The 'magic cactus' flower: sacred peyote

(Forgotten Crops) Why does this entheogenic cactus cause magical "hallucinations"?

Higher levels of consciousness

Ancient Egyptians took psychedelic blue lily

• Peyote
• Blue water lily/lotus (Nymphaea nouchali)
• Entheogen
• Carlos Castaneda
• Psychoactive drug
• Psychedelic experience
• Shamanic "sacrament"
• Banned by Spanish Empire
• Altered state of consciousness

How to regrow natural teeth: science

(Mind & Marvel) SOSTDC1 (USAG-1) is a single gene, a molecular bouncer, that keeps teeth from growing in mammals

(NewsNation) Drug to regrow teeth may be on market by 2030

Next, they'll be regenerating eyes with herbs.

Happy World Chocolate Day (7/7)

I must be a hybrid space alien-terrestrial human Earthling because I love sweet cacao paste.

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I'm a substitute love drug, so go easy.

Today is World Chocolate Day. But there's always tomorrow, which allows for the addition of almonds. What joy!

• Different types of chocolate and how to use them (so long as we do not get carried away and clingy)
• Mindfulness of Eating is one way to establish a healthy relationship with food
• American Dharma Teacher Ruth Denison's Dharma Talks from Dharma Seed and Dhammadena

Chocolate in its rawest form: fruit

We look forward to National Chocolate with Almonds Day when it pops up on our calendar every July 8 (NATIONAL CHOCOLATE WITH ALMONDS DAY, July 8, 2025) and we celebrate one of the world’s most popular confections.

• It's also World Allergy Day (July 8): the world's most common allergies and their symptoms

We at NT confess, this national day is not just another day we circle on our calendar. We also add this one to our to-do list for today so we don’t miss out. We know we really don’t need a special day on the calendar to indulge in one of our favorite guilty pleasures.

Mexico invented chocolate (Aztec Codex)

But doesn’t having a day on the calendar to celebrate such a heavenly confection help negate the guilty part of a guilty pleasure? We think so.

Today, we are indulging unashamedly because chocolate [Theobroma cacao fruit seeds or nibs] and almonds are incredibly satisfying. This makes us wonder if the reason we crave chocolate with almonds and find the combination so satisfying is because our bodies know what is good for us [like the "gods" or theo knew, presumably because they were advanced alien life forms looking for high antioxidant foods].

[Dark] Chocolate and almonds both are separately documented to have heart health benefits. More

• MSN.com, July 7, 2025; National Today, July 8, 2025; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Drug abusing Elon Musk fires himself

Whoa. Man, Joe Rogan, you gotta blow some of this primo herb or synthetic THC like me.

Get behind me, Baldy. - Yes, Sir, Mr. Trump.

South Afrikaner Elon Musk, reputedly the richest man in the world (founder of PayPal, head of Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter, Boring, Neuralink Corporation, and DOGE, future king of Mars), has fired himself to save the government money -- and Tesla share's plummeting value. He is getting back to work, except he's always working. How? Drugs -- Adderall (speed), acid (LSD), Special K (ketamine), Molly (MDMA, Ecstasy), magic mushrooms (psilocybin), weed (THC), and whatever else he carries around in a special box for emergency use. Every day is an emergency when one is jumping around, kissing up to Trump, slashing jobs, and trying to salvage his reputation on the world stage to keep working for the government.

Trump tries to lie to Barbara Walters but fails.

Elon's drug use, abuse, and addiction?

• Musk reportedly used Ketamine, Ecstasy, and travelled with pills as he became close to Trump [who is also said to be addicted to Adderall after a long-time cocaine habit]
• Elon Musk juggled drugs and family drama on Trump’s campaign trail (The New York Times)
• Elon Musk has used illegal drugs, worrying leaders at Tesla and SpaceX (WSJ)
• Elon Musk was high on Ketamine, carried daily ‘box of pills’ as he cozied [kissed] up to Trump, report alleges (The Independent)
• Elon Musk allegedly took LARGE amounts of drugs including ketamine while advising Trump – report (The Guardian)

"Trump was right about everything." My hat kisses his @$$ not my mouth. Well, my mouth, too.

Trump blows up over TACO nickname, demands apology, and Elon Musk leaves The Swamp

TACO? "Trump Always Chickens Out."

(Jimmy Kimmel Live) May 29, 2025: Elon Musk’s time as a Special Government Employee for DOGE (Dept. of Gov't Efficiency) has come to end, the court of Int'l Trade ruled unanimously that Trump did not have the authority to implement the "big, beautiful tariffs" he slapped on everyone, Trump blew up at a reporter for asking about his new nickname “TACO” that’s been making the rounds on Wall Street, which stands for “Trump Always Chickening Out.”

