A Really Long Strange Trip

I can honestly say that mushrooms have changed my life in the most positive way. I in an instant understood what quantum physics has been alluding to recently and what religion has preached for centuries. Mushrooms helped me realize that for every human experience there are only three factors one needs to ever concern themselves with. In a nutshell every single humans experience is based on our moment to moment conscious thoughts, our emotions we are currently feeling and our belief system. The entire universe is in fact one large organism, and within it all patterns are self similar. But philosophy aside I can also truthfully say that since the time mushrooms taught me this, it has been literally impossible for me to be upset or stressed out by anything life has to offer, it???s hard to get angry when you realize that your emotions are what create your experience.

I have been using mushrooms for about 5-6 years for cluster headaches and they have been life-saving. When I stay on schedule (every 6 months) I can go 20 months without getting a cycle of CHs. If I forget a dose or under dose (no heightened visual, auditory or sensory perception) the cycle hits me twice a year. I have no idea why mushrooms help, but I'm glad I have them!

Le sourire persuasif de la modernité.

Ici il y a une
grande couleur qui
me prend doucement
dans l'aube de
mes rêves, comme
une frele harmonie
qui rappelle la jeunesse;
et quand le vent
disparaît en donnant
cette poésie, là-bas,
dans mon coeur,
un sourire corporel
invente la tempête.

Francesco Sinibaldi

Did you know that if McCain is elected you will have to pay income tax on the value of the medical insurance that your employer gives you? Worse still, he is offering a tax break for people who pay their own insurance, BUT only $2,500 for individuals and $5,000 for families.

Let's say you have a family of four. Your insurance policy costs would be at least $1,500-2,500 per month under a self-pay plan, which cost more than employer group plans. So, you pay $18,000 -$30,000 per year for insurance, and you get to deduct only $5,000 of that. If you paid $25,000 for you insurance, you would be out of pocket $20,000 per year. This is FAR WORSE than the current system, where if you are self employed you can deduct 100% of you medical insurance costs.

So, if you're not self employed, you would stick with your Employer's plan. Employer plans for a family of four have a value of $900-$1,500 per month totaling 10,800-$18,000 per year. Surprise! On April 15th, you owe tax on all of that as INCOME to you. Say your bracket is 25%, and the value of your Employer medical plan is $14,000. You will OWE THE IRS an additional $3,500, and that's ON TOP of whatever monthly premium you already pay to your employer for your insurance.

Many analysts say that McCain's new rules would encourage employers to stop offering health benefits. If that happened, then far fewer Americans would be insured than are insured today, because what family of four can afford $18,000-$30,000 out of pocket per year for self-pay health insurance?

Furthermore, McCain's plan does not require insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions of people who self-pay their insurance. People under employer group plans have all of their pre-existing conditions covered. This is a hugely unfair aspect of the current system. Insurance companies can afford to cover the pre-existing conditions of the much larger pool of people with group insurance, but they refuse to pay the pre-existing conditions on the smaller pool of self-pay customers. They have been allowed to price gouge the self-pay customers, which is a form of market manipulation that should be illegal.

So let's say one of your kids had diabetes and you have high blood pressure, then your employer stops offering insurance. You now have to buy your own, but you and your child are INELIGIBLE due to pre-existing conditions. Oh, yeah, they will let you buy the insurance, but you can't use it for any pre-existing condition until you have paid on time every month for two years. And you know what happens at one year and 11 months? You get a letter saying your policy has been cancelled. I have many patients this has happened to.

McCain's plan SUCKS.

It does nothing to help middle class working Americans afford or obtain medical insurance. In fact, it makes the current system WORSE.

There is a new psilocybin study underway at Johns Hopkins University that is recruiting volunteers with a past or present diagnosis of cancer. According to Roland Griffiths Ph.D.; "the primary mystical experience might fundamentally change the perception of disease and perhaps quality of life in people distressed by life-threatening diagnoses of cancer." Visit: http://www.bpru.org/cancer/insight/ Or call: 410???550???5990

There is a new psilocybin study underway at Johns Hopkins University that is recruiting volunteers with a past or present diagnosis of cancer. According to Roland Griffiths Ph.D.; "the primary mystical experience might fundamentally change the perception of disease and perhaps quality of life in people distressed by life-threatening diagnoses of cancer." Visit: http://www.bpru.org/cancer/insight/

It looks like the study will only accept a limited number of volunteers so contact the researchers today:

http://www.bpru.org/cancer/insight/

http://www.bpru.org/cancer/spiritual/

Why is there no discussion of LSD use to cure alcoholism in this article? From the reading I have done about the subject it seems that the most successful experiments in the 60's with this stuff was done in Canada and was reported to fully cure 30 percent of alcoholics and help another 30 percent. I believe it was Humphry Osmond who did the research, which included a couple thousand patients.

Why is there no discussion of LSD use to cure alcoholism in this article? From the reading I have done about the subject it seems that the most successful experiments in the 60's with this stuff was done in Canada and was reported to fully cure 30 percent of alcoholics and help another 30 percent. I believe it was Humphry Osmond who did the research, which included a couple thousand patients.

Damn, if the ancients used it to get to an altered state, please where can I get my dose?

Okay, let's look at some history. I actually was involved in the Stanford University testing of LSD and Bio-feedback programs in the 60's. I first had "real" LSD given to me by a person who said: This will not do anything to you. It is a key to unlock your sub-conscience and allow you to alter and visualize your own conceptions.
This it did, indeed! Took 3 weeks to find anyone who even knew about LSD. This person was Stanley Owlesly, and he made the real stuff. Not the bogus product of the late 60's/70's. We went to San francisco and met with Dr. Tim, Alan Ginsburg, and Richard Alpert {Baba-Ram-Dass}. Turn on, tune in and trip!
that is the key: YOU are doing the visioning.
On the Hopi Reservation I partook a sweat and spirit quest using pulque, a mix of peyote, and mushrooms, and did have a remarkable time. I have a more attuned concept of life than most people, and don't understand why they would not want to be "enlightened". I am 56 yrs. old, and still smoke pot regularly.
If the product {LSD} they are testing is truely the original formulation with the original ingrediences, then It will produce the effects it was designed for. It's your trip, make it the way you want. Blame your own mental failings, if you have a bad time. Synthetic derivations are not the way to go. It has to be the real stuff.

The first time I took LSD back in the early 70's I experieinced something so profound it changed the course of my life. I spent the next 10 years presonally invovled in psychedelic research and psychologic and philosophic exploration. I used the drug to overcome many of my personal limitations, both socially and intellectually. I am exstatic to hear that new research is being done in this much maligned field.

Yea you're right, (sorry, I'm listening to wwoz) We could all just be holographic projections of the mind of god, definitely connected.

Consciousness is reality and our egos just plain get in the way. We have Psilocybin to to gently reveal that reality that is hidden behind our egoic minds, if one cannot lift the veil without it. The cancer patients who are ingesting these plants live closer to reality than we normally do with the VH1 and Diet Dr Pepper reality we live in. How can we ignore their testimonials anymore? I have to ask the question, who is afraid of the realization that "we are all connected?" The obvious answer is those same people who preach seperation of any kind. Let go of that false idea (with or without Psilocybin) and see what happens.

The Huichol Indians AKA "Toltecs of the 21st Century"

This is great news for some Cluster headach sufferers

This is great new for Cluster Headache sufferers.