The Limitations of Culture ~ Terence McKenna
“We are caged by our cultural programming. Culture is a mass hallucination, and when you step outside the mass hallucination you see it for what it’s worth.” – Terence McKenna
Category: Entheogens
Shamanism ~~ Writers, Scientists, Artists & Musicians are the Shamans of Today
Reconnecting with Nature Effective education must have a large experiential component, I said. Given the current critical imbalance between humans and other species, nature should be a primary area of experiential education. We should balance the abstractions of our classrooms with experiences of the wholeness of living, growing wild things. Following the centuries-old practice of […]
There Are Now 100 Scientific Studies That Prove Cannabis Cures Cancer
Cannabis is a Schedule I drug in the United States. That means the government has designated the plant as having no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse. No accepted medical use? There are scores of studies that say differently. Rick Simpson is a medical marijuana activist, and he has been on a […]
MICRODOSING- HOW THIS REVOLUTIONARY WAY OF USING PSYCHEDELICS IMPROVES MENTAL AND PHYSICAL ABILITIES
Let’s talk about microdosing. Taking sub-perceptual amounts of psychedelics (6-25 microgram LSD, 0.2-0.5 gram dried mushrooms, 50-75 microgram mescaline HCL), while maintaining your daily routine, playing sports, or performing any other activity, has been proven to increase mental capabilities as well as physical ones. Using psychedelics in this low-dose capacity, also referred to aspsycholytic […]
The Modern Shaman: Fierce Love at the Frontier of Madness
By Jack Adam Weber Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Shamans and Revolutionaries don’t preach to the choir, where confirmation bias is high. They go where they are unpopular, to reach those not far from the next step into sanity. But such sanity doesn’t feel like sanity at first. This is called a healing […]
WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS WHEN YOU TAKE AYAHUASCA?
Ayahuasca is a psychedelic brew mostly composed of Banisteriopsis caapi vine and can be combined with various other plants. The natural ingredients to prepare this medicine can only be found in the deepest jungles of South America; the amazons rain forest. For hundreds of years, Indigenous tribes of South America have been using this ancient […]
Quantum Perception and the Recognition of Plant Consciousness
Joseph S. Gallwitz, Contributor Waking Times A tree falls in the forest. If no one is there to hear it, does it still make a sound? Many reductionist scientists, and most open-minded scientists, will say yes, due to the propagation of sound waves. Some quantum researcher may argue that it does not, as the […]
Why Consciousness Expanding Plants are Feared and Deemed Illegal
By Sergey Baranov Guest Writer for Wake Up World The Catalysts for Change I remember a story once shared with me by a person who was a middle aged Russian man who had never had or even heard of psychedelic experiences or higher states of consciousness. He joined our conversation which I had with […]
Psychedelic Spirituality
1st June 2015 By Sergey Baranov Guest Writer for Wake Up World “To fathom hell or soar angelic, just take a pinch of psychedelic.” ~ Humphry Osmond Psychedelic simply means ‘mind manifesting’ (mind = psyche, manifest = delos), a term first sculpted from the clay of words by doctor Hampry Osmand while preparing for the psychiatric conference in 1956. He […]
Magic Mushrooms and the Healing Trip
Kené – Shipibo Vibrational Design
According to the cosmology of the Amazonian Shipibo-Konibo people, the primordial anaconda Ronin, brought the Universe into existence by singing a song that was depicted in the patterns of her skin. This conveys an understanding that existence is essentially comprised of vibrations, encapsulating the connection between the energetic and material worlds and expressing the […]
Entheogens As Tools For Spirituality
MAPS – Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies ICEERS – International Center for Ethnobotanical Education Research & Studies Entheogen’s & Existential Intelligence: The Use of “Plant Teachers” as Cognitive Tools Entheogen The term is derived from two words of ancient Greek, ἔνθεος (entheos) and γενέσθαι (genesthai). The adjective entheos translates to English as “full of […]
Blue Lotus : The Entheogen of Ancient Egypt
For over 3000 years the Blue Lotus was used by priesthood of ancient Egypt for its medicinal properties and as a spiritual sacrament. The Blue Lotus generally produces mild psychoactive effects that are purported to have a “divine” essence, which brings upon the feelings of tranquility and subtle euphoria. Nymphaea caerulea, also known as […]
This is What Shamanism Can Teach Us About Ourselves and Our Future
Art by Amanda Sage Gilbert Ross, Guest Waking Times Shamanism is a topic that is still more prevalent in anthropologic studies than in mainstream discussions of culture and society. For the western psyche, shamanism is a thing of the past, some type of sorcery used in relatively ‘primitive’ societies and cultures. The lack of understanding inherent […]
The Mirror of the Spirit ~~ Ayahuasca documentary by João Meirinhos
Official screenings at: – Kibbutz Bardo (Taipei, TAIWAN) – World Premiere at the World Ayahuasca Conference 2014 (Ibiza, SPAIN) – Chapel Church (Manchester, ENGLAND) – Roots Film Festival (Azores, PORTUGAL) Ayahuasca is a psychedelic brew which has been used for divinatory and healing purposes since, at least, the 16th century. There are now […]
Terence McKenna – Pure Understanding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coLKAWAVsqc
Psychedelics Don’t Harm Mental Health; They Improve It
art by Liuanta BY JASON LOUV Psychedelics like psilocybin mushrooms and LSD not only don’t cause mental health problems, they may actually improve mental health, say Norwegian researchers. Those are the findings by neuroscience researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, who reported that LSD, psilocybin and mescaline not only don’t cause […]
Shadow of the Shaman: 5 Reasons Being a Shaman Sucks
art by Charles Frizzell Gary ‘Z’ McGee, Staff Writer Waking Times “It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one’s steps to the upper air — there’s the rub, the task.” –Virgil Ghost talker? Vision poet? Soothsayer? Oracle? Bridge between […]
Magic Mushrooms Create a Hyperconnected Brain
by Tia Ghose Magic mushrooms may give users trippy experiences by creating a hyperconnected brain. The active ingredient in the psychedelic drug, psilocybin, seems to completely disrupt the normal communication networks in the brain, by connecting “brain regions that don’t normally talk together,” said study co-author Paul Expert, a physicist at King’s College […]
Ayahuasca and the Godhead: An Interview with Wahid Azal of the Fatimiya Sufi Order
by Benton Rooks I had the great honor to talk to Wahid Azal recently, who is a Sufi mystic of the The Fatimiya Sufi Order and an Islamic scholar. Wahid has incorporated ayahuasca and Haoma (MAOI inhibitor Syrian Rue x. Australian DMT containing Acacia bark) into his religious practice. He also introduced me to Henry Corbin’s ideas […]