Walking across US border to TJ, Mexico

(Cecil Travels) I crossed the border between San Diego (Alta California, US) and Tijuana (the largest city in Baja California, MX, often affectionately referred to as TJ) to see if all the terrifying tales of drug cartels, MS-13 gang members, prostitutes, donkeys, cunning dealers, clueless mules, underage drunken American partying, kidnappings, and human trafficking were true. What I found shocked me.

Aztec: terror, tribes, sacrifice?

(Re Righting History) Aztec warriors kinda sucked as neighbors...

• Neighboring tribe, the Tlaxcaltecs, neighboring tribe or "traitors" in league with European imperialists? It's messy

Price tag of Trump's Israel War on Iran?

(The Young Turks) Zionist, Mossad-blackmailed Pres. Trump's War for Israel against Iranian regime just blew up in his face

What the true cost, perjurer Hegseth?

(The Young Turks) SHOCKER: Iran War's REAL price tag revealed (Brown Univ. study)

How much should we pay for this genocide? One supposes it should be called OUR genocide since we pay for it on behalf of racist Israel and its ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and ongoing illegal occupier ("settler") colonialism and expansionism, which is someone's imperial w*t dream. Looking at you, CIA.

(lets unlock animations) Iran's F-14 is back! Israel's air superiority at risk? | Col. Douglas Macgregor or at least the fake AI version of him

• (TJDS) Millions of Iranians want revenge, attend Ayatolah's funeral | Graham Platner's...

Zionism: Using Christianity against West

(Prof Jiang Explains) Christian Zionism is the evil plan to force the Christian's God to return and kill a lot of people | Prof. Jiang Xueqin: Dispensationalist Millennialist

• "Manipulate the Book, and they will have to believe it"
  

• The Jimmy Dore Show
• The Grayzone with Max Blumenthal
• Israel is threatening to use nukes against the world (Kim Iversen via rightwing rense.com)
• Leaked emails reveal British intel instigated riots in occupied Ireland with twisted ploys

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...
• https://www.botanical.com/botanical/m...
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
• https://wellcomecollection.org/articl...
• https://digirepo.nlm.nih.gov/ext/dw/1...
• https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscri...

• 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

Oh, thought I was joking? No, I want that dang dolla. Instagram: mettabeshay

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

Free: Altadena Spring Fest, Muir HS (5/15)

Rhythms of the Village | Altadena Cultural Center and Shop: Stop by and tell us your story

All of Southern California is invited

FREE. Open to the public. Twice a year, Rhythms of the Village and Oh Happy Day Vegan Cafe sponsor a giant community festival of live music, healing arts, crafts, Aztec dancers, entertainers, and good old fashioned fun. Post Eaton Fire, it is now held on the much larger Muir High School campus on Lincoln Ave. It has grown exponentially. Come try vegan and other food trucks, free spiritual healing modalities, and see Baba Onochie and Ameca plus Vegan John. Keeping the community alive!

• Village Spring Festival
• Saturday, May 16, 2026, 1:00-7:00 pm
• Campus of John Muir High School
• 1905 Lincoln Ave. Pasadena, CA 91103
• 🎉🌍 (What's Up In Altadena | Facebook)
• Village Spring Festival 2026 (Instagram)
• Pasadena Now: Altadena’s Rhythms of the Village brings...

(2b.alwaysloved, May 5, 2026)  Indigenous, aboriginal, copper-colored people of Turtle Island who are called "American" Indians are misclassified as "African" American Blacks.

Health and wellness at Spring Fest

They are actually the original inhabitants of the Americas and the Caribbean who built civilizations here long before Eurasians, Africans, and Europeans came to Turtle Island. They had kings and queens. Native Americans of Eurasian [Siberian, etc.] descent are not indigenous to the Americas or the Caribbean but rather are descendants of slaves from China, Japan, the Philippines, India, Southwest Asia, who arrived on Spanish and Portuguese Manila Galleons. They also came from Europe, including the UK, and married the indigenous American Indians misclassified as African American Blacks, who were taught in church schools how to be Indians and signed on Indian Rolls for $5 to take over the lands and identity of the indigenous American Indians misclassified as African American Blacks.

References: 1828 Webster's dictionary and the New Oxford American English Dictionary definition of "American." The Library of Congress. The U.S. Census records (Rev 7:9,10). (Posted on Instagram, edited for clarity by Wisdom Quarterly).

• The Makers Hive Market at Pasadena Commons Tickets, Saturday, May 16  •  11 AM - 4 PM | Eventbrite
• Gourmet Vegan and Plant-Based Dishes, Wednesday, May 20  • Eventbrite
• 2026 Pasadena Armenian Festival, Saturday, May 30  •  11 AM - 7 PM | Eventbrite The Pasadena Armenian Festival brings the rich traditions, arts, and cuisine of Armenia to the San Gabriel Valley. (and Turks Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uyghur will likely not be there)
• TUJUNGA VILLAGE SPRING MUSIC FESTIVAL Tickets, Saturday, May 23  •  1 PM - 8 PM | Eventbrite
• California Summer Pop-Up Market & Luxury Artisan Festival 2026 Tickets, Friday, June 19-Sunday, June 21  •  10 AM-6 PM | Eventbrite

How many Irans make a Right? (comedy)

(Sammy Obeid) How many Irans make a Right? | standup comedy

Happy Int'l Hot and Spicy Food Day

International Hot and Spicy Food Day

Is "American Chinese food" Chinese food?

• VIDEO: Vui's Kitchen on Hot and Spicy Food Day 2026

Favorite: green curry over rice

There is a world of Buddhist vegetarian cuisine. What is so good about vegan and vegetarian Thai and Indian foods, Chinese and Korean? Curry? No, it's that they are spicy and flavorful. But even Chinese food has a hot source call Szechuan. Mexican food (like sauteed fajitas) is the most popular cuisine in the USA. Why? It might have something to do with the spicy, freshness, crispy crunch, and health benefits -- greens, chiles, lemon, peppers, beans, and whole grains (at least in the original indigenous form). Many Buddhist countries, which are renowned for their calm, cool, and collectedness -- sure do offer a lot of spice. It is the characteristic of hot place, particularly tropical ones like Theravada Sri Lanka.

• INTERNATIONAL HOT AND SPICY FOOD DAY - January 16, 2026 (National Today)

Better than meat? Plant-based proteins

Chef Gordon Ramsay makes spicy cauliflower vegan dish

• 5 regions known for ultra-spicy dishes and countries where the heat is much milder (MSN)
• CC Liu, Crystal Q., Imogen, Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells, VEGAN TEST KITCHEN

America's most racist man tries Asian food

(Cantomando) America's most racist man tries Asian (or 'Nese) snacks for the first time

• Leaving behind White supremacy, almost

We are Nordic pagans! The Nazis’ War on Christmas | HISTORY

 

"Numb Little Bug"

Git yer goddamn Gook food outta ARE cuntry!

LYRICS: "I don't feel a single thing/ Have the pills done too much?/ Haven't caught up with my friends in weeks/ And now we're outta touch/ I've been drivin' in L.A./ And the world, it feels too big/ Like a floating ball that's bound to break/ Snap my psyche like a twig// And I just wanna see/ If you feel the same as me

• [CHORUS] 

  

  This is God's own racist country, the Deep South

  Do you ever get a little bit tired of life?/ Like you're not really happy, but you don't wanna die/ Like you're hangin' by a thread, but you gotta survive/ 'Cause you gotta survive/ Like your body's in the room, but you're not really there/ Like you have empathy inside, but you don't really care/ Like you're fresh outta love, but it's been in the air/ Am I past repair?

Big Pharma's chemical sorcery?

A little bit tired of trying to care when I don't/ A little bit tired of quick repairs to cope/ A little bit tired of sinkin', there's water in my boat/ I'm barely breathin', tryna stay afloat/ So I got these quick repairs to cope/ Guess I'm just broken and broke

[VERSE 2] The prescription's on its way/ With a name I can't pronounce/ And the dose I gotta take/ Boy, I wish that I could count/ 'Cause I just wanna see/ If this could make me happy// [CHORUS]

Shoulda stuck to Asian veg food

A little bit tired of trying to care when I don't/ A little bit tired of quick repairs to cope/ A little bit tired of sinkin', there's water in my boat/ I'm barely breathin', tryna stay afloat/ So I got these quick repairs to cope

[OUTRO] Do you ever get a little bit tired of life?/ Like you're not really happy, but you don't wanna die/ Like a numb little bug that's gotta survive/ That's gotta survive.

Whoa, Asians be crazy? (Rosemead)

What happened to former reigning Asian Hollywood (Kill Bill) Beauty Queen Lucy Liu?

• How ‘Rosemead,’ a film inspired by a tragic true story, helped paint a fuller picture of the truth | LAist

VIDEO: Monterey Park? SZA's "Kill Bill" Asian (parody) Watch out, Ling Peng (Kill Bill)

• Supreme White Power? Jewish Christmas in Nazi Germany
• Canadian Cantomando visits Alabama; Em Beihold, "Numb Little Bug"; CC Liu, Pfc. Sandoval, Crystal Q., Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

New Year's Eve Celestial Ball (12/31)

WHAT HAPPENED?

Where did these DJs learn to move us?

Through the gloom of clouds and mist, muddy streets and threats of "rain," we made our way to big house in Shadow Hills in the Foothills of the Valley. It was warm and bright inside, pulsing with lights and DJs. In a room to the right were throw pillows, tapestries, chocolates of all kinds and the massage area. On the ceiling was a map of the night sky in colorful lights or a psychedelic representation of it anyway. We gathered in a giant circle that spanned three rooms and the dancefloor, spilling into a fourth, for introductions. Pick a word that represents the year we are leaving. Introduce yourself to the person on your left, mimic their every move, share deeply. Raw vegan foods and cheesecake by Rawsheed were cooling, and warm curries were bubbling. Hibiscus tea filled a punch bowl with stevia and lemon essence.

Kinship Yoga 108 Sun Salutations

There was socializing all around in every room and a long primary dinner table set to serve two dozen people as others retreated to an adjoining room to eat, talk, and plan their karaoke, dancing, and singalong routines. The massage room became a healing chamber with too many signing up too late as hours rushed until the ecstatic moment of the countdown: 10, 9, 8...2026 was on its way. Is this happening simultaneously in New York, or did it happen three hours before? It's already tomorrow in Oceania and Australia. Dancing, screaming, hoots and howls to welcome in the new year, it's something Gatsby might have overseen from West Egg. Where's Daisy? She's dancing somewhere.

Ecstatic Dance with Sita Das Ji

Others are developing mindfulness and meditating, healing and letting go, and the drizzle has stopped down below in the Basin and Valley that is Los Angeles. People settled into corners for deep talks about the environment, human potential, psychology, saving the world, lamenting the Levant, and strategizing for paths to health and greater prosperity.

This is a good crowd with Vanessa and Annie outdoing themselves. Not since this past summer's pool party in Beverly Hills and book release has a compassionate celebration been so celebratory. Everyone was full, and it was approaching 2:00 am as we cleaned up, hugged, and meandered back down to the City of Angels.

Annie Vandenheuvel | Meetup

This 2025/2026 New Year's Eve is a Silver and Gold Celestial Ball hosted by Annie Vandenheuvel (Fruitful) and Vanessa Marsot (vegansofla.com) in Los Angeles.

Enter the glittering world of Arcana and find your Tarot Dreams. Once you arrive, find a host of figures to illuminate your chosen path. Draw in ultraviolet colors on the walls of your inner landscape.

• New Year's Eve Vegan Celestial Ball
• Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2025, 8PM-1AM
• Sunland-Tujunga, Shadow Hills, L.A.

