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Reposted from MushroomShaman.com and  Biohacker Labs S ome of the most surprising people are using LSD and other psychedelics in extremely low doses, and the results are most interesting. At the fifth annual Horizons: Perspectives on Psychedelics Conference in New York City in October 2011, pioneering psychedelic researcher Dr. James Fadiman solidified his reemergence as a leading researcher of and advocate for psychedelic substances. Fadiman had done groundbreaking research with LSD up until the very day it was federally banned in 1966, but after that, he retreated into a life of quiet conventionality—at least on the surface. While Fadiman disappeared himself from the public eye for decades, he never did give up him interest in and enthusiasm for psychedelics.  A year before appearing at Horizons, he published his life’s work, The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide , an amazing compendium of hallucinogenic lore, as well as a user’s manual for would-be psychonauts. The book...

I've decided that when I distill all the things that i've experienced in my life...a few stand the #testoftime #Passion #direction. My new goals and choices will be centered around facilitation of these topics or quests for learning/understanding: Chance as expressed through Games (eg Card Games, MTG). Divination and Future Sight or Psychic Awareness. Alchemy and Transmutation (through Spiritual Science Applications and the Discovery of New Methods of Transformation. The Alchemy of Plants, Nature and Mushrooms. Magnetism and Metal (especially conductive metals like Gold). Inter-dimensional Awareness/Other Lives/Karma/Parallel Universe Theory. Magick and the Mysteries of East and West. Shamanism and the practices of talented individuals who break the rules of science to procure knowledge or miracles. I doubt that any of my choices from this point on will exclude these concepts and my long term awareness of their presence in my life. Some experiences include...

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I have a few simple demands from creator this lifetime. I would like to teach and travel doing works of Shamanism and Alchemy I would like to be safe and free of religious persecution during my life of work (on Shamanism and Alchemy) I would like to learn many languages and speak them with friends at a fluent level as I travel and teach. I would like to create several books and learning programs that better people through sharing the things that I've learned throughout my shamanistic working and alchemical projects. I would like to travel to and be safe and prosperous in the countries of Japan, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Mexico, Argentina, Madagascar, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Australia, Wales, and New Zealand. I would like to heal the place of unrest between humans and the environment. I would like create mushroom projects for healing the planet, cleaning the environment and feeding good food to huma...

I'm a great mushroom enthusiast and an admirer of Eco Warriors like Paul Stamets. I felt it necessary to post the following videos explaining how incredible the force of mushrooms are on this planet Earth. Please enjoy my favorite Ted Talk by Mr Stamets:  I believe that this was the first time I ever saw Paul:  This is a great short video on Morel patch making:  Fungi were the first species of life on this planet to come on land from the Ocean of Evolution:  If you enjoyed these videos, please subscribe or send me a comment. Also Paul has some amazing books that I totally recommend. The best book by him that I have read is "Mycelium Running." By the way, there are legal magic mushrooms out there (in the states that is). Check out Gold of Sunshine for the  Amanita Muscaria , a mushroom long steeped in tradition and history. Sincerely, Hugh T Alchemy

On this ever expanding quest to live   the most inspired life , my friends and I are offering amazing services for the holidays plus a Yule Gift for you with purchase of any healing services. During this amazing time of year we are called to be compassionate, loving and to have healing communication with Family and close friends in order to weather to "dark" times before the return of the Sun on the Winter solstice. The Astrology for Changing Times:   Mercury is in Retrograde so it's a time to complete old and unfinished tasks. For many, this retrograde can bring communication breakdowns, technology failures, travel and timing awkwardness. For me and my son, retrograde is time when our luck changes because we were born under Mercury Retro. From Thanksgiving until Jan 1st, Mercury will be in this state of causing confusion in most peoples schedules. Try to be understanding and let go of the communication problems associated with this season. AND IF ALL ELS...

Readers, As a Priest in a Neo-Shamanic Order of Alchemists, often times I am challenged along this path and much of my practice and teaching faces strong tests of faith, courage, and trust. Recently my main student of the OSS 7 day training had an accident in which he chipped his tooth.  Now it's important to know that your subconscious thoughts (and some powerful conscious thoughts) affect your reality and all that comes into your life. So when I received a text message from my student who is very interested in this retreat that he may have to back out due to his dental work, I do what any great teacher with Coyote Medicine (aka Jackal Medicine in Africa) by taking the following perspectives:  What's this text really saying? Where is the fear based creation? Where's the breakthrough? How can I show compassion and still make a stand against this student's fear? What within myself is afraid to teach him? What ritual actions and prayers do I need to make i...

Dear Great Spirit, I am reaching out to you with my thoughts and prayers because lately and several times this year (and last night) I dream of Snakes...venomous snakes with rattles at the end of their tails...many times they don't pose a threat to me...but rather they are stretched out in passage of the landscape on the dreamworld. I feel asleep last night reading about divination and praying as usual (everynight that I sleep in my bedroom) with my emeralds and my stibnite to the coyote spirit of the Money of this Nation of the people of the Corn, and to the wolf spirit of Abundance and Collaboration....I remind myself that the YOU are coming, Great Spirit, to play the game of giving and receiving and prosperity with my person and my passion... ...my tiny twin bed near my bearded dragons terrarium, in my humble room in Cardiff California, blinks in an' out of existence as my eyes draw heavy and my muscles give out...in a last ditch effort (effort! so not taoist of me!) to reac...

To All My Relations, I just recently went for an epic hiking journey to visit my family and Dr. Ralph Metzner. But before I left, I dealt with some epic learnings that as I sip on my Tulsi (Holy Basil) tea today (as it is my new daily habit recommended by my acupuncturist), I reflect and invoke healing towards. Just the other week, I was so stressed and high strung that I had a shock reaction in my acupuncture session (or rather my body did). Often times, this doesn't bother me but rather triggered in me a space of clarity to think about my life and healing from the past traumas and how that relates to my moving forward. When I saw Dr. Metzner for the first time this was what he talked about. It was at a hidden hippie gallery in "THE CITY" on a Saturday night when he (now in his 70's) approached to audience to talk about his new book "The Birth of the Psychedelic Culture" (co-authored by Ram Dass). With a passion that blew the younger crowd away, Ralph spoke...

Transmission from within "The Matrix" You are slaves and I know only because I am writing from the slave pits, where we are Duracell batteries and forced to earn countless sums of money for the government, the legal systems and the credit companies! I know that if I dedicated myself to it I could see what the priests of the Vatican see! The shaman of the Santo dame church see it too! They see herd mentality, sheep, hardworking slaves and they do nothing directly. These organizations like the Illuminati, step out of the light and into the shadows behind the scenes being played out. So many of my fathers and teachers teeter between being shameless pushovers and honorable thieves. As I have learned from my fathers, as I remember now as I sit in the courthouse, it's better to outsmart and do as the law makers due in Babylon: Create loopholes in lost laws based on their creator's hypocrisy! Maybe this is the turning point when I the alchemist give up my possessions because...

An Entry created on the New Moon of November 2009. Monday the 16th in the 11th month about four days after recovering from the flu. Hello Yogis and Alchemists, Tonight is the New Moon. It is void of course until after 6pm tonight, therefore a meeting at 7pm would be timely! So there are lots of changes occurring in our community and with the seasons of San Diego. I have personally been involved in helping friends move, cleaning old stagnate energies out of homes and offices and bodies. I have been sick twice (like many of my friends and fellow citizens of America) with the flu. And yet, my resolve remains steadfast towards creating consistent gatherings, mastermind meetings and conference calls, and including many many more people in our communal vision for peace, healing, and self discovery. I promise that myself and several select teachers are working around the clock and holding an amazing alchemical space for 2010. Thus, tonight's meeting is about sharing and gathering us in a ...

Dear Friends, I awoke today after the full moon, the weekend having just passed. I was lit up with a burning pain in my hip and inwardly, as I rolled awake, to scream "let go....let GOOOOO!". In bed I shouted at my Mom, Maternal Grandfather, Grandfather's Father, and all of our shared Ancestors....for release of my pain and of my dysfunctional muscles. My beloved had left the bedroom already and she was fully dressed when she greeted me as I lay there in bed, pain, and with an Ipod Touch in my hand furiously researching Ayahausca plant medicine in hopes of answers. I learned what herbs the magical formula needed in a matter of minutes through various sites listed on Google. I was ravenous for answers and solutions. It was suggested to me about three weeks ago to do this sort of Shamanic Medicine Work, as a way of purging my Ancestors' diseases from my body by a dear friend and Hawaii medicine woman. After my lover stared at me for several minutes, and I slowly sickene...

Dear Friends, I have noticed lately the difference between my masks and my hats as a human and a person on the path to healing. First of all, I know that my Masks and Hats are simply archetypes and divine movements of the collective unconscious. It has been an epic journey this 2009, as I have taken on some new hats, put on old masks to see if they still fit (and most of them did), and set aside or packed away hats that were just getting worn out and over-used. For example, my hat as a yoga instructor has worn out its welcome. I have discovered that yoga is a path that I will definitely support and heal through but is a field of interest that here in America comes with many many many politics and boundary discovering events. Plus there is certainly something to be said about the income of yoga instructors being lame or maybe it's society's relationship to Yoga teachers as under-privileged fitness trainers. I really have learned about my relationship to the title of yoga instruc...

Dear Friends, It is an evening of initiation, reflective healing, and friendly masters. It's also the evening before the moon goes full in September 2009. I am pleased with my choices as of yesterday after completing my class on Frankincense at the Library last night when I took feelings to action by taking private retreat in the mountains near Lake Hodges. I am on Vision Quest and staying at a place where I do landscaping while the residents are off at Burning Man. Much to my dismay, several months ago, I learned that my Lunar cycle is transmuted from Manifesting Generator to Projector. Almost momentarily after interpreting this information, I recognized that I do this crazy shift around the full moon, and especially as of late, I have noticed that it's better to be by myself and sleep completely alone for the utmost healing. So many visions came to me this morning in my rest. When I awoke, it was slow to return to this world but none-the-less, I went for a swim and reached ou...

My Dear Friends, Thank you for being patient with me as I move through the different levels of my process (all of which have been "out of my comfort zone" as you may be aware from status updates). The truth of the matter was that I planned to journey to Peru between June and July and instead ended up in Sante Fe with wonderful community and a very supportive teacher. Shamanism and shamanic ideas are ripe and alive here. I have really enjoyed my experience here, usually in retrospect because of all the discomfort. I sense that I am learning exactly what I am ready for. I have processing so much. More than I could have ever imagined here. To my amazement, learning divination (which was what I planned on doing) has become this very HUMAN process of finding clarity and feeling into my past, my family, my future intentions with Business and Community, my ancestors, my daily body pain, and the healing of my ancestors. I have chosen to look at the Teachings I embrace and embody and ...

Dear Friends and Students, It has been my life's work since my becoming a man and learning about my path through Shamanic Initiation and rite of passage, to seek the truth and the origins of man and the spiritual experience such that others (of similar intention and commitment to truth) will learn about who they are and where they come from. Hence, as many have before me, I seek the Tree of Life in Shamanism and the Philosopher's Stone in Alchemy. If you are on this path of seeking with me, I welcome you to share as I am an open source for the information and truth and faith I have experienced. Thank you for your interest in our community and our growing Order of Sacred Spiral members. Here is some good information about the Tree of Life and other relevant items: Wiki Tree of Life: "As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so by generation I believe it has been with the great Tree of Lif...

Dear Readers, This is an interesting subject as many of our community members have been with us for more than two years now and have likely noticed some name changes or at least spelling changes among members. Has anyone noticed that these occurrences are rather frequent or at least fairly predictable? The latest name change (spelling) was our director for Waking Within Yoga and community member Trevahr (formerly Trevor Ryan). There are several reasons for these changes and will elaborate on a few person specific ones and then further explain astrological and numerological reasoning: Trevahr (or sometimes Trevaar) is an Egyptian name. Trevor is an angelo-saxon word or name referring to "settlement" or "large static community," just as Trevahr also refers to "settling or grounding with others." Both of these name are powerful names for business and community as you may or may not have noticed in the tendancies of the "trevors" around you in yo...

Dear Friends, Sometimes I am so in touch with my life path that cry out, "I wish for nothing more than balance through equivalent exchange with all of life on Earth and in this Dimension such that I may meditate until I am peace and love forward into the future, past, and present." This reality is interesting with its possessions and options and I am sooo grateful in the experience of living. For about 45 days, I have been changing through healing and yoga and many experiments with my life, breathe and mind. I think the funniest of all (of which I am most grateful) is my lack of loneliness during this time. Just like the Chinese fortune sticks said, it is time to feel supported by friends and family and projects. I have been staying with a family of friends weekly in Cardiff and the diversity of communications, activities, and support that I receive from them is immense. I am giving and experiencing openings in ways that I was not expecting. How Delightful! The kids and I tra...