptoms include irritability, yawning, diarrhea, runny nose, and pain in the joints or muscles.

Kratom (Mitragyna speciosa) is a tropical tree growing from 15-50 feet tall (5-15 meters) that is native to Thailand and Malaysia. It has broad, oval leaves that taper to points, yellow flowers that grow in clusters, and winged seeds. The primary active chemicals are mitragynine, mitraphylline, and 7-hydroxymitragynine, all found in the leaves. Kratom leaves have been chewed for stimulant, sedative, and euphoric effects by people in Thailand and South Asia for centuries. They can also be smoked, brewed as a tea, or made into an extract. Kratom use is relatively uncommon in the US and Europe, though it is available in raw and extract-enhanced forms from ethnobotanical vendors.

Kratom leaves differ greatly in potency, depending on the type, grade, and freshness. Leaves with green veins are often claimed to be more potent than those with red veins, but there is contradictory evidence. Low doses are around 2-4 g of plain dried leaf, moderate doses are 3-6 g, and strong doses are 5 g or more. When chewed fresh, half of a large leaf (8-10”) is often enough to produce noticeable effects.

Kratom is currently uncontrolled in the United States. In 1946 it was made illegal to buy, sell, or grow in Thailand, and in 2005, both M. speciosa and mitragynine were made illegal to buy, sell or possess without a license in Australia.

Kratom leaves contain the indole alkaloids mitragynine, mitraphylline, 7-hydroxymitragynine, and numerous other alkaloids, including paynanthine, speciogynine, and speciofoline. Mitragynine has traditionally been cited as the primary active chemical in kratom leaves, 

Mitragynine is a partial agonist of the mu- and delta-opioid receptors. This may account for its apparent efficacy in treating opiate withdrawal. Because kratom acts as both a stimulant and a sedative, secondary alkaloids may be pharmacologically important.

Kratom grows wild in marshy regions in Asia and the Pacific Rim, especially Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo, and New Guinea.

Kratom appears to have been used in Thailand for centuries, recreationally and as an antidiarrhetic. Its use as an opiate substitute in Malaysia was reported in the nineteenth century. Peasants have used it to counteract the tedium of physical labor, similar to the use of coca in South America. The chemistry of its alkaloids was investigated in the 1920s, and mitragynine was isolated in 1923. Kratom leaves became part of the ethnobotanical trade in the United States and Europe in mid 2000. In the early 2000s, stories about the use of kratom to reduce opiod withdrawal effects began circulating on web forums.

Kratom is often described as producing simultaneous, contradictory effects. Users report both an opiate-like sedation and coca-like stimulation. The stimulating effects tend to predominate at low dose levels, which may cause alertness, energy, and mild euphoria. Higher doses tend to be more tranquilizing, causing an opiate-like dreamy reverie. Excessive doses can cause severe nausea. Kratom is sometimes used as an opium substitute and has been found to suppress symptoms of opiate withdrawal. As with opium, it is known for causing constipation, and is sometimes used as a treatment for diarrhea.

A moderate kratom dose can cause strong effects lasting 2-4 hours, though residual effects can last hours longer. Users sometimes experience an afterglow the next day.

Some visual effects are reported, including both open-eye and closed-eye effects, though they are considered fairly mild if they occur at all. Effects reported include wavering, shifting, and strobing in the visual field; some patterning with eyes closed; and increased closed-eye visualizations.

Kratom is not known to be toxic, but it can be quite unpleasant at high doses, causing nausea and vomiting. Regular use can lead to physical dependency. Chronic heavy use is reported to cause darkening of skin, insomnia, dry mouth, and anorexia. 

Care should be taken if combining with other sedatives (or stimulants) Use extreme caution if combining with MAO inhibitors. Kratom could be dangerous to combine with an MAOI.

There are reports of physical dependency after frequent, heavy kratom use. Individuals who use it regularly or in large doses may find it difficult to stop. Withdrawal symptoms include irritability, yawning, diarrhea, runny nose, and pain in the joints or muscles.

Erythroxylum Coca shrubs grow wild in much of South America, growing to heights of 12 to 18 feet, although cultivated plants are usually kept at about 6 feet. There are over one hundred species of coca shrubs although only two are used for chewing. The pictured strain is called the Bolivian leaf (Erythroxylon coca) and the other chewing  strain is the Peruvian leaf (Erythroxylon novogranatense). This plant is resistant to drought and disease, and doesn’t need irrigation. The delicate tea-like leaves of the coca plant can be harvested four times a year for almost 50 years. Coca grows best in the moist climate of the Andes mountains at elevations of 4,500 to 6,000 feet. Early South American folklore accredits the appearance of coca to different deities. One of the earliest known legends on the origin of coca was recorded by investigators of the Viceroy Toledo in 1571 in their Informacion of Inca history In answering questions about the shrub, the native elders invariably told the same story. From what they had heard, the native people recalled, before coca was a shrub it was a beautiful woman. Discovered to be an adultress, she was executed, cut in half, and buried as a seed would be planted. From part of her severed body, a shrub, which became known as macoca and coca-mana,began to grow and blossom. Only men were permitted to pick its leaves, placing them in their pouches. It was soon learned that the pouches could be opened to take coca only after copulation, which was to be performed in the memory of the beautiful but dismembered adultress. Freud cited a legend of the Aymaran tribe in which Khuno, the god of snow and storm, angrily burned the land of all vegetation but the coca plant. The people ate the leaves to relieve their hunger, and found that it also helped them endure the cold. Two other legends come from the Inca period attributing divine origin to the plant. According to one legend, the plant was a gift from the sun god Inti who instructed the moon mother Moma Quilla to plant the coca in the moist valleys of the Andes. It was to only be used by the Incas, as they were the descendants of the gods, to give them endurance to perform their earthly functions. The other and more famous legend involves Manco Capac, the son of god and his sister-wife Mama Oello the founders of the Inca empire. Legend says that they brought the culture of agriculture and the made the coca plant a present to the Incans for their hard labor. It was considered a divine plant which satiates the hungry, strengthens the weak, and causes those who chew it to forget their misfortunes. Coca leaves have been chewed by South American people for many thousands of years to induce a mild, long-lasting euphoria. The Incas venerated coca .They used it in ceremonies and initiation rites. In the Inca period, the leaf was a sacrement. The invading Spanish conquistadors believed that the herb was so nutritious and invigorating that the native slaves labored whole days without anything else. The Spanish also needed native labor in their silver mines. Work in the mines was extremely arduous, and taking coca reduces appetite and increases physical stamina. Therefore there was a great surge in coca use and the number of coqueros (coca-chewers). Coca has been used for ages as a food substitute, a stimulant, a medicine, as an aphrodisiac, a means to stay warm, and as a measure of distance. An important factor in the spread of coca-chewing among  south american native people was due to a need for a food substitute when the Incan agricultural economy broke down due to inter tribal wars. Nutritional analysis shows that 100 grams of coca leaves contain 305 calories, 18.9 grams of protein, and 46.2 grams of carbohydrates, and satisfies the recommended dietary allowances for calcium, iron, phosphorus, and vitamins A, B, C, and E.  As a medicinal herb, coca has been used in treating a variety of ailments and diseases. Generally applied by shamans, they are applied in rites and ceremonies. Studies show that coca have peripheral vasoconstrictive effects that reduces the amount of heat loss through the extremities and produces a higher central body temperature keeping the user warmer. Coca was also used a measurement of distance or the time it took to chew a quid of coca, the equivalent of about forty minutes of two level miles. The chewing of coca is a well-defined practice that has changed little over the centuries. First, the coquero takes several coca leaves from a chuspa, a baglike container. The midribs of the leaves are removed and placed in the side of the mouth. More leaves are added until a quid or plug is formed. From a poporo, a small container carried in or attached to the chuspa, a limestone substance is removed and added to the quid in the mouth. Coca de mate a tea made from the leaves is also popular. Drinking coca tea tends to soothe the stomach and is good for digestive problems. Cocaine sulphate is also popular. The sulphate is the intermediate stage between the coca leaf and the finished cocaine hydrochloride crystal. Coca leaves are put into plastic pits with a solution of water and sulphuric acid. A bare-footed man will mash the mixture with his feet. Angelo Mariani, a Corsican, developed the first widespread popular drink using coca leaves. Known as Vin Mariani, it was introduced to the public in 1863 and became a runaway success in America and Europe.Vin Mariani was advertised and apparently used for treating a variety of illnesses, and quickly became the world’s most popular prescription Mariani used a variety of celebrities to endorse his product including: Fredric Auguste Bartholdi (statue of liberty sculptor), Anatole France, Henrik Ibsen, Jules Verne, Alexander Dumas, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Robert Louis Stephenson (all writers).Vin Mariani was also celebrated by royal and religious figures including: Queen Victoria, King George, The Grand Rabbi of France Zadoc Kahn, Pope Pius X, and Pope Leo XIII. President McKinley was also reported to having used it. John Styth Pemberton of Atlanta Georgia, a chemist came up with the world famous Coca Cola. He based his original drink on Vin Mariani. ‘Pemberton’s French wine coca’ proved to be very popular with Americans.  When Atlanta introduced Prohibition in 1886, Pemberton had to replace the wine in his recipe with sugar syrup, and the wine became ‘Coca-Cola: the temperence drink’.  In 1904, manufacturers were forced to remove the cocaine from Coca-Cola.  Until 1904 the typical serving contained around 60mg of cocaine.  Sold today, it still contains an extract of coca-leaves, importing eight tons a year, however there is only caffeine and sugar to stimulate the drinker.

Erythroxylum Coca shrubs grow wild in much of South America, growing to heights of 12 to 18 feet, although cultivated plants are usually kept at about 6 feet. There are over one hundred species of coca shrubs although only two are used for chewing.

The pictured strain is called the Bolivian leaf (Erythroxylon coca) and the other chewing  strain is the Peruvian leaf (Erythroxylon novogranatense). This plant is resistant to drought and disease, and doesn’t need irrigation. The delicate tea-like leaves of the coca plant can be harvested four times a year for almost 50 years. Coca grows best in the moist climate of the Andes mountains at elevations of 4,500 to 6,000 feet.

Early South American folklore accredits the appearance of coca to different deities. One of the earliest known legends on the origin of coca was recorded by investigators of the Viceroy Toledo in 1571 in their Informacion of Inca history In answering questions about the shrub, the native elders invariably told the same story.

From what they had heard, the native people recalled, before coca was a shrub it was a beautiful woman. Discovered to be an adultress, she was executed, cut in half, and buried as a seed would be planted. From part of her severed body, a shrub, which became known as macoca and coca-mana,began to grow and blossom. Only men were permitted to pick its leaves, placing them in their pouches.

It was soon learned that the pouches could be opened to take coca only after copulation, which was to be performed in the memory of the beautiful but dismembered adultress. Freud cited a legend of the Aymaran tribe in which Khuno, the god of snow and storm, angrily burned the land of all vegetation but the coca plant. The people ate the leaves to relieve their hunger, and found that it also helped them endure the cold.

Two other legends come from the Inca period attributing divine origin to the plant. According to one legend, the plant was a gift from the sun god Inti who instructed the moon mother Moma Quilla to plant the coca in the moist valleys of the Andes. It was to only be used by the Incas, as they were the descendants of the gods, to give them endurance to perform their earthly functions. The other and more famous legend involves Manco Capac, the son of god and his sister-wife Mama Oello the founders of the Inca empire. Legend says that they brought the culture of agriculture and the made the coca plant a present to the Incans for their hard labor. It was considered a divine plant which satiates the hungry, strengthens the weak, and causes those who chew it to forget their misfortunes.

Coca leaves have been chewed by South American people for many thousands of years to induce a mild, long-lasting euphoria. The Incas venerated coca .They used it in ceremonies and initiation rites. In the Inca period, the leaf was a sacrement.

The invading Spanish conquistadors believed that the herb was so nutritious and invigorating that the native slaves labored whole days without anything else. The Spanish also needed native labor in their silver mines. Work in the mines was extremely arduous, and taking coca reduces appetite and increases physical stamina. Therefore there was a great surge in coca use and the number of coqueros (coca-chewers). Coca has been used for ages as a food substitute, a stimulant, a medicine, as an aphrodisiac, a means to stay warm, and as a measure of distance.

An important factor in the spread of coca-chewing among  south american native people was due to a need for a food substitute when the Incan agricultural economy broke down due to inter tribal wars. Nutritional analysis shows that 100 grams of coca leaves contain 305 calories, 18.9 grams of protein, and 46.2 grams of carbohydrates, and satisfies the recommended dietary allowances for calcium, iron, phosphorus, and vitamins A, B, C, and E. 

As a medicinal herb, coca has been used in treating a variety of ailments and diseases. Generally applied by shamans, they are applied in rites and ceremonies. Studies show that coca have peripheral vasoconstrictive effects that reduces the amount of heat loss through the extremities and produces a higher central body temperature keeping the user warmer.

Coca was also used a measurement of distance or the time it took to chew a quid of coca, the equivalent of about forty minutes of two level miles. The chewing of coca is a well-defined practice that has changed little over the centuries. First, the coquero takes several coca leaves from a chuspa, a baglike container. The midribs of the leaves are removed and placed in the side of the mouth. More leaves are added until a quid or plug is formed. From a poporo, a small container carried in or attached to the chuspa, a limestone substance is removed and added to the quid in the mouth.

Coca de mate a tea made from the leaves is also popular. Drinking coca tea tends to soothe the stomach and is good for digestive problems. Cocaine sulphate is also popular. The sulphate is the intermediate stage between the coca leaf and the finished cocaine hydrochloride crystal. Coca leaves are put into plastic pits with a solution of water and sulphuric acid. A bare-footed man will mash the mixture with his feet.

Angelo Mariani, a Corsican, developed the first widespread popular drink using coca leaves. Known as Vin Mariani, it was introduced to the public in 1863 and became a runaway success in America and Europe.Vin Mariani was advertised and apparently used for treating a variety of illnesses, and quickly became the world’s most popular prescription Mariani used a variety of celebrities to endorse his product including: Fredric Auguste Bartholdi (statue of liberty sculptor), Anatole France, Henrik Ibsen, Jules Verne, Alexander Dumas, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Robert Louis Stephenson (all writers).Vin Mariani was also celebrated by royal and religious figures including: Queen Victoria, King George, The Grand Rabbi of France Zadoc Kahn, Pope Pius X, and Pope Leo XIII. President McKinley was also reported to having used it.

John Styth Pemberton of Atlanta Georgia, a chemist came up with the world famous Coca Cola. He based his original drink on Vin Mariani. ‘Pemberton’s French wine coca’ proved to be very popular with Americans.  When Atlanta introduced Prohibition in 1886, Pemberton had to replace the wine in his recipe with sugar syrup, and the wine became ‘Coca-Cola: the temperence drink’.  In 1904, manufacturers were forced to remove the cocaine from Coca-Cola.  Until 1904 the typical serving contained around 60mg of cocaine.  Sold today, it still contains an extract of coca-leaves, importing eight tons a year, however there is only caffeine and sugar to stimulate the drinker.

It’s hard to believe there could be so many posts on this blog but still no mention of the human races favourite entheogen, the most popular drug on the planet, that’s right it’s time to talk about Cannabis.  The history of this plant has been skewed by the suppression of credible scientific research and there is a plethora of myths and stigmas surrounding cannabis, the most obvious example is in its most common name “Marijuana” which is the common spanish or mexican name for it. The scientific name Cannabis was culturally abandoned by the U.S.A and the name marijuana was was adapted by R. Nixon on account of the advise given by H. Anslinger with the intention of giving the plant a ‘latino’ image to keep the voting white public (remembering the common racial separation in america at this time) interested in the booming pharmaceutical opiate market which could provide some of the benefits of the cannabis plant but produce a much higher profit. Indica and Sativa are the two main varieties of the cannabis plant. There are many strains that are crosses of those two varieties. Within each of those varieties and crosses there are a huge number of individual strains, each with a different cannabinoid profile and effect. Cannabinoids are the chemical constituents in the cannabis plant. The human body has custom cannabinoids receptors which are specifically designed to integrate these compounds when consumed, which starts for most humans at birth as cannabinoids are found in human breast milk. The cannabinoid receptors are the most common receptor in the human brain and some of their roles are to regulate growth, metabolism and manage energy but also to manage tumors and the removal of malignant cells which could become tumorous. When consumed the cannabinoids in the cannabis plant effectively seek out and bond with the already existing cannabinoid network in the body and strengthen the system.  According to anecdotal evidence, the Indica strains are a relaxant, effective for anxiety, pain, nausea, appetite stimulation, sleep, muscle spasms and tremors, among other symptoms. The Sativa strains are more of a stimulant, effective in appetite stimulation, relieving depression, migraines, pain and nausea. We are now aware of specific strains that are effective for specific conditions and symptoms. Currently pharmaceutical companies are funding research into the medical benefits of the non controlled components of the cannabis plant. It is a grey area in the law that is being exploited to a degree, but in order for research to really move forward into profit and medicinal heaven the plant really needs to be reclassified legally. Here is a chart with the known pharmacological actions of non-psychotropic cannabinoids Cannabis seeds are high in nutrients and there are many online vendors and health stores which stock cannabis seed hair and skin products or cold pressed cannabis seed oil which contains no psychotropic substances but does contains over 80%  polyunsaturated essential fatty acids and boasts the optimum omega 6 and omega 3 ratio of 3:1 Gamma Linolenic acid, Stearidonic Acid, Omega 9 and all 9 amino acids which are essential building blocks and penetrate the skin to replenish lost oils.   It also contains vitamins A1, B1, B2, B3, B6, C, D, & E. Potassium, Calcium, Chlorophyll, Magnesium, Iron, Phosphorus and Zinc. All of these nutrients can be easily absorbed through the skin and the oil doesn’t need to be ingested. Lariese is the only brand I know which sells a drinkable hemp seed oil and in my opinion it is liquid gold or as quoted from the bottle “the most perfectly balanced oil in nature”. On a biological level the cannabanoid system in the body of humans and other mammals would suggest that over the course of our evolution we have been consuming cannabinoids in some form for at least 600 million years but here is some of the known history of man’s oldest cultivated plant which is likely to have been first cultivated for food. Cannabis is an Asiatic plant and probably first grew in a widespread area of temperate Asia, from the Caucasus Mountains and Caspian Sea to Eastern Asia. Specimens have been found by archaeologist that are 3,000 to 4,000 years old at an Egyptian site. Hemp fabrics have been excavated from sites located near Ankara, Turkey, dated in the 8th Century B.C. (Schultes, 1970). Cannabis was also harvested in Palestine and Mesopotamia at the time of Christ. The oldest evidence of Cannabis is 6000 years old, and comes from a coarse cloth of hemp fiber that was found in some of the oldest sites of human habituation in Asia. Even though Cannabis is noted as being cultivated during the time of Christ, there is no evidence that it was a major plant before the Christian era. However, from 500 A.D. onward its significance as an ethnobotanical is well noted. With respect to the first archaeological evidence found in China, the Cannabis plant probably had numerous uses in ancient times. Once cultivation occurred, Cannabis became an extremely important plant. In fact the cultivated fields were called “land of mulberry and hemp”. The mulberry plants fed the silkworms that produced silk while the hemp plants produced textile fibers in mass numbers. From the standpoint of textile fibers, three centers can be recognized in the ancient Old World: the linen culture in the Mediterranean region, the cotton culture in India, and the hemp culture in Eastern Asia. Hemp fibers were used to make various things from ropes to fishing nets. Hemp clothes were also used to mourn the death of parents. Another important role of the Cannabis fiber is its use in making paper. The oldest existing paper made of hemp was discovered in a grave in Shensi province that dates before the reign of Emperor Wu of the Early Han dynasty (Hui-Lin Li, 1975). Fiber is not the only ancient use of this plant, it was also an important food plant. It was formerly listed as one of the five major grains along with millet, rice, barley, and soybeans. Later on during the 6th Century A.D., oil was extracted from the seeds. After awhile the grain was forgotten all together because other cereal crops came along. Cannabis was also known for having medicinal properties. The drug was used as a cure for various diseases, and as an effective pain killer. Sometime between 110 and 207 A.D., a famous physician, Hua T’o, used hemp boiled with wine to anesthetize his patients during surgical operations on abdominal organs. Other medical uses of the hemp plant include blood clearing, relieving temperature, undoing rheumatism, and discharging of puss. The Chinese finally discontinued the use of Cannabis for medical purposes because they did not like the altered states of consciousness. Later pharmacopoeias repeated or confirmed the properties of Cannabis but indicated that the plant was rarely used, and then only by necromancers for its hallucinogenic effect (Hui-Lin Li, 1975). There are numerous uses for Cannabis in various cultures. A Mexican Indian tribe uses a variety of marihuana, which they call la santa rosa, in their religious ceremonies (Williams-Garcia, 1975). They chew the leaves and they claim that it makes them speak to the gods freely. Cultural groups in a Columbian Municipio, use C. sativa in numerous ways, including for medical purposes. For example, they soak Cannabis in rum and apply it to the skin for pain of the joints and muscles. And, sometimes Cannabis is smoked to reduce fatigue and augment sexual intercourse, or to relax and socialize with friends (Partridge, 1975). I’d like to finish this post with some information on the extract which is made purely for psychotropic effects; hashish! Making hash is an ancient art. The first proto-human who rubbed her fingers together after handling a mature cannabis bud was making hash in much the same way it is made today. Although the process of removing the resins from cannabis have become more refined, the essence has remained unchanged for millennia. Making hash is the process of extracting and preserving the psychoactive resins from the cannabis plant. These resins are found primarily on tiny glands called trichomes, which under a magnifying glass look like mushrooms - a head on top of a stalk. These trichomes are part of what gives cannabis buds their “frosty” appearance. Trichomes are most heavily concentrated in the flowering buds of mature female cannabis, but smaller amounts can be found in the leaves and trim of both male and female plants. The leaves and trim are usually unpleasant to smoke and therefore discarded, but they contain upwards of 10% of the plant’s total resin production, and throwing this away is a waste of potentially potent plant material. Home-made hash is becoming an increasingly popular way for ganja gardeners to maximize their harvest, and produce something a little different and special compared to the same old big bags of bud! This article outlines some of the most popular and easy ways to make hash. We have not included techniques that would require solvents like alcohol or isopropynol. There are many ways to make hash. Flat screening and blender hash are relatively easy and inexpensive, but the final product will contain more contaminates than drum machine and bubble bag hash, which require some financial investment. No matter the method, hash makes great use of scraps. THC levels vary in different plant strains, but the most potent hash is one made entirely of gland heads. Most hash contains gland heads and stalk as well as contaminates. Contaminates, whether vegetable matter or otherwise, lower the potency. Terence McKenna said in the mid 1980s he came across some hash that had been mixed with cow manure and then infected with magic mushroom spores and all the manure was turned to mycelium which is active in the stages just before fruition and was apparently the finest hash he ever smoked. 

It’s hard to believe there could be so many posts on this blog but still no mention of the human races favourite entheogen, the most popular drug on the planet, that’s right it’s time to talk about Cannabis. 

The history of this plant has been skewed by the suppression of credible scientific research and there is a plethora of myths and stigmas surrounding cannabis, the most obvious example is in its most common name “Marijuana” which is the common spanish or mexican name for it. The scientific name Cannabis was culturally abandoned by the U.S.A and the name marijuana was was adapted by R. Nixon on account of the advise given by H. Anslinger with the intention of giving the plant a ‘latino’ image to keep the voting white public (remembering the common racial separation in america at this time) interested in the booming pharmaceutical opiate market which could provide some of the benefits of the cannabis plant but produce a much higher profit.

Indica and Sativa are the two main varieties of the cannabis plant. There are many strains that are crosses of those two varieties. Within each of those varieties and crosses there are a huge number of individual strains, each with a different cannabinoid profile and effect. Cannabinoids are the chemical constituents in the cannabis plant. The human body has custom cannabinoids receptors which are specifically designed to integrate these compounds when consumed, which starts for most humans at birth as cannabinoids are found in human breast milk. The cannabinoid receptors are the most common receptor in the human brain and some of their roles are to regulate growth, metabolism and manage energy but also to manage tumors and the removal of malignant cells which could become tumorous. When consumed the cannabinoids in the cannabis plant effectively seek out and bond with the already existing cannabinoid network in the body and strengthen the system.  According to anecdotal evidence, the Indica strains are a relaxant, effective for anxiety, pain, nausea, appetite stimulation, sleep, muscle spasms and tremors, among other symptoms. The Sativa strains are more of a stimulant, effective in appetite stimulation, relieving depression, migraines, pain and nausea. We are now aware of specific strains that are effective for specific conditions and symptoms.

