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Rekindling the Entheogenic Light - by Terence McKenna
from: http://www.gaiamedia.org/content/english/allgemein/main_e_06_medien.html?/content/english/templates_06_medien/medien_e_articles.html 1998 marks the Twentieth Anniversary of the first publication of The Road to Eleusis. Twenty years is long enough...
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2012 and Human Destiny End of the World or Consciousness Revolution? by Stanislav Grof, M.D.
from : http://www.gaiamedia.org/content/english/allgemein/main_e_06_medien.html?/content/english/templates_06_medien/medien_e_articles.html Since the publication of Jose Arguelles’ book The Mayan Factor: Path Beyond Technology (Arguelles 1987) brought...
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Mexico Legalizes Drug Possession
Published: August 21, 2009 in the New York Times MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico enacted a controversial law on Thursday decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and other drugs while encouraging government-financed treatment...
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The Journey Home - by Michael Berman
taken from : http://shamanportal.org How would you feel if someone physically picked you up and deposited you somewhere you didn’t want to be? That’s why it always amazes me that people have he effrontery to do that to animals while pretending they love...
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Marijuana's Active Ingredient Shown to Inhibit Primary Marker of Alzheimer's Disease
Discovery Could Lead to More Effective Treatments LA JOLLA, CA, August 9, 2006 - Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have found that the active ingredient in marijuana, tetrahydrocannabinol or THC, inhibits the formation of amyloid plaque, the...
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Drug Sense favorite Web Links List
OUR FAVORITE WEBLINKS Site Map: http://www.drugsense.org/sitemap.htm An incredible list of hundreds of links including topics, organizations, regions, writers resources, and more. Help by Topic: http://www.mapinc.org/help/ Quick, easy-to-understand instructions...
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The 'Icaro' or Shamanic song
The 'Icaro' or Shamanic song By Dr Jacques Mabit In the Peruvian jungle 'icaro' is the name for the song or melody used by the curanderos (most commonly used term to describe healers) in their rituals. Lacking a literal translation in Spanish, Quechua,...
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LSD on National Geographic TV
LSDs inventor Albert Hofmann called it "medicine for the soul." The Beatles wrote songs about it. Secret military mind control experiments exploited its hallucinogenic powers. Outlawed in 1966, LSD became a street drug and developed a reputation as the...
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In the Beginning: The Birth of a Psychedelic Culture
from : http://www.realitysandwich.com/print/34204 By John Perry Barlow Feature The following is adapted from the Foreword to Birth of a Psychedelic Culture: [1] Conversations about Leary, the Harvard Experiments, Millbrook and the Sixties, by Ram Dass...
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Farther Away from Ordinary Reality
from : http://www.realitysandwich.com/video/dmt_ralph_abraham_anon Mitch Schultz Ralph Abraham PhD, the pioneering mathematician and chaos theorist, discusses the difference between the DMT experience and the LSD experience. This interview was recorded...
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Psychedelic Psychotherapy and Spirituality
by Neal M. Goldsmith, Ph.D. from : http://www.maps.org/research/tenlessons.html The History, Safety and Efficacy of Psychedelics Psychedelic plants and compounds have been used safely for millennia by indigenous peoples. This tradition of shamanic practices...
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Why Music Moves Us
New research explains music's power over human emotions and its benefits to our mental and physical well-being Some scientists conclude that music’s influence over us may be a chance event, arising from its ability to hijack brain systems built for other...
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Nice article from NYtimes on dopamine
from http://www.reuniting.info/node/2750#comment-11829 A note - its important to remember that dopamine is a multi-purpose neurotransmitter. I like this article 'cause it focuses on motivation and learning. And explains that one can have reward (probably...
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Interview about Ayahuasca as Cultural Heritage of Brazil
thanks to Bia Labate posted on her blog : http://bialabate.net Message from Bia: Dear Friends, I am happy to announce our new publication at the International Journal of Transpersonal Studies 53. The title is: "Ayahuasca–From Dangerous Drug to National...
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What is an Altered State of Consciousness?
from:http://www.brainwaving.com/2010/01/22/what-is-an-altered-state-of-consciousness/ Consciousness — POSTED BY Dr. Ralph Metzner on January 22, 2010 at 12:19 pm Brainwaving proudly present the first in a series of articles by Ralph Metzner Ph.D., an...
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Drugs and Culture: New Perspectives
taken from : http://www.ayahuasca.com/news/drugs-and-culture-new-perspectives/ Drugs and Culture: New Perspectives “Drugs are not mere compounds with determined pharmacological properties that can be in essence definitely classified as good or bad. Their...
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Obama nominates medical marijuana obstructionist Michelle Leonhart to become Administrator of the DEA
from : maps.org Sadly, President Obama has nominated Michelle Leonhart, Acting Deputy Administrator of the DEA, to become the permanent Administrator. This is a deep disappointment to MAPS and our allies in the medical marijuana movement. President Bush...
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Fill space with your ‘bliss body’
from : http://newearthrecords.com/blog/index.php/archives/109 This ancient technique, from the Book of Secrets by Osho, is about connecting your very essence – the part of you that has nothing to do with your identity, your personality, the person you...
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Hallucinogens Have Doctors Tuning In Again (NY Times)
from : http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/science/12psychedelics.html?tntemail0=y&emc By JOHN TIERNEY As a retired clinical psychologist, Clark Martin was well acquainted with traditional treatments for depression, but his own case seemed untreatable as...
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Ph D thesis about Ayahuasca Tourism in Iquitos
available from the NEIP at http://www.neip.info/downloads/Fotiou_Ayahuasca_2010.pdf Summary: This dissertation examines the cultural construction of ayahuasca (an Amazonian hallucinogen) and shamanism, their manifestations in the western imagination and...
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D'où viennent les frissons de plaisir en écoutant de la musique?
La Presse, Publié le 09 janvier 2011 à 13h54 | Mis à jour à 13h54 Plaisir abstrait, la musique contribuerait, grâce à la dopamine, au renforcement des émotions, en faisant appel à des notions d'attente (de la prochaine note, d'un motif préféré), de surprise,...
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Materializing morality: religious drug use in Amazonian popular Catholicism (*)
by Matthew Meyer University of Virginia from : www.neip.info This modern world is fascinated with drugs. One might even say that we moderns fetishize drugs—and I mean this in the pejorative sense: we attribute to them magical and agentive powers that...
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Toxicomanies et rituels par Amnon J. Suissa
Source : http://www.unites.uqam.ca/religiologiques/no16/16suissa.html. Piqué sur : http://bibliotheque.liamud.com/fr/index.php Depuis le début des temps, les êtres humains ont cherché dans la manipulation de leur conscience et des états modifiés qui en...
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God did not create the universe...
...the man who is arguably Britain's most famous living scientist says in a forthcoming book. In the new work, The Grand Design, Professor Stephen Hawking argues that the Big Bang, rather than occurring following the intervention of a divine being, was...
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on Mr Roy Ashley and Healing
from : http://quantumlifebodyworks.com/weblog/2010/10/29/on-roy-ashley-and-healing/ by Simon About six weeks ago, I was asked by Liz Thompson, the director of the Sharing Stories project, if it would be possible for me to visit a widely known and respected...