Drunk monkeys? Ancient highs? Legal highs?

(GrowOn) When did ancient humans first drink alcohol, June 12, 2026

(once) Ancient humans got high every single day

How good are legal highs kratom, kava, kanna?

(Metta Beshay) Patreon: mettabeshay. All links are at linktr.ee/mettabeshay. "Getting high" [finding a temporary way out of our "normal" or usual state of consciousness] is an almost universal human experience. We are taught that alcohol is the default option for humans, but I learned that this is not the case.

 

Let's delve into the history of kanna in South Africa with the Koi Koi and the San people (Khoi San people). [The San people were made famous in The Gods Must Be Crazy (film series)].

Let's discuss the complex morality of the growing kratom use in the world. 

Let's try the most famous and confusing legal magic mushroom, the shamanic fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) and explore how to use it for sleep.

Finally, let's learn the best methods to prepare the popular Pacific Island plant kava.

I try all of these plants [from Nature's Plant Pharmacy] and provide a firsthand and honest report on how they make me feel.

I have learned that there is an insane number of legal plant medicines to explore, such as Mormon Tea made of ephedra, shrooms like psilocybin, areca nut or betel nut, Salvia divinorum or seer's sage, and fermented kanna...

CHAPTERS

• 0:00 Intro and disclaimer
• 1:28 Amanita muscaria (fly agaric)
• 6:39 Kava
• 12:50 Kratom
• 22:58 Kanna
• 30:17 Outro

WARNING: This video is strictly for educational and documentary purposes. I do not recommend anyone to try or repeat any of my actions in this video.

SOURCES

• The father of pharmacognosy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedaniu...
• High Uses of Benadryl / how_to_trip_safely_on_benadryl
• Kanna: Kanna History: https://kanna-info.com/history-of-kanna
• Basic kanna info: https://www.erowid.org/plants/kanna/k...
• Ann and Alexander Shulgin talking: • Ann and Sasha Shulgin Discussing Phen...
• European Conquer Kanna reports: “The Present State of the Cape of Good Hope” Translated in 1731 Active ingredients: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
• True Review Kanna Video: • Video Zembrin: https://www.amazon.com/Nutricost-Zemb...
• Mesembrine: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31299...
• Mesembrine: https://www.drugs.com/npp/sceletium-t...
• Pharmacology of Kanna: / all_you_need_to_know_about_kannas_pharmaco...
• More Chemistry Talk: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
• South African Ethnobotanist post / clarification_on_kanna
• Source also good dosing info and more: https://sceletium.com/knowledge/
• Its Chemical Action: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26615...
• Amanita: Amanita History: https://psychedelicspotlight.com/a-cu...
• Amanita Psychnautwiki: https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Amani... • The Fly Agaric 🍄 Facts, Myths, and Ex...
• Great Podcast Kava: Great Kava Info • The Science Behind Kava Alcohol Use in Micronesia https://micsem.org/article/alcohol-an...
• Native American Powwow • I Experienced My First Native America... • Salvia Trip Professionally Filmed • Salvia 2023 bad trip
• Mandrake: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles...
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• https://digirepo.nlm.nih.gov/ext/dw/1...
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• My kratom source: https://left-coast-kratom.com/buy-bul...
• My kanna source: https://sceletium.com/product/sceleti...
• My discount code: METTA99
• My Amanita muscaria (red mushroom) source: https://mn-nice-ethnobotanicals.com/c...
• My discount code: METTA
• Kava and kratom extract shot: https://www.shorebreakkava.com/produc...
• Discount code: METTA
• Cashapp: https://cash.app/$MettaBeshay
• Venmo: @Metta-Beshay

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• once; Metta Beshay, Oct. 10, 2023; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly, orig. June 16, 2024

A Chocolate Meditation before Valentine's

Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Dhr. Seven, Jen B., Crystal Q., Wisdom Quarterly

WHAT HAPPENED?

What's an urban shaman to say to Americans?

We all gathered in the Valley (1/27/24) in a spacious home with wood floors. Cacao was brewing on the stove as vegan dishes were brought in and spread all across a large table. Lisa opened the event with a circle of introductions by each person, city traveled from, and the nature of the dish brought for the potluck. Then we ate, socialized, got cozy and, finishing up, prepared for a meditative experience. This was no lecture but a sensual, in-the-body experience of profound relaxation, staying with the present moment, and trying not to anticipate the wonderful chocolate (xocolatl, Theobroma cacao) about to be served. Using deep breathing and complete letting go, staying awake and alert of all that was going on right here right now, we opened up, became vulnerable, felt our feelings, experienced our sensations with what the Buddha taught was mindfulness: dispassionate awareness of all that was going on. It is not enough to be aware. It is awareness, watching the experience. Seeing sights, hearing sounds, feeling tactile sensations, perceiving scents and tastes and mind object and letting them be. Radical acceptance of what is without fixing it, altering it, distorting it, or resisting it. In that moment, everything was okay. Everything was acceptable. Everything was impersonal and passing away, repeating or not as alluring as it previously seemed to be. Smiles sprouted on faces all around.

This is the plant helper Theobroma cacao

Everyone sat in a circle, on soft sofas, chairs, the wooden floor, with Stephanie on a yoga mat as the demonstration, Seven led us through letting go and consciousness-expansion. Then came the creamy vegan chocolate and an intention setting exercise, as we placed our intentions into the drink by some shamanic alchemical Dr. Emoto alteration of water by consciousness, as Indian genius Jagadish Chandra Bose (who discovered The Secret Life of Plants) taught was happening all the time as we interact with our environment.

• Indian botanist and genius J.C. Bose on the Secret Life of Plants [and inanimate objects] (SRF)

Then we mindfully drank, experiencing the cacao with all six of our senses. Then solid pieces of chocolate were distributed, rich in the alkaloid theobromine, and savored in a way that brought out all its richness -- aware of craving, desire, or grasping arising for flavor and comfort -- so as to make it both delicious, opening to our lives (because this is not a rehearsal for some future time when we'll be alive) and a lesson that mindfulness is possible every waking moment. Meditation is one thing, sitting in a stillness approaching samadhi, and mindfulness is possible once an attitude adjustment makes us aware what we are doing, what we have been doing, and what is possible to do. Rather than abandoning ourselves and the present moment, we can be fully in the moment like a peak experience. We can enjoy all that human life has to offer and not mindlessly cling to it, making ourselves susceptible to misery when it alters, as it certainly will. We can see things as incapable of fulfilling and satisfying us and behave accordingly. We may even glimpse how impersonal it all is. Then we met ourselves with a partner, standing face to face, practicing being present for our experience and being present for another person. Everyone met, embraced, shook hands, introduced themselves to one another. There was a memorial for great vegan Buddhist Alan, who recently passed away, as his caretaker Christina was present. Then more socializing and storytelling took place, having gone up a few levels, as everyone was suddenly on very intimate terms and open with everyone else. It was a meditative, mindful, and gastronomical success.

Event details

It's a New Year [approaching Chinese lunisolar New Year after the full Wolf Moon] and we want to become

• enlightened,
• mindful,
• blissful,
• happy,
• healthy,
• abundant,
• energetic,
• coupled
• or contented (Valentine's Day)

Theobroma cacao is the "Food of the Gods"

and enjoy ALL of the potential benefits of meditation. But HOW?!

We start this year with a Cacao Ceremony (xocolatl, FREE CHOCOLATE) and Intention Setting.

It includes Ecstatic Breathwork, Bodywork (to melt into the mat), and understanding what "Mindfulness" really means.

Could we be mindful of eating delicious things?

Is greed good? How about craving for chocolate (Theobroma cacao, the "Food of the Gods")? We'll find out.

Led by Native American Buddhist Shaman Seven at Ellen's with Lisa Levinson's Vegan Spirituality Group with healthy snacks and drinks. RSVP FREE:

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  Chocolate Meditation (MSCM)

  Disclosure Project: Learn to Meditate-Chocolate Ceremony, Intention Setting, Valentine's, Breathwork, Sat, Jan 27, 2024, 6:00 PM
• Nature Center: Learn to Meditate-Chocolate Ceremony, Intention Setting, Valentine's, Breathwork, Sat, Jan 27, 2024, 6:00 PM
• PasaDharma: Learn to Meditate-Chocolate Ceremony, Intention Setting, Valentine's, Breathwork, Sat, Jan 27, 2024, 6:00 PM
  

Life of the pre-Mexican Maya (video)

Weird History, June 9, 2019; Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson, Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

SCPR.org (Itxy Quintanilla)

They'll have us believing we were all blood thirsty "savages" hungry for human sacrifice when the invaders brought such unthinkable ideas and savagery to the spread and maintenance of empire as to put all the Old World people to shame and subjugation. But it is these people and their students doing the anthropological research, standing on the shoulders of implicitly biased scientists exercising the rigor of the laurels they sit upon. In other words, we are forced to believe what we are told by outsiders and conquerors (Conquistadors) because they get the funding and tell tales reassuring to the current power structure. If only we had bold and daring science that could successfully question its own assumptions and get us closer to the truth.

What life was like as a Mayan

Ben Hale, modern Navajo dancer

Strolling past one of the Maya's haunting, crumbling pyramids or seeing one in the background of a well-traveled friend's Instagram post, chances are most of us have no idea what everyday life was really like for the ancient Maya. From rubber ballgames to body piercings to getting high on chocolate (Theobroma cacao, "cocoa, food of the gods," the "gods" being devas of various kinds, even arrivals from sky/space), the ancient Mayan culture has a lot more in common with our world today than anyone would probably ever think. Today, let's explore what life was really like for the ancient Mayans.

Magic Healing Mushrooms?

Lasting benefits from mystical religious experience (putting science in spirituality through brain chemistry) derived from entheogen use? Meditation is capable of providing a more powerful spiritual experience of oneness (non-duality), empathy (mudita), and connectedness. The Federal government and the pharmaceutical industry (the pharmaceutical-industrial complex) will not stand for any shortcuts. But Bike Day indicates that Big Pharma in fact prompted the premature awakening of the 1960s. "Modern" societies -- Buddhist and non-Buddhist -- have been induced to reject entheogen use as a "primitive"/backward practice. But in fact: