Sex and the Eight-Circuit Brain: Polymorphous Sexuality in Circuitland

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The following is excerpted from The Eight-Circuit Brain: Navigational Strategies for the Energetic Body (Vertical Pool Publishing).

The eight-circuit grid can be used to track, read, and otherwise discover the great variety of human sexual response.  As long as we remember that sex, like Life itself, is messy at best –– and will never conform to any mental construct we impose upon it — we are free to speculate. As we examine the first four survival-oriented circuits, we’ll see how our sexuality has been, and can be, experienced physically, emotionally, conceptually, and socially — in isolation and in conjunction with each other.  When we envision the second four post-survival circuits, we can imagine and maybe experience how sexuality might act as a vehicle for higher consciousness and unfathomable realities beyond our wildest fantasies in and out of our bodies!

The Four Survival Circuits and How They’re Integrated

C-1 Physio-Biological Intelligence; the will to survive
How it’s integrated: degree of confidence earned and maintained to assure physical survival

C-2 Emotional-Territorial Intelligence; the will to power
How it’s integrated: degree of emotional confidence earned
and maintained to assure personal worth

C-3 Symbolic-Conceptual Intelligence; the will to reason
How it’s integrated: degree of mental confidence earned
and maintained to assure peace of mind

C-4 Social-Moral Intelligence; the will to socialize
How it’s integrated: degree of social confidence earned
and maintained to assure sense of belonging

The Four Post-Survival Circuits and Their Sources

C-5 Somatic Intelligence of Body Wisdom and Five Senses
Sources: whatever triggers the experience of rapture, communion with nature, tantra (yoga, meditation, ritual), charisma, second wind, falling in love (endorphins) and the expanding presence of being here now. The Shocks of Ecstasy and Bliss (absence of suffering)

C-6 Intuitive-Psychic Intelligence of the Brain, Spine, & CNS
Sources: whatever triggers the experience of the energetic body or aura, the second attention, intuition, clairvoyance and other psychic abilities, ritual magick, reality selection, direct perception of a relative nature of reality. The Shocks of Uncertainty and Freedom (absence of false assumptions, certitudes and dogmas)

C-7 Mytho-Genetic Intelligence of DNA and the Planetary Entity
Sources: whatever triggers the experience of ancestral and past life memories, autonomous archetypes, synchronicity, planetary (Gaia) mind, cosmic consciousness.
The Shocks of Indivisibility and Cosmic Unity (absence of dualistic consciousness)

C-8 Quantum-Nonlocal Intelligence of Subatomic interactions
Sources: whatever triggers the experience of near death, out of body states, the dreambody and dreamtime, lucid dreaming, communion with Void, the mystery of singularity. The Shocks of Death and Impermanence (absence of ego identification).

C-1 Visceral Sex

Picking up the invisible, subtle scent of sex pheromones in others, we can elicit instantaneous reactions of visceral sexual attraction.  This can happen so swiftly, literally under our noses, that we have no time to moralize (C-4), think (C-3), or have feelings (C-2) about it.  Acting on the scent of pheromones alone, without considering circuits two, three, or four, can drive us into the heat of impulsive, spontaneous visceral sex.  As these impulses gain momentum in action they can accelerate and combust into explosive, volatile, and even violent sex. Some male homosexuals may know more about sexual violence than heterosexual men.  In researching his book, You Are Going To Prison (Loompanics Press, 1994), Jim Hogshire discovered that twice as many men are raped inside American prisons each year than women are raped on the outside.  C-1 sex is hard-wired to our most basic life and death survival instincts — self-preservation, aggression,  “going into heat” and procreation.

The growth hormone testosterone exists in both men and women, yet testosterone levels are twice as high in most men than in women.  Researcher June Reinisch of Rutgers University discovered that increased testosterone levels in the body produce immediate aggression. Physiologist Julian Davidson performed a study on males with low sex drives. When given more testosterone, all showed an increase in sexual fantasy and desire leading Davidson to conclude that testosterone is “the biological substrate of desire, at least in men.”  Consistent overemphasis in C-1 sexuality alone, without incorporating the other circuits, can be dangerous and even fatal.

C-2 Emotional Sex

In those sexual encounters where we are left feeling attached to the lover, C-2 has been engaged. Emotions express a powerful animistic force not always subject to the comprehension of C-3 intellect or the approval of C-4 morality. When emotions are stirred, they mobilize and travel into the lover’s astral body, just like spirits. If this sounds like voodoo love that’s because emo-sex can be like that. It puts you on pins and needles. Emo-sex always comes with emotional investment whether we want it or not. Emotional sex can satisfy unmet needs for status, security, power, and loyalty. Emotions dwell in our body until they’re aroused by another body showing profound receptivity to ours. If you’re physically absent from somebody that you are emotionally attached to you may find yourself pining — irrationally longing for them — when, in fact, it may be the spirits of your own displaced emotions you’re missing. Emotions have a life of their own and don’t usually bend to the dictates of C-3 reasoning or C-4 ethical considerations.

Emotional sex can also serve the purpose of establishing an attachment to someone, regardless of romantic ideals or images regarding the “perfect partner” or “dream lover”, if only to feel needed.  Emo-sex can hide a desperate attempt to establish meaningful connection with someone as a coping mechanism for enduring an otherwise meaningless life — you may not want the attachment but you may need it.  C-2 sex can also fuel a mutual dynamic of sadomasochism and bondage resulting in creative or destructive outcomes, depending on how consciously the master/slave roles are played out, and how much care and attention is paid to each other’s limitations and needs.  Being tied up and physically immobilized can produce a profound sense of internal security to those whose early infantile needs were never met, given that these power rituals are performed in a climate of total mutual trust.  In this way, conscious C-2 Power Sex can also enable greater emotional honesty and intimacy.

Heavy emotional involvement can produce an assumed familiarity with the lover, as if we’ve known him/her for a long time, though we may have only recently met.  For some, this assumed familiarity can feel invasive or annoying, leading to boundary problems.  Emo-sex can also excite the taboo-laden incestual lust of sibling love, a kind of familial romance with someone who feels like our big brother, or little sister, or the nurturing mother, or the good father.  Incestual love, not to be confused with literal incest, can also trigger the negative emotions of animosity, sibling rivalry, and other C-2 territorial power struggles.  These kinds of infantile passions can make lunatics of us all if personal boundaries are overlooked and traded down for the loss of oneself in the other.  Losing self-respect can corrode even the most strident confessions of love.  Significant emotional bonds also develop without warning between lovers shouldering traumas together — miscarriage or abortion, extramarital affairs, domestic violence, divorce, death of parents, etc. — and between soldiers at war or with police officers bonding amidst criminal adversity and danger.

C-3 Mental Sex

Sexual experiences that leave you chatty, by either talking to yourself or chewing the ears off lovers who’ll listen, have activated C-3 conceptual intelligence.  Watch for a lot of phone. A propensity towards mental sex suggests that you may need more communication before you are sexually turned on.  C-3 dualistic intellect can be attracted to sexual ambiguities, a quality some may interpret as bisexuality.  Ambiguity, however, is not a bisexual condition but a human condition regardless of sexual orientation.  If you’re aroused by ambiguity or androgyny, the promise of confounding complexity may arouse you.  Those who find ambiguity erotic may naturally shy away from commitment in lieu of staying open to the options of their fickle fancy.

C-3 mental sex can also mean that thinking, talking, and fantasizing about sex can be more scintillating than the actual experience.  The tease and the chase may prove a greater turn-on than actually getting caught and nailed.  Sometimes talking about sex can also act as a protective measure to inhibit the lovers from engaging in “dead sex” when their relations have gone underground and become temporarily stagnant.  Without sexual heat, it may be wiser to read in bed together or take in a movie.  Talking about sexual fantasies, writing erotic stories, and engaging in phone sex are all obvious examples of C-3 mental sex.

C-3 sex represents the sexual polarity of exhibitionism and voyeurism: the thrill of physical distance, strong visual stimulus, and being seen or seeing another engaged in a sexual act. If you are turned on by the reality or the fantasy of watching someone else enjoying sex with him/herself or with another, you are aroused by voyeuristic passions. If you are turned on by the reality or the fantasy of others watching you having sex with yourself or with another, you are feeling exhibitionistic passions.  Both sides of this C-3 mental sex polarity ­­- being seen and seeing — act on the body in erotic ways.  When the sense of sight plays such a clearly dominant role, the C-3 mind drives the sexual drama.

C-4 Sexual Tribes and Customs

The most commonly used terms for sexuality –– heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual, pansexual, asexual, transsexual — act as sociopolitical labels to categorize and organize personal and tribal needs for security, status, sociopolitical identity, and a sense of belonging.  Each of these sociopolitical labels represents a different sexual tribe claiming its own distinct customs, rituals, fetishes, icons, codes, and overall force of culture, subculture, and micro culture. As most people are openly heterosexual, they form the dominator sexual culture around which all other sexual tribes compete and struggle for autonomy and equality for legal rights taken for granted by heterosexuals, i.e. marriage, welfare, child rearing, etc.

Sexual orientation holds no prerequisite for tribal identity. We can know ourselves as sexual creatures without joining a tribe of others who share the same sexual orientation.  The C-4 need for belonging can be satisfied in ways that defy assimilation into, and by, any sexual tribal mind or identity.  Those who do not make an issue of their sexual orientation, or the orientations of others, can more easily link up with those of differing sexual realities.

Sexuality expresses a highly personal reality rooted in specific internal and external conditions and cues, fetishes, and settings that arouse us and keep us aroused.  Our lovers know who we truly are by the way we make love.  The conditions for personal arousal are as diversified and complex as the greater variety of human sexual response.  C-4 sexual coupling, regardless of sexual orientation, revolves around the neurochemical dance leading to orgasm and its release of neuromuscular tension through intense physical pleasure. Sex also serves as a vehicle for emotional and social bonding, and procreation for hetero breeders and for artificially inseminated, domesticating lesbians.

Sex with friends. C-4 social sex also includes friends with favors.  These interactions have far less emotional investment and more autonomy granted between partners, who come and go without the constant “checking in” that more emotional investment seems to demand.  Sex with friends can also serve as an important interval between our more emotionally invested sexual relations where the social value of intimacy can be restored and maintained.  All too often the bonds of sexual intimacy break down from a lack of true friendship between lovers.  Without the social context of shared friendship, the primordial sexual instinct can easily become unfriendly, even hostile.

Sex with enemies.  When we become sexually involved with lovers whose values and morals — or lack thereof — are eventually revealed to be at war with our own principles, the relations become a testing ground for our own ethics.  This can happen whenever our own ethical code has become obsolete and requires updating or, when we need to define our ethics more specifically.   Sometimes we discover the true nature of our ethics by confronting what they’re not.  Without this step of self-examination of our own ethical code, sex with enemies can easily degenerate into the unsavory blame games of mutual scapegoating, sadism and self-torment.

C-5 Tantric Sex

Beyond C-4 sexual realities the playing field opens up considerably.  C-5 sexual tantra bypasses C-4 orgasm-as-a-goal orientation in lieu of exploring sexuality as a vehicle for extended durations of rapture and bliss, and the charismatic balancing of masculine and feminine energies within the body.  As C-5 dakinis and yogis become more liberated from C-2 possessiveness and C-4 consensus moral restraints, polyamorous “open relationships” can develop between agreeing parties.  New models of intimacy are born and sustained by shared post-survival values such as pleasure, leisure and ecstatic play.  As with the other upper circuits, advancement through the somatic fifth circuit can also bring its own unique set of problems to be faced and dealt with.

When the levels of ecstasy exceed the threshold of what either lover can tolerate, the ego can automatically slow things down by acting out old habit patterns such as C-4 moralizing, C-3 over-thinking, C-2 possessiveness and C-1 distrust and fear. In this way, the ego acts as an emergency brake to minimize pleasure and happiness too intense to contain.  How much rapture and joy can a person take?

When our capacity for ecstasy is overwhelmed, we may find it necessary to fixate on something as familiar, banal and mundane as our personal problems or even project them onto our lover.  This buzz-kill may seem wrong but it’s sobering effects cannot be ignored.  Sometimes resistance to intense pleasure and joy can be a relevant warning signal for rechecking our limits, recalibrating our capacities, and restabilizing (grounding) our energies.

C-6 Sex Magick

When lovers are initiated into C-6 electric sex, they can benefit from the many esoteric traditions of sex magick or, create their own.  C-6 sex engages the more subtle medium of our Central Nervous System (CNS), igniting the energetic body of the aura and chakras.  Occult lodges such as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the O.T.O., Thelema and their numerous offshoots practice various ritual technologies of sex magick incorporating symbols towards achieving premeditated ends (C-3/C-6). With some sex magickians the long-term effect of these rituals can be so remarkable that when compared with the energetic bodies of most humans, theirs stand out like alien space beings. There’s probably good reason why these rituals remain esoteric and I suspect it’s because sex magick isn’t for everybody.

C-6 sex magick can often start with C-5 somatic sex but it can also occur without actual physical contact.  When the energetic bodies of lovers are turned on, sensuality can transmute into the supersensual neuro-orgasms of brain pleasure.  Imagine the warm, glowing rushes of electromagnetic energy circulating within, around, and between them.  Electricity travels at the speed of light — in or out of the body — and sex magick practitioners learn to act as conduits for its absorption, integration and transmission. Actual physical orgasm may be completely unnecessary or, in the case of nervous system over-amping, orgasm can become important for releasing and grounding the excess charge (the C-1 Salt Bath ritual can also help to neutralize excess electromagnetic energy in the physical body and can be useful in cases of insomnia).  Of course, it helps tremendously if sex magick lovers are also emotionally mature enough to support each other’s autonomy and freedom of self-expression — the anchoring action of C-2 to C-6.

C-7 Planetary, or Archetypal, Sex

Certain sexual experiences of an archetypal nature can be so powerful and overwhelming that none of the previous six circuit orientations can contain or define their transformative energies. These sexual encounters defy the romance of hot sex, emo-sex, falling in love, getting married, having babies, plus any other known categories of casual sex, tantra, polyamory, or sex magick.  The lovers involved in these mysteries may feel an encompassing pull of fate towards each other, as if they were meeting again from some previous incarnation or past life (not as a concept but as a fully-embodied experience).  There can be a kind of meltdown of their present-life personas that leave the lovers in a terribly vulnerable, essence-to-essence fusion experience, helpless to stop it, or to do anything about it.  As the heat and light of bio-psychic energies accelerates between them, a stream of images flood their consciousness as their minds grapple with labels and behaviors in an attempt to manage the confounding reality. No image fits; many explode into thin air.  Nobody knows just how to act and no previous categories are found.

On realizing all of this, the lovers either run far away from each other or hold their ground and surrender to the experience together.  If they surrender, new information emerges about how to serve these transformative energies, seeing how they obviously cannot be controlled. In a state of continual surrender, the lovers may dawn on the solemn revelation that the Earth itself may be arranging their meeting and that these energies are not personal but planetary forces using them as conduits for feeding the planetary entity.  The lovers may still engage in rapturous somatic and electric sex, but now they become aware of a larger cosmic ceremony involving a third partner in the planet Earth itself; a planetary menage-a-trois. How this ritual unfolds may differ with each dyad depending on their personalities, culturally conditioned programs and intuitive sensibilities.  This event, and its ritual, formed the basis of my book, The Akashic Record Player (Falcon Press, 1988) wherein a couple engages the Earth as a third conduit of a trinary circuit for circulating their combined currents to feed the planet (also see “A Neurolological Autobiography” in How I Got This Way).

Impossible Love:  The Anima and the Animus

Love affairs that begin and attempt to maintain themselves in the subterranean romance of psychic projection, or what Carl Jung calls “anima/animus transference”, can lead to very brief and very intense episodes of archetypal, catastrophic sex (also see Circuit Seven, “Numen of Archetypes” and “Anima-Animus”).  The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.  In these episodes, the ego is easily overwhelmed in the face of these unconscious projections of “the dream lover” and all its inflated expectations of living up to impossible ideals.

Enter the melodrama of unattainable, impossible love.  As the lovers’ egos fail to deliver on the inflated promise of big archetypal love, the romance backfires and devolves into humiliation, resentment, and animosity between lovers.  The once exalted presence of “ideal love” and “the dream lover” suddenly downshifts into a nonstop catastrophic romance of C-2 emo-sex, territorial pissing, and control trips.  If it cannot be stopped or if neither lover has enough sense to leave, the animosity can degenerate into psychic, emotional and physical violence and damage.  Self-healing can come through enforced solitude (isolation deflates the ego) and any soul-retrieval rituals that support disidentification and differentiation from the archetypes themselves (see Circuit Seven “The Anima/Animus Shrine”).

C-8 Dreambody Sex

C-8 dreambody (or disembodied) sex occurs in our dreams and in the more extreme waking out-of body experiences where two or more energy fields, independent of their physical bodies, unite for reasons of their own.  In the midst of out-of-body experiences and other types of astral projections, the playing field opens up to infinite possibilities.  Whether we experience dreambody sex in the erotic escapades of our night dreams or in our more disembodied daytime sexual fantasies, C-8 sex always occurs out of body, or in a disembodied state.

The dreambody can also use the physical sex act as a kind of launching pad for astral projection, as with those post-orgasm experiences where consciousness drifts out of body, passes through hypnogogic corridors and takes flight over limitless, nonlocal terrains. We wake up feeling as if we have traveled somewhere and, we have!  Dreambody sex may also be linked to the mysteries of near-death experiences, anesthetic out of body events in surgery rooms, and onto the more extremely disembodied extraterrestrial, interdimensional sex reported after alien abductions.

©2009 Antero Alli

Image by Beau Caughlan 

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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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