Numerology and Psychology

Jump to Section

Jump to Section

The following is excerpted from Eden of Altai by Geoffrey Ashe, published by Inner Traditions.

 

With the seven mystique surfacing among shamans and Indo-Aryans and perhaps beginning to show itself beyond, we face a phenomenon that is still part of our world and our thinking, for no obvious reason. It is absurdly easy to dash off a list of sevens—the seven-day week, the seven wonders of the world, the seven seas, the seven deadly sins, the seven sleepers. It even appears in show business—The Seven Samurai, The Magnificent Seven, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Why seven?

Between the societies thus far considered and the modern West, the gap of time and space is enormous. Surprisingly, perhaps, (Mircea) Eliade may be prepared to help bridge it. He makes a magisterial statement: “It is probable that the shamanic ideology has played a part in the dissemination of the number 7.” On Eliade’s authority, this is a serious inquiry and not a fantasy. Hampered, however, by his preconceptions as to who influenced whom (or who could have influenced whom), he fails to trace the course of the dissemination. Here we have defined a first step, from shamans to Indo-Aryans, and maybe glimpsed a further step in Mesopotamia. But two issues must be tackled.

First, the notion of bridging gaps may simply be misguided. While particular sevens, like Ursa Major, may have passed from culture to culture in particular myths, it may be a mistake to try following the seven mystique further via dissemination—direct or indirect—from a source. A penchant for sets of seven may be just a universal quirk of human psychology.

Second, even if the mystique does exhibit cause and effect, even if it does reveal influence from the northern seedbed, it may not be significant anyhow. From this viewpoint, likewise, it may be no more than a quirk, not a clue that justifies regarding the seedbed as a source for elements of civilization, a home of Ancient Wisdom in however embryonic a form.

At this point it would be premature to try tackling the second issue. Answers can emerge only as exploration proceeds. It seems clear that the seven mystique, in the cases that have come to light so far, is part of a bundle of motifs and not an oddity to be studied in isolation. But the first issue is the immediate one.

A worldwide survey gives the subject an interest that is seldom appreciated. Psychological quirks can, on the face of it, be forgotten. The mystique is not universal. It is culturally formed and, in its early phases, restricted. Even among Indo-Europeans, those who had it—the Indo-Aryans—were an untypical minority. With Indo-Europeans in general the sacred or magical number was three, a fact that the anthropologist Georges Dumezil relates to a tripartite division of society, though there is certainly more to it than that.

Outside the territories considered already, the seven mystique is confined anciently to a single region, a heartland—the Middle East, plus Greece just alongside.* There we first encounter some of the major instances, such as a week of seven days and an astrology reckoning seven “planets”—the sun, the moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn. Also a musical scale with seven notes. Normal as it sounds, it has nothing inevitable about it. Admittedly, its length is fixed by a physical fact. If you go up from C, the next C is a note with twice the vibration rate. But the seven steps on the way, C D E F G A B, are products of an aural conditioning that may have begun among the early instrument makers of Mesopotamia. The scale in Indian music, with its Indo-Aryan ancestry, does have seven notes, but the Chinese scale has only five, C D E G A.3

*“Middle East” means the portion of Asia extending from Turkey and the ­Mediterranean coastline to Iran, inclusive. Those who use the phrase sometimes add Egypt. I do not. The term Near East was coined when the Turkish empire covered much of the region and most of the Balkans. Some authors still use it, now more or less ­synonymously with “Middle East.”

The seven mystique’s currency across Europe is later and due very largely to Christianity bringing a Bible written in the heartland that teems with consecrated sevens, from the seven days of creation onward. Before the impact of outside influences there are no clear traces of the mystique in China, or Egypt, or the rest of Africa, or Australia, or the Americas. Scattered, undatable heptads occur in magic and ritual, among the Shilluk of the Sudan, for instance, and the Navaho. These are never part of a system and have no air of significance.

China is conclusive as to the limitation, because traditional Chinese thinking not only attached no special value to seven, it did attach value to another number. That was five. Besides their five-note scale, the Chinese recognized five planets, namely the true ones visible before telescopes—Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn. These were matched with five elements—water, metal, fire, wood, and earth. And there are five directions—north, west, south, east, and center. Chinese astrology assesses a person under five aspects—life, body, power, fortune, intelligence. The five notes of the Chinese scale are paired with planets and elements. The Chinese rainbow has five colors and there are five social duties.

The motif extends to Tibetan Buddhism, which acknowledges five sovereign beings, Dhyani Buddhas, ruling over five epochs.6 From the Dhyani Buddhas there emanate the five colors, elements, senses, and vowels. Even Hinduism—the mature Hinduism of the subcontinent—has five elements. They are ether, air, fire, water, and earth. These are matched with five senses—hearing, touch, sight, taste, smell.

We can mark off China and eliminate the seven mystique there as being no part of its cultural heritage. Tibet is not quite so clear-cut. In the Indian systems known as Tantric the human organism is said to have seven centers or chakras, one above another from the base of the spine to the crown of the head, and Tibetan Buddhism has Tantric overtones, with techniques for activating one’s chakras. It has a few other sevens as well. Lamas regard life as a progression through seven cycles on each of seven planes of experience. In Tibetan verse the most sacred meter has seven-syllable lines (an equivalent in English: “We wandered down the Broad Walk”). A Tibetan legend tells how, when the Buddha was born, he rose at once and took seven paces toward each cardinal compass point. These details never challenge the cosmic ascendancy of five. In its attitude toward numbers, however, Tibet may be a borderland, in the Chinese orbit but affected a little from a region or population with the seven mystique. Mallory may have given the answer here by suggesting that the Buddhists who spoke Tocharian, an Indo-European language of Chinese Turkestan, were descended from the Afanasievo people in the Altai.

In the seven mystique we apparently have something that is formed culturally and is a product of regional influence rather than society in general, or psychology in general. By way of corroboration, a crucial fact is that a special regard for seven does not “come naturally”; it doesn’t “just happen.” Quite the reverse. One of the oddest features of the mystique is the contrast between seven’s persistence where it does occur and its awkwardness. It acts against the grain.

The magic three of the Celts and other peoples has a plain logic, whether or not Dumezil’s social reason is valid. It appeals as neat and complete. It conjures up a triangle, the simplest enclosure; it evokes the whole of space (length, breadth, height) and the whole of time (past, present, future); it sums up the entirety of a thing or event (beginning, middle, end). Freud gave it a physical basis in the male genitalia. The basis of the Chinese five certainly is physical—it corresponds to the fingers. But seven cannot be explained thus. Those who argue otherwise have been driven to such expedients as citing seven features of the head—eyes, ears, nostrils, mouth—or seven orifices of the body. They have never explained why people whose counting is based on the obvious finger tally should have built so much on an obscure alternative count. In practice, would anybody think of two nostrils rather than one nose?

A seven mystique is not merely without foundation in the human makeup, it is, as it were, actively alien. Not only is it confined to certain societies, it is such an unlikely thing for any society to adopt that an explanation is needed. Seven does not correlate with visual perception or mental capacity. Two, three, four, five objects can be taken in as a group without counting. Six is marginal. Beyond six, the objects are not perceived at a glance and have to be counted, unless they form a known pattern, like pips on a playing card. Seven is the first number that is not plausible as a standard group. It is just too big to be handled or remembered easily. As a frivolous yet telling instance, Walt Disney made Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937, and in spite of the film’s success and staying power, few of the public ever found it easy to name all of the dwarfs offhand. Many could get to five or six, but nearly everybody missed at least one.

Numerologists may not be considered very important, but for what it is worth, no reason can be shown why they should have found seven attractive. It does not lend itself to the kind of thinking that regards six as a “perfect” number because its divisors, one, two, and three, add up to itself. Seven is a prime number and has no divisors to play with. It is uncooperative. There is no test for divisibility by it. There are tests for the other numbers up to twelve, but the only way to see whether seven will go into a larger number is to try.

One notion is that seven is special because it is three plus four and combines magical qualities that both of the smaller numbers are held to possess. Three, of course, has mythical and folkloric prominence, not only among Celts. There are three Fates, Furies, Graces. Parents in fairy tales have three sons, heroes get three wishes, heroines have three suitors, and so on. A list of triads would extend far backward in time and over an immense territory. In such cases, however, it is doubtful whether three is thought of as a number, exactly, open to arithmetical handling. Rather, as remarked, the feeling is that it stands for a whole. A triad has an air of being complete in itself. It may be a three-in-one, a divine power or entity (Fate, for example) with a triple aspect. Nobody would have made such a triad up to seven by adding four more members; nobody would have endowed Cerberus with four more heads.

Moreover, why four? Where would that have come from? In any relevant past, four has no similar magic. It eventually acquired that, in the broader number mysticism that grew up in Greece with genuine mathematics. But that came only with Pythagoras and his disciples in the sixth century B.C., and there were mystical sevens long before Pythagoras.

True, a few heptads of later times are thought of as three and four added together. Medieval schools taught the seven liberal arts. These comprised the trivium of grammar, logic, and rhetoric and the –quadrivium of astronomy, music, geometry, and arithmetic. But the older and more significant sets are not so comprised. The week is not three plus four. The astrological planets are not three plus four. The musical scale is not three plus four. Where the seven mystique can be pinned down earliest, there is little trace of a prior mystique of any smaller numbers; sevens appear without preexisting threes and fours to add together.

Those who accept the theories of C. G. Jung may urge his “archetypes” as an explanation. They are said to be patterns embedded in a collective unconscious that all human beings share. Some are numerical and inspire such groupings as the Three Fates. Jung claims that four is archetypal as well as three, so he may seem to offer ammunition for the seven-equals-three-plus-four theory. Who knows, this piece of mental arithmetic, which is so hard to catch happening in historical daylight, might have been worked out in the collective unconscious. But while three does have an archetypal look, Jung’s case for four is much weaker. It depends, to be frank, on the limitations of his own knowledge.

He talks about four directions corresponding to points of the compass, and about four winds, and four seasons, et cetera, as if all peoples had four and there were some deep-rooted necessity in it. The simple truth is that it is not so. His fours are neither worldwide nor very ancient. The Greeks did not define the four cardinal points until about the fifth century B.C., and in other parts of the world, even where these are recognized, it does not follow that there are four directions. In ancient Ireland and India there were five directions, north, south, east, west, and “here.” The Chinese usually counted five directions, sometimes six. In some Polynesian islands they reckon seven—north, south, east, west, here, up, and down. Four has no magic in this matter.

The four winds, north, south, east, west, are rationalized survivors of a larger, vaguer, more primitive brood. They do not appear in the Bible until Jer. 49:36 (“And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven. . . .”), and that passage is much later than others that emphasize seven. A Babylonian text, the creation epic Enuma elish (“When on high”), mentions four winds as a set but also mentions seven winds as a set. Seven is already there; it is not a sum of three and four.

With the seasons the notion of a four archetype collapses completely. Across the world, the number of seasons ranges from two (tropical South America) to nine (the Shilluk). The Indo-European languages have no common word for autumn. The Greeks, who can be documented, started with three seasons. In the seventh century B.C., their year sometimes was divided into four but sometimes into three. Classical Greek is a three-season language, its word for “autumn” meaning “the after-summer.” Theophrastus, a scientific writer, actually divides the year into five.

Seven cannot be made up of an archetypal three and four if the archetypal four is invalid.

***

Eden in the Altai lo res

 

Psychedelic Resources

A Foraging Trip: Where Do Magic Mushrooms Grow?
Eager to learn more about the origin of psilocybin species? Read this article to find out where magic mushrooms grow and more!

How to Make Shroom Tea: Best Recipe and Dosage
A step by step guide on how to brew shroom tea, and why entheogenic psilocybin tea is a preferred method for psychedelic connoisseurs.

R. Gordon Wasson: Author and Mushroom Expert
Learn about R. Gordon Wasson, the “legendary mushroom expert” and popular figure within the psychonaut community.

Shrooms vs Acid: Differences and Similarities Explained
Ever wondered what the differences are between shrooms vs acid, or if you can take both together? This guide explains what you need to know.

Quantum Mechanics, Reality, and Magic Mushrooms
Scientist and author Dr. Chris Becker takes an in-depth approach in understanding how we perceive reality through magic mushrooms and quantum mechanics.

Psilocybin Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
Our ultimate guide to Psilocybin has everything you want to know about this psychedelic fungi from its uses to its legal status.

The Psilocybin Experience: What’s the Deal With Magic Mushrooms?
From microdoses to macrodoses, the psilocybin experience has been sought after both medicinally and recreationally for millennia.

Psilocybin and Magic Mushroom Resources
Curious to learn more about psilocybin? This guide is a comprehensive psilocybin resource containing books, therapeutic studies, and more.

Paul Stamets Profile: Mushroom Guru, Filmmaker, Nutritionist, Scientist
Learn about Paul Stamets, read his thoughts on psilocybin mircodosing, the future of psilocybin, and his recent film “Fantastic Fungi”.

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

Psilocybin Nasal Spray: Relief for Anxiety, PTSD, and Depression
Microdosing nasal spray with psilocybin, is that possible?! Oregan a start-up Silo Wellness believes so and has created this new option for PTSD treatment.

Mazatec Mushroom Usage: Notes on Approach, Setting and Species for Curious Psilonauts
A look at traditional Mazatec psilocybin mushroom usage, and a comparison to the cliniical therapeutic approach, with an examination of the Mazatec setting and species used in veladas.

María Sabina: The Mazatec Magic Mushroom Woman
Magic mushrooms are incredibly popular today. How they became introduced to into American culture isn’t usually a topic discussed while tripping on psilocybin fungi. We all may have María Sabina to thank for exposing the Western world to the healing properties of the psilocybin mushroom.

Guide to Magic Mushroom Strains
Are there different types of psilocybin? Read our guide to learn about the different magic mushroom strains and their individual effects.

Kilindi Iyi: Mycologist, Traveler, Teacher
Learn about traveler and mycologist Kilindi Iyi known in the psychedelic community for his research and exploration of psilocybin.

How to Store Shrooms: Best Practices
How do you store shrooms for optimal shelf life? Learn how and why the proper storage method is so important.

Shroom Chocolate Recipes: How to Make Magic Mushroom Chocolates
This recipe provides step by step directions on how you can make mushroom chocolates with the necessary ingredients. Read to learn more!

Why Do People Use Psilocybin? New Johns Hopkins Study
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicines has just published a new study on psychoactive effects of psilocybin. Read here to learn more.

How-To Lemon Tek: Ultimate Guide and Recipe
This master guide will teach you how to lemon tek, preventing the onset of negative effects after consuming psilocybin. Read to learn more!

How to Intensify a Mushroom Trip
Learn about techniques like Lemon tekking, or discover the right time to consume cannabis if you are looking to intensify a mushroom trip.

How to Grow Magic Mushrooms: Step-by-Step
This step-by-step guide will show you how to grow magic mushrooms at home. Read this guide before trying it on your own.

How to Dry Magic Mushrooms: Best Practices
Read to learn more about specifics for the best practices on how to dry magic mushrooms after harvesting season.

How to Buy Psilocybin Spores
Interested in psilocybin mushrooms? We’ll walk you through all you need to know to obtain mushroom spores. Nosh on this delish How To guide.

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.

Having Sex on Shrooms: Good or Bad Idea?
Is having sex on shrooms a good idea or an accident waiting to happen? Find out in our guide to sex on magic mushrooms.

Gold Cap Shrooms Guide: Spores, Effects, Identification
Read this guide to learn more about the different characteristics of gold cap mushrooms, and how they differ from other psilocybin species.

Guide to Cooking with Magic Mushrooms
From cookies to smoothies and sandwiches, we cover various methods of cooking with magic mushrooms for the ultimate snack.

2020 Election: The Decriminalize Psilocybin Movement
Are you curious if mushrooms will follow in marijuana’s footsteps? Read to learn about how the U.S. is moving to decriminalize psilocybin.

Oregon’s Initiative to Legalize Mushrooms | Initiative Petition 34
Oregon continues to push ahead with their initiative to legalize Psilocybin in 2020. The measure received its official title and now needs signatures.

Canada Approves Psilocybin Treatment for Terminally-Ill Cancer Patients
Canada’s Minister of Health, Patty Hajdu approved the use of psilocybin to help ease anxiety and depression of four terminal cancer patients.

Mapping the DMT Experience
With only firsthand experiences to share, how can we fully map the DMT experience? Let’s explore what we know about this powerful psychedelic.

Guide to Machine Elves and Other DMT Entities
This guide discusses machine elves, clockwork elves, and other common DMT entities that people experience during a DMT trip.

Is the DMT Experience a Hallucination? 
What if the DMT realm was the real world, and our everyday lives were merely a game we had chosen to play?

How to Store DMT
Not sure how to store DMT? Read this piece to learn the best practices and elements of advice to keep your stuff fresh.

What Does 5-MeO-DMT Show Us About Consciousness?
How does our brain differentiate between what’s real and what’s not? Read to learn what can 5-MeO-DMT show us about consciousness.

How to Smoke DMT: Processes Explained
There are many ways to smoke DMT and we’ve outlined some of the best processes to consider before embarking on your journey.

How to Ground After DMT
Knowing what to expect from a DMT comedown can help you integrate the experience to gain as much value as possible from your journey.

How To Get DMT
What kind of plants contain DMT? Are there other ways to access this psychedelic? Read on to learn more about how to get DMT.

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

Having Sex on DMT: What You Need to Know
Have you ever wondered about sex on DMT? Learn how the God Molecule can influence your intimate experiences.

Does the Human Brain Make DMT? 
With scientific evidence showing us DMT in the brain, what can we conclude it is there for? Read on to learn more.

How to Use DMT Vape Pens
Read to learn all about DMT vape pens including: what to know when vaping, what to expect when purchasing a DMT cartridge, and vaping safely.

DMT Resources
This article is a comprehensive DMT resource providing extensive information from studies, books, documentaries, and more. Check it out!

Differentiating DMT and Near-Death Experiences
Some say there are similarities between a DMT trip and death. Read our guide on differentiating DMT and near-death experiences to find out.

DMT Research from 1956 to the Edge of Time
From a representative sample of a suitably psychedelic crowd, you’d be hard pressed to find someone who couldn’t tell you all about Albert Hofmann’s enchanted bicycle ride after swallowing what turned out to be a massive dose of LSD. Far fewer, however, could tell you much about the world’s first DMT trip.

The Ultimate Guide to DMT Pricing
Check out our ultimate guide on DMT pricing to learn what to expect when purchasing DMT for your first time.

DMT Milking | Reality Sandwich
Indigenous cultures have used 5-MeO-DMT for centuries. With the surge in demand for psychedelic toad milk, is DMT Milking harming the frogs?

Why Does DMT Pervade Nature?
With the presence of DMT in nature everywhere – including human brains – why does it continue to baffle science?

DMT Substance Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
Our ultimate guide to DMT has everything you want to know about this powerful psychedelic referred to as “the spirit molecule”.

DMT for Depression: Paving the Way for New Medicine
We’ve been waiting for an effective depression treatment. Studies show DMT for depression works even for treatment resistant patients.

Beating Addiction with DMT
Psychedelics have been studied for their help overcoming addiction. Read how DMT is helping addicts beat their substance abuse issues.

DMT Extraction: Behind the Scientific Process
Take a look at DMT extraction and the scientific process involved. Learn all you need to know including procedures and safety.

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

DMT Art: A Look Behind Visionary Creations
An entire genre of artwork is inspired by psychedelic trips with DMT. Read to learn about the entities and visions behind DMT art.

Changa vs. DMT: What You Need to Know
While similar (changa contains DMT), each drug has its own unique effect and feeling. Let’s compare and contrast changa vs DMT.

5-MeO-DMT Guide: Effects, Benefits, Safety, and Legality
5-Meo-DMT comes from the Sonora Desert toad. Here is everything you want to know about 5-Meo-DMT and how it compares to 4-AcO-DMT.

4-AcO-DMT Guide: Benefits, Effects, Safety, and Legality
This guide tells you everything about 4 AcO DMT & 5 MeO DMT, that belong to the tryptamine class, and are similar but slightly different to DMT.

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.”

Related Posts

Ready to explore the frontiers of consciousness?

Sign up for the Reality Bites newsletter and embark on a journey into the world of psychedelics, mindfulness, and transformation. It’s where the curious minds gather.

Become a conscious agent with us.

Featured Partner

Cosmic Melts

Cosmic Melts are the latest mushroom gummies we’ve been munching on. Choose from five fruity flavors, each gummy containing 350mg of Amanita muscaria.
 
Amanita muscaria offers a unique (and totally legal!) mushroom experience, and Cosmic Melts is an ideal entry point for the curious consumer.
Featured Partner

Lab Link Supply

Our go-to source for spores so you can grow your own shrooms right at home. Carrying several of our favorite species including B+, Golden Teacher, Jedi Mind F*ck, Blue Meanie and more. Browse their selection of spores and get started with your home grow.

Our Partners

Welcome to Reality Sandwich. Please verify that you are over 18 years of age below.

Reality Sandwich uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. By entering Reality Sandwich, you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy.