How can 5-MeO-DMT delete our universe?

(Mr Existential) 5-MeO-DMT: The Mystery of the 10,000 toad bones

• Avenged Sevenfold "Nobody" on DMT (official video)

Toad Shaman – Guardian of the Swamp figurine free 3D print model (MakerWorld)

Hooray for Kamala and VP Tim Walz (TDS)

Kamala Devi picks Minnesota Gov. and Midwestern dad Tim Walz as running mate

DJ and JD not taking the news well.

(The Daily Show) Aug. 6, 2024: Michael Kosta gets to know Tim Walz, 60, the governor Kamala D. Harris, 59.5, chose as her running mate. While the Trump campaign claims the vice-presidential candidate will “unleash hell on earth,” Democrats love his political record and "Midwestern Dad AF" vibes. Plus, Josh Johnson weighs in on why Gov. Walz is the “right type of white guy” for this race. #DailyShow #TimWalz #KamalaDeviHarris

Why are Americans so childish, calling them "Tampon Tim" and "Kamel Devi Hairy"?

(The Hill) Jess' Journal: Way Kamala should pick Minn. Gov. Tim Walz

FACT: Blacks know she's not pro-Black.

Imagine a world where candidates choose better candidates for the No. 2 position than are sitting in the big chair in the Oval Office. The world would be better under JD Vance than DJ Trance (increasingly demented and slipping Don John Trump), and now we are safe from hacks like Mark "Astro-not" Kelly and Yeshiva Shapiro.

Progressive Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, 60, has been chosen in a move no one saw coming but which we prayed for yesterday.

• The real reason Kamala picked ‘normie’ Tim Walz

You as Veep? Never!! - It's already happened.

He's a solid choice. His daughter Hope Walz is a vegetarian, and that's good, but he may have a meat and drinking problem -- and is aging poorly, which has him looking like a cross between Bernie and G-Joe. Nobody's perfect. Momala still has problems (thinking on her feet, speaking from her beak, trying to act street), but she's bound to get better as she becomes the real-life Julia "Veep" Louis-Dreyfus.

Yesterday (Aug. 5), the world was ending. It was the beginning of the end. Listen to Gary and Shannon explain it: GAS Hour 1 - Kamala’s VP Choice

Harris Shapiro (we were almost doomed) Etsy

Market is now run by AI bots using nanosecs

Recession was looming. War was coming (and may still be). And now things are looking better. The stock market is up after 1,000-point dip yesterday. Remember, "Buy low, sell high." Question: When is "low"? Answer: Right after a crash, a rollercoaster dip, a collapse, which is when everyone is least likely to buy, so it takes guts/hope.

There's hope for a Democratic ticket we can support. Trump is being prosecuted after all. And who knows how long Netanyahu can hold on to power and immunity.

The crass humor of American politics (lol)

• DINOs: Why we used to be Democrats (TJDS)
• My Mee-maw liked JD Vance but likes Tim Walz better
• Trademark lawyer sold ClintonKaine.com in 2016 is now sitting on HarrisWalz.com (AP News)
• Meet "Founding Mother" Mary Katharine Goddard, first female postmaster in the U.S. and printer of the Declaration of Independence | Open Culture
• US soldiers 'are hit in huge rocket attack on military base in Iraq'
• Who was really out to kill Trump, CIA, FBI, SS, NSA, NSC, DHS, IRS? Whistleblower's damning claim about lead agent in Trump rally incident
• Hillary Clinton shreds Donald's latest move as 'traitorous and pathetic'
• What to know about Gov. Tim Walz's controversial tampons for boys' bill
• Tampons are toxic, Boys. Be careful about heavy metals
• Americans: what the heck is a "meemaw" : r/NoStupidQuestions (reddit.com)
• Archaeologists find 7,000-year-old treasures—an incredible hoard of human history
• Female leader of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina flees to India amid anti-government uprising

• Eds., Wisdom Quarterly; Michael Kosta, The Daily Show, Aug. 6, 2024; Jimmy Dore (jimmydore.com)

NeuroSoup: Anal DMT, LSD, and Krystle

Hamilton's Pharmacopeia S1 E4, May 23, 2012; Pat Macpherson (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

Underground LSD Palace

(VICE) Former Goth stripper Krystle Cole talks about her time spent living in a subterranean missile silo converted into a luxurious LSD manufacturing facility -- a sort of underground LSD palace.

She spent three years of her life running from the DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency), being held partially against her will and used as a guinea pig for strange new psychedelic chemicals.

Eventually, her friends-turned-captors were arrested and Krystle herself barely escaped incarceration. She now makes her living as a writer, sharing her experiences in books and on the Web.

• Check out Krystle Cole's channel here: neurosoup
• Krystle Cole (now defunct) website: neurosoup.com
• Psychedelic Saturdays (created in 2020)
• Day in My Life Vlog (created in 2020)
• Best of Classic NeuroSoup
• VICE feature Fentanyl: The Drug Deadlier than Heroin
• For more episodes of Hamilton's Pharmacopeia

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• PTSD cure? stellacenter.com
• Inside a Secret Alien Society: Damanhur (Fringes)

Our second favorite NAZI (comedy)

Seinfeld (YouTube, 2021); Sheldon S., Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

"A Conversation with Neo-Nazi Christian Picciolini" (The Atlantic)

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From Neo-Nazi to Anti-Nazi: Chris Picciolini

Readers will be familiar with our very favorite Nazi, Christian P., the one good NAZI. If we had to have a second, and Sergeant Schultz were already taken, it would have to be the fictional soup seller.

• What are "Aryans" in Buddhism?
• Nazis are bad, right?
• The U.S. and the Holocaust review: Ken Burns brings WWII history to life in six-episode documentary series (NPR)
• New book examines the link between German business families and Nazi fortunes (NPR)
• Comedian David Sedaris calls NPR "National Jewish Radio"
• Former Neo-Nazi Christian Picciolini: White supremacy 'is certainly not a fringe movement' (NPR)

"No Soup For You!" | The Soup Nazi | Seinfeld

(Seinfeld) NEXT! In this iconic episode, the gang must face the wrath of the Soup Nazi if they want the perfect lunch. Season 7, Episode 6, "The Soup Nazi":

Seinfeld is as real as U.S. Jewish life gets.

A soup restaurant owner obsesses about his customers' slovenly behavior and proper etiquette for ordering his precious fare, but his soup is so good that people line up down the block for it anyway...until they're banned for behavior unbecoming a peon.

LOCAL LISTINGS: seinfeld.com. Watch all 180 episodes of Seinfeld any time, only on Netflix | netflix.com/title/70153373. Watch weekdays at 4:00 pm/3:00 c on Comedy Central | cc.com. Subscribe to the Seinfeld channel: OfficialSeinfeld. SOCIAL: facebook.com/seinfeld, instagram.com/seinfeldtv, twitter.com/seinfeldtv..., tiktok.com/@officialseinf... ABOUT: Seinfeld stars Jerry Seinfeld as a stand-up comedian whose life in New York City is made even more chaotic by his quirky group of friends who join him in wrestling with life's most perplexing, yet often trivial questions. Often described as "a show about nothing," Seinfeld mines the humor in life's mundane situations like waiting in line, searching for a lost item, or the trials and tribulations of dating. Co-starring are Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Jerry's ex-girlfriend and current platonic pal, Elaine Benes; Jason Alexander as bald buddy George Costanza, Jerry's neurotic hard-luck best friend; and Michael Richards as Jerry's eccentric [racist] neighbor, Cosmo Kramer. #Seinfeld #LarryDavid #NoSoupForYou

Neuroscience meets Buddhism: Matt Ricard

(Action for Happiness) Matthieu Ricard and Wolf Singer join Mark Williamson for a discussion of Beyond the Self, sharing insights from Buddhism and neuroscience to help us live happier, more compassionate lives. Filmed in front of a large audience in London on Jan. 29, 2018.

There is no "self"

"Self" (atta=soul, ego) is illusory.

Let's do what the Buddha did and move BEYOND the self. But what is the "self," the ego, soul, personality, identity, consciousness? It is an illusion. We can think of it as our body and mind. But most of us will feel it's a lot more our mind (name, consciousness, awareness, memories) and hardly this ever-changing body. "Mind," the Buddha discerned, is what we cling to as self: feelings, perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness. But none of this is enduring, identical, or able to provide fulfillment. It is something, but it is not a self. The gateless gate to enlightenment is the realization that all that we regard as "self" is actually impersonal. What if psychology knew that? What if neuroscience could test that? Former geneticist Matthieu Ricard and Professor Wolf Singer wrote a book merging neuroscience and Buddhism.

Beyond the Self: Conversations Between Buddhism and Neuroscience

Buddhism meet neuroscience

This book examines converging and diverging views on mind, self, consciousness, free will, unconscious, perception, meditation, and other topics.

Buddhism, on the one hand, shares with science the task of examining the mind empirically. It has pursued, for more than two millennia, direct investigation of the mind through penetrating introspection.

Neuroscience, on the other hand, relies on third-person knowledge in the form of observation. In this book, French Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard, who trained as a molecular biologist, and Prof. Wolf Singer, a distinguished neuroscientist, offer their perspectives on mind, self, consciousness, subconscious, unconscious, free will, epistemology, meditation, and neuroplasticity.

Matthieu Ricard and his dad

Ricard and Singer's wide-ranging conversation is an enlightening and engaging encounter between Buddhism's wealth of experiential findings and neuroscience's abundance of experimental results.

Among many other things, these two good friends discuss

• the difference between rumination and meditation (rumination is the scourge of meditation, whereas psychotherapy depends on it);
• the distinction between the contents of awareness and pure awareness;
• the Buddhist idea (or lack of one) of the unconscious and neuroscience's precise criteria for conscious and subconscious processes; and
• the commonalities between cognitive behavioral therapy and meditation.

Their views diverge. (Ricard asserts that the third-person approach will never encounter consciousness as a primary experience). And they converge. (Singer points out that the neuroscientific understanding of perception as reconstruction is very like the Buddhist all-discriminating wisdom).

But both keep their vision trained on understanding fundamental aspects of human life. More

Through the Rabbit Hole with Krystle Cole

Urban Shamans Amber Larson, Xochitl, Crystal Quintero, Dhr. Seven, CC Liu, Bela, Wisdom Quarterly; Hamilton Pharmacopeia (VICE/HBO, 2012); Krystle A. Cole (NeuroSoup)

"You should get out more," people may say. Maybe people should get in more, like Alice.

TOPEKA, Kansas - Former goth stripper, author of Lysergic, and producer of numerous YouTube videos Krsytle A. Cole talks about her time spent living in an "Underground Acid Palace," a subterranean missile silo converted into a luxurious LSD-manufacturing facility.

She take Hamilton and VICE's cameras on a tour into the rabbit hole. We're not in Kansas any... well, apparently, we still are. And this time it's underground just like Alice in Wyrd (another word for Wonderland).
 
Krystle Cole spent three years of her life running from the DEA, being held partially against her will and used as a guinea pig for strange new psychedelic chemicals.
 

Lysergic, 2nd ed. (goodreads.com)

Eventually her friends-turned-captors were arrested, whereas Krystle herself barely escaped incarceration.

She now makes her living as a writer, sharing her experiences in books and on the Web in her firsthand and Erowid.org-style accounts of experimenting with entheogens and other forbidden substances on NeuroSoup.
 

I wonder, I wonder, I wonder what's down in there! (Alice at the gate of the Rabbit Hole)

 
We can't help but observe how much she looks like someone we knew, both in terms of her features and her mannerisms, who eventually became an expert Buddhist meditator and stream enterer. Of course, people do not believe anyone get enlightened nowadays. They do. How do we know? we'll be asked. That was courtesy of a strange set of circumstances too hard for others to believe. We believe it. We were there. We saw and understood.

DRUG DISCUSSION
Wisdom Quarterly (URBAN SHAMANISM)

The lights, the lights, painting with light (DigitalTurkey-Graph/flickr.com)

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The devas still descend from space.

Is there anything good to be said about any "drug"? Yes, the entheogens, the ones that bring out the "divine" (theos, deus, devas, the "godly") within. So, Xochitl, which drug? Native Americans have "plant helpers," not "drugs." To say that word tosses our minds to grim concrete ghettos and dreary suburbs painted neon. We're leaving that; we're back in nature; we're going to Wyrd or the Spirit World. An entheogen, a sacred plant, root, vine, mushroom, or combination -- whatever -- is all about getting to one thing: DMT (dimethyltryptamine).

(Gnosis) "DMT: The Spirit Molecule," which explores human consciousness, weaves an account of Dr. Rick Strassman's groundbreaking DMT research through a multifaceted approach to this intriguing entheogen/hallucinogen found in the body, brain, and hundreds of plants.

And this DMT is not out there. It's in here, in the center of our brains, behind the third eye, where the pineal gland is enclosed in gray matter with active rods and cones and its own inner-retina.
 
There are many ways to awaken it. "Drugs" are the worst way. People are not ready to see it. Amber, does Buddhism have anything good to say about drugs? I think we all agree with Dr. Gabor Mate that the problem of "drug use and abuse" is that almost no one in the U.S. who sets out to get high is actually trying to get high. They're just trying to get wasted.

 

Befriending Faeries

They are trying to obtund (dull) rather than enhance consciousness, trying to get blotto, blitzed, full of toxins or intoxicated. Right, Seven? That's right! We use the same word to mean exact opposite things -- doped up or wasted versus opened up and trying to see things as they really are.

Whatever there is of substances to get "high" on, that exists within for us to access. Crystal? There are Tibetan lamas who do dream yoga. But look at the yogis of olde, not the ganja-obtunded waste-cases sitting around growing great dreadlocks and clutching hash pipes. Maybe they would have taken or produce Soma and Amrita, the "nectar of the devas."

Yogis sometimes veer off the path (D. Earlotti)

What we call chocolate was something like that, Theobroma cacao, "cocoa the food of the devas." Which extraterrestrial-gods was it who pointed out the pits of that fruit was edible?

 

The subtle little fairies/devis in art (1909)

Serenity-meditation that leads to the absorptions leads to bliss in the first two jhanas, independent of the senses and sensuality. It comes from within. It makes possible the concentration and mental-collectedness needed for successful insight-practice called vipassana. Anyone smoking high-THC/low-CBD cannabis to get lost or wasted will get lost and waste her/his time.

Devas watch as liberator is born.

But if one pursues awakening the pineal gland, the third eye, the seat of consciousness, the "mind door" around the heart may get something else, awakening and liberation. But real liberation is not transient. It does not fall away. Drug experiences, absorptions (jhanas), hallucinations, and delusions do. The Five Precepts warn us away from intoxicants. This is very wise. Mere "knowledge" (ñāna), study (suta), and experience cannot substitute for actual wisdom (Sanskrit prajñā, Pali paññā).

Embodying DMT as "Soma"?

Stephen T. Naylor, Encyclopedia Mythica (pantheon.org)

The devas depicted in Western/Greco-Roman forms (Ilias Flaxman, Gestochen/Wiki)

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Where earthbound devas dwell, Plitvice

Soma is a very difficult deity [deva] for many outside of India to comprehend. He works on numerous levels, all of which are tied together rather strangely. Soma is firstly a plant. 

 

He is also an intoxicating drink which was brewed from that plant [which plant or mushroom, root or vine is disputed]....Though he is never depicted in human form, Soma obviously did not want for lovers [i.e., people who loved it]; poets rarely do.

In one episode, his desires caused a war. He had grown arrogant due to the glory that was offered him. Because of this, he let his lust overcome him; he kidnapped and carried off Tara, the wife of the [deva] Brihaspati. After refusing to give her up, the devas made war on him to force her release, and Soma called on the [titans] asuras to aid him.

Finally, Brahma interceded and compelled Soma to let Tara go. But she was with child, and it ended up that this child was Soma's. The child was born and named Budha (not to be confused with the Buddha). More

There is a "road" (path) to a weird "land" (place) somewhere outside of this illusion.

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Is it Amrita, the endogenous nectar of our divine nature?

Wisdom Quarterly edit of Wikipedia entry

Mohini, female-Vishnu with Amrita pot (W)

Amrita is repeatedly referred to as "the drink of the devas, the "gods," which grants them "immortality."

• Immortality? Perhaps that timeless vision or realization of who we really are, which does not end at death; our personality ends, and self falls away, but something, some whole, some connection to everything else, remains or is reborn, taking and clinging to a new form it immediately mistakes for "self" again. We are not so limited as any expression or manifestation would suggest.

Amrita features in the "ocean-churning" Samudra manthan legend, which describes how the devas, because of a curse from the sage Durvasa, begin to lose their immortality (divine vision of themselves?

 

Assisted by their mortal enemies, the asuras (Buddhist "titans"), they churn the ocean (cosmos, world-system, Milky Way, samsara) and create -- among other wonderful (Wyrd) things -- Amrita, the nectar of immortality.

 

In yogic philosophy (as it found its way from Hindu philosophy into its cognate Mahayana-Buddhism), Amrita is a fluid that can flow from the pituitary gland down the throat in deep states of meditation. It is considered quite a boon: Some yogic texts say that one drop is enough to conquer death and achieve immortality. More

Brain zaps trigger lucid dreams (science)

Bahar Gholipour (LiveScience.com, May 11, 2014); Amber Larson (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

What is a dream but an astral journey to Wyrd? (dreamingdog.multipy.com)

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Dream Dancer (Josephine Wall)

Lucid dreams, in which people are aware of and can control their dreams, are rare.

 

But now scientists have found they can induce this [magical] state of mind in people by zapping their brains with a specific frequency of electricity.

 

"I never thought this would work," said study researcher Dr. John Allan Hobson, a psychiatrist and longtime sleep researcher at Harvard University. "But it looks like it does."

 

The Monroe Institute: Explore consciousness

 

The results showed that when the inexperienced dreamers were zapped with a current of 40 Hertz, 77 percent of the time these participants reported having what were described as lucid dreams.

"They were really excited," said study researcher Ursula Voss, of J.W. Goethe-University Frankfurt, who designed the experiments. "The dream reports were short, but long enough for them to report, 'Wow, all of the sudden I knew this was a dream, while I was dreaming.'

 

Dream waves

(Bruce Rolff/shutterstock/livescience.com)

A lucid dream can be thought of as an overlap between two states of consciousness -- the one that exists in normal dreaming, and the one during wakefulness, which involves higher levels of awareness and control.

 

"If I'm aware, if I'm self-reflective, if I'm thinking about myself, about my past and future, that's normally a waking function," Voss said.

In lucid dreaming, we transfer elements of waking consciousness into the dream, she said.

 

Such overlap is also reflected in the brain waves that researchers can detect using electroencephalography, or EEG... More

 

"Waking Life"

(Waking Life) Dreaming on purpose and with a conscious objective (by Richard Linklater)

• 7 Mind-Bending Facts About Dreams
• PHOTOS: The horror of prison-guard rapists
• Himalayas: The story of "the Roof of the World" 
• Police are dying in Los Angeles, LAPD confused 
• Paying a lot for specialty drugs? Big Pharma :)
• How young is too young to be suspended from school?
• Science: Life got better after "Black Death" (well, it couldn't have gotten much worse. Hooray for Nixon's Nat'l "Security" Advisor Henry Kissinger and other Nixon-era Globalists who want to decimate the human population!)
• Sun's glint wakes up world's deepest lake (Baikal)
• BOOM! Underwater explorer implodes six miles down 
• Will American Empire collapse like all others before it?
• Nagas in the News: "Pinocchio-Rex," cousin of T. Rex
• Exhibitionist Justin Bieber spotted topless, and almost bare back in L.A.'s Griffith Park!