Exploring Elon with joker Jimmy

(The Rabbit Hole with Jimmy Kimmel) Elon "Small Testicle" Musk

Trump is a kool boss - Kash Patel

He is now reportedly one step closer to settling the ridiculous lawsuit he filed against 60 minutes, he now says he plans to give Russia's Vlad Putin “two weeks” to prove they are serious about a peace deal with Ukraine [otherwise he's going to let them go Israel on Zelensky's butt], America’s Mayor Rudy Giuliani wore a crazy outfit, FBI Director Kash "Cross Eyed" Patel sat for an interview with Fox News (swearing pedophile Jeff Epstein was not murdered), RFK Jr. made an announcement about COVID vaccines, and Cousin Micki teaches us where babies come from.

(TYT) Trump cronies Kash Patel and Dan Bongino lie to cover up Epstein files

• Kash Patel remains controversial and dangerous, says ‘The Atlantic’ (IndiaWest Journal News)

Trumpism is worse than McCarthyism

“Worse than McCarthyism”: Trump’s war against universities and students

(TJDS) Elon Musk rips Trump's "big beautiful bill" and budget

• KREM 2 News, May 30, 2025; Jimmy Kimmel, May 29, 2025; Amy Goodman, democracynow.org, May 30, 2025; Keaton Weiss, JimmyDore.com; Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Israel's Bibi Netanyahu penis surgery

Ashkenazi troops for Bibi: Support our warlord

Sympathy for the Devil, they say, is not a good thing. But, c'mon, it's Prime Minister Netanyahu's penile prostate tumor, and his junk is being operated on. Ouch. Even the Devil has got to be hating it. A UTI (urinary tract infection) seems to be coursing through the dictator's [Balzac] and the defiant man is in great pain right where it counts, right when it counts. The disease state and surgery have, however, helped him avoid prosecution for corruption by making him unavailable to provide deceptive testimony and/or evidence.

ED, incontinence? Robot-assisted Radical Prostatectomy (RARP)

Benjamin Netanyahu to undergo prostate removal surgery after UTI

(New York Post) Dec. 29, 2024: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to undergo prostate removal surgery on Sunday — just a week after being diagnosed with a urinary tract infection. Netanyahu, 75, was going under the knife at the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem, with the operation taking place as the PM manages multiple wars with Palestine, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Syria, and Iran’s terror proxies. He is also facing his own corruption trial. Netanyahu’s surgery was expected to take two hours as doctors tackle “a benign enlargement [aka tumor] of his prostate,” the prime minister’s office said in a very carefully crafted statement. Read more at nypost.com/2024/12/29/world-n...

• Not in our name: ifnotnowmovement.org
• Jewish Voice for Peace (jvp.org)‎
• شرش | Shoresh | שר”ש‎ (@shoresh_us) • Anti Zionist Israelis
• Orthodox Jews against Israel: nkusa.org
• IDF regrets: breakingthesilence.org.il
• American Veterans for Peace
• Code Pink: Women for Peace
• American Civil Liberties Union
• Amnesty International

Israeli PM Netanyahu News LIVE | Netanyahu to undergo prostate surgery | view of hospital Hadassah

Prostate makes semen.

(CNN-News18) Streamed Sunday morning, Dec. 29, 2024. Benny Netanyahu, the entrenched and CIA-backed prime minister of Israel, will have his prostate -- which is accessed through the anus -- removed during surgery on Sunday while under complete anesthesia, which is a life-threatening condition.

Will he still be a "man" without it? Probably, but he's sure to be more sympathetic to trans and LGBTQIA+ individuals than he already is, forcibly inducting and welcoming them into his war machine. Netanyahu's office reported that during the prime minister's examination at the Hadassah Hospital on Wednesday, an infection in the urinary tract caused by a benign enlargement of the prostate was found.

• The Netanyahus are not horndogs: Israel's Netanyahu says strip club recording of his son is media 'shaming' plot (Parallels/NPR) The Chicagoan/Israeli is proud of his hard up boy and defending him

Doctors decided to proceed with the operation even though "he's received antibiotic treatment that eradicated the infection since then, for a few days." With so many people sending him animosity, hatred, and evil wishes around the world, it is not clear if he can avoid serious post-surgical complications.

Enlarged Prostate Gland or Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH)

But his Shin Bet, Mossad, IDF, CIA apparatus, and PR firm are sure to keep any of that from the public, presenting him as a competent leader in times of endless war, genocide, and Middle East conquest. Will his wife leave him like Assad's wife did after he was deposed and depressed, penniless and stuck in Moscow, Russia? There is much more money in staying, so the public face of their marriage should be fine.

#netanyahuhospitalised #cancer #tumor #dictatorship #BibiNetanyahu #ProstateOperation n18oc_livestream n18oc_world News18 Mobile App - onelink.to/desc-youtube

• Shauna Schwartz, Ashley Wells, Sheldon S., Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly COMMENTARY

'Desert Daze' cancels 2024 festival

Desert Daze cancels 2024 festival

We're lost, just admit it, we're lost. - We're not lost. There are other things to do out here.

Turn around. Show cancelled.

(Billboard) Organizers for the California festival Desert Daze have called off this year's event. In an announcement organizers stated:

"It is no longer possible to execute the weekend as planned." The event, which has remained independent since launching in 2012, was unable to move forward with the 2024 edition due to "rising production costs and the current volatile festival market," according to the announcement.

Yeah, I'll walk back. Is it this way?

"Desert Daze is more than a festival or business venture to us," said Desert Daze co-founder Phil Pirrone in a release. "The community that we've cultivated together means so much to us and is the reason we will work to find a way to keep this beautiful thing going for many years to come."

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The 2024 edition of Desert Daze was set to take place Oct. 10-13 in Lake Perris, California. Headliners for this year's event were to include:

• Jack White,
• Cigarettes After Sex,
• Alex G,
• The Mars Volta,
• Thundercat,
• Liz Phair, and
• De La Soul.

Super-ancient Buddhist stupa with parasol top, according to chinesediscoveredamerica.com

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What else is there to do in the desert? UFO hunt?

"With each year, we do our best to serve the Desert Daze community," added Pirrone. "We are always learning and working diligently to improve the experience, and we tried everything to find a way forward this year. While we hit pause for now, we will be working in the background to deliver another special experience for all of us to share in the future. We thank you for your support."

• Homegrown Music Festival 2024 | ciLiving (WCIA Champaign) Illinois (The HomeTown Foundation | Facebook)

We should move out to the California desert.

All pass holders for the 2024 festival will be refunded and will be contacted directly via their point of purchase. While the main event will not take place this year, side shows under the Desert Daze Presents banner will go forward as scheduled.

For additional information, head to the website: desertdaze.org. More from Billboard

• Reading & Leeds Festival apologizes for cutting Lana Del Rey's performance short
• Tame Impala (Lonerism Live 2022, Part 1); Taylor Mims, Billboard.com, 8/30/24; Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Trump Bible for sale, Jan 6 gift? (Daily Show)

OMG! - Yes, Donny? - No, I was just takin' your name in vain. I'm selling your book! - OMG.

Bibles (KJV) are available everywhere for free, but why not pay $60 so billionaire Trump can profit?

Jordan Klepper on how we should deal with Jan 6th rioters

(The Daily Show) March 27, 2024: Clever Jordan Klepper reports on Ronna McDaniel’s short-lived stint at NBC News and the key question it raises: How should America deal with the people who denied the results of the 2020 election and stormed the Capitol on January 6th, 2021? #DailyShow #Jan6 #Insurrection #Trump

How the GOP is trying to win female voters amidst anti-abortion legislation

March 27, 2024: The Supreme Court’s latest abortion pill ruling exposes the

Republicans' struggle to secure female voters while taking their rights away.

Jordan Klepper dives into the GOP’s woman problem, and how they're

planning to win them back. Rape, incest, life and death. #SCOTUS

Jordan Klepper on Trump's Bible grift and GOP reaction to Baltimore bridge collapse

Angelic Ariel, aborted offspring ofTrump and his womanizing, is rolling in her baby eyes.

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(The Daily Show) March 26, 2024: Jordan Klepper tackles Trump’s new branded Bibles and how right-wing media is rushing to blame the Baltimore bridge collapse on Democratic policy. Plus, Josh Johnson weighs in on Florida’s social media ban for children under 14, and what this means for the rising generation of schoolyard bullies.

• 00:00 - Jordan Klepper welcome
• 00:21 - Trump announces his latest business venture: Bibles
• 02:33 - GOP’s reaction to the bridge
• 04:57 - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs social media ban for children
• 07:20 - Josh Johnson weighs in on Florida’s social media ban

Subscribe to The Daily Show: @thedailyshow, Twitter: thedailyshow, Facebook: thedailyshow, Instagram: thedailyshow. Stream full episodes of The Daily Show on Paramount+: paramountplus.com...

• Jordan Klepper, Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Stronger than DMT: Bufo toad venom (VICE)

VICE, Oct. 28, 2023; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

What is the true nature of reality? The brain needs an attitude adjustment with plant medicine.

The toad venom that's stronger than DMT: Bufo | High Society

(VICE) Tulum, Mexico, is experiencing an explosion of people taking Bufo alvarius. Also called “speed-toading,” taking it involves smoking the milked poison of the Sonoran Desert toad in a glass pipe.

What kind of "toad" is Leo Moracchioli on?

It (5-MeO-DMT) is considered to be the most powerful hallucinogen in the world. Now, growing numbers of psychedelic American tourists are traveling to Tulum, where Bufo ceremonies are legal, in search of a life-changing experience.

However, there are reports of profoundly negative experiences, lasting psychosis and allegations of sexual assault during ceremonies.

Suddenly, it all made sense...then it slipped away

VICE’s Matt Shea visits Tulum to see and directly experience Bufo tourism firsthand, to discover whether taking the world’s most powerful hallucinogen is worth the risk.

Watch more from this series: 3-MMC: The Party Drug Taking Europe by Storm • Roid Renaissance: The UK’s Steroid Epidemic • The Rise and Rise of Psychedelics • The Truth About Ecstasy

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Cancer-curing mushroom is Himalayan Viagra

BBC News, July 17, 2018; CC Liu, Sheldon S., Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

None here. Teenage climber sets sights on Himalayan PEAKS challenge (BBC News).

Bhutanese Buddhist monasteries are strange since someone discovered "Himalayan Viagra."

A mushroom aphrodisiac? It cures cancer or in any case treats it? Today the BBC News in America (Los Angeles version) did a story on "Himalayan Viagra" in Nepal. Talk about blue ba... It turns out this wasn't the first time the BBC covered the world's most expensive fungus, cordyceps, a zombie fungus spread by ants to caterpillars in a move reminiscent of toxoplasmosis, the cat-poop disease millions of American women are suffering from without knowing it, as a parasite zombifies their brains and makes them act out in dangerous ways (all so the parasite can complete its life cycle, moving between two opposing species of animals, mice to cats).

Doing this with WD-40 will save you thousands in [pharmacy bills but cost you in the ER]

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The perilous search for 'Himalayan Viagra'

(BBC News) More valuable than gold, yarsagumba (cordyceps) fungus is only found in the Himalayan mountains above 10,000 feet (3,000 meters). It is called "Himalayan Viagra" (Ophiocordyceps sinensis). Every spring poor peasant people come from miles around to search for the precious crop, which [in 2018] sold for more than $100 a gram (and now sells for US $280 a gram, with 1,000 grams being in a kilo or kg) across Asia and the U.S. Produced by: Aamir Peerzada. Shot/edited: Neha Sharma.

Skyrocketing cost

(Wiki edited by WQ) In 2013 the world's most expensive fungus (more valuable than European truffles) was 125,000–500,000 yuan per kilogram.

Because of its high value, inter-village conflicts over access to its grassland habitats has become a headache for the local governing bodies and in several cases people were killed. 

In November 2011, a court in Nepal convicted 19 villagers over the murder of a group of farmers during a fight over the prized aphrodisiac fungus. Seven farmers were killed in the remote northern District of Manang in June 2009 after going to forage for yarcha-gumba [32].

Are these mushrooms blue? Like my ba...

Its value gave it a role in the Nepalese Civil War, as the Nepalese Maoists and government forces fought for control of the lucrative export trade during the June–July harvest season [33].

Collecting yarcha gumba in Nepal had only been legalized in 2001, and now demand is highest in countries such as China, Thailand, Vietnam, Korea, and Japan.

By 2002, the insect "herb" was valued at R 105,000 rupees ($1,435) per kilogram, allowing the government to charge a royalty of R 20,000 ($280 tax per kilogram).

• Currently it can be found on amazon.com for $277.78 per ounce. It's not vegan. It's a dead insect full of fungus, killed by an ant and enervated by mycelium. But American entrepreneur Ron Teeguarden traveled to the Himalayas, found it, figured out a way to produce a VEGAN version of the mycelia, moved to Bhutan, married a Bhutanese Buddhist woman, went into business in America and Bhutan, and now has a fine line of tonic herbs under the brand name Dragon Herbs (DragonHerbs.com). It is much more reasonably priced, as it can be grown indoors in a tub without killing caterpillars or any other insect.