Fashion inspiration from famous vegan (plant-based) men | Watson & Wolfe

Start 2026 by watching the 14th Dalai Lama's NYE message of peace #Buddhism #love #fypシ

What the f*ck do DJs actually do-do-do-do?

24 Hours With: Charlotte de Witte at Tomorrowland EDM Rave in Belgium, Europe, 2025

Kindness [to the environment and all its animals and human-animals] makes us stronger

• FREE TO RSVP: (Disclosure Project) New Year's Eve Celebration, Los Angeles, Wed, Dec 31, 2025, 8:00 PM | Meetup
• (Nature Center) New Year's Eve Vegan Celebration, Los Angeles (SF Valley), Wed, Dec 31, 2025, 8:00 PM | Meetup
• (PasaDharma) New Year's Eve Vegan Celebration and Ball, Los Angeles (Valley), Wed, Dec 31, 2025, 8:00 PM | Meetup

World-class vegan influencer Vanessa Marsot

Purchase a vegan food ticket ($40) to receive Alchemical creations by Chef Rawsheed (Facebook) and special elixirs. Appetizer, a main course, and dessert are all included. Or just come to party ($15).

Everyone in attendance will be provided an elixir of sparkling cider for the midnight toast. A DJ will be playing for our dancing pleasure at this ball between open mic and karaoke sets. Bring instruments!

To practice METTA, I became vegan. 😁

Tip jar massage will be available. Come dressed like a celestial Devi in silver or gold outfit for the ball. Or dress however you feel inspired with comfort as the goal.

Strut down a glittering catwalk in vegan ball attire for everyone to admire. (Please consider ahimsa, "non-harming," and avoid wool, silk, fur, leather, and feathers stolen from tormented animals).

• RSVP TO ATTEND:
• Meetup.com/vegansofla...
• Vegans of Los Angeles
• Vegan Spirituality | Meetup
• Celebration of Fruit Group | Meetup
• Retreats | Ellora Wellness

Will somebody kiss me right at midnight?

DETAILS

Massage is mind-body healing.

Payment for the food ticket due by Dec. 29th. Address of location given upon RSVP by Dec. 30th. Venmo: @Vanessa-Marsot Zelle: 818-383-5998 PayPal: vmarsot@gmail.com. Questions? Contact Vanessa at (818) 383-5998 or Annie at (310) 892-9617.

This event is advertised on multiple sites, so the Meetup numbers do not reflect the total number attending?

DISCLAIMER: Event organizers assume no liability; all participants do so at their own risk. By attending, you agree that neither you nor any third party will hold any of the group's leaders liable for any injury, loss, or damage to your own person or any members of your family, friends, acquaintances, children, pets, or property, arising directly or as a consequence from a group activity.

No cooking tonight. We have a vegan chef!

(BOSH!) Here are nine vegan party recipes (perfect for New Year's Eve or Day) 🎉

Patrik Baboumian celebrates first vegan decade | PETA

• Vegan Foodbank Volunteer Day (Sorting Day), Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 10:45 AM | Meetup
• Vegan New Years Potluck, Sat, Jan 17, 2026, 12:00 PM | Meetup
• Charlotte de Witte at Tomorrowland Belgium 2025 (main stage closing)

Vegans of LA (vegansofla.com)

• Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Jen B., Dhr. Seven, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Nick Fuentes loves India? Vivek Ramaswamy, Kash Patel, Usha Vance

What about it, Anchor Baby bich? Get out of US

(Firstpost America) "Go back to India": [white nationalist, far right, MAGA man, Trumper, Groyper] Nick Fuentes' anti-India slurs aimed at "anchor baby" Hindu billionaire (according to Forbes) and future Ohio Governor Sri Vivek Ramaswamy-jii.

Nick, I'm cool though, right? I'm FBI Dir. Ka$h Patel anchored to this Zionist honeypot babe!

• History of Buddhism in India
• Will FBI Director Ka$h Patel be seeing Nick Fuentes in Valhalla, Brother, when he runs into Charlie Kirk?