Bouncing Bear Botanicals Raided

6 02 2010

Just got wind of this awful travesty from EROCx1:  Jonathan Sloan, owner of the internet’s most popular an respected ethnobotanical vendor, Bouncing Bear Botanicals, has been arrested and charged with eight felony drug offenses, even though nothing he grew or sold was illegal. They seized thousands of plants and cacti and all his money and bail is apparently set at 1 million dollars.  More info at EROCx1.





The Role of Sacramental Plants in Sustainable Communities in the Western Amazon

5 02 2010

I highly recommend this lecture given at Google, especially if you care about conservation or entheogens.





Dale Pendell – The Magic of Corporate Personhood

5 02 2010

Dale Pendell blogs about conjuring hungry ghosts on the Huffington Post.





World Videos Library

29 01 2010

StopTheRobbery.com has created a massive index of online videos and documentaries pertinent to humankind’s awakening. Organized in categories and sub-categories for easy browsing:

http://www.stoptherobbery.com/Videos.html





Was breeding the CBD out of cannabis a mistake?

29 01 2010

Amanda Feilding of the Beckley Foundation and other researchers suggest that negative psychiatric side-effects of cannabis consumption, such as aggravation of latent schizophrenia, could be a result of too little CBD, not too much THC.

From New Scientist:

So-called “skunk” does contain higher than normal concentrations of the main psychoactive compound, a molecule called delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). What is less well known is that another constituent, cannabidiol (CBD), has been eliminated from skunk through selective breeding to increase the THC content.

The elimination of CBD may play a key role in the development of psychosis. Laboratory studies have shown that pure, synthetic THC causes transient psychosis in 40 to 50 per cent of healthy people. In stark contrast to THC, CBD appears to have an anti-psychotic effect, at least in animals. Studies in humans, though few in number, have produced similar findings.

Full article here.





The World According To Monsanto

29 01 2010

Very informative and well-made investigative documentary about Monsanto.





Beautiful Details of a Solar Corona

29 01 2010

The magnetic outer-atmosphere of the Sun is actually a hundred times hotter than the Sun’s surface (which in turn is hotter that the Sun’s core).  Scientists still don’t understand why this is the case but that doesn’t stop it from being gorgeous!

More info here.

Download a high-resolution image here.





Digital Touchpad Electric Guitar

29 01 2010





younger shpongle

29 01 2010





Robin Williams Imagines Dock Ellis’s NO HITTER on LSD

25 01 2010

So funny:





The psychedelic sacrament scene cut from Avatar

25 01 2010

The script pages for some scenes that didn’t make the final cut of Avatar have been uploaded and include an alien sex scene, an alien drunk scene and other back-story scenes as well as a Na’vi rite-of-passage in which Jake eats a sacred glow-worm then recieves an alien scorpion sting, the combination of which invokes a psychedelic mystical experience: definitely inspired by the ayahuasca DMT/MAOI combo.

Read the script for Jake’s trip here.

Other cut scenes here.





THE MEDICINE: Science & Psychedelics

25 01 2010

Here is a trailer for another upcoming documentary about psychedelic research in the 21st century: