Nuit came to me during my last DMT trip
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@Faus said
" It is important to understand that the image of the Shaman as a “wise man” is a cultural lie that is sold to get some money from the new age movement. The Shaman is seen as a “man of power”, someone that you are afraid of but, at the same time, necessary."
Excellent points, Faust. There's a great, probably apocraphyl, anecdote related Piers Vitebsky in one of his books... let's see if I can find the quote... ah, here it is, from The Shaman: Voyages of the Soul. Trance, Ecstasy and Healing from Siberia to the Amazon:
"A shaman from Nepal met a Westerner who remarked how good it must be to live in harmony with the cosmos. The shaman replied, 'The main part of my job is killing witches and sorcerers." -
Faust, might I ask you of your perspective and opinion of adding atropine alkaloid containing plants to the aya brew?
Atropine alkaloids, (I will state something that is not in any books so please bear with me,) connect one to the knowledge of death. This includes Datura, Brugsmansia, Nightshade, Hensbane, as well as the Coca Bush. They allow one to see past certain veils where one is able to view that light that is just past death, where one can see Truth, and jump into if they wish to be reincarnated, (the latter being the case if one is already dead.)
Many shamans claim that using Datura is "Evil", and only for Brujos. I find that conception misleading, and would say that my relationship with Datura is gentle, kind, even forgiving. It is my opinion that with plants of serious power like Datura, certain humans take it upon themselves to gain power greedily, and harm others for such reasons, even for fun.
Another one not in the books: Shamans or Brujos extremely experienced with Datura can easily leave their bodies, travel in the direct astral connected with the actual reality of Earth, and push someone off of a cliff if they so chose to.
This seems to be another one of those situations where personal morals, or the true goodness one has on one's soul, is the only thing that the experience ends up relying on.
What say you?
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Well, then you may be right.
From all we can gather, since DMT is the first neurotransmitter known to the fetus, and because it is introduced so early, and during sleep, and death, that all we really experience is "hallucination."
You see, when the brain pumps out DMT during REM sleep, one goes through a psychedelic experience WAY too intense for them to remember, (this is proven scientifically when more than 60-80mg of dmt is consumed with one without tolerance,) and their brain shuts off the process of memory recording for the time being.
Dreams are the after-effect of that intense experience, after you've given yourself to the grid-work of reality, that connect that aforementioned intense experience to concepts they can more easily and less fearfully understood.
This proves that the initial DMT experience by the fetus is what is really perceived as real, and that the rest of the life, outside of such experiences, is all dreaming.
I totally agree with you, Potater.
Speaking of potaters, I will have prepare some for lunch. Thank you for reminding me, I am so hungry.
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I did,
Dionysus carries a PineCone staff for a reason...
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Well, if your own jury is out on the fetus thing, as it is with certain branches of science and that can be a good standpoint, then you might say that as soon as the fetus' pineal gland produces the first amount of DMT, then everything past that is hallucination.
Don't want to go that far, then the first REM sleep/stage a fetus has in the womb or later on, is the last point he would experience before everything else that comes after being hallucination.
And if this is the case, which it probably is, then the mother is still in hallucination, which would make the child a hallucination as well.
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@ThelemicMage said
" You see, when the brain pumps out DMT during REM sleep, one goes through a psychedelic experience WAY too intense for them to remember, (this is proven scientifically when more than 60-80mg of dmt is consumed with one without tolerance,) and their brain shuts off the process of memory recording for the time being."
I've been lucid during REM sleep a number of times before, and had pretty accurate memory afterward, enough to write detailed records of the experiences. I suppose there are connections you could draw between those experiences and the psychedelic state, but not at all like what you're suggesting. -
@Frater Potater said
"Veronica,
No mention of DMT in that wiki article.
Thelemic mage, It seems like you keep missing the point. Maybe someday science will tell us what the link is, but for now there remains no proof to support what you are saying."
I supposed I should have said, a Fennel staff, tipped with a pine cone.
The vatican has beautiful pinecone sculpture....
Not occult at all, but right in the main square of the catherdral.
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@ThelemicMage said
"Well, if your own jury is out on the fetus thing, as it is with certain branches of science and that can be a good standpoint, then you might say that as soon as the fetus' pineal gland produces the first amount of DMT, then everything past that is hallucination.
Don't want to go that far, then the first REM sleep/stage a fetus has in the womb or later on, is the last point he would experience before everything else that comes after being hallucination.
And if this is the case, which it probably is, then the mother is still in hallucination, which would make the child a hallucination as well.
"Everything is really just a hallucination, emanation, or whatever if you think about it kabbalistically.
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@Iamus said
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@ThelemicMage said
" You see, when the brain pumps out DMT during REM.shuts off the process of memory recording for the time being."
I've been lucid during REM sleep a number of times before, and had pretty accurate memory afterward, enough to write detailed records of the experiences. I suppose there are connections you could draw between those experiences and the psychedelic state, but not at all like what you're suggesting."When my mother was in the hospital dying several times in fact, i had discussions with her team of doctors, and they told me she would not recall a thing.....
But what she did recall, her near death expierences are very similiar to the reports i have read on dmt, and dmt usage.
She was having natural psychedilic expierences, brought on by her heart, and lungs.....dmt can be stored in the lungs, and her respiratory distress and the swelling and draining of her fluids could very easily account for her expiernces with what she called aliens, and elementals....and since she is an initiate as well as a doctor in her own right, she is utterly fascinated by what happened to her, because I sat right by her side, yet she is convinced she was elsewhere.... -
"Is there any indication that the ancient people using as a symbol for the pineal, or is this merely a modern projection onto their ideas? I'd be interested in seeing the hard evidence."
I dont quite understand what you are asking.
I do know that many, many of our most sacred and ancient rituals seemingly bet on this fact.
Btw, I clarified. Because I believe that it is our lungs, our heart and our mind, in tandem that create these chemicals....
I like being in the mystery of things, so I am not one to demand proof, Ill just eat my pudding
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@Frater Potater said
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@Veronica said
"what she did recall, her near death expierences are very similiar to the reports i have read on dmt, and dmt usage"Several people have reported similar accounts. My own experiences agree as well. It certainly would make sense - that there is a physiological mechanism, or biochemical, action that is behind NDE's, OBE's, and other phenomena.
It certainly doesn't confirm the objective existence of aliens or elves.@Veronica said
"I dont quite understand what you are asking."
Sorry that was poorly articulated and written in haste.
I meant that the ancient people had no way of knowing what DMT is. The wiki article says they chose the staff/cone as a symbol of fertility. Is there any evidence that they chose it based on their understanding of anatomy? Is there any link in antiquity between the function of the pineal gland, and symbolism of dionysus?"We dont know that they had no way of knowing, there is no proof
Maybe some neaderthal got his head smashed open, and they saw it little thing, which looked like a mini pine cone, and they ate it and tripped out...
Had visions of gods, and then came down to earth sober and decided that eating mini pine cones was the best thing life had to offer, so they built up a whole civilization about getting more, about the blessed pinecone and its magic powers. And maybe over time some who had eaten the pine cone, found they felt the same way when they had really awsome Union, and started looking into ways to tantrically stimulate their own pine cones, instead of slaves....Just running with in....
I personally think most wiki articles can not be trusted, Journals, periodicals, books, and teachers are better. While a pine cone is a very fertile symbol, their are many other simpler symbols which could be used, and the point that a pine cone was choosen over so many others, seems to imply an almost animistic understanding of symbology and what a pinecone could imply to a human, as compared to Squirrel who sees a pine cone staff as lunch.
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@ThelemicMage said
"Faust, might I ask you of your perspective and opinion of adding atropine alkaloid containing plants to the aya brew?
What say you?"Of course you can. I am just afraid that I might say something that you would not like to hear.
Antropine alkaloid can easily get you killed, especially because the concentration of alkaloid can vary very much during the year. The adrenergic discharge that comes with the poisoning can be the principal source of its bad trip effect.
To tell the truth most shamans I know are full of bull****. Since they usually have little training most of them become highly superstitious and paranoiac, creating a lot of theories that in the end are only reflections of their very confusing astral experiences.
It is my opinion that there is little difference between most hallucinogenic drugs, basically all they do is to open the astral in one way or another. Choosing one would be a question of personal taste.
Just something about DMT and biochemistry. It is not drug that is hallucinogenic, it is the receptor in the brain. Almost all neurotransmitters are potential hallucinogenic, there is nothing special about DMT.
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Hearing that. I would agree with you except for one point:
If DMT is looked at under a microscope, and how it fits exactly into 5-HT2 receptors, it contains everything about every other endogenous serotonic neurotransmitter, but combined and evolved into a completely stand-alone, no-need to mess with serotonin, molecule.
Just FYI.
Have you ever noticed how some shamans say that the "elves", or the spirits of the ayahuasca are not inherently "good", and that they need to be compelled to be good?
Some sing to them, the songs of the rainforest and the land. Some go through elaborate rituals including fasting and purging themselves so the spirits don't get "binded" up in the body/mind during the experience. Kind of sounds unneeded for spirits that will eventually jump in and out of your chest to wake you up, but I only eat plants anyways and don't drink that much. No lust of killing in me, save for my own survival intuition, and I wouldn't call that "Lust". Maybe it's different for meat-eaters?
Sexual abstinence is part of the fasting process, which I do not agree with, unless a certain situation or needed experience asks for it.
For instance, I understand that sexual abstinence increases energy for astral projection.
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Oh, and I must counter you argument that all hallucinogens are the same:
The main-line "real" hallucinogens that make one vastly and visually aware of electromagnetic lines of power in the Earth and space, and give you the same with others' auras, even animals, are all 5-HT2, (serotonin), receptor agonists. This compels one to believe that they are for the purpose of awareness and sensory.
All alkaloids from the Datura family are in a completely different class. They are competitive antagonists for the muscarinic acetylcholine receptor. This is why Datura must be consumed in large amounts for hallucinogenic effect, and is why they give delirium when would-be initiates attempt to do this.
Some situations are terribly intense with this stuff if not used right.
I will also counter the idea that all hallucinogens are the same, by stating that LSD, Mushrooms, DMT and Mescaline have never killed a single human being by overdose, which can happen very easily with tropane alkaloids.
I don't think they've really killed anyone, when one looks at the facts: The people who "jumped out of windows trying to fly" were all in buildings owned by the CIA. It's a pretty good trick actually. Give an unsuspecting human a drug with VAST applications in awareness and Magic, wait until they have no idea what's going on, then throw them out of the window into the street.
This is WELL-documented, and makes my stomach turn when I read and hear of it.
Do a search for MK-ultra. The people who headed this $hit up actually admitted to all this and made the statement that they were untouchable. They still are!
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@Faus said
"Just something about DMT and biochemistry. It is not drug that is hallucinogenic, it is the receptor in the brain. Almost all neurotransmitters are potential hallucinogenic, there is nothing special about DMT."
The human brain is a powerful thing, man.
After experimenting with various drugs, I feel the statement "there is nothing special about DMT" to be a little inaccurate. Sure, some people put WAAAY more stock into it than necessary. However, no other drug I've experienced truly takes control over your conscious and wrangles you in such a way that DMT does. It is a very common chemical in nature. I think because its natural applications are somewhat undocumented and uncertain we like to make up wild answers about why it really exists, calling it a "spirit molecule" or some such. I do think that DMT allows for one to have a much much more meaningful journey than any others that I've tried.
I feel like it's an easy cure for a spiritual "writer's block." Though, I wouldn't depend on it but once every few years to act as a cleansing tool and a reboot for your mind. It helps you see what's already there, but in a way that you just couldn't put your finger on beforehand.
You don't need DMT to do this, but it sure does make it easy.
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See, my opinion is not about the different mechanisms or experiences but the final valuable for a magician, Astral Travel. You need to get out and explore the other side.
In this context the drug use loses very much of its meaning, for me, since someone can actually be trained to attain it without drugs. In other words my experience makes me believe that they are not the Philosophers Stone but a beginners tool.
About the receptor, height affinity for a receptor is not a signal that it is something more useful or evolved, on the contrary, promiscuous molecules generally are much more useful to keep a healthy feedback in the brain. And there are many different kinds of 5-HT receptors, DMT only has affinity with a couple of them (or it would be anxiogenic).
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Oh, and something that has been scientifically proven. (I will try to find the article, but it's been years and my bookmarks have been changed several times, but this was an actual finding.):
Shamans that use ayahuasca in South Americas have a higher amount of DMT in their bodies and brains than the rest of the population, even weeks and months after they have not used it. This lasts for years and probably the rest of their lives.
As a magician, knowing that DMT causes higher awareness, I think this is very important in that it will leave you more prone to astral travel and the art of "dreaming awake", as Crowley puts it. I mean, that last phrase is pretty much what DMT does.
So, bottom line, DMT users teach their bodies and brains to produce much more of it endogenously on their own. This is the definition of evolution itself. This might categorize as "Magical" evolution. Might? For sure it does!
Some humans, and magicians make the mistake of doing this because we are hard-core trained to do things on our own, forget that they need to imbibe many parts of nature just to live, even more so to evolve. Food, if one is not aware, has many chemicals in it that actually help evolve animals and humans into their next state of being, not just their habitat, but the foods themselves.
Food is just another drug that must be mastered and used for one's own betterment and for the betterment of mankind. Crowley himself stated, even about Heroin, that humans should learn to utilize it for their own good, strength, and evolution.
"Our ancestors learned to make use of the lightning. Shall we run from a packet of powder?"
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@Faus said
"See, my opinion is not about the different mechanisms or experiences but the final valuable for a magician, Astral Travel. You need to get out and explore the other side.
In this context the drug use loses very much of its meaning, for me, since someone can actually be trained to attain it without drugs. In other words my experience makes me believe that they are not the Philosophers Stone but a beginners tool.
About the receptor, height affinity for a receptor is not a signal that it is something more useful or evolved, on the contrary, promiscuous molecules generally are much more useful to keep a healthy feedback in the brain. And there are many different kinds of 5-HT receptors, DMT only has affinity with a couple of them (or it would be anxiogenic)."
If anyone comes upon this thread, I hope they read the bolded part of this quote. Very very true.
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Crowley states that when one has mastered their astral self, (the part of the sub/consciousness that is always there, always awake,) then the lower physical self is no more of a matter than the dust of the floor.
Liber Samekh, probably the most important instructions for ceremony of attainment of the HGA beside the Abramelin work, has all the most important parts of the work the astral.
From what I can gather from Crowley's work, mastering this part of yourself is one of the most, if not most important keys to being a successful magician. For when you do work in the physical, even pentagram rituals, your astral self is right there, moving along with everything you do. (Unless you are focusing your astral self somewhere else whilst, but that doesn't even sound like a good idea.) Attainment of this connection is paramount.
I will agree with Potater as well though, (with my Satanic side coming out a bit
, and say that the lower self is brought higher and higher as the astral self "evolves" and/or is mastered. Just because we might be of the perfect aetherial form many aeons from now and be able to travel into the Sun, and from there to other intense points of singularity in the Universe(s), doesn't mean we will just leave behind the Earth. For the dust of the ground is indeed of the sacred Earth, and is line for the evolution of the Universes. -
@Frater Potater said
"Valuable experience, yes... but I don't know if I would say it's the most important part of the Great Work."
As far as I know, astral travel is a key factor to allow someone to rise towards yetsirah, so I believe it to be important.
But the experience with drugs is something believe to be unnecessary.