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"We have bigger houses but smaller families;
more conveniences, but less time;
We have more degrees, but less sense;
more knowledge, but less judgment;
more experts, but more problems;
more medicines, but less healthiness;
We've been all the way to the moon and back,
but have trouble crossing the street to meet
the new neighbour.
We built more computers to hold more
information to produce more copies than ever,
but have less communication;
We have become long on quantity,
but short on quality.
These are times of fast foods
but slow digestion;
Tall men but short character;
Steep profits but shallow relationships.
It's a time when there is much in the window,
but nothing in the room."
-14th Dalai Lama  

McKenna proposed that after the physical evolution to modern humans took place, it was the psilocybic mushrooms that helped gave us the cultural evolution of art, language and spirituality, while at the same time suppressing the urge towards male dominated hierarchies.

In today's cultural climate we live very much in the male dominated hierarchy system, much like the primates from which we evolved - meaning that the meanest guys with the sharpest teeth rise to control the actions of everyone underneath them. Those at the top of this system obviously wish to keep it going, as it always most benefits those who run it.



We are brought up and educated in a mandatory and imposed system to value empty materialism, consumerism, celebrity, conformity, submission to authority and hierarchy, patriotism, fitting in as a cog in the system, hedonism, "entertainment", television, the illusory system of democracy, and an overall feeling of the divine right to own that which should not be owned.



We are hypnotized into believing that this capitalist, consumerist system, run by corrupt, power thirsty individuals that feed us on fear is the only way, and to imagine another system of civilization is empty idealism.

Psychedelics like psilocybic mushrooms are the single most powerful antidote to all of this. Nothing I know of can show you more adeptly, more quickly, and more clearly that being a part of that system is not a way to live your life. Psychedelics decondition you to stop valuing materialism, consumerism, and authority, and this is why they are illegal. Psychedelics are generally not dangerous to your health, they are a threat only to those who wish to narrow your mind and dampen your potential.

Now as we become further engulfed in the greatest problems our planet has ever faced, we will be shown in greater clarity that the current system we employ does not work, and only can only drag us along on the march towards the abyss.

Could it be that just as psychedelics caused the last great evolution in the human race - from evolved monkey to cultured man - they might just do so again?



If only the people we employ to protect us wouldn't tell us what we can and what we can't put in our own bodies...  

Perhaps the most famous of Terence McKenna's theories and observations is his explanation for the origin of the human mind and culture. McKenna theorized that as the North African jungles receded toward the end of the most recent ice age, giving way to grasslands, a branch of our tree-dwelling primate ancestors left the branches and took up a life out in the open — following around herds of ungulates, nibbling what they could along the way.



Among the new items in their diet were psilocybin-containing mushrooms growing in the dung of these ungulate herds. The studies conducted by Fisher proved enhancement of visual acuity and edge detection as an effect of psilocybin at low doses, and McKenna argued that this would have conferred an adaptive advantage in hunting, and therefore food supply, and therefore in reproductive success. He also argued that the effects of slightly larger doses, including a physical sexual arousal — and in still larger doses, ecstatic hallucinations and glossolalia — gave evolutionary advantages to those tribes who partook of it. There were many changes caused by the introduction of this drug to the primate diet. McKenna theorizes, for instance, that synesthesia (the blurring of boundaries between the senses) caused by psilocybin led to the development of spoken language: the ability to form pictures in another person's mind through the use of vocal sounds.

About 12,000 years ago, further climate changes removed the mushroom from the human diet, which McKenna argued to result in a new set of profound changes in our species as we reverted to pre-mushroomed and brutal primate social structures that had been modified and/or repressed by frequent consumption of psilocybin.source  

Psilocybin improves visual acuity



In the Sixties, Roland Fisher at the National Institute of Mental Health began studying the effects of psilocybin on human beings, particularly on the visual field. Here are the journals produced from these studies: 1, 2, 3

The tests involved putting the participants in an experiment where they could see two bars lining up, which would slowly part. The participants were given a buzzer to press when the two bars were no longer parallel.

One group was given a low dose of psilocybin (lower than the threshold for psychedelic activity) and the other group was just a control group, and was only given a placebo.

The results were stunning, and the psilocybin group were able to detect the deformation long before the control group could do so.

Fisher commented "its very interesting. Here we have data which argues significantly that you perceive reality better with the drug than without the drug."  

This painful ritual is used as a way to become a man in this South American Amazon tribe.

  

Richard Grossman plays indigenous instruments with consummate skill:

  

  

Astrology News: Pluto is now in Capricorn

Pluto is the smallest and most outer planet in our solar system so it might seem unimportant and innocuous, but it is actually one of the powerful and most important energies in astrology.



Being that Pluto is at the outer edge of the solar system, it is a very slow moving planet, and takes 248 years for it to complete it's orbit. In astrological terms, the less often an astrological event occurs, the greater it's impact.

Astrologers around the world prophesied on what Pluto in Capricorn might mean. Though there were inevitable discretions on the details, there was unanimous agreement that this event would bring about massive change, financial upheaval and the death and rebirth of establishments.

On January 22nd - the exact day Pluto moved into Capricorn - the world stock markets collapsed.



As the death/rebirth Plutonian energy gets stronger, current establishments (Capricorn) are going to seek to protect themselves. As Pluto gets further into Capricorn, we're going to expect to see a much greater level of paranoia in the government. Domestic surveillance is going to hit unprecedented levels, and the dying system is going to seek to protect itself by imprisoning those who oppose it.



But there is good news. The last time Pluto was in it's current position was the 1760's, when people in America started circulating information about individual liberty and personal freedom. History is repeating itself, and the internet is providing the means for this to happen.

As Governments seek to squeeze civil liberties and further subdue their population, people will rise up and oppose them. We saw this shortly after Pluto entered Capricorn the last time, with the Boston Tea Party. Pluto is death and rebirth. Last time it was in Capricorn - sign of authority, organization and of organizations - there was the first truly successful revolt against an empire: The American Revolution.



Already in America, the constitution set up by the founding fathers to protect the liberty of it's people from a tyrannical government has been shot to pieces. It is now possible for police - without a warrant! - to spy on you, break into your home, arrest you, and hold you indefinitely in jail without trial- if they suspect you of being a "terrorist." And it just so happens that anyone who opposes the current establishment and seeks to overthrow them can be a terrorist. It is said that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter, and we will likely begin to see this more clearly in in the approaching years to come.  

Quest for the Lost Civilization: Prehistory, the ancient mariners. A documentary by Graham Hancock.

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So, now you've got a little background on the guy, here is the lament of Hermes, written in the Hermetica in ancient times, left for us today to consider and ponder:

  

One of the most profound works Hermes allegedly left for us was the Emerald Tablet, which later became a part of the foundation upon which alchemy was based. It is made up of a series of alchemical maxims, thought to encode a deeper wisdom and a recipe for the preparation of the Philosophers' Stone. Alchemy is a vast and immense subject on it's own, but in short is an ancient, practiced philosophy searching for the means to:
* Turn base metals into gold
* Discover the panacea - the cure for all disease
* Create the elixir of longevity - a means of eternal life.

Together, these goals can be achieved through the application of the legendary substance, the Philosophers' Stone.

Though this is a glimpse of the physical, tangible side of it, there is a much deeper arcane, occult, spiritual, metaphysical and meaningful drive behind alchemy which is not well understood by those who do not devote their life to it.



Here is a modern translation of the Emerald Tablet, for those interested:

Truly, without deceit, certainly and absolutely.

That which is Below corresponds to that which is Above, and that which is Above corresponds to that which is Below, in the accomplishment of the Miracle of the One Thing. And just as all things have come from the One, through the Mediation of the One, so all things follow from this One Thing in the same way.

Its Father is the Sun; its Mother is the Moon. The Wind has carried it in his Belly. Its Nourishment is the Earth. It is the Father of every completed Thing in the whole World. Its Strength is intact if it is turned towards the Earth. Separate the Earth by Fire: the fine from the gross, gently and with great skill.

It rises from Earth to Heaven, and then it descends again to the Earth, and receives Power from Above and from Below. Thus you will have the Glory of the whole World. All Obscurity will be clear to you. This is the strong Power of all Power because it overcomes everything fine and penetrates everything solid.

In this way was the World created. From this there will be amazing Applications, because this is the Pattern. Therefore am I called Thrice Greatest Hermes, having the three parts of the Wisdom of the whole World.

Herein have I completely explained the Operation of the Sun.
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More tomorrow  

First there was Thoth. Thoth is considered one of the most important of the Egyptian gods. He was depicted as a therianthrope (half man, half animal), with the head of an ibis. Thoth was said to be a scribe, and is credited with the foundation of law, the advancement of learning, and the invention of heiroglyphic writing.

Then there was Hermes.



Hermes Trismegistus ("trice-great Hermes") is said to be the ancient Greek name for the same entity that was Thoth. Some say that Hermes was Thoth reincarnated.

Both Thoth and Hermes were gods of writing and magic, and both were attributed with leaving us a vast collection of knowledge.

The Hermetica is a tome of ancient, secret, mystical wisdom, attributed to Hermes Trismegistus. It contains a collection of "spells and induction procedures. In the dialogue called the Asclepius (after the Greek god of healing) the art of imprisoning the souls of demons or of angels in statues with the help of herbs, gems and odors, is described, such that the statue could speak and prophesy. In other papyri, there are other recipes for constructing such images and animating them, such as when images are to be fashioned hollow so as to enclose a magic name inscribed on gold leaf.".:.Reference.:.

The aim of this mystical teaching was the deification of humankind through knowledge of God.

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Shipibo Indian shaman singing an icaro

  

In an affluent corner of encinitas, just north of San Diego, a young medicine man named Lobo Siete Truenos sits cross-legged on the polished wood floors of a backyard temple. Here in this suburban sanctuary, behind the gates of a faux-Spanish villa, just past the manicured lawn and an artificial lagoon, he’s carefully unpacking a collection of stones, feathers and oils that he’ll use for an all-night spiritual odyssey that will kick off after sunset.

Read the rest of this LA Times article, with comments from Graham, here  

  

This man is Li Ching-Yuen. He is said to be one of the oldest persons who ever lived, reportedly dying at 256 years of age. Li Chung Yun was born in 1677 in Chyi Jiang Hsie, Szechuan province. He spent most of his life in the mountain ranges gathering herbs and knowledge of longevity methods. In 1748, when he was 71 years old, moved to Kai Hsien to join the Chinese army as teacher of the martial arts and as a tactical advisor In 1927 Li Ching-Yuen was invited by General Yang Sen to visit him in Wann Hsien, Szechuan. The general was fascinated by his youthfulness, strength and prowess in spite of his advanced age. His famous photo was obtained there.

This is not a hoax. Here is the Time magazine article from May 15 1933.
Read the Wikipedia article here.  

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Graham Hancock: Underworld Interview on Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell, aired 2002.

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Early documentary of Graham in search for the Lost Ark of the Covenant ("Raiders of the Lost Ark")

  

Graham talking on Coast to Coast AM on June 18, 1996, about Fingerprints of the Gods

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