Currently pharmaceutical companies are funding research into the medical benefits of the non controlled components of the cannabis plant. It is a grey area in the law that is being exploited to a degree, but in order for research to really move forward into profit and medicinal heaven the plant really needs to be reclassified legally.

Here is a chart with the known pharmacological actions of non-psychotropic cannabinoids actions of cannabinoids

Cannabis seeds are high in nutrients and there are many online vendors and health stores which stock cannabis seed hair and skin products or cold pressed cannabis seed oil which contains no psychotropic substances but does contains over 80%  polyunsaturated essential fatty acids and boasts the optimum omega 6 and omega 3 ratio of 3:1 Gamma Linolenic acid, Stearidonic Acid, Omega 9 and all 9 amino acids which are essential building blocks and penetrate the skin to replenish lost oils.  

It also contains vitamins A1, B1, B2, B3, B6, C, D, & E. Potassium, Calcium, Chlorophyll, Magnesium, Iron, Phosphorus and Zinc. All of these nutrients can be easily absorbed through the skin and the oil doesn’t need to be ingested. Lariese is the only brand I know which sells a drinkable hemp seed oil and in my opinion it is liquid gold or as quoted from the bottle “the most perfectly balanced oil in nature”.

On a biological level the cannabanoid system in the body of humans and other mammals would suggest that over the course of our evolution we have been consuming cannabinoids in some form for at least 600 million years but here is some of the known history of man’s oldest cultivated plant which is likely to have been first cultivated for food.

Cannabis is an Asiatic plant and probably first grew in a widespread area of temperate Asia, from the Caucasus Mountains and Caspian Sea to Eastern Asia. Specimens have been found by archaeologist that are 3,000 to 4,000 years old at an Egyptian site. Hemp fabrics have been excavated from sites located near Ankara, Turkey, dated in the 8th Century B.C. (Schultes, 1970). Cannabis was also harvested in Palestine and Mesopotamia at the time of Christ.

The oldest evidence of Cannabis is 6000 years old, and comes from a coarse cloth of hemp fiber that was found in some of the oldest sites of human habituation in Asia. Even though Cannabis is noted as being cultivated during the time of Christ, there is no evidence that it was a major plant before the Christian era. However, from 500 A.D. onward its significance as an ethnobotanical is well noted. With respect to the first archaeological evidence found in China, the Cannabis plant probably had numerous uses in ancient times. Once cultivation occurred, Cannabis became an extremely important plant. In fact the cultivated fields were called “land of mulberry and hemp”. The mulberry plants fed the silkworms that produced silk while the hemp plants produced textile fibers in mass numbers. From the standpoint of textile fibers, three centers can be recognized in the ancient Old World: the linen culture in the Mediterranean region, the cotton culture in India, and the hemp culture in Eastern Asia. Hemp fibers were used to make various things from ropes to fishing nets. Hemp clothes were also used to mourn the death of parents.

Another important role of the Cannabis fiber is its use in making paper. The oldest existing paper made of hemp was discovered in a grave in Shensi province that dates before the reign of Emperor Wu of the Early Han dynasty (Hui-Lin Li, 1975). Fiber is not the only ancient use of this plant, it was also an important food plant. It was formerly listed as one of the five major grains along with millet, rice, barley, and soybeans. Later on during the 6th Century A.D., oil was extracted from the seeds. After awhile the grain was forgotten all together because other cereal crops came along.

Cannabis was also known for having medicinal properties. The drug was used as a cure for various diseases, and as an effective pain killer. Sometime between 110 and 207 A.D., a famous physician, Hua T’o, used hemp boiled with wine to anesthetize his patients during surgical operations on abdominal organs. Other medical uses of the hemp plant include blood clearing, relieving temperature, undoing rheumatism, and discharging of puss.

The Chinese finally discontinued the use of Cannabis for medical purposes because they did not like the altered states of consciousness. Later pharmacopoeias repeated or confirmed the properties of Cannabis but indicated that the plant was rarely used, and then only by necromancers for its hallucinogenic effect (Hui-Lin Li, 1975). There are numerous uses for Cannabis in various cultures. A Mexican Indian tribe uses a variety of marihuana, which they call la santa rosa, in their religious ceremonies (Williams-Garcia, 1975). They chew the leaves and they claim that it makes them speak to the gods freely. Cultural groups in a Columbian Municipio, use C. sativa in numerous ways, including for medical purposes. For example, they soak Cannabis in rum and apply it to the skin for pain of the joints and muscles. And, sometimes Cannabis is smoked to reduce fatigue and augment sexual intercourse, or to relax and socialize with friends (Partridge, 1975).

I’d like to finish this post with some information on the extract which is made purely for psychotropic effects; hashish! Making hash is an ancient art. The first proto-human who rubbed her fingers together after handling a mature cannabis bud was making hash in much the same way it is made today. Although the process of removing the resins from cannabis have become more refined, the essence has remained unchanged for millennia. Making hash is the process of extracting and preserving the psychoactive resins from the cannabis plant. These resins are found primarily on tiny glands called trichomes, which under a magnifying glass look like mushrooms - a head on top of a stalk. These trichomes are part of what gives cannabis buds their “frosty” appearance.

Trichomes are most heavily concentrated in the flowering buds of mature female cannabis, but smaller amounts can be found in the leaves and trim of both male and female plants. The leaves and trim are usually unpleasant to smoke and therefore discarded, but they contain upwards of 10% of the plant’s total resin production, and throwing this away is a waste of potentially potent plant material.

Home-made hash is becoming an increasingly popular way for ganja gardeners to maximize their harvest, and produce something a little different and special compared to the same old big bags of bud! This article outlines some of the most popular and easy ways to make hash. We have not included techniques that would require solvents like alcohol or isopropynol. There are many ways to make hash. Flat screening and blender hash are relatively easy and inexpensive, but the final product will contain more contaminates than drum machine and bubble bag hash, which require some financial investment. No matter the method, hash makes great use of scraps.

THC levels vary in different plant strains, but the most potent hash is one made entirely of gland heads. Most hash contains gland heads and stalk as well as contaminates. Contaminates, whether vegetable matter or otherwise, lower the potency.

Terence McKenna said in the mid 1980s he came across some hash that had been mixed with cow manure and then infected with magic mushroom spores and all the manure was turned to mycelium which is active in the stages just before fruition and was apparently the finest hash he ever smoked. 

It doesn’t matter where on the planet or in time you look at entheogens, DMT is an extremely common reoccurring chemical constituent in some form. As an extract in the picture above it can be vaporized and inhaled to produce relatively short lived yet extremely intense psychedelic effects, perhaps the most profound dislocation of reality one can undergo.   When mixed with naturally occurring or modernly-synthesized mono amine oxidase inhibitors, DMT becomes orally active and this is the ancient way of the visionary. Ayahuascero or shamans use different plants to prepare the brew known as ayahuasca which contains the chemical cocktail. Sophisticated plants like fungi have evolved to produce both the maoi and tryptamine properties making them orally active in their own right! When used orally the experience is far more drawn out, but no less intense.  NN-Dimethyltryptamine or DMT is a psychedelic compound naturally occurring in thousands of plants and animals including humans. It is one of the most powerful yet mysterious psychedelics and because the experience is so profound it seems as though classifying DMT as merely a drug would be doing it a great injustice as DMT seems to act as a trans dimensional key into places and vistas so profound and awe inspiring that it raises many new questions regarding the nature of reality and our place within it. The experience almost always entirely escapes logical comprehension or effective explanation via means of language. DMT is molecularly similar to serotonin, the naturally occurring neurotransmitter that psychedelics affect so widely. The pharmacology of DMT is similar to that of other well known psychedelics. It affects receptor sites for serotonin in much the same way that LSD, psilocybin, and mescaline do. These serotonin receptors are widespread throughout the body and can be found in blood vessels, muscle, glands, and skin.   The human body produces DMT by absorbing sunlight through the skin and converting this energy to melanin. When one is in a dark space such as in bed at night the melanin starts converting to melatonin which is then converted to DMT in the pineal gland and plays a significant but not very well understood roll in our dreams. The Pineal gland or third eye acts as a light receptor in this way sort of like an eye behind a series of biological filters. The pineal gland is in the exact geometric center of the human brain, right near the pituitary gland which receives prompting chemical messages from the pineal gland and acts as the bodys biological age clock. It seems as though the frequency at which we age is somewhat controlled or influenced by the vibrational frequency and amount of light that we absorb. Speculation aside, the role DMT plays in our bodies and in other biological systems is not yet comprehensively understood. DMT can easily be extracted from many plants as posted in many online guides or ‘teks’ a very simple and common method has been widely adapted which was posted online by “q21q21” Although many methods have been tested, the chemical process has almost always been the same; acidy, basify, extract with solvents, defat, precipitate. A slightly outdated but still commonly used method uses citric or hydrochloric acid to acidify, sodium hydroxide (aka lye or drain cleaner) to basify, then a variety of solvents to defat and extract usually depending entirely on availability.  The new popular method posted by q21q21 has evolved to use relatively safe chemicals most of which can be found at any grocery store. The most obvious benefit is that it removes the risk of extremely painful chemical burns or fire, being that lye is extremely corrosive and in the early days many people had accidents heating solvents because DMT is more easily soluble in warm solvents.  This method can be found all over the internet but it’s source is the DMT-nexus forum. It specifies that powdered mimosa hostilis root bark (most common commercially available source of DMT) is stirred with warm vinegar and water, stirred and kept warm/hot. The safest way to keep it warm or hot through the process is by using two identical plastic bowls, one for the extraction and one which boiling water is cycled through for the extraction bowl to sit in and remain hot. The acidic vinegar, water, and bark is stirred and left to sit for a few hours then a proportionate amount of cooking lime is added which is extremely alkaline and basifies the bark. This is stirred and kept warm like the acid wash for several hours. Then naptha petroleum is added and stirred and kept as hot as possible with only boiling water and no combustible heat source. The solvent is carefully poured off into a glass container and more solvent is added several times and collected into the glass container which is then sealed air tight and let sit in the coldest freezer available for at least 12 hours. The result is a powdered DMT crystal precipitation on the glass dish, the solvent is carefully poured off then completely evaporated and the crystal is scraped up and smoked or ingested with maoi. 

It doesn’t matter where on the planet or in time you look at entheogens, DMT is an extremely common reoccurring chemical constituent in some form. As an extract in the picture above it can be vaporized and inhaled to produce relatively short lived yet extremely intense psychedelic effects, perhaps the most profound dislocation of reality one can undergo.  

When mixed with naturally occurring or modernly-synthesized mono amine oxidase inhibitors, DMT becomes orally active and this is the ancient way of the visionary. Ayahuascero or shamans use different plants to prepare the brew known as ayahuasca which contains the chemical cocktail. Sophisticated plants like fungi have evolved to produce both the maoi and tryptamine properties making them orally active in their own right! When used orally the experience is far more drawn out, but no less intense. 

NN-Dimethyltryptamine or DMT is a psychedelic compound naturally occurring in thousands of plants and animals including humans. It is one of the most powerful yet mysterious psychedelics and because the experience is so profound it seems as though classifying DMT as merely a drug would be doing it a great injustice as DMT seems to act as a trans dimensional key into places and vistas so profound and awe inspiring that it raises many new questions regarding the nature of reality and our place within it. The experience almost always entirely escapes logical comprehension or effective explanation via means of language.

DMT is molecularly similar to serotonin, the naturally occurring neurotransmitter that psychedelics affect so widely. The pharmacology of DMT is similar to that of other well known psychedelics. It affects receptor sites for serotonin in much the same way that LSD, psilocybin, and mescaline do. These serotonin receptors are widespread throughout the body and can be found in blood vessels, muscle, glands, and skin.  

The human body produces DMT by absorbing sunlight through the skin and converting this energy to melanin. When one is in a dark space such as in bed at night the melanin starts converting to melatonin which is then converted to DMT in the pineal gland and plays a significant but not very well understood roll in our dreams. The Pineal gland or third eye acts as a light receptor in this way sort of like an eye behind a series of biological filters.

The pineal gland is in the exact geometric center of the human brain, right near the pituitary gland which receives prompting chemical messages from the pineal gland and acts as the bodys biological age clock. It seems as though the frequency at which we age is somewhat controlled or influenced by the vibrational frequency and amount of light that we absorb. Speculation aside, the role DMT plays in our bodies and in other biological systems is not yet comprehensively understood.


DMT can easily be extracted from many plants as posted in many online guides or ‘teks’ a very simple and common method has been widely adapted which was posted online by “q21q21” 
Although many methods have been tested, the chemical process has almost always been the same; acidy, basify, extract with solvents, defat, precipitate. A slightly outdated but still commonly used method uses citric or hydrochloric acid to acidify, sodium hydroxide (aka lye or drain cleaner) to basify, then a variety of solvents to defat and extract usually depending entirely on availability.  The new popular method posted by q21q21 has evolved to use relatively safe chemicals most of which can be found at any grocery store. The most obvious benefit is that it removes the risk of extremely painful chemical burns or fire, being that lye is extremely corrosive and in the early days many people had accidents heating solvents because DMT is more easily soluble in warm solvents. 

This method can be found all over the internet but it’s source is the DMT-nexus forum. It specifies that powdered mimosa hostilis root bark (most common commercially available source of DMT) is stirred with warm vinegar and water, stirred and kept warm/hot. The safest way to keep it warm or hot through the process is by using two identical plastic bowls, one for the extraction and one which boiling water is cycled through for the extraction bowl to sit in and remain hot. The acidic vinegar, water, and bark is stirred and left to sit for a few hours then a proportionate amount of cooking lime is added which is extremely alkaline and basifies the bark. This is stirred and kept warm like the acid wash for several hours. Then naptha petroleum is added and stirred and kept as hot as possible with only boiling water and no combustible heat source. The solvent is carefully poured off into a glass container and more solvent is added several times and collected into the glass container which is then sealed air tight and let sit in the coldest freezer available for at least 12 hours. The result is a powdered DMT crystal precipitation on the glass dish, the solvent is carefully poured off then completely evaporated and the crystal is scraped up and smoked or ingested with maoi. 

Psilocybe cubensis is a species of psychedelic mushroom whose primary, pharmacologically active constituents are psilocybin and psilocin. They belong to the Strophariaceae family,  are reddish-cinnamon brown to golden brown in color , and bruise bluish/greenish when crushed or dried. Their caps are planar when fully mature, and their gills are andate (horizontally attached to the stem) to andex (slightly indented at the attachment point) depending on the subspecies. The gills are closely spaced and drop dark-brown to blackish spores. Psilocybe cubensis are coprophilic, and colonize the dung of large herbivores, most notably cows and other grazing mammals.(think sacred cows incubating spores and spreading mushrooms over the entire planet- Holy Shit!) They prefer humid grasslands and have been found in tropical and subtropical environments in the Americas and Asia. In the US, they are sometimes found growing wild in the south, generally below the 35th parallel. They have been found in the highlands and river valleys of Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in South America. Psilocybe cubensis is used in spiritual and or healing rituals in Mesoamerica, notably by the Chol and the Lacandon Maya people in southern Mexico. This species was identified as Stropharia cubensis by F.S. Earle in Cuba in 1904 (hence the specific name). It was later identified independently as Naematoloma caerulescens in Tonkin in 1907 by N. Patouillard and as Stropharia cyanescens by W.A. Murrill in 1941 in Florida novelty. These synonyms were later assigned to the species P. cubensis. It was later found throughout U.S. Gulf Coast, Mexico, Central America, South America, West Indies, Thailand, Cambodia, India, and Australia. Psilocin and psilocybin are substances isolated by Albert Hofmann in 1958 in a related species, P. mexicana. All four compounds are presumed hallucinogenic, though it is suspected that baeocystin and norbaeocystin are less psychoactive than psilocybin and psilocin. Psychedelic mushrooms have rich and varied spiritual significance — they have been used in religious ceremonies for centuries. The Aztecs reserved them for their holiest ceremonies and called them Teonancatl (“divine flesh”). Lacandón priests take them in seclusion with “god pots”.  The history is further explained in the first post on this blog here http://entheogenrevival.tumblr.com/post/17599315432/shrooms 

Psilocybe cubensis is a species of psychedelic mushroom whose primary, pharmacologically active constituents are psilocybin and psilocin. They belong to the Strophariaceae family,  are reddish-cinnamon brown to golden brown in color , and bruise bluish/greenish when crushed or dried. Their caps are planar when fully mature, and their gills are andate (horizontally attached to the stem) to andex (slightly indented at the attachment point) depending on the subspecies. The gills are closely spaced and drop dark-brown to blackish spores. Psilocybe cubensis are coprophilic, and colonize the dung of large herbivores, most notably cows and other grazing mammals.(think sacred cows incubating spores and spreading mushrooms over the entire planet- Holy Shit!) They prefer humid grasslands and have been found in tropical and subtropical environments in the Americas and Asia. In the US, they are sometimes found growing wild in the south, generally below the 35th parallel. They have been found in the highlands and river valleys of Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in South America.

Psilocybe cubensis is used in spiritual and or healing rituals in Mesoamerica, notably by the Chol and the Lacandon Maya people in southern Mexico. This species was identified as Stropharia cubensis by F.S. Earle in Cuba in 1904 (hence the specific name). It was later identified independently as Naematoloma caerulescens in Tonkin in 1907 by N. Patouillard and as Stropharia cyanescens by W.A. Murrill in 1941 in Florida novelty. These synonyms were later assigned to the species P. cubensis. It was later found throughout U.S. Gulf Coast, Mexico, Central America, South America, West Indies, Thailand, Cambodia, India, and Australia.

Psilocin and psilocybin are substances isolated by Albert Hofmann in 1958 in a related species, P. mexicana. All four compounds are presumed hallucinogenic, though it is suspected that baeocystin and norbaeocystin are less psychoactive than psilocybin and psilocin.

Psychedelic mushrooms have rich and varied spiritual significance — they have been used in religious ceremonies for centuries. The Aztecs reserved them for their holiest ceremonies and called them Teonancatl (“divine flesh”). Lacandón priests take them in seclusion with “god pots”. 

The history is further explained in the first post on this blog here 
http://entheogenrevival.tumblr.com/post/17599315432/shrooms 

The Mushroom Speaks.

I am old, older than thought in your species, which is itself fifty times older than your history. Though I have been on earth for ages I am from the stars. My home is no one planet, for many worlds scattered through the shining disc of the galaxy have conditions which allow my spores an opportunity for life. The mushroom which you see is the part of my body given to sex thrills and sun bathing, my true body is a fine network of fibers growing through the soil. These networks may cover acres and may have far more connections that the number in a human brain. My mycelial network is nearly immortal, only the sudden toxification of a planet or the explosion of its parent star can wipe me out. By means impossible to explain because of certain misconceptions in your model of reality all my mycelial networks in the galaxy are in hyperlight communication across space and time. The mycelial body is as fragile as a spider’s web but the collective hypermind and memory is a vast historical archive of the career of evolving intelligence on many worlds in our spiral star swarm. Space, you see, is a vast ocean to those hardy life forms that have the ability to reproduce from spores, for spores are covered with the hardest organic substance known. Across the aeons of time and space drift many spore-forming life-forms in suspended animation for millions of years until contact is made with a suitable environment. Few such species are minded, only myself and my recently evolved near relatives have achieved the hyper-communication mode and memory capacity that makes us leading members in the community of galactic intelligence. How the hypercommunication mode operates is a secret which will not be lightly given to man. But the means should be obvious: it is the occurrence of psilocybin and psilocin in the biosynthetic pathways of my living body that opens for me and my symbiots the vision screens to many worlds. You as an individual and man as a species are on the brink of the formation of a symbiotic relationship with my genetic material that will eventually carry humanity and earth into the galactic mainstream of the higher civilizations.

Since it is not easy for you to recognize other varieties of intelligence around you, your most advanced theories of politics and society have advanced only as far as the notion of collectivism. But beyond the cohesion of the members of a species into a single social organism there lie richer and even more baroque evolutionary possibilities. Symbiosis is one of these. Symbiosis is a relation of mutual dependence and positive benefits for both of the species involved. Symbiotic relationships between myself and civilized forms of higher animals have been established many times and in many places throughout the long ages of my development. These relationships have been mutually useful; within my memory is the knowledge of hyperlight drive ships and how to build them. I will trade this knowledge for a free ticket to new worlds around suns younger and more stable than your own. To secure an eternal existence down the long river of cosmic time I again and again offer this agreement to higher beings and thereby have spread throughout the galaxy over the long millennia. A mycelial network has no organs to move the world, no hands; but higher animals with manipulative abilities can become partners with the star knowledge within me and if they act in good faith, return both themselves and their humble mushroom teacher to the million worlds all citizens of our starswarm are heir to. 

From Psilocybin - Magic Mushroom Grower’s Guide
by O.T. Oss & O.N. Oeric

Trichocereus Pachanoi, Echinopsis Pachanoi or commonly called San Pedro, is a fast growing colomnar cactus native to the andes of Peru. It is a very popular ornamental cactus because it has tiny spines and grows about a meter a year almost anywhere dry enough including indoors. The tallest recorded specimen was 12.2 metres (40ft) tall. The cactus blossoms at night with flowers up to 20 centimetres (8 in) in diameter, and rarely it bears red, tasty fruit. San Pedro has a long history of use in traditional south american medicine from Peru to Ecuador. It contains hordenine and it has been shown that hordenine, exhibits an inhibitory action against at least 18 strains of penicillin resistant Staphylococcus bacteria. It also contains 1-2% mescaline dry weight and was the second plant found to contain mescaline after peyote. Mescaline is an interesting hallucinogen in that it is a phenethylamine and has an amphetamine like stimulation effect on the central nervous system. Most hallucinogenic entheogen plants contain tryptamines which act as neurotransmitters and neuromodulators, and tend to be far more visual in experience. Peruvian archaeologist Rosa Fung found san pedro remains rolled into cigar form at the site of Las Aldas which dated back to 2000 BCE.  Today San Pedro is sold cheap, usually 1-4 ft long live cuttings can be purchased as well as seeds all year round from many online vendors. The traditional method of preparation seems to have been left behind by western vision seekers who have developed a method to avoid the bitter taste and nausea experienced by the traditional tea. They only use the waxy green photosynthetic skin, no cores and as little inner flesh as possible, this is chopped and blended with equal parts of water, then boiled for 3 hours, strained then slowly boiled to a dry crusty resin which can be ground up and put into capsules. Another method commonly used today is to simply peel the cactus and scrape the slimy goo on the outer layers and let this dry to a powder of which apparently 1 gram taken orally is sufficient dose. It is recommended that a Mono Amine Oxidase Inhibitor(MAOI) is used with san pedro. Passionflower and Grapefruit are popular choices and seem to reduce the jittery effect of nervous stimulation, while increasing the tranquility and visual experience.

Trichocereus Pachanoi, Echinopsis Pachanoi or commonly called San Pedro, is a fast growing colomnar cactus native to the andes of Peru. It is a very popular ornamental cactus because it has tiny spines and grows about a meter a year almost anywhere dry enough including indoors. The tallest recorded specimen was 12.2 metres (40ft) tall. The cactus blossoms at night with flowers up to 20 centimetres (8 in) in diameter, and rarely it bears red, tasty fruit.

San Pedro has a long history of use in traditional south american medicine from Peru to Ecuador. It contains hordenine and it has been shown that hordenine, exhibits an inhibitory action against at least 18 strains of penicillin resistant Staphylococcus bacteria. It also contains 1-2% mescaline dry weight and was the second plant found to contain mescaline after peyote. Mescaline is an interesting hallucinogen in that it is a phenethylamine and has an amphetamine like stimulation effect on the central nervous system. Most hallucinogenic entheogen plants contain tryptamines which act as neurotransmitters and neuromodulators, and tend to be far more visual in experience.

Peruvian archaeologist Rosa Fung found san pedro remains rolled into cigar form at the site of Las Aldas which dated back to 2000 BCE. 

Today San Pedro is sold cheap, usually 1-4 ft long live cuttings can be purchased as well as seeds all year round from many online vendors. The traditional method of preparation seems to have been left behind by western vision seekers who have developed a method to avoid the bitter taste and nausea experienced by the traditional tea.

They only use the waxy green photosynthetic skin, no cores and as little inner flesh as possible, this is chopped and blended with equal parts of water, then boiled for 3 hours, strained then slowly boiled to a dry crusty resin which can be ground up and put into capsules. Another method commonly used today is to simply peel the cactus and scrape the slimy goo on the outer layers and let this dry to a powder of which apparently 1 gram taken orally is sufficient dose.

It is recommended that a Mono Amine Oxidase Inhibitor(MAOI) is used with san pedro. Passionflower and Grapefruit are popular choices and seem to reduce the jittery effect of nervous stimulation, while increasing the tranquility and visual experience.