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Scientists have discovered the use of [entheogens] by humans in Europe 3,000 years ago.
They believe shamans [intermediaries between the human and other planes] used [plant medicines] as part of rituals held at the Es Càrritx cave in Menorca, Spain.
Menorca is a pleasant island with caves, alcoves, and fine beaches like Arenal (wiki).
Previous evidence of ancient drug use had been indirect and largely based on depictions in art.
Ancient humans were [utilizing these entheogens] during cave rituals 3,000 years ago, according to a new study. Researchers made the discovery after studying Bronze Age strands of hair found in the Es Càrritx cave on the Spanish island of Menorca.
The cave was first occupied around 3,600 years ago and was used as a funeral space until around 2,800 years ago, the researchers said.
The study, published the journal Scientific Reports, found psychoactive substances atropine, scopolamine, and ephedrine on hair strands, which had been dyed red. More:
Full-day of rest and rejuvenation with a diverse offering of professional meditation facilitators -- including Dharma Meditation Initiative's own Buddhist teacher -- representing a spectrum of meditation styles and techniques.
Experience the joy and benefits of multiple types of meditation including: Guided * Heart-Centered * Mindfulness * Movement * Music * Contemplative * Reflective * Sensory * Meditative Sound Healing * Silent and more! Suitable and open to all levels, from beginning meditators to advanced.
Register at ahiah.com. Tickets $25.00 in advance or $30 at door. Includes BIG vegetarian lunch.More
Marijuana and Spirituality (Does cannabis enhance spirituality?)
Pot, or cannabis, is considered a spiritual plant medicine that has been used as such since 2000 BC. It is psychoactive; it can alter our state of consciousness. Altering consciousness helps us break free of illusion and the restrictions of limited perception.
The Number 1 benefit of cannabis is that it helps us release resistance. By affecting the brain as it does, it inhibits it from focusing on and translating the resistant, stressful thoughts that cause a negative emotional response within the body.
This is why it is so effective at reducing stress. This is also why it is so effective for use in pain management. After all, pain is a symptom of resistance. By causing a person to release resistance and "flow downstream with life" a person is free to be who s/he really is. More of our true essence is present in the absence of resistance. This is why people often undergo such intense spiritual experiences while under the influence of cannabis.
But this is also why it is used recreationally.
If we try to escape our resistance by using a tool like cannabis, we have learned nothing other than to be dependent on the tool. We may have increased our awareness of what is beyond this dimension, but we hey have not learned anything about how to access states of consciousness beyond this 3D consciousness on our own, without the use of an external substance or tool.
In essence, we have become powerless and dependent.
While these plant medicines are often life-changing -- because they can serve to crack through the illusion (maya) of the physical dimension allowing a person to peer beyond -- they all too often become a person's only way of transitioning consciousness into a "more spiritual" state.
They then become a crutch that disables a person and keeps one from reaching those states naturally. The feeling-state created by these plant medicines becomes an addiction. And the more subtle transition of increasing one's vibration and altering one's focus, so as to facilitate a natural shift in consciousness, no longer registers as a "special and noteworthy experience" when compared with the intensity of the radical break from reality caused by plant medicines.
Therefore, often the drug (entheogen) itself becomes the person's only access to spirituality. The drug itself becomes the religion.
In this episode, Teal Swan explains the benefits and drawbacks to using pot in or as a spiritual practice.
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"Interactive" female robotic sex doll breaks down after huge number of white male customers "try it out" (rape, molest, assault, damage) her at Austrian electronics fair in Europe.
Samantha is a £3,375 sex robot on display at fest in Austria.
Interactive sex doll reacts to touch, responds when spoken to.
Overexcited visitors at fair left robot "heavily soiled," broken.
Creators say fair visitors treated the doll "like barbarians."
Is she conscious? - I hope not. Hold her.
The £3,000 sex robot -- the star attraction at a big electronics fair in Austria this month -- has broken down after a large number of visitors got overexcited, carried away, and quite rapey.
Samantha the Sex Doll had been showing off her "skills," which include reacting to touch, hugging and moaning -- and remembering individuals she has "interacted" with, at the Arts Electronica Festival in Linz.
Males overexcited about Tay
However, Samantha's creators have now been forced to send her to be repaired, after visitors left the robot "heavily soiled" [and in need of a test kit] with broken limbs. More (comments)
How can this potentially medicinal -- but often abused -- herb, its leaves, oil, seeds, flower buds,
and fibrous stalk be so beneficial yet so misunderstood? A calculated
propaganda campaign, that's how. As a drug, it is vilified. As a
miracle, it is ignored (CARTOON).
WARNING: Avoid intoxication. Wisdom Quarterly advocates only the medicinal use of plants, not their abuse or exploitation. Hemp is miracle. CBD can cure. Little can be said for high-THC.
That's no way to cure cancer!
The cannabinoid known as Cannabidiol (CBD) is the second most abundant cannabinoid in cannabis [and likely the one that is far more effective in producing medical and spiritual benefits, according to Harborside's founder].
Research done by G.W. Pharmaceuticals suggests that CBD could be used for treating symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases, diabetes, nausea, bowel disorders, and many other hard-to-control side effects.
A vilified plant that cures illnesses?
