Boom Festival 2010: Divine Mothership of Trance

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My eyes open upon a lakeside vision.

As I come up, by me sits a woman who might be an Elven princess from epic
Tolkien. She bears an uncompromising grin, and I imagine a light jeweled
coronetelle wound about her brow as her gaze is cast across the bight.
Sparkling azure eyes are fixed upon the structures on the other side, now
fading under brilliant pre-twilight.

I too had been surveying shapes on the Other Side — its contours now also
receding from view. For some duration, perhaps fifteen minutes or so, my
sensorium had been exposed to vistas of inter-dimensional proportions, remote
visions, spectral gifts that played havoc with my normative space-time
continuum. Here, lakeside, I had been submerged in a world parallel to the
“real”. While it is a “world” to which I am unaware in daily life, within the
Mothership where The Veils had thinned to a flickering filigree, these worlds
had collided.

I had been visited in this duration by hyperspatial emissaries, bearers of
gifts presented to me as in a series of objects unfolding in a longue durée of
brilliant patterns; offered Persian-like carpets rolling out incessantly and
self-unfurling banners festooned with motifs I could hardly understand;
unloaded containers evoking God’s Tool Box, with countless back-lit panels
opening before me like drawers within drawers within drawers; revealed puzzles
possessing morphing shapes and shifting depths like inter-dimensional Rubiks
Cubes. I was enticed by a divine strip-tease performed by animate Matryoshka
dolls shedding infinite layers of finely embroidered safran garments the
discarding of which never obtained absolute exposure. It was a ceaseless
operation, and all I could do was stare in complete wonderment, with my eyes
closed, and my mouth ajar, at the process of revelation. I wish I possessed the
mechanism to understand the contents of these gifts, were operating the program
to process the data, had installed the wares to recognise the Logos, held the
knowledge to reassemble this hyperspatial Kinder Surprise.

With eyes closed, I had been gazing upon a world parallel to my own, just as
she had been gazing across the lake to the other side. We are equally overcome
by the wondrous images encountered. And as our vistas merge under a carnival of
reflected lights, I see that which grows mesmerising in the faded heat and
light of this day.

We are hunkering in the dirt across a small bay of Lake Idanha-a-Nova,
Portugal. On the other side lie clusters of bizarre tents and fantastic
structures like those found in an oasis of sound and vision to which one has
trekked many thousands of kilometers. The structures belong to the zen
gardenesque Healing
Area
, a Puja Tent, Sound Temple, yurts, Sweat Lodges, tipis, mandala
meditation and massage therapy buildings.

And more immediately across the bight stands the elegant
Sacred Fire stage. Bearing a roof resembling a princely turban, it has been
established upon a rise above a fire burning near the water’s edge. Its flames
are visible on a point of the lake where a puja ritual was held during the
Opening Ceremony one week ago. The Sacred Fire was the scene of a tumultuous
orgy of ethno-trance acts last night (including Wild Marmalade, Hilight Tribe
and Ganga Giri), the eve of the Full Moon when there was also a fire
walk.

We are at the 2010 edition of Portugal’s Boom Festival. Founded by Diogo Ruivo
and Pedro Carvalho in 1997, the biannual festival has evolved into a sacred
site for enthusiasts of psychedelic music, art and culture, who have descended,
like us, upon this lakeside site in the Beira Baixa province, from locations
around the globe. For thirteen years, Boom has been the venue for the ecstatic
and consciousness expanding expression of the Goa vibe (see short film on Boom history):
a veritable psychedelic Mothership. And now, here we are, being abducted by the
vibe. Behind us, back around our peninsula, abductees are probed by bass,
protracting their limbs and winding their heads on another plane, at the Groovy
Beach stage, this year a magnificent horned structure built by the people from
the Do Lab. (see video).

Back beyond
the Groovy Beach, lay an extraordinary shanty oasis at which there was always
something new to hear and see: the Golden Shack Gamelatron (a collaboration between Shrine and Taylor Kuffnery). Beyond the Gamelatron, at the festival’s
crossroads, lay another oasis, nothing less than the Ambient Paradise, the
chill stage purposely built like a decompression chamber with calming LED
lights and which at its centre holds a stage with dragon sculptures reclining
above a pool of water.

To our right we are captivated,
for in that direction lies the Dance Temple. Down in the Temple over the past
week we have been treated to sensual wonderments, premiere sounds on the
psychedelic continuum, from polished Goa nuggets care of Man With No Name and
Psychopod, night sounds of the likes of REV, electrance care of Perfect
Stranger, progressive psyvibes manipulated by Zen Mechanics, M-Theory and Flip
Flop et al, to soaring morning melodies orchestrated by James Munro, Antix and
Sally Doolally. In this global sacred site for the psytrance community built by
Belgian visionary François and with design input from Android Jones and
programming of Alfredo Vasconselos, we had been exposed to the work of Dick
Trevor who could surely be awarded an honorary doctorate in Psychedelic Science
at the Advanced School of Re/Mixing (and who recently played a devastating four
hour set at the Ozora Festival — probably the best set to which I’ve been
privileged) and Treavor Walton, founder of California’s Moontribe, who, wearing
a t-shirt reading “Dance You Fuck” (I needed no such encouragement), not for
the first time this season, unleashed a vocal sample care of Israeli duo
Quantize which evoked the underlying theme of the year, week and day …. “heavy
doses of Dimethyltryptamine”.

Allow me to digress. Found in various plants, produced in
the human brain (according to Rick Strassman in The Spirit Molecule, the pineal gland), and often smoked (“free
based”) in a chillum with an effect lasting between 15-30 minutes, N,N-Dimethyltryptamine,
or DMT, was spruiked by Terence McKenna as one of the most powerful vehicles
for inter-dimensional transit. He wrote in True
Hallucination
s that its “strangeness and power so exceeded that of other
hallucinogens, that di-methyltryptamine and its chemical relatives seemed
finally to define, for our little circle at any rate, maximum exfoliation-the
most radical and flowery unfolding-of the hallucinogenic dimension that can
occur without serious risk to psychic and bodily integrity.” While William
Burroughs reported traumatic experiences mainlining synthetic DMT at high
doses, McKenna was a cheerleader for tryptamines, efforts echoing his personal
commitment to spiritual technologies believed integral to humanity’s push
toward liberation in transpersonal consciousness, and his indebtedness to
Hermeticism, the search for the “philosopher’s stone” or lapis philosophorum-“nothing less”, he wrote in the same source,
than “the redemption of fallen humanity through the respiritualization of
matter” (1993: 77).

Since the 1990s, references to DMT escalated within psytrance productions-in
which McKenna remains the most commonly sampled individual, his popularity
proliferating following his death in 2000. Indeed, like a familiar from the
beyond speaking on behalf of the multitudes who continue to encounter
hyperspatial dimensions, his immortal brogue is stamped all over psytrance
productions. For instance, on their debut self-titled album, 1200 Micrograms
filter McKenna recollecting a life-changing experience from 1966: “I remember
the very very first time I smoked DMT…” (“DMT”, TIP.World, 2002). Throughout
the decade, artists projected McKenna as something resembling a seer. In 2001,
Avihen Livne teemed up with Jörg Kessler and, as Cosma Shiva, producing “In
Memory of Terence McKenna” on the EP by that name. The psychedelic dirge
invokes McKenna: “vaporize it in a small glass pipe” … “a shaman is someone who
has been to the end, is someone who knows how the world really works” … “what
the alien voice in the psychedelic experience wants to reveal is …” and later
the ghost of McKenna speaks in the unintelligible alien tongue he would
sometimes deliver in his presentations.

