Psychedelic magic mushrooms in 11 mins

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The White Sami Shamans of the North

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White Christmas of Sami shamans

The Sámi (US SAH-mee, UK SAM-ee [8], also spelled Sami and Saami) are the indigenous Native Scandinavians, the Sámi-speaking people inhabiting the region of Sápmi (formerly Lapland), which today encompasses large northern parts of Sweden, Norway, Finland, and of the Kola Peninsula in Russia.

Historically, the Sámi have been known in English as Lapps or Laplanders. However, these terms are regarded as offensive by the Sámi, who prefer their own endonym, that is, the Northern Sámi Sápmi [9, 10].

Their traditional Native languages are the Sámi languages, which are classified as a branch of the Uralic language family. More: Sámi people

A Magic Mushroom Christmas: Tripping

(StoneAgeMan) Why we got it wrong: Fly Agaric 101: The Magical Mushroom (Amanita muscaria)

Why we got it wrong: Fly Agaric 101: The Magical Mushroom (Amanita muscaria)

 

(StoneAgeMan) This is the Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria), aka the mushroom from Super Mario Brothers. It’s famous, yet I think the general consensus is that no one should ever eat it, never. That’s probably the safest thing to do, but it has been used for thousands of years by our ancestors.

CONTENTS

• 0:00 - Intro
• 1:03 - The legend of Santa Claus and Amanita urine
• 2:21 - Mushroom hunt
• 2:52 - Mushroom time-lapses
• 2:42 - When are changes updated?
• 3:06 - Amanita and mycorrhizal associations
• 3:52 - Identification of Amanita muscaria.
• 5:17 - Amanita chemistry
• 6:20 - Decarboxylation
• 7:07 - What the mushroom does
• 8:11 - Conclusions

Big thanks to all current and future patrons who are helping fund this science and filmmaking outreach via Patreon: bit.ly/2Sfmkph. "Amanita Dreamer" can be found at: amanitadreamer.net. (Big thanks to her help in this series). Remember to follow on Instagram: untamedscience.

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Amanita, Fliegenpilz (wiki)

Ever wonder, "Is Amanita muscaria psychedelic?" The short answer is yes. Also known as the Fly agaric mushroom, it has psychoactive properties that can alter perception and mood. This intriguing fungus interacts with brain and body to produce unique effects. The answer about it being psychedelic is more nuanced.

What is a safe dosage for first-time users? Are there risks or side effects associated with this mysterious entheogen. Guidance on preparing for an experience that is responsible use that understands the potential legal implications is also covered.

What is it, where does it come from?

Dude, it's totally grove if you prep set 'n setting

Amanita is often recognizable by its vibrant red cap with white spots and is a mushroom species native to temperate and boreal regions of the Northern Hemisphere.

This fascinating fungus has a rich history tied to nature and culture because it is known for its psychoactive properties.

How does it affect brain and body?

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It contains two primary active compounds, ibotenic acid and muscimol. These chemicals interact with the brain's neurotransmitters, specifically targeting the GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid) receptors. This interaction can lead to various effects, including changes in perception, mood, and consciousness. Some may experience euphoria, a dream-like state, or heightened sensory experiences. More: magicdoze.com

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(Dark Mode) Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) mushroom: proper preparation and trip report

Indigenous Europeans are white Asians?

Sami peoples are the Indigenous groups of Scandinavia like those in Sweden and Finland

Shaman Santa is nice to a deaf Sami girl named "Sami"

Scandinavian shroom shamans were beloved figures.

Rugged Indian Americans Indigenous Scandinavians and their teepees tents, 1900 (wiki)

Sami ("Laplander") life might not be possible without reindeer, just as Indians needed buffalo.

Who invented our European-American version of "Christmas"? Sami shamans in Siberia-Scandinavia-Arctic Circle (North Pole) -- with their reindeer obsession, big red coat and boots, long beard, stocking distribution (used as bags over the fireplace to dry psychoactive Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) mushrooms the shaman distributes to families living in yurts by entering through the "chimney" (open rooftop access where fire smoke is ventilated out by design. And even the reindeer get so high they "fly" by partaking of the magical mushrooms and the urine of the shaman or head reindeer, characteristically licking the snow for more of the molecule. Sounds unbelievable, but it's all true. The mushroom has a symbiotic relationship with pine trees, under which they grow, popping up as red and white wrapped "gifts." So we imitate the ritual by wrapping nice things in red and white, the color of peppermint canes, and placing them under the conifer pines tree we drag in for loved ones to find in the morning. It's like an Easter egg (mushroom vulva) hunt in winter snow with the helper Elves or mechanicals cybernauts speak of seeing and interacting with. It's starting to feel a lot like winter solstice time!

Ho ho ho, says the Shaman, gifts for everyone!

One of the least known ethnic groups of Europe. Who are they?

The Magic Mushroom Christmas Theory of those old Santa Claus Siberian and Sami shamans

Scandinavian Sami family, Finland, 1936

(Science) Aug. 18, 2024: Girl football? Forest spirits? Living in tents with advice of female shamans? Sápmi is the Sámi (\sammy\) people’s own name for their traditional territory. The Sámi people are the Indigenous people of the northern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula and large parts of the Kola Peninsula. They live in what some used to call "Lapland" in Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Russia. There is no reliable information on the population of the Sámi people; they are, however, estimated to number between 50,000-100,000. The Sami – an ethnic group who are known as the last indigenous people of Europe (or Laplandia).

#sami #indigenouspeople #saamisaami #nomads #swastika #aryan #lake #Eurasians #Asians #blended

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Connection between Caucasians and Asians? Genetics of Sami, Ainu, and Siberians

(Masaman) July 23, 2017: Could the Scandinavian Sami, white Japanese Ainu, and other Indigenous Siberian peoples be the missing link between modern East Asian and European populations?

Let's go through the genome, DNA, and haplogroups of many of the various peoples of Northern Asia. The natives of Siberia are a very interesting group to learn about, not very well known by the general public.

Let's touch on the fact that Hungarians, Finns, and Estonians all speak languages that come from outside the borders of Europe. Thoughts on the Sami, Ainu, and the native peoples of Siberia? Comment

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That time the Buddha ate mushrooms 🍄

Culinary truffles are dangerous for those who forage without sufficient experience and care.

Muscimol: The legal "magic mushroom"

The Buddha sitting on Fly agaric

(Into the Shadows) Discover the fascinating world of Amanita muscaria or Fly agaric, the entheogenic, psychedelic, psychoactive mushroom of Siberian shamans (like Buddhist and pre-Buddhist shramanas) and their culture's all-important flying (high) reindeer (the real "Santa Claus" figures who bring the harvest to each family, who then dry them in stockings over the warm fireplace, after entering the yurts through the rooftop chimneys, among the indigenous Scandinavian Sami people). From ancient legends to its surprising effects of alkaloids like muscimol or pantherine, explore the science behind this iconic mushroom. Learn how it works and its potential real-world uses.

The Psychedelic Sangha (psychedelicsangha.org)

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Cunda Sutra: Cunda the silversmith

Initial translation by Ven. Thanissaro; edited and expanded by Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Thus have I heard. On one occasion, while the Buddha was wandering in the land of the Mallans with a large community of monastics, he arrived at Pāvā. He rested near the city in the mango grove of Cunda the silversmith.

Cunda the silversmith heard, "The Blessed One, they say, while wandering in the land of the Mallans with a large community of monastics and reaching Pāvā, is staying near Pāvā in my mango grove."

So Cunda went to the Blessed One, bowed, and sat respectfully to one side. As he was sitting there, the Buddha instructed, urged, roused, and encouraged him with a Dhamma talk on the Teaching.

Woo, look at all the colors and patterns!

Then the Buddha said to Cunda — after instructing, urging, rousing, and encouraging him — "Venerable sir, may the Blessed One accept a meal from me tomorrow, together with the community of monastics."

The Blessed One accepted in silence. Then Cunda, understanding the Blessed One had accepted the offer, rose from his seat, bowed to the Blessed One, circumambulated him, respectfully keeping him to his right, and departed.

Then, at the end of the night, after having exquisite hard and soft food, including a large amount of "pig's delight" [1] prepared in his home, he announced the time to the Blessed One:

• 1. The Commentary notes a wide range of opinions on what "pig's delight" means. The opinion given in the Mahā Aṭṭhakathā, the primary source for the Commentary we now have, is that is tender slaughtered pork. (This would be a very strange offering to make to (spiritual aspirants) wandering ascetics like the Buddha and Sangha in largely vegetarian proto-India. It more likely means what pigs delight in eating, such as soft bamboo shoots or truffle mushrooms that pigs love, or a special elixir for vigor and health). Given that the Indian subcontinent has long had a history of applying fanciful names to its foods and elixirs, it is only possible to say what is likely more than literal and therefore hard to say with absolute certainty what the Buddha ate for his last meal. This was his last meal.
• One reason it seems impossible that anyone would serve the Buddha and the Sangha a meal of slaughtered flesh is that their custom was never to accept an offering of meat killed to serve to them. So much was this the custom that the Buddha laid down a monastic disciplinary rule instituting this practice. If anyone should see, hear, or so much as suspect that anyone has killed an animal [to serve it], it is not allowable to accept, for in doing so one would be tacitly approving of the deed of killing animals. Anyone following the Dharma would not ask for, praise, allow, or accept killing animals. For the most part, Buddhist monks and nuns might accept anything, but they would not eat it or approve of its offering.
• “Three Purities” and “Pig’s Delight” | Great Middle Way
• The Buddha, seeing the danger in this truffle dish, this meal of toxic mushrooms, this elixir, did not consume it in ignorance. But seeing it, having completed his mission of establishing the Dharma and Sangha in the world, he willingly accepted it and protected everyone else from it.
• Later he would instruct others to comfort Cunda not to have any remorse for offering him his final meal, a meal as meritorious as the one offered to a meditator before awakening, as the lady Sugata had offered the wandering ascetic Siddhartha, giving him the energy that enabled him to become enlightened.

"Venerable sir, it is time; the meal is ready." Then early in the morning, the Buddha dressed and, carrying his alms bowl and saffron cloak, walked barefoot (as was customary) together with his community of monastics to Cunda's home.

Arriving, he sat on the seat prepared for him. And seated, he said: "Cunda, only serve me the pig's delight you have had prepared. For the community of monastics, provide them with the hard and soft food you have had prepared."

What tasty food do swine love? Savory truffles

Saying, "As you wish, venerable sir," Cunda served the Blessed One the pig's delight and the community of monastics the other food he had had prepared.

Then the Blessed One explained, "Cunda, bury the remainder of the pig's delight in the ground in a pit. I do not perceive anyone in the world -- with its devas, māras, and brahmas (shining ones, destroyers, and supremos), with all its people, wandering ascetics, and Brahmin priests, its royals and commoners -- able to digest it [in whom, when ingested, it would go to a healthy change] except for the Wayfarer (Tathāgata)."

Soma? Entheogenic plant elixirs called amrita

Saying, "As you wish, venerable sir," Cunda buried the remaining pig's delight in the ground in a pit. Then he returned to the Buddha, bowed, and sat respectfully to one side.

Sitting there, the Blessed One -- after instructing, urging, rousing, and encouraging him with a Dhamma talk -- rose from his seat and departed.

Then in the Blessed One, after having eaten the meal Cunda offered him, there arose a severe [gastrointestinal] illness accompanied by [the passing of] blood, with intense and deadly pains.

But the Blessed One endured it mindfully and alert [vigilant and clearly comprehending], rather than being struck down by it.

The Blessed One addressed his attendant: "Ānanda, let us go to Kusinarā."

"As you wish, venerable sir," Ven. Ānanda answered.

I have heard that, after eating Cunda the Silversmith's

offering, the Enlightened One was touched by an illness

fierce and deadly.

After eating it, a fierce sickness arose in the Teacher.

After being purged of it, the Blessed One said,

"Let us go to the city of Kusinarā" [2].

Then the Blessed One, veering off the road,

Came to a certain tree and said:

"Ānanda, please arrange my outer robe in four folds.

I am now tired and wish to rest."

Replying, "As you wish, venerable sir," Ven. Ānanda

Arranged the cloak in four folds.

The Blessed One sat down on the seat made ready.

Seated, he said: "Ānanda, please bring me water.

I am thirsty and wish to drink."

• 2. This style of narrative in which prose passages alternate with verses restating what was already narrated is called campū. This sutra is one of the few instances of this type of narrative in the Pali canon. Another is the Kuṇāla Jātaka (J 5.416-456). There are also some Vedic examples of this form in the Brāhmaṇas, texts that apparently date from around the same time as the Pali language canon. When the incidents presented in this discourse were included in DN 16, these alternating narrative verses were included. Aside from the Buddha's conversation with Pukkusa the Mallan (see Note 4), these are the only incidents that DN 16 narrates in this style. This suggests that perhaps the version of the narrative given here was composed first as a separate piece then later incorporated into DN 16.

Mushrooms clear the forest of spent leaves.

When this was said, Ven. Ānanda said to the Buddha: "Venerable sir, just now a large number (500) of carts crossed. The shallow river, cut by the wheels, is disturbed and muddy.

"But the river Kukuṭa is nearby, with pristine and pleasing waters, cool and limpid waters [3], with restful and refreshing banks. There the Blessed One may drink and cool his limbs."

But a second time, the Blessed One asked, "Ānanda, please bring me water, for I am thirsty and will drink."

Did this meal lead to a Psychedelic Experience?

But a second time, Ven. Ānanda replied as before.

A third time, the Blessed One made his request. Then Ven. Ānanda, taking a bowl, went to the riverside. The shallow river, cut by wheels, that had been disturbed and was flowing muddy, on his approach suddenly began to flow clear, pristine, and undisturbed.

The thought occurred to him, "How amazing and astounding! How great the power and might of the Wayfarer! This shallow river, cut by wheels, was flowing muddy and disturbed. But on my approach, it began to flow clear, pristine, and undisturbed!"

Gathering water in the bowl, he returned to the Blessed One and told him. "Drink this water, O Blessed One! Drink this water, O Well-Gone-One!" Then the Buddha drank [4].

• 4. At this point in the narrative, DN 16 inserts the account of the Buddha's encounter with Pukkusa the Mallan. There is no way of knowing which version of the events is earlier, as the focus of this discourse is not on telling everything that happened to the Buddha on his final day, but on recounting all the events related to Cunda the Silversmith's meal offering.

Let's rest here a while, having slaked our thirst.

Then the Blessed One, together with his community of monastics, the Sangha, wandered toward the river Kukuṭa. Arriving, they went down to drink and bathe then coming out went to a mango grove.

Arriving, the Buddha said: "Cundaka, please arrange my outer robe in four folds, for I am tired and wish to lie down."

Replying, "As you wish, venerable sir," Ven. Cundaka arranged the cloak in four folds. The Blessed One arranged himself on his right side, adopting the lion's posture, placing one foot on top of the other, mindful, alert, and determining when he would get up. Ven. Cundaka sat in front of him.

The Awakened One went to the little river Kukuṭa

with its clear, pristine, and pleasing water.

the Teacher tired, the Wayfarer, without equal in the world,

went down, drank, bathed, and came out again.

Surrounded, honored in the midst of the Sangha,

the Blessed One, Teacher, proceeding here in Dhamma,

the Great Seer, went to the mango grove.

He addressed the monk named Cundaka:

"Spread out the cloak folded in four for me to lie down."

Asked by the One of Developed Mind,

Cundaka quickly set it out in four folds.

The Teacher arranged himself, tired,

and Cundaka sat down in front of him.

Fungi are a superdiversified kingdom.

Then the Blessed One said, "Ānanda, if anyone tries to incite remorse in Cunda the Silversmith by saying, 'It is no gain for you, friend Cunda, it is ill-done by you, that the Wayfarer, having eaten your offering, his last alms meal, gained final nirvana,' then Cunda's remorse should be allayed [in this way]: 

"'It is a gain for you, friend Cunda, and well-done by you that the Wayfarer, having eaten your offering, his last alms meal, gained final nirvana. For face to face with the Blessed One, thus have I heard. Face to face, thus have I learned:

LSD = mushroom on rye grain called ergot

"'Two offerings of alms are equal to each other in fruit, equal to each other in result, of much greater fruit and reward than any other alms offering. What are the two?

"'They are the alms offering that, after having been eaten, the Wayfarer awakens to supreme enlightenment (unexcelled right self-awakening) and the alms that, after having been eaten, the Wayfarer gains (parinibbana, "final nirvana") nirvana without remainder [5].

• 5. Parinibbana, "final nirvana," nirvana without remainder, is what an arahant experiences when passing away, having overcome all further rebirth. The image is of a fire so thoroughly having exhausted its fuel that the embers are totally cool and at rest. This is distinguished from glimpsing nirvana (the deathless state, the unconditioned element) with fuel remaining -- nirvana as experienced during the lifetime of those who are not yet fully enlightened -- which is likened to a fire that has gone out but still has embers smoldering. See Iti 44, Thag 15.2, and the discussion in The Mind Like Fire Unbound, Chapter 1.

"'These are the two alms that are equal to each other in fruit, equal to each other in result, of much greater fruit and reward than any other almsgiving. Honorable [6] Cunda the Silversmith has accumulated karma that leads to longevity.

• 6. Āyasmant: This is a term of respect usually reserved for senior monastics. The Buddha using it here is probably meant to emphasize the point that Ven. Cunda's gift of the Buddha's last meal should be regarded as a very honorable and meritorious thing.

Supernatural (G. Hancock)

"'Honorable Cunda the Silversmith has accumulated karma that leads to beauty. Cunda the Silversmith has accumulated karma that leads to happiness. Cunda the Silversmith has accumulated karma that leads to heavenly rebirths. Cunda the Silversmith has accumulated karma that leads to high rank. Cunda the Silversmith has accumulated karma that leads to sovereignty.'

"In this way, Ānanda, Cunda the Silversmith's remorse should be allayed."

Then, realizing the significance, the Buddha on this occasion exclaimed this inspired utterance:

For a person who gives [lets go, shares], merit increases.

For one who exercises self-restraint, no animosity is amassed.

One who is skillful leaves harm behind. And from the cessation

of greed, hatred, and delusion (passion, aversion, wrong views)

gains full enlightenment and experiences nirvana.

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A "shaman," unlike a priest, seeks a direct experience of the Truth, the divine, the ultimate

• Into the Shadows (video), YouTube, Oct. 23, 2024; Ven. Thanissaro (initial translation), accesstoinsight.org; Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Buddhist botany: What plant was 'Soma'?

The shamanic Fly agaric mushroom (Amanita muscaria) is used as a European entheogen.

(Rajada's World) "Soma: The Psychedelic Origins of Religious Experience"

Altered states of consciousness? The first ever monthly Universal Quest Salon (universalquest) was held on Sunday, August 23, 2015, in Conference Room 2 inside the India International Centre IIC). Founder, filmmaker, and inner-explorer (psychonaut) Raja Choudhury gave a talk and presentation followed by an open Socratic discussion in the company of Dr. Singh and friends, exploring how India's religions (and most religions of the world) have their origins in the psychedelic (entheogenic and sometimes hallucinogenic) experiences of shamans (priestesses and priests), seers, and mystics and how Soma became a sacred and integral part of Indian religious life even after its hallucinogenic use was abandoned with the evolution of advanced forms of Yoga and other inner-techniques.

Confusion and Denial: Historical Attempts to Identify the Soma Plant, Part 1

We can trade these worldwide

(On Paradise Earth) The exclusive use of poetic and metaphorical language to describe the soma-plant [the secret ingredient in the drink known as amrita or Greek ambrosia] in Vedic hymns is one of various explanations for the failure of modern linguists to ascertain the botanical identity of India's famous "plant of the gods [devas]."

Yet, related uses of symbolic and iconographic imagery in mythical literature during classical time periods provide additional evidence on which to base our general impressions of the plant itself, its habitat preferences, and the manners in which the plant was employed during libation ceremonies.

• Soma (a name for the moon deity, moon, and Monday) was also called the "elixir of life" [longevity, immortality = ionic (eternal now/timeless) life]."
• INGREDIENTS: Wasn't soma Afghani cannabis (ganja) steeped in fermented mare's milk (kumiss) with blue lotus (utpala)? No asafoetida. Add some Fly agaric or psilocybin and, pow, right to the moon, because these are forms of DMT (the Spirit Molecule in magic mushrooms)
• Isn't it strange that what we call "LSD" or "acid" is actually a mushroom (ergot fungus)? Now science distinguishes plants and fungi, but people do not. From ancient times, mushrooms were just very strange plants popping up. So might an ingredient have been contaminated rye or barley?
• Harvard doctor (Wm. Hurt) becomes obsessed with Altered States

Community of seekers (psychedelicsangha.org)

Scholarly efforts have yet to settle on an agreeable determination of the soma-plant's identity.

But many conjectures and hypotheses on the issue have been proposed over the last two centuries, with many specialists favoring the plant's identification as an Ephedra species from the arid steppes of Central Asia.

What do entheogens do to perception?

Nevertheless, from a strictly botanical perspective, most if not all previous proposals on soma's identity are questionable at best.

This video explores some of the latest hypotheses and considers their unlikely relevance to soma's enigmatic nature and identity.

[It surely had to include a strain or variety of cannabis, perhaps referring to more than one brew (elixir), the way ayahuasca is composed of different sets of ingredients that have the same effect so are all simply called ayahuasca, yage, caapi, or natema.]

• On Paradise Earth, April 13, 2023; Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly