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Oct 28, 2014Jun 17, 2016

True Hallucinations: A Terence McKenna Psychedelic Book (Audiobook)

Hearing Terence talk about his ideas is even better than reading them.

His eloquent passion drips with every spoken word, and his emphasis on certain words reveals glimpses into his mind-set when he was writing.

True Hallucinations is, well, perhaps Publishers Weekly’s hilarious review said it best:

In 1971 ethnobotanist McKenna ( The Archaic Revival ), his brother Dennis and three friends boated to a town in Amazonian Colombia, seeking a hallucinogenic plant that enables the Witoto tribe to talk to elf-like “little men.” In psychedelicized ravings interspersed with diary excerpts, McKenna records their experiences after ingesting mind-altering mushrooms and other psychoactive plants.

A flying saucer slowly flew over McKenna’s head; he calls it a “holographic mirage” of a future technology. Dennis had a revelation about a “psychofluid” that pervades the universe. McKenna flashes forward to Hawaii in 1975 where mantis-like creatures from hyperspace attack his lover, and flashes back to his tantric lovemaking in Tibet and to Indonesia where unrepentant Nazi scientists tried to recruit him in 1970. He posits the existence of a particle of time, the chronon , which conditions matter. A bizarre book. – Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc

True Hallucinations Audiobook

Prefer reading: True Hallucinations PDF

Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for only through memory is the past recaptured and understood. In the fact of experiencing and making the present, we are all actors. – Terrence McKenna

Oct 21, 2014Jun 17, 2016

DMT – Hallucinogenic Fuel Produced By Our Brains

DMT is an illegal, psychedelic compound found in the human body and at least 60 species of plants worldwide. Terence McKenna (who has raised awareness of DMT to its present level) called DMT “the most powerful hallucinogen known to man and science” in his 1994 lecture Rap Dancing Into the Third Millennium

McKenna first smoked DMT as an undergraduate at Berkeley in early 1967. He had experience with LSD—ingesting it “once a month or so”—and other psychedelics, but said in an interview:

It was really the DMT that empowered my commitment to the psychedelic experience.

DMT was so much more powerful, so much more alien, raising all kinds of issues about what is reality, what is language, what is the self, what is three-dimensional space and time, all the questions I became involved with over the next twenty years or so. – Terence McKenna, The Archaic Revival (1992)

Third Eye Perception

From 1990 to 1995, Dr. Rick Strassman administered 400 intravenous doses of DMT to 60 heavily pre-screened volunteers with extensive experience with psychedelics. He documented the results—in fascinating detail, because it “was important that other people knew how to wind their way through this maze,” the two-year process was published in DMT: The Spirit Molecule (Dec 2000), nine months after Terence McKenna died.

The pineal gland of older life forms, like lizards, is called “the ‘third’ eye” and has a lens, cornea, and retina. As life evolved, the pineal moved deeper into the brain. The human pineal gland is not actually part of the brain. Rather, it develops from specialized tissues in the roof of the fetal mouth. From there it migrates to the center of the brain, where it seems to have the best seat in the house.

Twenty-five years ago, Japanese scientists discovered that the brain actively transports DMT across the blood-brain barrier into its tissues. I know of no other psychedelic drug that the brain treats with such eagerness.

This is a startling fact that we should keep in mind when we recall how readily biological psychiatrists dismissed a vital role for DMT in our lives.

If DMT were only an insignificant, irrelevant by-product of our metabolism, why does the brain go out of its way to draw it into its confines? – Dr. Rick Strassman, DMT Researcher

> DMT: You cannot imagine a stranger drug or experience | VICE

May 19, 2014Jun 17, 2016

Dogs Hallucinate After Licking Cane Toads (Video)

Dogs in Australia lick the hallucinogenic sweat off cane toads to get high in this clip from Cane Toads: The Conquest.

Some dogs are so desperate for a fix they deliberately hunt down the frogs to stimulate the excretion of the psychedelic sweat, then lick their prey.

To say a dog or a cat is having an hallucination is impossible, but some do star gaze or track something across the room that isn’t there and others just stare out of the cage while we’re monitoring them – Jonathon Cochrane, University of Queensland’s School of Veterinary Science

Unfortunately, there is only a small amount of the psychoactive chemical Bufotenin secreted compared to the dangerous toxins in the sweat. Most dogs are able to overcome the poison by instinctively limiting the amount they lick.

A psychedelic toad trip has to be more intense than a catnip trip, add dogs to the list of animals that love to get high.

Aug 29, 2013Jun 17, 2016

A Scientific Look at Psychedelic Medicine (Video)

There’s a class of natural organic medicine that can take the world on a consciousness changing trip, but their potential is restricted by mindless laws.

Is it possible that, because of the war on drugs, we have demonized a treatment for otherwise untreatable diseases?

A way to increase personal well-being, permanently treat depression, break the cycle of addiction, and ease the transition from life into death?

The solution to all of these problems (for many people) might be a nice, hallucinogenic trip. –SciShow

Sources of Studies Cited in Psychedelic Medicine Video

1.Pilot Study of Psilocybin Treatment for Anxiety in Patients With Advanced-Stage Cancer

2.Response of Cluster Headache to Treatment of Psilocybin and LSD

3.Magic Mushroom Shows Promise in Treating Addictions and Cancer Anxiety

4.Psychedelics, Hopeful Medicine for OCD

5.How Psychedelic Drugs Can Help Patients Face Death

John Hopkins, Psilocybin Session Room

Aug 7, 2013Jun 17, 2016

Tripping on Hallucinogenic Frogs – VICE Documentary (Video)

Tripping expert Hamilton Morris is at it again; taking a journey through the Amazon forest in hopes of discovering the psychedelic potential of the Sapo frog.

In the Amazon rain forest, there lives a very special frog called the Phyllomedusa bicolor, otherwise known as the Sapo. Traditionally, the Mayoruna tribe uses this frog’s gooey secretions to gain superpowers that transform them into killer hunting machines. First they tie the frog up and scare it into releasing its venom (generally via the sophisticated method of poking it with sticks). Next the natives burn little holes in their arms and rub the venom into the wounds. Then they shit and vomit for half an hour, and then they (ostensibly) experience a sharpening and heightening of the senses and an ability to go for days without food or water. This helps them target their prey (which are monkeys, by the way—they eat monkeys).

Sapo Diaries: Tripping on Hallucinogenic Frogs

In part 2, federal agents, monster bugs, and an inept shaman keep getting in the way.

In part 3, a frog is caught, and a mind is blown.

Click here for a written Trip Report of Hamilton’s Amazonian Journey.

Oct 26, 2012Jun 17, 2016

Trippiest and Funniest Drug Hallucination Movie Scenes Compilation (Video)

Yes, Mew Lists did everyone a favor and compiled the funniest and trippiest drug hallucination movie scenes. Click below the view the full list of movies featured in this compilation:

1. Cheech & Chong’s Next Movie
2. Go
3. Dirty Work
4. Smiley Faces
5. Road Trip
6. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
7. Shrooms
8. The Bear (L’Ours)
9. Dumbo
10. Weed
11. Eurotrip (1:36)
12. Hot Tub Time Machine
13. The Big Lebowski
14. Bobby
15. Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
16. The Acid House
17. Jacob’s Ladder
18. Trainspotting
19. Enter the Void
20. Gothic 1986
21. Young Guns (3:10)
22. Batman Begins
23. Naked Lunch
24. Papillon
25. Pi
26. Bad Lieutenant
27. Casino Royale
28. Training Day
29. Chopper
30. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
31. Akira (4:36)
32. The Tingler
33. Easy Rider
34. Requiem for a Dream
35. The Doors
36. Incense for the Damned
37. Midnight Cowboy
38. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
39. The Trip
40. A Scanner Darkly
41. Reefer Madness (6:07)
42. Rosemary’s Baby
43. I Love You, Alice B. Toklas
44. 25th Hour
45. Garden State
46. American Beauty
47. Liquid Sky
48. Altered States
49. Alice in Wonderland
50. Up in Smoke
51. Saving Grace

Oct 15, 2012Jun 17, 2016

Humans Are Biologically Wired for the Magic Mushroom Experience – Roland Griffiths Ted Talk (Video)

Roland Griffiths, Ph.D., is Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurosciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His principal research focus in both clinical and preclinical laboratories has been on the behavioral and subjective effects of mood-altering drugs.

Roland Griffiths took 36 healthy volunteers who have never had a psychedelic experience. After 2 months of having their first Psilocybin experience the volunteers were given various questionnaires to gauge the effect of the psychedelic experience.

70 percent of people were saying. “This is among the 5 most personally meaningful experiences of my life.” I would ask people, what does that mean? Tell me about that. “When my first child was born that changed my life forever. Recently my father passed away, its kinda like that.”

80 percent of the volunteers said that the experience increased their sense of well-being and life satisfaction. No one said it decreased it.

Magic Mushrooms have been around far longer than our civilization. It’s thrilling that science is finally discovering the magic in mushrooms!

Aug 1, 2012Jun 17, 2016

Magic Mushrooms and Positive Personality Changes (Study)

A single high dose of the hallucinogen psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, was enough to bring about a measurable personality change lasting at least a year in nearly 60 percent of the 51 participants in a new study, according to the Johns Hopkins researchers who conducted it.

Lasting change was found in the part of the personality known as openness, which includes traits related to imagination, aesthetics, feelings, abstract ideas and general broad-mindedness. Changes in these traits, measured on a widely used and scientifically validated personality inventory, were larger in magnitude than changes typically observed in healthy adults over decades of life experiences, the scientists say. Researchers in the field say that after the age of 30, personality doesn’t usually change significantly.

“Normally, if anything, openness tends to decrease as people get older,” says study leader Roland R. Griffiths, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Personality was measured on a widely used and scientifically validated personality inventory, which covers openness and the other four broad domains that psychologists consider the makeup of personality: neuroticism, extroversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness. Only openness changed during the course of the study.

Griffiths says he believes psilocybin may have therapeutic uses. He is currently studying whether the hallucinogen has a use in helping cancer patients handle the depression and anxiety that comes along with a diagnosis, and whether it can help longtime cigarette smokers overcome their addiction.

“There may be applications for this we can’t even imagine at this point,” he says. “It certainly deserves to be systematically studied.”

> Hallucinogen and Personality | Medical Express