With their material saturated in the effects of DMT and ayahuasca, the Shpongle-inspired ethnodelic outfit Entheogenic
(Helmut Glavar and Piers Oak-Rhind) offer a sounding board for McKenna. The
opening track on Spontaneous Illumination
(C.O.R.N. Recordings, 2003), “Ground Luminocity”, heads off into a deep
jungle vibe, with bird calls, insects buzzing and water flowing over rocks, all
nurtured by flute and warm percussive lines. And like an epigram, the voice of
McKenna: “The search for a doorway out of mundane experience …. Nature is the
great visible engine of creativity” (Ott’s 2005 remix of “Ground Luminocity”
[Entheogenic, Dialogue of the Speakers,
Chillcode], finishes the sentence: “against which all other creative efforts
are measured”). An apparent tribute to the seminal work co-authored by the
McKennas, “Invisible Landscapes” begins with the bard: “life is a problem to be
solved… its a conundrum. It’s not what it appears to be. There are doors.
There are locks and keys. There are levels. And if you get it right, somehow it
will give way to something extremely unexpected.” “Twilight Eyes” has a classic
orchestral feel, with McKenna averring that “shamans in times and places gained
their power through relationships with helping-spirits”, and with the line
(from I Claudius) “I promise you,
you’ll dream a different story altogether”, the listener is set adrift with
McKenna standing on a ceaseless shoreline proclaiming “imagination, really, is
the last frontier”, while waving the wayfarer off into deep dreamspace.

And now bathed in twilight, I
am seated upon the ceaseless shoreline of Lake Idanha-a-Nova, coming up with
knowing smiles and nodding heads, and shedding tears in recognition of a
permanent impermanence. And like a comic book magi of sacred compounds attired
in crinkled Flower of Life pajamas and appearing majestic against the fading
light, before us dances nanobrain, our hyperdimensional adventure tour guide.
“Acceptance”, “love” and “peace” are the words he’d repeated earlier
before dispensing an alien brogue not dissimilar to that channeled by McKenna.
It has been a long and tiring week at the pulsating heart of the world’s
visionary dance festival, but the tide was in on the shores of possibility.

I am compelled to take further
stock of the cultural aesthetic in which we are implicated. This is a festival
culture whose music has been, for at least fifteen years, quite literally
smudged with DMT. While attempting to locate the first DMT-influenced track is
probably futile, plunged into the Blakeian-infinite which they sought to
resonate, The Infinity Project’s Mystical
Experiences
(Blue Room Released, 1995) is likely to have been partially
influenced by DMT. The line “I met an alien with a blue aura” (from “Blue
Aura”) is as proximate to DMT-space as Mary Poppins is to nanny duties. In
1997, the legendary Danish mind experimentalists Koxbox went “Searching for
Psychoactive Herbs,” the ultimate track on their Dragon Tales (Blue Room Released), an inspired album cleaving away
from the astral-planes drifters hallmarking the Goa tradition. With the track
“D.M.Turner” (a tribute to author of The
Essential Psychedelic Guide
, D. M. Turner who drowned in his bath in 1996
after injecting a serious dose of ketamine), it appears that their search had
not been in vein. Forming the group DMT in 1998, members of the Goa trance
royal family Raja Ram, Graham Wood, Greg Hunter, Johann Bley and Martin Glover
produced the track “DMT” (Dragonfly
Classix
, Dragonfly Records). But it was Shpongle’s landmark Are You Shpongled? (Twisted Records,
1998) that had sung the ode to DMT. With its calypso bassline, “Divine Moments
of Truth” features Raja Ram divulging his experience in DMT-space: “it was like
a gigantic creature, that kept changing shape”.

Over the next ten years and more, references to DMT-space proliferated in music
and cover art, in visionary art and event design. Whether in the work of Carey
Thompson, whose gateway installation the DMTemple became, in 2006, a prominent
feature at festivals in Europe and the United States, including Turkey’s
Soulclipse, Sunrise Celebration, The Glade and Burning Man, as well as Boom (a
variation of which featured at Boom this year), or in the music itself, DMT had
grown legion.

The gateway concept has been
especially appealing. Within the visionary arts and music community, DMT has
been associated with a movement towards a state of grace, a reconcilement to
one’s own physical demise, an encounter with ego-death and indeed mortality
itself. Shpongle had the measure of this on Nothing
Lasts … But Nothing is Lost
(Twisted 2005) on which McKenna had the final
word. On “Exhalation” there’s a break in Raja Ram’s flute and McKenna
eventually exhales: “Nothing is lost…” The track “Nothing is Lost” from the
same release is both a dirge sung for McKenna and an acceptance of
impermanence, offering his master’s voice: “Nothing lasts… nothing lasts.
Everything is changing into something else. Nothing’s wrong. Nothing is wrong.
Everything is on track. William Blake said nothing is lost and I believe that
we all move on.” In this revelatory mode inspirants are challenged to find
peace with the ultimate truth, to accept their inevitable complicity in the
cycle of life/death. “Life must be the preparation for the transition to
another dimension”, explained McKenna on “Molecular Superstructure” from the
same album. With the expansion of personhood enabled by DMT, and with the now
pervasive work of Alex Grey a popular means of expressing comfort with
mortality (see especially his painting “Dying”), the barrier that separates
life from death for us moderns grows ambiguous.

But inside the 2010 Boom
Festival, upon the edge of abduction, just where was all this heading fifteen
years after The Infinity Project’s Mystical
Experiences
?

Blue Lunar Monkey’s “Mysterious Xperience” (Beyond
2012,
2008) spruiks like a carne: “it starts quite quickly and there’s
quite a strong rush … and there’s quite a display of geometric, kaleidescopic
visual imagery”. But then it grows introspective in ways expected upon a ride
in an amusement park: “I think what may occur with DMT is that it opens
specific doorways, which are otherwise closed. And through those doorways it is
possible to make contact with external freestanding kinds of real experiences”.
By 2009, the door to eternity seemed to have been left ajar. Hujaboy’s
formulaic full-on “Liquifried” (VA, Planetary
Service
, Mechanik, 2009) offers American comedian Joe Rogan’s condensation
of McKenna and Strassman: “it’s called dimethyltryptamine. It’s produced by
your pineal gland. It’s actually a gland that’s in the center of your brain.
It’s the craziest drug ever. It’s the most potent psychedelic known to man,
literally. But the craziest thing about it is it’s natural and your brain
produces it every night as you sleep. You know, when you sleep, during the time
you’re in heavy REM sleep and right before death your brain pumps out heavy
doses of dimethyltryptamine.” At this juncture, like a carne barking in a
fairground midway, Rogan’s rant seemed to be on a high frequency play-loop.
Thus, on “Freakstuff” (A Spark of Light,
FX System), Brazilian Arthur Magno (aka Fractal Flame): “life is a massive fucking
mystery. And there’s only a few different ways to really crack below the
surface of that mystery. And the best way is psychedelics.” The same bark had
been used by Hujaboy, accept that he decided to include “and the heavier the
psychedelic, the better.” Mood Deluxe permitted Rogan another breathe: “And
guess what? No one’s dying from psychedelics. All our thoughts on psychedelics
are all based on bullshit propaganda, that you heard about people, you know,
going crazy and losing their minds. You’re not gonna go crazy, you’re gonna go
fucking sane” (on “Stealthy Fungus”, Divine
Inventions
, Liquid, 2008). An audio-billboard for the red pill, “DMT
Molecule” by Mister Black includes material from the same monologue: “you
should all smoke DMT and join my cult mother fuckers!” Rogan even made an
encore on Fractal Flame’s “DMTrip”: “you take this shit and literally you are
transformed into another fucking dimension.” And by the time Israeli duo Reshef
Harari and Adi Ashkenazi (aka Quantize) arrived, any subtlety, subliminality
and mysteriousness appears to have vapourised. Their “Dymethyltryptamine” [sic]
(Borderline, Echoes Records, 2009),
begins with the filtered voice of McKenna repeating “DMT” which quickens next
to the pulse before Rogan bursts through with the new black: “heavy doses of
dimethyltryptamine.”

You can almost smell the bravado, perhaps even thicker than the pungent vapour
of DMT itself. But while some of this smacks of braggadocio as producers and
DJs compete with one another for hardcore user status, the significance of this
sampladelic tsunami should not be underestimated, for the writers of
psychedelic sonic fiction (psy-fi) are channeling the zeitgeist. Whether in
private alcoves by the beach or suburban terraces on summer afternoons, in special
blends optimised for group sessions and indeed for the dance floor itself, DMT
is the new black-if by which we understand “black” to be the equivalent of an
inter-dimensional portal through which one vibrates in a depth-shifting coat of
electric colours, and through which one grows connected to the
ever-at-hand-albeit-illusive mysteries, the numinous that captivates one with
an intrigue that fuels daily life, and fires a recognition that death and life
are not unambiguously separate.

Over the past few years, this recognition has grown ever proximate care of changa, a DMT-blend first prepared and
popularised in Australia, and now smoked on dance floors around the world. This
short-lasting preparation, has inspired other DMT-enhanced leaf blends which may
include, for instance, pau d’arco, damiana, pink lotus, calea zacatechichi, lions tail, calendula, passion flower-the latter
being a MAO inhibitor rendering the experience like a “smokable ayahuasca” (see article on changa by Jon Hanna) and has even
inspired an effort to establish psytrance
as a “religion”
.

Changa may be rooted in McKenna’s
1997 speaking tour of Australia. In his talks at various events, McKenna shared
the wisdom that DMT could be harvested from alkaloids in local Acacia, and local psy-fi artists
acknowledged the significance of the wattle,
the national floral emblem (and local designation for Acacia). On “Burning Point” (Sun
Control Species-Unreleased
, 2004), Australian artist Drew Davidson (Sun
Control Species) drops a McKenna sample pungent with the acrid vapour: “The
national symbol of Australia is the wattle.
It’s an Acacia. The Acacia ecology of Australia is jammed
with DMT.”

The experience in DMT-space
(especially the sonorous chirping of insects) had an early impact on trance
music production in Australia, notably Space Tribe’s 12-inch Ultrasonic Heartbeat, which features
“Cicadas on DMT” (Spirit Zone Recordings, 1996), and later the music of
Insectoid. If Aldous Huxley had articulated that mescaline afforded a trek into
the “Antipodes of the mind”, the “psychological equivalent of Australia” where
“we discover the equivalents of kangaroos, wallabies, and duck-billed
platypuses-a whole host of extremely improbably animals”, replete with exotic
birdlife (kookaburras), insects, didjeridu and Aboriginal songlines,
“Insecticide” and “Tribedelic Nomads (Animistic Mix)” (from Insectoid’s Groovology of the Metaverse, WMS
Records, 1998) might have been the soundtracks to the antipodean trek from the Antipodes. “New Vistas” offers
the pertinent sample to this remote viewing: “I feel that I am merely an agent,
giving your some keys, which have been given to me, to pass on to you. These
keys are to unlock doors out of your present prison. Doors opening in on new
vistas. Doors beyond where you are now.” This material reeks of tryptamines and
offers echoes of the experiment at La Chorrera down the Rio Putumayo in the
Columbian Amazonas in 1971, on the subject of which the McKennas had written in
The Invisible Landscape (1975:
109-110): “Because of the alien nature of the tryptamine trance, its seeming
accentuation of themes alien, insectile, and futuristic, and because of previous
experiences with tryptamine in which insectile hallucinatory transformations of
human beings were observed, we were led to speculate that the role of the
presence was somehow like that of an anthropologist, come to give humanity the
keys to galactarian citizenship”. The national floral symbol of Australia seems
to have been ingested, and the keys to the tryptamine palace handed over, in
further work, such as the various artists producing on the Demon Tea label,
whose compilation titles Oozie Goodness –
The Eye Opening Elixir
(1998) and Not
My Cup Of Tea
(2001) offer insight on this development.

At the lakefront laboratories
downstream from these developments, we are intrepid Australians  communing
around a blend of our national emblem presided over by the alien anthropologist
nanobrain. The blend is what he styles nanga,
a potent changa derivative also
dubbed aussiehuasca. It contains
Peruvian Banisteriopsis caapi vine
shavings which serve as an MAO inhibitor, and DMT “coaxed from Aussie acacialoids by alchemical
maestros”. As he informs me, “50/50 percentage ratio by weight, mixed
with intent and charged with love … vibrate to integrate, BOOM!”

Out here upon the frontiers of experimentation, we are in proximity to a
transnational cult of seekership in which participants are exposed to new
sensorial possibilities care of pungent blends and potent derivatives of changa ready-made for an interactive and
inter-dimensional dance floor experience. McKenna had touted DMT as the fastest
route to the Otherword which he characterised as “hyperdimensionality” or
“hyperspace”. As Otherworldly events, as hives of consciousness,
psychedelic festivals expose participants to something akin to a Mystery School
in Hyperspace. While none of this constitutes formal ritual, nor formal
education, at Boom’s Dance Temple we can read all about it in the music, and
smell it in the morning air. We can see it in the animated movements of fellow Temple worshippers hailing from a multitude of countries, and we feel it
shaking hands with God under a misting system at 148 bpm.

With yet another promo for DMT, and Strassman’s book, take Swede Wizack
Twizack’s (Tommy Axelsson) “Spirit Molecule” (Space No More, 2010). The effort to uncover this “strange chemical”
and understand its capacity to replicate an experience identical “to events to
come after life”, should not be undervalued. Opening the door to a psychedelic
fairytale, “Spirit Molecule” sails off the map of terra-cognito to relate “the
secret history” about which trance multitudes might approve: “since the dawn of
time, man has used psychedelics. From the ancient myth of Adam and Eve until
today … From the Eleusian rituals … to modern day ayahuasca parties, every society has used psychedelics”.

Speaking of mystery cults, a few days back I introduced a presentation by
Chiara Baldini, my galactic sister (with whom I share a Dreamspell galactic
signature: Yellow Planetary Seed). Chiara had been on site some two and a half
months assisting in the preparation of the Liminal Zone, Boom’s educational
arena. Part of an amazing bamboo structure called The Drop (which also included
Boom’s performing arts space, the Theatroom), the Liminal Zone has evolved into
a significant portal of consciousness expansion, replete with ecological
principles and visionary art, and which this year has been physically embraced
by a Visionary Arts Gallery featuring work from, among others, Android Jones,
Amanda Sage, Xavi and Carey Thompson (this years Arts Director).

Chiara had also become, over
this period, an embedded historian, writing pieces for the Boom website, such as this
essay exploring the significance of Shiva and Dionysus
in Goa trance. She
has also produced a chapter investigating the cult of Dionysus in contemporary
psytrance for the collection I recently edited The Local Scenes and Global Culture of
Psytrance
. Her presentation “Boom vs Eleusis” was an entertaining and
insightful speculation concerning the Mysteries of Eleusis and their
contemporary equivalent. Connections with Eleusis, the two millennia long
ancient Greek festival of initiation to the cult of Persephone and Demeter,
have been repeatedly drawn within contemporary psytrance, especially among
those who seek to return to states of connectedness and intentional ritual they
perceive have been lost or forgotten.

It might be argued that the
Boom Festival itself exemplifies this loss of direction or vision. While there
may be a connection between the kykeon
(the barley-derived drink knocked back by fasting initiates at Eleusis on the final
night of the festival before they were exposed to the mysteries inside the
Telesterion) and LSD-25 (whose psychoactive properties derive from alkaloids in
the fungus ergot which may have parasitised the barley drunk at Eleusis), it
could surely be argued that, unlike the mystery cults of ancient Greece, there
is little evidence at Boom of singular mythical authorities whose stories
govern the lives of its festal population. Also, with the prevalence of dodgy
drugs, and with the proliferation of cocaine (at least that which is sold as
“cocaine”) and questionable “MDMA” and other substances, liminars enter this
arena with a high degree of risk. And not only that, with growing
commercialization (e.g. Boom is selling coca-cola in 2010), along with the gangs
of thieves ransacking tents on the final night of the event and throughout the
festival, is it any wonder that critics have vent their spleens at the Boom
organisation? Opponents have long included those who mount and attend
Anti-Boom, an off-party situated across the lake from Boom for years? This
year, Anti-Boom would actually be shut down by police after the first night of
operation when they launched sonic salvos, like Boom-breaking audio fireworks,
from their pirate enclave across the lake.

But for all the bitter broadsides, beauty, wonder and intention is in bountiful
supply on the shores of lake Idanha-a-Nova. Over in the Healing Zone, there are
multiple daily workshops, for instance, on sound healing, water practice,
Qigong, meditation, yoga, sweat lodges, etc. And down in the Dance Temple
individuals and crews of nationals from a multitude of states and altered
states converge to conduct personal rituals of transformation, an exposure to
Otherness rarely achieved elsewhere. It brings tears to your eyes, as it would
to my Finnish companion on a bus back in Lisbon the day after. Tears of joy
welled in his eyes as he recounted his first exposure to the Temple a week
before, when he wept openly. These moments of transit neither possess nor
require elaborate description or explanation, other than that the liminars
habituating the torrent of bass and adrift on the mesmerising melodies within
the Temple’s Funktion One set up might announce little more than that they’re
having “the shit”. But we needn’t even measure this experience against the
(limited) vocabulary supplied by participants, but by the preparations that
those who descend upon this site in central western Portugal undertake to
enable their exposure to the Mysteries. They make pilgrimage from all across
the world (see Day One
entrance video from BoomTV
), participants from scores of countries, many
hauling their buses, their funky motor homes and their arses great distances.
For instance, I’ve had recounted to me tales of those who’ve trekked across
Europe to arrive at Boom, and others who have cycled. What’s more, they expend
considerable effort in acquiring the resources by which their exposure to
Otherness is assisted.

No, this is not the Telesterion
at Eleusis. There is no unifying mythic system by which participants are able
to interpret their visions or translate their altered states. Not a ceremonial
occasion, in the shamanic-anarchist style advocated by McKenna the Dance Temple
facilitates a multitude of private encounters with the numinous, multiple
states of entrancement. And there are no heirophants, just as there are no
singular types or sources of consciousness alterants-no unifying symbols, such
as the head of barley a la Eleusis.
But among this literal “alphabet soup” of research chemicals-which clearly
retains the “meat and three vege” of LSD (commonly signified by the image of
its synthesizer, Albert Hofmann), cannabis
sativa
(whose leaf is a ubiquitous symbol of altered states), psilocybin (with the image of the
mushroom axiomatic to alterity) and MDMA (the “love” drug)-we find that DMT has
evolved as an authority unto its own, whose private and public teachings are
extolled in the sonic mythography and visionary artistry of our times. For the
initiated, the numinous affect of usage precipitates reverence, and entire
cults of adoration develop in which this plant matter and its psychoactive
fruits are venerated. With DMT, since these “fruits” derive from plants with
relatively indistinct features, their adoration is rarely expressed in
iconography, but is known in its pungent vapour, the olfactory memory of which
signals one’s own connection with the Other World, and to those with which one
has been vapourised.

Disembarking
upon this beachhead of possibility, gazing into the Otherworld, it occurred to
me that DMT does not enable access to The Mysteries, like a puzzle to be
re/solved, a game to be completed, a lock to be opened, a story to conclude.
Indeed, solving mysteries is the conceit of the old scientific model. As we
subject the unknown to possession, measurement and control, mystery grows ever
more illusive, receding from view like the Elves vanishing to Valinor. And it
further occured to me, above the clouds on a flight from Lisbon to Budapest
post-Boom, that the puzzle-like objects I had been presented with in a nanga session on the shores of Lake
Idanha-a-Nova were not to be “solved”, cracked open, uncovered, but to be
recognised as signs of the greater Mystery in which I was implicated, in which
we were soaked-fragments of the universe in which we’re a part. Here, the gift is that recognition.

Many thank yous to my traveling
and camping companions, especially Nano, Chiara, Aleaha, Paris, Damo, along
with Marco, Karl, Graziella and all the organisers and participants of Boom
2010, all accomplices at the scene of the sublime. Special thanks to Dick
(Maestro) Trevor. Thanks also to Boti at whose apartment in Budapest I
completed this, and to Jakob for his stunning photos. Parts of the story are extracted
from my forthcoming book Global Tribe:
Spirituality, Technology and Psytrance
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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.”

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