Perilous Passage: An Artifact of The Third Mind

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The following is excerpted from Terry Wilson's Perilous Passage: the Nervous System and the Universe in Other Words, published by Synergetic Press, Santa Fe, NM, with an appended introduction by Ian MacFadyen and Phil Wood.

 

Introduction

It was
fifty years ago in Paris that Brion Gysin and William Burroughs, along with
their collaborators Ian Sommerville and Antony Balch, developed the techniques
known as "The Third Mind." Drawing upon esoteric and scientific sources, this
"project for disastrous success" deconstructed sound and image and computer
technology, sabotaging systems of ideological transmission and reproduction,
dismantling and erasing the human image
repertoire
in the process. Gysin and Burroughs asserted the absolute
validity of their own psychic and mystical experiences, treating cybernetic
information technologies as magical instruments for the shamanic invocation of
spirits, challenging the "known laws" of space and time.

Terry Wilson and Ian MacFayden with the Dream Machine at October Gallery Brion Gysin Calligraffiti of fire show, London 2009. Photo by Jonathan Greet (www.dumdum.co.uk).

 

The Third Mind project
was aimed at the radical opening of consciousness — evisceration with real
knives, scissors and razor blades. Not only cutting up the Word, but pursuing
the Tibetan practise of CHÖD — the extreme cutting up of self, identity and
"true memory", and the immolation of "immutable" belief systems. Gysin appears
to have invented the cut-up technique at the exact moment that reporters from LIFE magazine were visiting the Beat
Hotel in Paris. In fact, he already knew that versions of the technique had
been used in antiquity by Ausonius and Vergilius Maro, primarily for comic and
entertaining effect. Gysin and Burroughs would go much further, eviscerating
the sacred texts and launching a blitzkrieg on the discourses of media.

The Third Mind was not "art" or even "anti-art" —
it was a sustained attack upon reactive conformity and political exploitation,
and an exploration of psychic potential beyond the confines of all humanistic,
materialist philosophies.  

The essence of The Third Mind survives and its
continuance and development are nowhere more in evidence than in Terry Wilson's
writing. Perilous Passage develops
its own versions of key Third Mind techniques:

 

  • Deep
    Meditation
  • Scattering
  • ‘Day-Dreaming'
    (or Tandra)
  • Open
    Receptivity
  • Remote
    Viewing
  • Out of the Body Experiences
  • Trance
  • The Hallucinatory
  • Picturing
  • Transposition
  • Divination
  • Ayahuasca
  • Alternative Memory

 

These techniques are not described in the book,
rather the effects of the exploration of the psyche are embodied  through
transcribed audio hallucinations, notes apparently made in situ, found texts, parodic quotations, the interview format,
spoof and supposedly real footnotes, cut-ups, permutations, photographs,
calligraphy, collaged material.

Perilous
Passage
is a vertiginous palimpsest; a memoir in the guise
of fiction, and a fiction which exposes and explodes its own literary sources.
It is a manual of Third Mind techniques in action, a psychic guide and a
strategic polemical attack upon conventional, received wisdom. In this splenetic
exposure of intelligence agencies and cultural entrepreneurs and the creators
of viral disease, the world is shamanically stood on its head and its images
are beautiful and loaded with menace, creating an intense, kaleidoscopic
vision. 

This is
a book about the transmission of esoteric learning. It is the perilous soul passage of the initiate seeking
transcendence. It is writing as the casting of spells, the conjuring of
spirits, the exorcism of a painful past in order to recruit a "real" existence.
And, finally, it is a moving meditation on mortality, loss and mourning.

Terry Wilson rescues The Third Mind from cultural
and aesthetic recuperation, challenging what we believe we know, or think we believe we know, and what we really
know we believe we know to be "TRUE." Validating instead the dangers and delights of thinking and
writing otherwise, Wilson invites us
to consider another way of being in the
world.

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Excerpts from
Perilous Passage: The Nervous System and the Universe in Other Words
by
Terry Wilson (Synergetic Press):

 

The Man from Nowhere: THE STAR

A distant time, young man typing.

In his room he remembers the perilous passage.

 

Two
candles are lighting the room one creating a bridge to the other, many persons
are crossing it their own way from the bed to the chair, the only chair of the
room, a kind of seventies plastic chair . . . We were both waiting for it to be
more strong we like that very much it's not too expensive for the price to pay
even though you always pay it very much , honestly you could make it more
precious if you like delicate spirit, wild as it can be . . .

Returning
to the story we don't exactly remember what it was, knowing that it can be
everything we decide to wait for it to be a little stronger – and a thing
suddenly happened – the window breaks and the wind is creating a bridge to the
other. There it was a bridge from the bed to the chair. A door open. We were
waiting for the candles. We entered the room . . . A bare empty room with
skylight, irradiated . . . a single star, hovering . . .

 

I love
courage when you want to stay even though you always disappear trying to find
what we have . . .

 

He sits back from the typewriter.

 

In a corner of the room I am claiming "I am
speechless . . . you better write my book for me. I can arrange a contract for
you."

I looked into the mirror. A misty scene.

 

A policeman typing our answers.

"When did you see that star?"

"At
night."

"What time was it?"

"Not
yours."

"What did it look like?"

"Like a
world burning in the sky."

 

 

The world imagination, the torrent of worlds about
him, the great gallery of power, a moral sting fluttering in the night . . .

Lost do we know when? Each time you are you feel it
now. Fraternity. Personally it doesn't help the spiritual double . . . delicate
spirits wild as they come, both waiting for it to be more strong. And many are
crossing it the land of this perilous passage two candles are lighting the way.
Knowing that it can be everything we decide to do what you want. I hate to wait
for it to be stronger, a supermarket in my nerves returning to the story we
don't remember exactly. Through the Land of the Dead that long long way we have
known and known so well . . . pay for it very much . . .

Our lesson will be to arrive where we started this
magic melts slowly in us again.

 

I am speechless. You better write. In the sky . . .

Are you sleeping? No. I am kind of floating . . .

Spin out my distant story, out to a distant star .
. . There is no time . . .

 

 

THE
NERVOUS SYSTEM: CHANGING THE CUT-OUTS

(The
Living Dead)

Hugely-drunken theatrical-type lunatic lurches
through the door profusely sweating braying Olivier-like: "Beware my follower!"

 

He reels over to the bar – "Sweet burning enfer! – a drink!" -and turns back to
his dim audience. The last all drink.

 

"The Shadow tracks thy flight of fire – night is coming! – all smothered up in
shade does sit Glamorous Granny, macabre proliferating species to creep forth
again!"

Jesus, I mumbled, this just about is the limit, and
got up to go.

He glares at me or who or whatever he is seeing,
maniacally:

"For this, I'll never follow thy pallid fortunes
more. Who seeks and will not take, when once ‘tis offered, shall never find it more!"

"Smoked transcendence is accessible to all" I said,
echoing Brion. Or so one might like to think.

 

So maybe I better stop trying to sell you another
novel and finally tell you what the whole scene really is . . .

 

Well, I was leafing through some old press
clippings just sent from Paris, and there he was, Bedaya, Massa Brahim in full
flow: "Poor Brion" lamenting his lack of success, beyond disappointment! "I
guess I'm just hopeless!" Hah! The last time I heard from him he said – I think
for the second or who knows how many times, us donkeys are so dumb – that he
could be heard but is too drunk to come out and be seen, at least as I can
understand it. We can talk. And then a real old familiar shuddering as Massa
Brahim John C.B.L. Gysin, von Liestal, in full flow, swept my body . . .

I am
some old clippings from Paris and there I talk . . .

 

And all I can think – it's catching – is what the
sweet burning hell of a Massa Brahim von Liestal et cetera-etc situation have I
got into and how, on earth, can I get out of it? as I remember from years back:

 

"You don't know what it is you are trying to get
into."

Who does? Into or out of, really? That's how
Masters get around and stay around. Or so one might hope. I guess I'm just
hopeless.

 

He laughed, as only he could, genuine, kind
amusement, really himself.

 

("Yes . . . but the scene, really is . . . ?)

Yes . . . coming!
More! Brion. Access! Stay around, shudder one night through the shadow tracks
Massa Bedaya Brahim Gysin von-You-don't-know-who.

"Night is hopeless" he said.

Okay, so I guess I'm just a situation he seeks and
will get out of Smoked burning enfer!
– I understand it!

 

(Duck everyone, this could go anywhere.)

 

Call from AB 9.30 AM discarnate. Says he is
speaking through a voice distorter and cannot say where he is. He seems to
think my memoirs, which he is filming. "A deep-cover operation to infiltrate an
ancient revolutionary movement." Advises me to alternate drinking hot and cold
water. And "Stay away from the Kennedys."

("He couldn't put the life on the right rivers . .
. and he was through." BG )

 

And all, life and death, is all mysteriously left.

 

….. 
After Brion's death some eyebrows were raised when, invited to
contribute to Gladys Fabre's catalogue which would accompany a retrospective at
the Galerie de France in Paris, I quoted Brion as saying that "People are shit"
and asserted that despite all his relentless protestations to the contrary,
Brion was neither neglected nor unsuccessful. "He simply had extremely powerful
enemies."

 

He had made his mark, passed on his "strong black" to Burroughs – (he had
said that he could see that Burroughs was possessed by such a corrosive spirit
that only such a radical method could possibly accommodate it) – and whipped up
a cosmic storm. With meagre financial recompense, naturally. They stood back, finally, let him become
a Chevalier of arts and letters, get photographed with successful showbiz
personalities and generally be befriended by assholes of the universe. As he
said, they are shit.

 

He of course never achieved either the recognition
or wealth accumulated by a Warhol, if that was what he wanted, needed, desired
and I suppose it was. Presumably he died richer than Rimbaud, if that makes up
for it.

 

…..

 

When I would ask Brion about the "actual techniques
taught or used there" (Alamut) or broached other suchlike slippery area, he
would clam up. He didn't know. He was just a sorcerer's apprentice. Now, I feel
much the same. In Dublin, at the Here To Go show, 1992, there was a public
session called "Remembering Brion" where some of the usual suspects were
assembled to drag out the usual stuff – ("Brion,
who invented the Dreamachine, Brion,
who turned to me in the bus after the light flickering between the trees had
spaced him out and said: ‘Wow! Man,
like you're the Prophet of the Beat! I swear to Allah that if this thing gets
off the ground I'll cut you in for half the bucks!' but being a man of
integrity I -" CUT!) –

 

I for my part answered that, for me, this was
extremely difficult because – (where is everybody?) – I simply did not remember Brion in the usual sense. To do
so – to really remember him –
requires an enormous effort of recapitulation because what he taught was not
accessible to ordinary consciousness. The only way to reach him is to follow
him there. What on earth really happened to me? What techniques? Where is
everybody? Don't know.

 

"Worn-out
pals of dust, I ride with you, though I walk through the mess, into the grave
softly carefully for his name's sake . . ."

 

Whelme was an experienced agent, known as Lazare as
required in the trade –

 

"We
offer Space and one of the hundred sellers, even though seen before, comes
strolling in, old on the principle myself. Attributable to one or two things,
the pickup not so fast as it would be with the kind of person you think is
correct . . ." – an enormous effort.

 

As far as KJ was concerned, he came in late, and with a vengeance. And we
followed him there into a dangerous, hilarious, coked-up vulgarian existence
reeling from one nonsensically scandalous scam after another, forever on the
road – This is Lazare from here, there, nowhere, essentially –

 

One man's mania. That was in several other
countries and the deal is dead.

 

Gone, with the missing library and the Space
Account. Once thought no longer –

 

Today,
all the roaring camps are gone, the thought waves towns, highways, countryside,
mountain and desert . . . A few hours later, cities, lonely under the sky . . .

 

Lowered asbestos suspenders looked over our
shoulders and there, finished, faded, never stop . . . Appointment.

 

 

THE
UNIVERSE IN OTHER WORDS (Ayahuasca)

"There is a beginning – There is a not yet
fixed and definable – enigmatic cascades a guided beginning to be a beginning.
There is being – There is a not yet beginning to be what I have already said
has really said something or tour of a power station described as realities
into which it can be made. Cosmic helix permutation power . . ."

 

" . . . in a universe where the ‘being here' is
exposed to the risk of not being here, one may, in actual fact, not be here [ . . . ] When a particular
tangible horizon enters a critical stage, the danger lies in the possibility
that every limit will disappear; everything may become anything, or a state of
nothingness looms ahead . . ." (Ernest de Martino)

"But to be
non being . . . (Brion Gysin's request) . . . There is no basis in ‘solid
reality' for our experience when it comes to nonbeing, which is really
compulsive walking away – (illegible)
– and the only Way – surprising,
seizing the actual Process of reality
formation-organization – (‘How to make a shaman') – the key in the process
itself, not its fleeting product. How to be
the Process –

 

"There is non being. There is a not yet beginning –
Suddenly there is nonbeing -"

(There
are no further notes.)

 

 

But I don't
know
. I pant for a living confidant I have sought twisted language not yet
beginning to be a beginning alone and deserted and holding out a brief flash of
Oriental being which is nonbeing. Now I have seen infinity flashing "donde termina el mundo" in molecular
imagery as the spirits of the jungle night light up spectrally where stands
magic Loyda and Estefania, Fernando, Don Alfredo, and Don Roberto, stupendously
awesome, prowls forward, hydraulic movement always at the same speed and we are
flying through the clouds, spirits of the world, shipwrecked and alone –

Trees, ornaments, pyramids, an egg – a bird, bears
him away –

 

The Great Itself, the Only No One Forever
travelling through its own emanations: the live universe (in other words).

 

© 2012 by Terry Wilson.

 

* * * 

 

Perilous
Passage: The Nervous System and the Universe in Other Words
,
by Terry Wilson, is published by Synergetic Press, Santa Fe, NM (www.synergeticpress.com). Paperback,
$24.95. Available directly from the publisher, your local bookstore, or on
Amazon.com. In the UK and Europe from Deep Books, Ltd www.deep-books.co.uk or Amazon.co.uk.

 

Writer Ian MacFadyen, based in London, and visual
artist Phil Wood, based in Amsterdam, are currently collaborating on a book on
William Burroughs,
Brion Gysin and The Third Mind. 

 

Teaser image by Abode of Chaos, courtesy of Creative Commons license.

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How Much Does LSD Cost? When shopping around for that magical psychedelic substance, there can be many uncertainties when new to buying LSD. You may be wondering how much does LSD cost? In this article, we will discuss what to expect when purchasing LSD on the black market, what forms LSD is sold in, and the standard breakdown of buying LSD in quantity.   Navy Use of LSD on the Dark Web The dark web is increasingly popular for purchasing illegal substances. The US Navy has now noticed this trend with their staff. Read to learn more.   Having Sex on LSD: What You Need to Know Can you have sex on LSD? Read our guide to learn everything about sex on acid, from lowered inhibitions to LSD users quotes on sex while tripping.   A Drug That Switches off an LSD Trip A pharmaceutical company is developing an “off-switch” drug for an LSD trip, in the case that a bad trip can happen. Some would say there is no such thing.   Queen of Hearts: An Interview with Liz Elliot on Tim Leary and LSD The history of psychedelia, particularly the British experience, has been almost totally written by men. Of the women involved, especially those who were in the thick of it, little has been written either by or about them. A notable exception is Liz Elliot.   LSD Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety LSD, Lysergic acid diethylamide, or just acid is one of the most important psychedelics ever discovered. What did history teach us?   Microdosing LSD & Common Dosage Explained Microdosing, though imperceivable, is showing to have many health benefits–here is everything you want to know about microdosing LSD.   LSD Resources Curious to learn more about LSD? This guide includes comprehensive LSD resources containing books, studies and more.   LSD as a Spiritual Aid There is common consent that the evolution of mankind is paralleled by the increase and expansion of consciousness. From the described process of how consciousness originates and develops, it becomes evident that its growth depends on its faculty of perception. Therefore every means of improving this faculty should be used.   Legendary LSD Blotter Art: A Hidden Craftsmanship Have you ever heard of LSD blotter art? Explore the trippy world of LSD art and some of the top artists of LSD blotter art.   LSD and Exercise: Does it Work? LSD and exercise? Learn why high-performing athletes are taking hits of LSD to improve their overall potential.   Jan Bastiaans Treated Holocaust Survivors with LSD Dutch psychiatrist, Jan Bastiaans administered LSD-assisted therapy to survivors of the Holocaust. A true war hero and pioneer of psychedelic-therapy.   LSD and Spiritual Awakening I give thanks for LSD, which provided the opening that led me to India in 1971 and brought me to Neem Karoli Baba, known as Maharajji. Maharajji is described by the Indians as a “knower of hearts.”   How LSD is Made: Everything You Need to Know Ever wonder how to make LSD? Read our guide to learn everything you need to know about the procedures of how LSD is made.   How to Store LSD: Best Practices Learn the best way to store LSD, including the proper temperature and conditions to maximize how long LSD lasts when stored.   Bicycle Day: The Discovery of LSD Every year on April 19th, psychonauts join forces to celebrate Bicycle Day. Learn about the famous day when Albert Hoffman first discovered the effects of LSD.   Cary Grant: A Hollywood Legend On LSD Cary Grant was a famous actor during the 1930’s-60’s But did you know Grant experimented with LSD? Read our guide to learn more.   Albert Hofmann: LSD — My Problem Child Learn about Albert Hofmann and his discovery of LSD, along with the story of Bicycle Day and why it marks a historic milestone.   Babies are High: What Does LSD Do To Your Brain What do LSD and babies have in common? Researchers at the Imperial College in London discover that an adult’s brain on LSD looks like a baby’s brain.   1P LSD: Effects, Benefits, Safety Explained 1P LSD is an analogue of LSD and homologue of ALD-25. Here is everything you want to know about 1P LSD and how it compares to LSD.   Francis Crick, DNA & LSD Type ‘Francis Crick LSD’ into Google, and the result will be 30,000 links. Many sites claim that Crick (one of the two men responsible for discovering the structure of DNA), was either under the influence of LSD at the time of his revelation or used the drug to help with his thought processes during his research. Is this true?   What Happens If You Overdose on LSD? A recent article presented three individuals who overdosed on LSD. Though the experience was unpleasant, the outcomes were remarkably positive.

The Ayahuasca Experience
Ayahuasca is both a medicine and a visionary aid. You can employ ayahuasca for physical, mental, emotional and spiritual repair, and you can engage with the power of ayahuasca for deeper insight and realization. If you consider attainment of knowledge in the broadest perspective, you can say that at all times, ayahuasca heals.

 

Trippy Talk: Meet Ayahuasca with Sitaramaya Sita and PlantTeachers
Sitaramaya Sita is a spiritual herbalist, pusangera, and plant wisdom practitioner formally trained in the Shipibo ayahuasca tradition.

 

The Therapeutic Value of Ayahuasca
My best description of the impact of ayahuasca is that it’s a rocket boost to psychospiritual growth and unfolding, my professional specialty during my thirty-five years of private practice.

 

Microdosing Ayahuasca: Common Dosage Explained
What is ayahuasca made of and what is considered a microdose? Explore insights with an experienced Peruvian brewmaster and learn more about this practice.

 

Ayahuasca Makes Neuron Babies in Your Brain
Researchers from Beckley/Sant Pau Research Program have shared the latest findings in their study on the effects of ayahuasca on neurogenesis.

 

The Fatimiya Sufi Order and Ayahuasca
In this interview, the founder of the Fatimiya Sufi Order,  N. Wahid Azal, discusses the history and uses of plant medicines in Islamic and pre-Islamic mystery schools.

 

Consideration Ayahuasca for Treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Research indicates that ayahuasca mimics mechanisms of currently accepted treatments for PTSD. In order to understand the implications of ayahuasca treatment, we need to understand how PTSD develops.

 

Brainwaves on Ayahuasca: A Waking Dream State
In a study researchers shared discoveries showing ingredients found in Ayahuasca impact the brainwaves causing a “waking dream” state.

 

Cannabis and Ayahuasca: Mixing Entheogenic Plants
Cannabis and Ayahuasca: most people believe they shouldn’t be mixed. Read this personal experience peppered with thoughts from a pro cannabis Peruvian Shaman.

 

Ayahuasca Retreat 101: Everything You Need to Know to Brave the Brew
Ayahuasca has been known to be a powerful medicinal substance for millennia. However, until recently, it was only found in the jungle. Word of its deeply healing and cleansing properties has begun to spread across the world as many modern, Western individuals are seeking spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical well-being. More ayahuasca retreat centers are emerging in the Amazon and worldwide to meet the demand.

 

Ayahuasca Helps with Grief
A new study published in psychopharmacology found that ayahuasca helped those suffering from the loss of a loved one up to a year after treatment.

 

Ayahuasca Benefits: Clinical Improvements for Six Months
Ayahuasca benefits can last six months according to studies. Read here to learn about the clinical improvements from drinking the brew.

 

Ayahuasca Culture: Indigenous, Western, And The Future
Ayahuasca has been use for generations in the Amazon. With the rise of retreats and the brew leaving the rainforest how is ayahuasca culture changing?

 

Ayahuasca Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
The Amazonian brew, Ayahuasca has a long history and wide use. Read our guide to learn all about the tea from its beginnings up to modern-day interest.

 

Ayahuasca and the Godhead: An Interview with Wahid Azal of the Fatimiya Sufi Order
Wahid Azal, a Sufi mystic of The Fatimiya Sufi Order and an Islamic scholar, talks about entheogens, Sufism, mythology, and metaphysics.

 

Ayahuasca and the Feminine: Women’s Roles, Healing, Retreats, and More
Ayahuasca is lovingly called “grandmother” or “mother” by many. Just how feminine is the brew? Read to learn all about women and ayahuasca.

What Is the Standard of Care for Ketamine Treatments?
Ketamine therapy is on the rise in light of its powerful results for treatment-resistant depression. But, what is the current standard of care for ketamine? Read to find out.

What Is Dissociation and How Does Ketamine Create It?
Dissociation can take on multiple forms. So, what is dissociation like and how does ketamine create it? Read to find out.

Having Sex on Ketamine: Getting Physical on a Dissociative
Curious about what it could feel like to have sex on a dissociate? Find out all the answers in our guide to sex on ketamine.

Special K: The Party Drug
Special K refers to Ketamine when used recreationally. Learn the trends as well as safety information around this substance.

Kitty Flipping: When Ketamine and Molly Meet
What is it, what does it feel like, and how long does it last? Read to explore the mechanics of kitty flipping.

Ketamine vs. Esketamine: 3 Important Differences Explained
Ketamine and esketamine are used to treat depression. But what’s the difference between them? Read to learn which one is right for you: ketamine vs. esketamine.

Guide to Ketamine Treatments: Understanding the New Approach
Ketamine is becoming more popular as more people are seeing its benefits. Is ketamine a fit? Read our guide for all you need to know about ketamine treatments.

Ketamine Treatment for Eating Disorders
Ketamine is becoming a promising treatment for various mental health conditions. Read to learn how individuals can use ketamine treatment for eating disorders.

Ketamine Resources, Studies, and Trusted Information
Curious to learn more about ketamine? This guide includes comprehensive ketamine resources containing books, studies and more.

Ketamine Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
Our ultimate guide to ketamine has everything you need to know about this “dissociative anesthetic” and how it is being studied for depression treatment.

Ketamine for Depression: A Mental Health Breakthrough
While antidepressants work for some, many others find no relief. Read to learn about the therapeutic uses of ketamine for depression.

Ketamine for Addiction: Treatments Offering Hope
New treatments are offering hope to individuals suffering from addiction diseases. Read to learn how ketamine for addiction is providing breakthrough results.

Microdosing Ketamine & Common Dosages Explained
Microdosing, though imperceivable, is showing to have many health benefits–here is everything you want to know about microdosing ketamine.

How to Ease a Ketamine Comedown
Knowing what to expect when you come down from ketamine can help integrate the experience to gain as much value as possible.

How to Store Ketamine: Best Practices
Learn the best ways how to store ketamine, including the proper temperature and conditions to maximize how long ketamine lasts when stored.

How To Buy Ketamine: Is There Legal Ketamine Online?
Learn exactly where it’s legal to buy ketamine, and if it’s possible to purchase legal ketamine on the internet.

How Long Does Ketamine Stay in Your System?
How long does ketamine stay in your system? Are there lasting effects on your body? Read to discover the answers!

How Ketamine is Made: Everything You Need to Know
Ever wonder how to make Ketamine? Read our guide to learn everything you need to know about the procedures of how Ketamine is made.

Colorado on Ketamine: First Responders Waiver Programs
Fallout continues after Elijah McClain. Despite opposing recommendations from some city council, Colorado State Health panel recommends the continued use of ketamine by medics for those demonstrating “excited delirium” or “extreme agitation”.

Types of Ketamine: Learn the Differences & Uses for Each
Learn about the different types of ketamine and what they are used for—and what type might be right for you. Read now to find out!

Kitty Flipping: When Ketamine and Molly Meet
What is it, what does it feel like, and how long does it last? Read to explore the mechanics of kitty flipping.

MDMA & Ecstasy Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
Our ultimate guide to MDMA has everything you want to know about Ecstasy from how it was developed in 1912 to why it’s being studied today.

How To Get the Most out of Taking MDMA as a Couple
Taking MDMA as a couple can lead to exciting experiences. Read here to learn how to get the most of of this love drug in your relationship.

Common MDMA Dosage & Microdosing Explained
Microdosing, though imperceivable, is showing to have many health benefits–here is everything you want to know about microdosing MDMA.

Having Sex on MDMA: What You Need to Know
MDMA is known as the love drug… Read our guide to learn all about sex on MDMA and why it is beginning to makes its way into couple’s therapy.

How MDMA is Made: Common Procedures Explained
Ever wonder how to make MDMA? Read our guide to learn everything you need to know about the procedures of how MDMA is made.

Hippie Flipping: When Shrooms and Molly Meet
What is it, what does it feel like, and how long does it last? Explore the mechanics of hippie flipping and how to safely experiment.

How Cocaine is Made: Common Procedures Explained
Ever wonder how to make cocaine? Read our guide to learn everything you need to know about the procedures of how cocaine is made.

A Christmas Sweater with Santa and Cocaine
This week, Walmart came under fire for a “Let it Snow” Christmas sweater depicting Santa with lines of cocaine. Columbia is not merry about it.

Ultimate Cocaine Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
This guide covers what you need to know about Cocaine, including common effects and uses, legality, safety precautions and top trends today.

NEWS: An FDA-Approved Cocaine Nasal Spray
The FDA approved a cocaine nasal spray called Numbrino, which has raised suspicions that the pharmaceutical company, Lannett Company Inc., paid off the FDA..

The Ultimate Guide to Cannabis Bioavailability
What is bioavailability and how can it affect the overall efficacy of a psychedelic substance? Read to learn more.

Cannabis Research Explains Sociability Behaviors
New research by Dr. Giovanni Marsicano shows social behavioral changes occur as a result of less energy available to the neurons. Read here to learn more.

The Cannabis Shaman
If recreational and medical use of marijuana is becoming accepted, can the spiritual use as well? Experiential journalist Rak Razam interviews Hamilton Souther, founder of the 420 Cannabis Shamanism movement…

Cannabis Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
Our ultimate guide to Cannabis has everything you want to know about this popular substances that has psychedelic properties.

Cannabis and Ayahuasca: Mixing Entheogenic Plants
Cannabis and Ayahuasca: most people believe they shouldn’t be mixed. Read this personal experience peppered with thoughts from a procannabis Peruvian Shaman.

CBD-Rich Cannabis Versus Single-Molecule CBD
A ground-breaking study has documented the superior therapeutic properties of whole plant Cannabis extract as compared to synthetic cannabidiol (CBD), challenging the medical-industrial complex’s notion that “crude” botanical preparations are less effective than single-molecule compounds.

Cannabis Has Always Been a Medicine
Modern science has already confirmed the efficacy of cannabis for most uses described in the ancient medical texts, but prohibitionists still claim that medical cannabis is “just a ruse.”

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