How to go on a drug TRIP (without drugs)

How to trip without psychedelics (entheogenic substances)

Use of mandala/yantra art for visualization

(Juliana Garces Art) Nov. 29, 2025: Can we trip without external psychedelic drugs? Yes. Our own body is capable of creating mystical, visionary, DMT-like states completely on its own.

This video share ten of the most powerful natural ways to access expanded consciousness without using any substances. The final one is considered the most intense of all.

These methods have shaped my spiritual journey, my art, and my understanding of the mind. Some come from ancient traditions, some from modern science, and some from the hidden corners of consciousness itself.

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Anjali mudra, Thai wai (devi)

Sending love and blessings on the journey. Namaste.

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• Juliana Garces, YouTube; Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Jen B., Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

World's quietest room less than zero decibels

Ryan Trahan (YT); BBC Future; Microsoft; Kelly Ani, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

I survived the world's quietest room (-9 decibels)

(Ryan Trahan) 21,843,300 views. Oct. 18, 2021. What is the world's quietest room? It used to be this one, but they recently made a quieter one. It's time to defeat Dr. Phil to get him to adopt me. Lots of crazy things go through a person's head in a peaceful environment.

• The quietest place in the world (WIRED)
• Earth’s quietest place will drive one crazy in 45 minutes (Smithsonian Magazine)

Inside the quietest place on earth

Richard Gray (BBC Future, May 28, 2017) edited by Wisdom Quarterly

Testing headphones inside the chamber (wiki)

Microsoft has built a chamber so quiet that one can hear the grind of one's own bones – and it’s helping to fine-tune the next-generation of electronic goods.

If LeSalle Munroe stands still for a few moments in his “office,” something unsettling can happen: He can hear the blood rushing around his body and his eyes squelch as they move in his skull.

While many people work in places filled with the tip-tap of keyboards, the hubbub of chatter from colleagues, and a constant hum of computers, Munroe is surrounded by almost total silence.

His office is the quietest place on the planet. [There might be quieter places in the planet, deep in caves and caverns, or those isolation chambers in Altered States.]

Isolation chambers alter states

The specially constructed chamber is hidden in the depths of Building 87 at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, where the firm’s hardware laboratories are based.

Products like the Surface computers, Xbox, and Hololens have all been developed here. Microsoft’s engineers built the room – known as an anechoic chamber – to help them test new equipment.

That includes sound muffling equipment that in 2015 set the official world record for silence when the background noise level inside was measured at an ear-straining -20.6 decibels. [Google has gotten it even lower. By comparison, a library is about 40 decibels, more than 60 decibels louder.] More

If only they were meditators, they could last longer

Yes, yes, more silence!

Imagine a Zen monk, a forest dwelling Theravada Buddhist wandering ascetic (an original shaman or shramana), lost in his or her object of meditation, fully absorbed (jhana-fied) in the bliss of stillness. With that as one's goal or abode, hours in an anechoic chamber could be bliss. That would be the place to get tested, the way UCLA has MARC or its Mindful Awareness Research Center to test people in Buddhist meditative states.

The meaning of the Zen Circle (Enso)

Faena Aleph (faena.com/aleph...); Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Zen circle or enso (lionsroar.com)

“A circle as a vast space, which does not lack anything, nor does it have too much.”

These are the words used in the Shin Jin Mei, a text dating back to the 6th century, to describe the great path of Zen.

This Japanese discipline, derived from Mahayana Buddhism, was founded by the monk Bodhidharma, who imported Buddhist dhyana (jhana, channa, ch'an, seon, zen “meditation or absorption”) practice to China.

Some say that Bodhidharma sat facing a wall in a Shaolin cave for nine years, meditating, until he reached true understanding.

According to legend, his shadow was impressed upon the rock, leaving the indelible proof of a serene figure in a meditating pose.

Just like that image, projected by the insistent presence of Master Bodhidharma’s shadow, enso (which in Japanese literally means “circle”) embodies the act of imprinting the artist’s essence through a single stunning circular stroke.

The interior of enso, as described in the verse in the Shin Jin Mei, is a space that symbolizes, in addition to vacuity, the inexistence of the mind as proposed by Bodhidharma, the essential void of which reality is comprised.

The Zen monk, after meditating with extreme discipline in zazen (“sitting”), holds the paintbrush firmly, drenches it in ink, and promptly exhales a perfect circle that represents... More

Might I have ASMR? (video)

Kelly Ani, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; This American Life; Rapunzel ASMR (11/2/17); Chole

Twin Ear Cleaning That Will Make You Tingle 150%. [Enjoy 22 minutes of this as recorded with my special ASMR mic sr3d.co.uk pro version].

Crazy Tingling

ASMR stands for "autonomous sensory meridian response." It is an experience characterized by a static cling or tingling sensation on the skin.

It typically begins on the scalp and moves down the back of the neck and upper spine. It has been compared with auditory-tactile synesthesia.
 
ASMR signifies the subjective experience of "low-grade euphoria" characterized by "a combination of positive feelings and a distinct static-like tingling sensation on the skin."

It is most commonly triggered by specific auditory or visual stimuli, and less commonly by intentional attention control. More

• VIDEO: ASMR Triggers with Miss Chole

ASMR explained on This American Life

How could whispering change one's life? Andrea Seigel tells this story about finding out that she is undeniably not alone. She’s a novelist with several books including Like the Red Panda.

• This American Life AUDIO

Twin Ear Cleaning That Will Make You Tingle 150% [22 mins] - ASMR

"Cabin Porn" (the video)

Z. Klein, S. Leckart , N. Kalina* (cabinporn); Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly

 
Reviews

Gawking at wood in the raw: Cabin Porn

"Why can't all these people stop looking at cabins? What is the allure? Put simply, Cabin Porn is visual stimulation of the urge for a simpler life in beautiful surroundings."

―The Atlantic

"If you're going to visit Cabin Porn, you'd better have a lot of leisure time handy."

―Apartment Therapy

"A lust-worthy compendium."

―Dwell

Over the past six years, the authors have collected photos and stories of more than 12,000 cabins handmade by people using whatever they could find near places that mean something special to them. This book contains more than 200 cabins handpicked from those archives for inspiration, as well as ten special stories and photo collections.

It takes two hands to hold this hefty piece of processed wood pulp (Zach Klein/Cabin Porn).

 

Ads that are porn to sell clothes to tear off.

“The greatest collection of cabin inspiration ever assembled.”

— Outside Magazine 

“An enchanting rabbit hole of tiny handmade houses...”

—The New York Times 

“What’s surprised me about this book is how moving it is. It’s sweet to look at beautiful photos of woodsy cabins; it’s calming and the pictures are lovely. But the stories about the work behind the cabins―that’s the magic.”

—Powell's

No time to order, read, or enjoy? Here's the whole book in 15 seconds.

About the Authors
Zach Klein is an entrepreneur who co-founded and designed Vimeo ― one of the most popular websites in the world. He is the CEO of DIY, a service to help kids learn any skill. He lives in San Francisco, and he regularly travels to Beaver Brook, where Cabin Porn began. 

Steven Leckart is a correspondent at Wired Magazine and a National Magazine Award finalist. 

Noah Kalina is a photographer living in New York. More

New research on PLANT intelligence (video)

Dev, Dhr. Seven (eds.) Wisdom Quarterly; Science Friday/The World (PRI, Jan. 10, 2014)

Field of brilliant sunflowers (Bruce Fritz/USDA/Wiki/pri.org/sciencefriday.com)

   

New research on plant intelligence may change how we think about plants

Flower girl bhumi-devi (Getty Collection)

Plants have senses that put humans to shame. Not only do they hear and smell, they can also sense the presence of water, and even sense an object within their space. [This was suspected, scientifically verified, and largely ignored long ago from a series of botanical experiments published in The Secret Life of Plants.] Now new research suggests that plants can actually learn and remember.

The Secret Life of Plants

TopDocumentaryFilms.com

Glorious Bhūmi (Gaia) blooms each spring, Landmark Nat'l Park, Mt. Rainier (13som)

  

The Secret Life of Plants

Even on the subordinate levels of the life scale, there is profound consciousness -- an awareness that binds all sensitive things together. The Secret Life of Plants: A fascinating account of the physical, emotional, and spiritual relations between plants and man (Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird) was published in 1973.

The book forwards the idea that plants are sentient, despite the absence of a physical nervous system and brain. This sentience is testable through changes in a plant's conductivity, as measured with a polygraph, a technique pioneered by Cleve Backster. The book also summarizes Goethe's theory of plant metamorphosis.

 

Right wing survivalist seed supply

But the book is about much more than plants. It delves deeply into such topics as the aura, psychophysics, orgone, radionics, Kirlian photography, magnetism/magnetotropism, bioelectrics, dowsing, and the history of science. It served as the basis for the 1979 documentary of the same name, with a soundtrack especially recorded by Stevie Wonder.

• The Secret Life of Plants (Inside NOVA, PBS)
• "The Intelligent Plant" (The New Yorker)
• Michael Pollan: Omnivore's Dilemma, The Botany of Desire

Our senses are lying to us (video)

Seth Auberon, Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly; HuffingtonPost.com; BuzzFeed

(BF) Special thanks to Alison Koellisch and Butt Dial. Rubber hand test is based on research about multisensory integration. Basketball test based on research from Simmons and Chabris. McGurk Effect test based on research from McGurk and MacDonald.

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• Afghans suffer for America in Afghanistan
• The ancient Buddhist architecture of India
• Un-Happy Columbus Day!
• Robot zings Republican party



More than 1,200 people detained in Russian protest

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How Republicans rigged shutdown
 

Bad news for Social Security

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