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[*] posted on 5-20-2012 at 01:01 AM


Wow Osprey, you did it again, and yet again! Great thread. With the demonetization of these native medicines we lose the opportunity to learn from them and those who use them. I admire your sensitivity and courage in writing this piece, a real slice of deep Mexican culture not often seen by the outsider. Motoged tells us here about what few "outsiders" have experienced and your posting this has provided us with a forum to honor some of these amazing experiences and as Huxley said opening our doors of perception. So much has been written about the negative affects of drugs, few have written about what can be learned from them and it takes courage in this day to talk about such things. The image of burying oneself in the ground to experience the Joshua is priceless, just priceless.

Not all trips are good trips, as Andrew Weil M.D. sagely said "the trip is in the person".

Here is a clip of a suburban housewife under the influence of LSD.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGf2loLAwVE

Peyote has been used among the Dina (Hopi) as a successful treatment for alcoholism. Those successful in their recovery report that the spiritual nature of the experience filled a deep need in them and they could no longer dull themselves with alcohol. I have read studies of high rates of recovery using this treatment and "Crossover States of Neurofeedback" which can produce similar experiences.

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[*] posted on 5-20-2012 at 07:41 AM


Since I'm a hobby writer I use that license to offer fiction based on fact, fantasy and personal memoirs to these ends:

I'm hoping the work will

engage
educate
entertain
evoke or inspire
enlighten
tease and please

I'm also hoping the work will give the reader some of the above whether it is fact or fiction. As an example: In Edgar Allen Poe's short piece "The Adventure of one Hans Pfaal" the lead character takes a trip to the moon in a balloon.

The story is so well constructed as to make the reader believe the trip was possible. Would it change anything if the writer told the story as reportage, with the writer in the balloon basket?

In the peyote story I spoke the truth when I said I had never taken drugs like mescaline. Then I fabricated an adventure in which I pretended to go to the mountains, take drugs, report the experience. I've been to the mountain many times. Everything about the cactus, the drugs, the drug experience is pure fiction. I imbedded large photos of the mountains, the cactus, the story setting and characters which all went nicely to make the tale plausible. I couldn't post the photos in their present format -- hope the story still rings with the sound of organic adventure.
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[*] posted on 5-20-2012 at 10:34 AM


Osprey "hope the story still rings with the sound of organic adventure"

It does indeed. These are the skills of a great writer, to be able to write in the voice of the opposite sex, to write of experiences one can only imagine, to paint verbal images of metaphorical and imagined experienced. We are fortunate to have you aboard providing all of these for us. Thank you.

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[*] posted on 5-20-2012 at 11:08 AM


fish, thank you so much. You've been on my patio so you know what a challenge it is for me, lying there in my hammock, watching the clouds whip by, to begin there and end up at the conclusion of a tale worthy of your reading.

Best hobby I ever could have and the very best payoff in praise like yours and the sometimes kudos back to me from noble Nomads.
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