Archive for the ‘Entheogens’ Category
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Out of Line Theatre’s The Sandwich >>> Neo-psychedelic Theatre Work Inspired by the Discovery of LSD
What’s happening in Winnipeg? First it is listed as one of the up and coming hot beds for art and now a LSD theatre production inspired by Albert Hoffman’s discovery of LSD has popped up there titled The Sandwich: Transforming Consciousness Bite by Bite. Sounds like an influx of psychedelics might be responsible for fuelling the arts in a once unknown Canadian prairie town. Learn more below and check it out from May 9 to 12 at the Out Of Line Theatre if ...
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Offshore Psychedelic Healing >>> Proposal for Entheogenic Seastead Resort and Testing Lab
Was the appearance of the white killer whale a sign of humanities need to shift to the oceans? After finding out about seasteading, I found this article on The Institue For Ethics & Emerging Technologies website from Ben Goertzel on his proposal to take shamanic healing to the sea. It is certainly a grandiose idea that would take years if not decades to turn into reality, but one I think, and the white whale may be signifying, is a must needed direction humanity should ...
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As FDA Loosens Stranglehold on Research, Studies Use Hallucinogens to Treat Psychiatric Illness
Truthout recently reported the latest LSD and other hallucinogenic studies relating to psychiatric illness that are starting to loosen the 35 year ban on psychedelic research. The question is…is this good or bad for psychedelic healing? Is something that is probably better understood by shamans in the safe hands of modern scientists? Will big pharma take over and suck the sacredness out of these substances? Or is this the first droplets of the shamanic healing flood I hope will wash us ...
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Vice Magazine Interviews With People Who Just Smoked DMT
Vice Magazine isn’t joking when they say DMT is so hot right now. Even the guy working at the print shop I went to the other day lit up when he saw the DMT Vision artwork I made for our Spirit Of Spider tee’s and told me about he once tried it followed by a large thwack of his fist to his hand to which he used to describe the experience. Anyways, DMT continues to gain momentum in mainstream media ...
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DMT: The Spirit Molecule Director Mitch Schultz Interview >>> The Entheogenic Revolution Podcast
Listen to the latest Entheogenic Revolution podcast hosted by the miraculous and marevous Martin W. Ball. On this edition, director of the evolutionary documentary DMT: The Spirit Molecule, filmmaker Mitch Schultz, joins Martin to chat about his coming projects, the DMTRMX Project, his time in Australia, and more. >>>
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Study Finds Suicide Rates Fall When States Legalize Medical Marijuana
I am certainly not one of those people who is relaxed by smoking marijuana, but I still believe professor Daniel Rees who co-authored the study you can read below is on to something. Most people who I know who do smoke marijuana say that they like it because it calms them down…and then there’s Snoop. Look how happy he is! Read about the findings in this article from the The American Indepedent: A University of Colorado economics professor has ...
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Ayahuasca: What Jennifer Aniston May Not Know About the ‘Spirit Vine’ >>> Article
Jonathan Talat Phillips, co-founder of Evolver.net and Reality Sandwich, calls out the ignorance of one of Hollywood’s latest features ‘Wanderlust’ in its portrayal of the sacred medicinal concoction Ayahuasca. From the Huffington Post: It’s the evening of Jan. 25, 2007, and I’m hosting my first “Ayahuasca Monologues” storytelling event to a packed room at Eyebeam Atelier in New York City. On stage, “Breaking Open the Head” author Daniel Pinchbeck, who semi-popularized the hallucinogenic tea ayahuasca within the spiritual counterculture, brushes aside his disheveled hipster hair, asking in a ...
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Hip Hop Goes On A Vision Quest >>> New Album Vodka & Ayahuasca From Gangrene
In regards to the name of their new psychedelic underground hip hop album, Vodka & Ayahuasca, Gangrene explains to Hip Hop DX “basically Vodka is your modern day party livener. I think we dug deeper. Me and Oh went on a couple excursions. We were out in the rainforest for a while buggin’ out and we kind of encountered different medical, herbal elixirs. Not your average thing but everyone talking, “Hey we got the loud, we got loud.” But do ...
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How Do You Protect a Cosmic Portal? >>> Huichol ‘Cosmic Portal’ Land and Peyote Culture Threatened by Silver Mine
Yet again, another indigenous culture based on a sacred connection to nature and hallucinogenic ceremonies is being threatened by big money douche bags. This time it’s the infamous Huichol Indians of Mexico who according to The Washington Post may lose their mystical mountain range lands due to a proposed silver mine: REAL DE CATORCE, Mexico — For the Huichol Indians, the desert mountains here are sacred, a cosmic portal with major mojo, where shamans collect the peyote that fuels the ...
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The Chosen People of Iboga >>> A Conversation with Dimitri Mobengo Mugianis On His Hallucinogenic Healing Journey
With stories like this one from Reality Sandwich, it’s shocking that people are running through the streets screaming about the power of Iboga, the Shamanic root bark hallucinogen from West Africa, to heal lethal substance addictions. Thankfully, that is exactly what Dimitiri, the articles protagonist, is doing around the world. Here’s the whole story: By the time Dimitiri Mobenga Mugianis reached 40 years of age, he was ready to die. After cultivating an ever-worsening cocaine and heroin habit, the Detroit ...
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Guatemala Weighing Drug Legalization >>> Article
ORIGINAL POST >>> STAR TRIBUNE GUATEMALA CITY – U.S. inability to cut illegal drug consumption leaves Guatemala with no option but to consider legalizing the use and transport of drugs, President Otto Perez Molina said Monday, a remarkable turnaround for an ex-general elected on a platform of crushing organized crime with an iron fist. Perez said he will try to win regional support for drug legalization at an upcoming summit of Central American leaders next month. He got his first ...
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Modern Shamanism >>> Sacred Cyber-Space?
With everything always in a state of change, when a psychic recently told my boyfriend that “everyone wants to be a shaman these days”, I wondered what does that mean for Shamanism? A recent article on Reality Sandwich helps foresee how Shamanism, a practice that is believed to date back thousands of years, will transform as it filters through modern society: Over the past 18 years, it has been my very good fortune to meet, study with, travel and live with South American ...