According to ProjectCBD.com, CBD has even demonstrated neuro-protective effects, and its anti-cancer potential is currently being explored.
While it was originally believed that THC was a breakdown product of CBD, it is now known that both THC and CBD are actually metabolites of their decarboxylated acidic forms, THCa and CBDa.
Forest of non-psychoactive hemp
These acidic precursors are decarboxylated (essentially dried) by heat or extraction to produce THC and CBD; only then do they become psychoactive.The compound has medicinal benefits without the “high” that some patients do not desire. This makes CBD appealing to patients who are looking for an alternative to their current meds, which often have opiate-like effects.
“After years of growers aiming to boost THC percentages in their crops, many growers have switched to focusing on producing CBD-rich strains because of the increasing demand by medical users.”
CBD is even known to counteract some of the effects of THC like the “munchies.” Just as THC increases our appetite, CBD suppresses it, which could be ideal for patients watching their weight. More
It makes food, too? The quick-growing plant has seeds that provide a healthy protein and essential fatty acid rich oil, with a rare vegetarian balance of Omega 3-6-9 fatty acids (manitobaharvest.com).
What is HEMP? Lauren Cox (LiveScience.com)
The "marijuana" (Cannabis sativa) plant has many uses apart from drug use. A distinct form of it,
known as hemp [from which high protein food, EFA-rich oil, sturdy rope, sails, paper, cloth, fiberboard, and other useful items are made], can be grown to maximize the fibers in the stalk of the
plant or to maximize seed and oil production. Hemp has a trace amount -- about 1
percent -- of the psychotropic chemical THC. More
VIDEO GAMES (On the Media) (NPR, July 1) Take a one-hour look at the history, culture, and future of video games like WoW. Whether you know it or not you are likely a gamer and games are creeping into nearly every aspect of life. How far have video games come, and where are they going?
"World of Warcraft" has millions of active subscribers worldwide (Blizzard). While there's no publicly-available, comprehensive census of exactly who plays the game, there are several researchers who have studied WoW players extensively. More
Superstruct: Games predict our future archive.superstructgame.net Gamers’ scores will reflect personal role in humankind’s survival.
PALO ALTO, California — The Institute for the Future (IFTF) announced the [2008] launch of Superstruct, the world’s first Massively Multiplayer Forecasting Game (MMFG). Designed by renowned game designer Jane McGonigal, Ph.D., and IFTF lead forecaster Kathi Vian Ph.D., Superstruct invites players to imagine life in 2019 and to document and record how they, their families, local communities, or extended social networks might respond to a catastrophic population collapse. Global gameplay ran for six weeks.
Superstruct was played by more than 8,000 citizen "future-forecasters." Although the game is no longer in play, learn about it and explore some archived game content:
Nicole Campos If one is an old hand at ye olde internets, one probably already knows that collaborative resource sites (which anyone can edit) should always be sourced and quoted with a grain [a unit of measurement] of salt. "Truth In Numbers? Everything, According to Wikipedia" seeks not only to explain why -- vast and comprehensive on subject matter though it is -- the free online encyclopedia site should not necessarily be treated as gospel. It should give us some insight into its creation. For example, founder Jimmy Wales still makes no money off the enormously popular site. The film examines how the hierarchy of editors work, along with the ramifications of Wikipedia's explosion as the go-to source of information.
A Counterpoint of Tolerance: AH! Interactive Opera No-Opera
“Arouse the mind without resting it on anything”
- Diamond Sutra
REDCAT transforms its flexible performance space into an immersive visual and sonic environment for the world premiere of this inventive international collaboration. Composed and performed by creators from around the globe, this pioneering collective work draws inspiration from the classic Buddhist text, the Diamond Sutra.
With composer-performer David Rosenboom and award-winning poet MartineBellen, the creative team has developed AH! as a celebratory passage across musical cultures and times: a polyglot clarion call for understanding and unity in today’s globalized, ever-more interconnected world.
Spinning off a mandala of 13 extraordinary and ordinary modern-life stories, this spellbinding opera brings together an array of robotic and interactive musical technologies, ingenious stagecraft, and flights of phenomenal musicianship. In the theatrically heightened environment of AH!, everyday life is placed flush against esoteric and transcendent realities.
Performing live, Rosenboom and 10 composer-performers from across the Americas, Europe, and East Asia are joined by an additional cast of musicians, theatermakers, and interactive artists under the direction of Travis Preston, who stages this exceptional music event with production designer Christopher Barreca, choreographer Mira Kingsley, and video designer Jeremiah Thies.
Interact with and contribute to AH! via the Web at ah-opera.org
The audience is invited to engage with and contribute to AH! before, during and after performances, via the website http://www.ah-opera.org/, mobile media, and a magical multitouch screen at the theater. Arrive early and participate!
DETAILS
A Counterpoint of Tolerance is a project commissioned by the Transatlantic Arts Consortium (TAC). This production of AH! is made possible with generous support from TAC, The Evelyn Sharp Foundation, Judith O. and Robert E. Rubin, and Abby Sher. World premiere: A co-production of the The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts and the CalArts Center for New Performance, in cooperation with Idyllwild Arts.
Date & Time: September 16, 17, 18 at 8:30 PM. General Admission: $12-$25 TICKETS (online, or call REDCAT's box office at 213-237-2800).
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