tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19653590575302739422024-03-23T23:43:35.009+11:00Tricho Serious Ethnobotany~*Articles and adventures in Ethnobotany and related subjects, including Psychedelics, Society, Ancient History, Spirituality, Sacred Plants as well as Book Reviews and much, much more! Welcome, enjoy!~*Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1965359057530273942.post-18308603091559887352024-03-16T22:02:00.005+11:002024-03-23T23:42:53.683+11:00Inducing pups in Trichocereus, guaranteed.<p>A few years ago I stumbled upon an extremely easy to do, 100% guaranteed method of inducing Trichocereus to branch, or pup as it commonly known. The only other real 100% effective method that I know of is just to wait until it eventually happens by itself, but obviously you wouldn't be reading this unless you wanted to hurry up the process. So, let me introduce you to what I call The Lean Technique, which is really as simple as it sounds, all you have to do is get your plant to lean, without falling over or snapping. Obviously this is easiest to achieve with cuttings in pots, but can be applied to plants in the ground and seedlings etc. By putting your plant on a lean, as pictured below, you will stimulate the plants natural inclination to try and balance itself as it wants to grow upwards towards the sun. Now, the only way your plant will be able to do this is to produce branches opposite to the lean. It's really that simple. I noticed this purely by accident as a cutting I had planted had been knocked by my dog, as evidenced by the fur still sticking in the spines and was leaning at around a 60 degree angle, which I never got around to correcting. I just let it go and it produced pups opposite the lean to balance itself. After making this observation, I decided to see if it could be repeated, and sure enough the exact same thing happened every time I tried it. So, there you go, the easy 100% guaranteed Lean Technique for inducing pups in Trichocereus cacti, have at it. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfr8EWv7EtTSD1GfFXcOEq2lQgn6-XM8Gr_Gx3MztxIn7d7VmmsQl2ARkYa94NUQWN4E8_UHq_-BUrK1RkN0ccuN4XDiyuyOZt_I8gDFv7rX6sH9x9KbdCICxM_WZEJWTfax-Ivfc8zUkgWcxjVdNRrsipve1cYvXqVbj-pjWP8X9mF9WJ-vgvETOvYdc/s1320/img_1_1710578744445.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1320" data-original-width="726" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfr8EWv7EtTSD1GfFXcOEq2lQgn6-XM8Gr_Gx3MztxIn7d7VmmsQl2ARkYa94NUQWN4E8_UHq_-BUrK1RkN0ccuN4XDiyuyOZt_I8gDFv7rX6sH9x9KbdCICxM_WZEJWTfax-Ivfc8zUkgWcxjVdNRrsipve1cYvXqVbj-pjWP8X9mF9WJ-vgvETOvYdc/s320/img_1_1710578744445.jpg" width="176" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj_ux6YJ53mmA5ox12j1dDRq6sYJupjxIcnN3BnP5Xfw8T_SaBdPhApRGgnQW3__mrwH2krjJiFCF7hjW1YWWTXst07rTyhLCPqu7UVgmhJNJHQ2T8yxD10GB_tkB3I_y7Sg8JlGECcDD6dFL88D2jWISRjmyh7pjIMZ_nuDYnhfxaXu6moSo2cL23-w0/s1320/img_2_1710578752282.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1320" data-original-width="726" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj_ux6YJ53mmA5ox12j1dDRq6sYJupjxIcnN3BnP5Xfw8T_SaBdPhApRGgnQW3__mrwH2krjJiFCF7hjW1YWWTXst07rTyhLCPqu7UVgmhJNJHQ2T8yxD10GB_tkB3I_y7Sg8JlGECcDD6dFL88D2jWISRjmyh7pjIMZ_nuDYnhfxaXu6moSo2cL23-w0/s320/img_2_1710578752282.jpg" width="176" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1upR2xIVVoT7oJ2X3RsGaaUQ3bVFVZJ3vBODjzMPJxD0E_u-eWIxiO77QPqR8I6uAwg4rYFPvDM3HvWaT6F7gP9csKybnG_O2EW8Xvz8Frqx8ylYPvli-B5hVJ7oMpejhepBBFX6tSF3-8-opmvFMqloMMlty5YEvgrLYgOHA6vuZptD8KnqAngkPGbQ/s1320/img_3_1710578760258.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1320" data-original-width="726" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1upR2xIVVoT7oJ2X3RsGaaUQ3bVFVZJ3vBODjzMPJxD0E_u-eWIxiO77QPqR8I6uAwg4rYFPvDM3HvWaT6F7gP9csKybnG_O2EW8Xvz8Frqx8ylYPvli-B5hVJ7oMpejhepBBFX6tSF3-8-opmvFMqloMMlty5YEvgrLYgOHA6vuZptD8KnqAngkPGbQ/s320/img_3_1710578760258.jpg" width="176" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjverc0-F-K2FUhj2k7CFHMjUw0r9m8DafWjkK3iaR4rf41lUW01bo2tXpBE3nIv3q6eR6CL-ib2CX0C_KVafeD6KX_vwFUr-LWVfDxYj2lEdAas8Ub1iq5binUJv_-qQcdQ8BgrtMPrzxy8O580WbnyvhA1v9Vr5mMCo9NQFS5agHvdEfXm7DNMUauQUE/s1320/img_4_1710578768974.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1320" data-original-width="726" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjverc0-F-K2FUhj2k7CFHMjUw0r9m8DafWjkK3iaR4rf41lUW01bo2tXpBE3nIv3q6eR6CL-ib2CX0C_KVafeD6KX_vwFUr-LWVfDxYj2lEdAas8Ub1iq5binUJv_-qQcdQ8BgrtMPrzxy8O580WbnyvhA1v9Vr5mMCo9NQFS5agHvdEfXm7DNMUauQUE/s320/img_4_1710578768974.jpg" width="176" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTzm_4ktZp0pMFvzLuJJv5IJmWDJsFsxwBJiQ-ASunKFeA4805X7DewarJXI6RcnrPcpCTKK3Qlun9Cbh73EMmZFcvkgn1ZPz4EeSUqqyR6vUlT_BAmRVFgqvVMWPsh4S_04MqJn2WbZ393BouMW0FW0RJ8zzmcsAxjWDOfzriet9tAjKle5DqHOD4wyQ/s1320/img_5_1710578780659.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1320" data-original-width="726" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTzm_4ktZp0pMFvzLuJJv5IJmWDJsFsxwBJiQ-ASunKFeA4805X7DewarJXI6RcnrPcpCTKK3Qlun9Cbh73EMmZFcvkgn1ZPz4EeSUqqyR6vUlT_BAmRVFgqvVMWPsh4S_04MqJn2WbZ393BouMW0FW0RJ8zzmcsAxjWDOfzriet9tAjKle5DqHOD4wyQ/s320/img_5_1710578780659.jpg" width="176" /></a></div><br /><p>PS: This will probably by my last post on this blog as to be honest I moved on from all this a long time ago and have far better things to do with my time, I just thought I'd give one more little freebie to the community before saying goodbye forever. In the last few years I've been able to start a family, pay off two houses and basically retire from ever having to work for anyone else ever again. Very soon I will be buying a farm, taking it off grid and making it entirely self sufficient. That and my family will take up all my time and interest from here on out. I'll leave the whole online tricho world to everyone else. Thank you to all the people who read this blog, I hope you got something worthwhile out of it.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1965359057530273942.post-44155566140649346332020-02-28T17:32:00.000+11:002023-11-27T22:41:46.862+11:00How to Prepare San Pedro Properly: A Step by Step Guide<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Please note that the following is for information purposes only and that
preparing San Pedro is illegal in many countries around the world.</b></div>
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A
lot of people like to make what is a rather simple and easy process
much more difficult and time consuming than it needs to be, based solely
off of internet rumors, misinformation and conjecture. For some
reason, certain people have decided that they know better than the
traditional Andean people who have been using these plants for at least
10,000 years. The following guide is based off of the traditional method
of preparation that has been used for millennia. <br />
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The first
thing you will need is obviously some San Pedro, with the typical dose
being around one foot or 30 cm of a potent San Pedro cactus. Whilst
Trichocereus pachanoi is the most commonly used San Pedro cacti, there
are in fact numerous other members of the Trichocereus genus than can be
and are used as San Pedro. <br />
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Once you have your potent San Pedro, you need to stress the plant to increase its alkaloid levels. The best way to achieve this is by leaving the cutting in a dark place for at least a few weeks to a month. Really, the longer the better. See the following link for more information ~
<a href="https://trichoseriousethnobotany.blogspot.com/2016/06/trichocereus-potency-basic-guide-for.html" target="_blank">Trichocereus Potency: A Basic Guide for Getting The Most Out of San Pedro. </a><br />
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you will need a sharp knife and a chopping board. Then a large pot,
pressure cooker or slow cooker depending upon your preference. You may
also need a pair of pliers depending on which type of Trichocereus
you're actually using to remove the spines, especially with plants that
have long spines, such as Trichocereus bridgesii which is widely regarded as being the most consistently potent Trichocereus species. Now this is not strictly necessary, but does make
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Now, all you actually need to do is
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Once you have done this, you can
strain out the solid material leaving only the remaining liquid. For
this you can use a colander, cheese cloth or even an old T-Shirt. Just
make sure that you squeeze the solid material to get out as much of the
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The next step in the process is to
reduce the volume of the liquid to around a cup sized portion. Simply
keep boiling the liquid to reduce its volume. Once your San Pedro tea
has been reduced to a cup sized portion, all you have to do is allow it
to cool enough for consumption and it is ready to go. <br />
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Now, the flavor really isn't the best, but at such as small amount it really is not a problem at all to get it down. Just hold your nose and down it goes. When you hold your nose and drink the small amount quickly, you do not even taste it, but you will get a sour/bitter after taste that you can easily get rid of with a nice tasting chaser like orange juice to wash it down. <br />
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If you want to improve the taste, you can add sugar and salt to counteract the bitterness and spices like cardamon and cinnamon whilst it is boiling. Another good way to improve the flavor is to further reduce to around a half a cup portion and then mix with pineapple juice and lemonade. <br />
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You can also further reduce to a gum, roll this into balls and consume, but you will want to be very careful not to go to far and burn it whilst you're doing this. Once reduced to around a quarter cup you can place it in a shallow tray or dish and put in front of a heater or in the oven on low with the door left ajar. Or allow it to dry completely and then scrape it up and put it into capsules. Although all of this will be time consuming and quite frankly unnecessary.<br />
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lot of people will try to tell you that you need to remove the skin of
the plant and only use the dark green layer that is just under the skin,
discarding the white inner layer and core, but this is a huge mistake. Some people say that removing the skin and inner white layer
improves the taste, but in reality it makes no difference at all. Usually
they will say that the skin, white layer and core will cause nausea and
that removing them will reduce the nausea. That is correct in a sense,
but also extremely wasteful and completely unnecessary as I will
explain below. <br />
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The fact of the matter is that the active
ingredient in San Pedro, mescaline, itself causes nausea. Mescaline is a
non selective serotonin receptor agonist, which means that it works on
all of the serotonin receptors. Now the psychedelic experience is caused
by the serotonin receptor 5ht-2 being agonized by psychedelic substances. The feelings of nausea
that come with many psychedelic plants is caused by the serotonin
receptor 5ht-3 also being agonized. For more information on how psychedelics work in the brain, see the following link ~<a href="https://trichoseriousethnobotany.blogspot.com/2019/01/inside-psychedelic-mind-new-frontier.html" target="_blank"> <span class="ILfuVd"><span class="ILfuVd">Inside the Psychedelic Mind: The New Frontier for Consciousness Studies, Innovative Therapies, Micro-dosing & Creativity.</span></span></a></div>
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Now, contrary to popular
belief, not all of the mescaline and other alkaloids in a given San
Pedro cutting is in the outer dark green layer. Up to 45% of the total
alkaloids in a given San Pedro cutting is in the inner white layer
beneath the outer dark green layer. So when you discard the inner
section it will reduce nausea, in the sense that you're throwing away
almost half of the usable mescaline and other alkaloids. See the
following link for more information ~ <a href="https://troutsnotes.com/pdf/SC3_B.pdf" target="_blank">Distribution of Alkaloids in Cacti, from San Pedro and Related Species by Keeper Trout.</a><br />
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The
problem of nausea is usually vastly overblown and is actually not
really that bad, but we all do have different systems, different numbers
of receptors and different people will react differently. If the nausea
is a problem for you, there are a number of things that you can do to
reduce the discomfort, namely use anti-nausea medication, plants or
5ht-3 antagonists. Cannabis, ginger and lemon essential oil work well in
this regard. You can also use a small amount of datura or brugmansia as
in the traditional "Cimora" San Pedro cocktails, although all due care
should be used with these plants and please do your research before
consuming them. <br />
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There are also other ways you can help
to extract the active ingredients from a San Pedro cutting, being the
freeze/thaw method, adding a weak acid such as lemon juice to the
water you use to boil the sliced San Pedro or putting it into a blender. The freeze/thaw method is
quite simply freezing and thawing your San Pedro cutting or slices a
number of times to break down the cell walls, better allowing the
alkaloids to extract into the water. The same applies to weak acids like
lemon juice and blending. Now, this is not actually needed as simply boiling the
slices for long enough will do this itself, but you can do it if you want, if
anything it will just speed up the process. Using a pressure cooker will also speed up this process. If you're worried about
extracting every last bit you can, just boil it for a longer period of
time, this is where a slow cooker is useful as it is quite forgiving if you happen to forget about it and with the lid left on the water will not boil away.<br />
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Of
course then some people will tell you that boiling San Pedro for too
long will degrade the alkaloids, this is complete nonsense. The boiling
point for mescaline is 180 degrees Celsius, where as the boiling point
for water is 100 degrees Celsius, meaning the water will boil off long
before the mescaline ever will. So, obviously keep an eye on your pot as it boils so the water does not boil off.<br />
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The last thing you need to worry about is of course what is known as "set and setting." Being the mindset taken into the experience and the place in which you take the medicine. Ideally you should be in a comfortable space, with people you trust and have prepared your mind for what is to come and have set your intention as to what exactly you hope to achieve in taking San Pedro. Information about set and setting, and the importance of intention is widely available on the internet and should obviously be taken into account. <br />
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*For more information on San Pedro and to freely discuss all aspects of the amazing plants, please join <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/317015961698556/" target="_blank">The San Pedro / Trichocereus Group on facebook.</a> </div>
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One of the most prevalent and enduring myths of modern Trichocereus
taxonomy is the true identity of what is commonly known as Trichocereus
pachanoi "PC." Now, before we go any further you might want to know what
"PC" actually means, it stands for "Predominant Cultivar" and I think
this is probably the best way to designate it until actually proven otherwise, as in Australia and the
US, it is by far the most commonly found Trichocereus pachanoi
variety. Whether it is a clone, or more likely a cultivar, we will address below. <br />
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A lot of speculation and internet rumors have been spread about this fantastic plant, mostly unnecessarily. And quite often the "information" being spread about this plant is quite simply inaccurate. I think it is high time that these myths are put to bed once and for all. So let's take an in depth look at the main theories that are being spread as the truth shall we?<br />
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One of the first myths being spread about this plant was the "Backeberg clone" myth. Thankfully this myth has largely fallen by the wayside. As you can see in the picture below, Curt Backeberg's Trichocereus pachanoi (left) that was pictured in his book Die Cactacae was rather different to the plant we know as "PC" on the right. <br />
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Next up was the "Pachanot" theory by Keeper Trout and M S Smith. The main thrust of their theory is that the flower tube of "PC" has white hairs, where as the original description of Trichocereus pachanoi states that it has black hairs on the flower tube. Well the truth is (that Trout himself admits) that "PC" does indeed have black flower hair, it just bleaches white in the sun, rapidly. As you can see in the below picture from Zed240 it actually does have black flower hair. <br />
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The other main part of the "Pachanot" theory is that "PC" has a different morphology to the Trichocereus pachanoi growing in Ecuador and Peru today, and to Keeper Trout and more M S Smith it looks more like a Trichocereus bridgesii or hybrid there of due it having skinny columns and the tip somewhat resembling a Trichocereus bridgesii, despite it fitting perfectly into the descriptions of what constitutes a Trichocereus pachanoi and no other described Trichocereus.<br />
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I can see how this mistake was made as "PC" does look very different to a large amount of the Trichocereus pachanoi that we see from habitat. The main problem with this is the fact that Trichocereus pachanoi is a highly variable species, with many different morphologies, that all fit into the published descriptions. With more and more people seeking these plants in habitat and providing pictures, it is becoming clear that there are in fact plants in habitat, in Peru that closely resemble "PC." As you can see from the pictures below from Huan Shuma of Chavin Herbalist.<br />
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Also there are Trichocereus pachanoi that have been grown in western horticulture for decades that also closely resemble "PC" that no one has ever questioned as being "true pachanoi." As you can see from the pictures below from Feild's cactus farm.<br />
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Now, the latest theory that is spreading like wildfire is the Trichocereus riomizquensis theory from Patrick Noll. Let's take a look at the points Patrick makes and see if we can get to the bottom of this.<br />
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Firstly Patrick states "The original site is the Rio Mizque and we and my friends from Sacred Succulents visited the original site a couple of times." This is a blatant lie, as Patrick has never visited South America at all, Sacred Succulents have no doubt. <br />
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Next Patrick states "It is extremely similar to Trichocereus pachanoi, but differs in
substantial points like the hairs on the flowers and the overall rib
structure." This has already been dis-proven above. <br />
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Patrick continues "Though it is common belief that the San Pedro cactus aka
Trichocereus pachanoi grows in Bolivia, all the San Pedro related plants
we ever came across IN THE WILD either belonged to Trichocereus
bridgesii or Trichocereus scopulicola." Again, we? Dude, stop lying, what Sacred Succulents did had nothing to do with you. As far as I know the only Trichocereus scopulicola that Sacred Succulents have found have been in western horticulture, not in habitat.<br />
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It was widely believed that Trichocereus scopulicola had gone extinct in habitat, although I have on good authority from someone in Bolivia right now (at the time of writing) that this is actually not the case. Also Sacred Succulents and others have indeed found Trichocereus pachanoi growing in Chochabamba, Bolivia. Which Patrick himself uses to back up his theory. But, importantly he admits that it is not growing "IN THE WILD." Remember this as it will be further addressed later on and is important.<br />
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Patrick continues "This is a long-spined version of this but there also are a lot of
short-spined ones on that site. I seen them. Just like this PC, they
have 6-7 ribs, those weird areoles and golden spines without swollen
spine bases. Overall, they are just a short-spined version of
Trichocereus bridgesii." Referring to the plant below.<br />
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I actually have a number of short spined Trichocereus bridgesii and they look very different. As you can see below. Also, these plants are consistently very potent.<br />
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Also where Patrick mentions "This is a long-spined version of this but there also are a lot of
short-spined ones on that site. I seen them." He provides no actual photographic evidence for these supposedly shorter spined variants from the site he never actually visited at all, outside of the photo of a small pup. However, there are these plants with much longer spines as you can see below.<br />
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</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Now, what these plants actually are is a good question. Again, unlike patrick I actually grow a number of these plants from Sacred Succulents and have a bunch of F2 hybrid seedlings coming along from them as well and to be honest, I don't know what they really are. I could guess, but that is all it would be. I know they're not Trichocereus pachanoi, bridgesii or scopulicola. Given their location and morphology it's possible they are related to Trichocereus schoenii, or they just could be hybrids from the local gardens. Who knows? All of these plants appear to be growing right next to houses or close to them. They do not appear to be wild plants. Without detailed information about their history in the area from the local inhabitants, it really is impossible to tell with any real certainty. <br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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*Further notes about these plants after growing them for a few more years. I've noticed with one of my Trichocereus "riomizquensis" from
Sacred Succulents that I moved into a more shaded position, the spines became far less prominent, and it still looked very different to "PC" and short spined bridgesii. As you can see below. Which makes me think that the short spined "riomizquensis" that patrick talks about and only shows with one photo of a pup growing in the shade, is just how these highly variable plants grow in more shaded positions. Now, have you ever seen "PC" change so drastically from one position to another or even bridgesii for that matter? It just doesn't happen. Nothing anywhere near close to it. Because, they are not the same plant, not even all that close. If these are really short spined bridgesii as patrick asserts, it would be growing very blue in the position it is in, like the actual bridgesii clump I have growing right next to it. Even "PC" would be bluer than this "riomizquensis" in this position. This is why you need actual real life experience and observation, not just looking at pictures of other peoples plants on the internet.<br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfKd9UCYDqttxV4A8V0pToIHZGZNeeDqja4_vyW4rsTh-p5PSkPg6MNEek-VFNG9GOj2zqoJhZG5TfUKlEYSRY3JCSy-0hmJBg2tAOqTBAwKdSbVOBs6ObgvRzwIatg1AEeQqqm-ey6-shls-SQ6vV2RPC-u8aGTvr0WvyH9-TqxdflvdFIipRS3Xb/s4032/20220607_132356.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2268" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfKd9UCYDqttxV4A8V0pToIHZGZNeeDqja4_vyW4rsTh-p5PSkPg6MNEek-VFNG9GOj2zqoJhZG5TfUKlEYSRY3JCSy-0hmJBg2tAOqTBAwKdSbVOBs6ObgvRzwIatg1AEeQqqm-ey6-shls-SQ6vV2RPC-u8aGTvr0WvyH9-TqxdflvdFIipRS3Xb/w225-h400/20220607_132356.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Next Patrick makes another bold claim that I am not sure is exactly correct, in an effort to prove his assertion that all the "PC" plants are in fact one clone. "We tested it numerous times…almost none of those Californian plants were
able to mate with each other…simply because they were genetically
identical and cuttings of each other." Almost none, is not all. So his own statement disproves his theory. <br />
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I also highly doubt that a large amount of real testing has actually been done, let alone for the "PC" plants also growing in Australia. Unfortunately, the more the myth spreads that they are all one clone, the less likely people will actually put this theory to the test. Also, Patrick doesn't actually grow "PC" as it is quite rare in Europe, if it exists there at all. So how he is including himself in the "we" is beyond me. But this is par for the course with Patrick, claiming others work as his own and using it for his own benefit.<br />
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Interestingly a new myth I've just become aware of being spread around by "Willy Myco" on youtube is that because all "PC" are supposedly clones, that being cloned over and over has somehow weakened their genetics, causing them to be weaker in potency. Of course this is laughable as there is no scientific evidence of this in plants what so ever. It seems this myth has transferred over from the cannabis community somehow, but has absolutely nothing to back it up. <br />
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Now anyone who grows "PC" knows that this plant is tough as nails, thrives in all sorts of harsh conditions and grows very quickly, so how someone could infer that it has been "weakened" genetically is beyond me. Potency is highly variable and that does have a genetic component obviously, but this being cloned weakening "PC" myth is just unscientific nonsense. <br />
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Also working against this nonsense is the fact that numerous verified Trichocereus clones such as Trichocereus bridgesii 'Eileen,' Trichocereus pachanoi 'Yowie,' Trichocereus peruvianus 'Sharxx Blue' etc etc etc have all been cloned potentially thousands of times by now, with absolutely no reported "weakening" of their potency at all. <br />
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Interestingly however it has been shown by Oxford University that cloned plants are not always genetically identical. To quote the scientific paper <b>Regenerant Arabidopsis Lineages Display a Distinct Genome-Wide Spectrum of Mutations Conferring Variant Phenotypes</b><i> </i>published in <i><b>Current Biology</b>, "</i>Using DNA sequencing techniques that can decode the complete genome of
an organism in one go (so-called 'whole genome sequencing') the
researchers analysed 'clones' of the small flowering plant 'thalecress' (<i>Arabidopsis</i>).
They found that observable variations in regenerant plants are
substantially due to high frequencies of mutations in the DNA sequence
of these regenerants, mutations which are not contained in the genome of
the parent plant."<br />
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Personally I think there are just far too many "PC" plants that have obviously been growing for decades and decades for them all to be clones, there are just too many of them that are far too large, it really doesn't make sense to me at all. Being an early cultivar is far more likely.<br />
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Returning again to Patrick and his theory, he doubles down on the already dis-proven flower hair argument "Do you see all those white hairs? Good, because it´s important to
differentiate between certain Trichocereus species. Trichocereus
pachanoi tends to have black or brown hairs, while this PC has white
hairs. And that´s typical for the Bolivian San Pedro strains." Well I'm sorry to say that the flower hair bleaching white is also a common trait of Ecuadorian and Peruvian species, as you can see in the pictures below.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Trichocereus macrogonus</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Trichocereus pachanoi 'Field's'</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Trichocereus knuthianus</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Trichocereus pachanoi 'Etienne' </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Trichocereus pachanoi 'Rod' which is widely regarded as being an Ecaudorian pachanoi. Copyright Rodni Chisar at Trichocereus Australia</td></tr>
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There are certain other falsehoods that have been spread by San Pedro "mastery" and others about the infamous "PC," that I would like to dis-prove also. Being that the "saw tooth" look is some kind of distinguishing feature, and that "PC" does not have V-notches above the areole. As you can see in the photos below, "PC" can have V-notches and the "saw tooth" look is apparent in other non-questioned Trichocereus pachanoi. And most importantly with the "saw tooth" aspect of certain Trichocereus, it is largely dependent upon conditions, grown hard with little water in full sun and the "saw tooth" look becomes pronounced, in lots of Trichocereus, where as a more pampered, shaded plant will not show it as much, if at all, even the same clone.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Trichocereus pachanoi "PC" with V-notches</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Saw Tooth" Trichocereus pachanoi "Yowie"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Saw Tooth" Trichocereus pachanoi "Rod" Copyright Rodni Chisar at Trichocereus Australia</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Saw Tooth" Trichocereus pachanoi "Field's"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Saw Tooth" Trichocereus pachanoi "Etienne"</td></tr>
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Also it has been suggested that the Trichocereus pachanoi "PC" spread around Australia by Robert Field, is "really" a Trichocereus "riomizquensis" from Friedrich Ritter. Well I know Robert personally, he is as genuine a man as you will ever meet and I can guarantee you that he has never changed a plant name in his life, he even still calls his Trichocereus peruvianus, Trichocereus rosei which is the name he received them as. There are numerous other examples as well. This is a good thing, as it allows us to trace the provenance of these plants. So, if Robert Field actually received his Trichocereus pachanoi "PC" as a Trichocereus "riomizquensis" from Ritter, he would call it that, but he does not, he calls it Trichocereus pachanoi, which is what he received it as back in the 1950's. <br />
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It has been supposed that Friedrich Ritter began to spread Trichocereus "riomizquensis" around in the 1950's, but I can find no evidence to back this up at all. Keeper Trout made some interesting comments in a forum in this regard "Its weird Ritter would find it in the 1950s, wait until 1980 to publish
the description and <b>not include anything capable of segregating it from
pachanoi</b> in his description." Trout continues "Another bit of oddness is that this name was not published by Ritter until around 8 years after the seeds reached NMCR." So, the plants that NMCR have as being Trichocereus "riomizquensis" from Ritter did not arrive there until around 1972?<br />
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Keeper Trout states on his website about the Trichocereus "riomizquensis" from Ritter at NMCR the following "<i><b>Trichocereus riomizquiensis</b></i><b><i> </i></b>FR856 type from Chuyllas, Bolivia (Rio Mizque). Seeds had been obtained from Riviere de Carault in November of 1972 and were planted on the first of July in 1980 by Horst." So, even with this 1972 date, Trichocereus pachanoi "PC" had still been spread around long before Ritter's Trichocereus "riomizquensis" ever had, for decades in fact, nailing the coffin shut on that theory once and for all, it is simply impossible for "PC" to be Ritter's "riomizquensis." Here are some pictures from Keeper Trout of the plant in question from NMCR.<br />
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Admittedly that plant above is in terrible condition, which makes its
use for identification purposes largely useless, but I have never seen a
"PC" look anything like that at all and I've seen it in all sorts of
conditions and states of neglect. Now, M S Smith however has this same
plant from this same source growing and has provided some better
pictures of how it looks in better condition. But, it still is not a
perfect match for "PC." It is similar, because they are both
Trichocereus pachanoi. See below.<br />
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Another myth is that because it grows rather vigorously, that it
must be a hybrid.. As any one who has grown a seed batch of Trichocereus
knows, some plants grow faster than others, even different plants in the same seed batch, it's just the way it is. So,
just because a plant grows vigorously in comparison to others, it in no way proves it is a
hybrid, not at all. <br />
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Something that I myself am guilty of spreading is that "PC" is either very weak to completely inactive. Certainly the "PC" in Australia is weak compared to other Trichocereus pachanoi and especially short spined Trichocereus bridgesii.<br />
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It has been brought to my attention that a lot of people in the US have been getting good results with "PC" at twice the normal 30 cm dosage, especially with older sections. Whether certain "PC" are stronger than others, how much conditions play a role, stressing of the plant etc etc, needs further investigation.<br />
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Another myth spread by people, especially San Pedro "mastery" about "PC" is that it doesn't grow blue columns, well tell
that to this "PC." The blueness of Trichocereus pachanoi is largely dependent upon how much shade it is getting. Again, people who aren't actually growing the plant, reading too much bullshit on the internet, not enough growing.<br />
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The other main point used to back up the
"PC" is from Bolivia, and is therefore a Trichocereus "riomizquensis" is a
number of plants growing in Chochabamba, Bolivia. The main problem with
this apart from the fact that the plants found there do not really
resemble "PC" that much at all, certainly no more than numerous other Trichocereus pachanoi as seen
above, who actually do look much closer, and obviously are Trichocereus pachanoi, is that they are growing in public and private gardens and could very well have come
from literally anywhere. <br />
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Trying to say that these plants are 100%
Bolivian is like trying to say that my various Trichocereus pachanoi are
Australian because they grow in my garden.. <br />
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Interestingly Patrick only
includes the pictures of these plants on his website that have the
whitest flower hair, deliberately excluding the pictures of the same exact plants that show
it does indeed have black hair, that again just bleaches white in the
sun. They could possibly be native to Bolivia, but even if so, that only
proves that Trichocereus pachanoi also grows there, it proves nothing
in regards to "PC." Here are the plants in question below. <br />
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Returning to Keeper Trout and M S Smith for a moment, here is some interesting quotes from Keeper Trout talking to M S Smith in a forum "Michael dismissed it for not having black hairs on the ovary but the
reality is it does in fact have black hairs on the ovary. At least mine
do. They are simply overgrown with lighter wool. Comparing flowers of
mine in detail with flowering shots a friend took of Peruvian plants do
not reveal any significant differences."<br />
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Trout continues, "I could dismiss about half the bridgesii's as not being bridgesii on far more grounds. (I do not though) Michael makes a lot out of what he can find in other people's travel
photos yet (no offense intended Michael) I would much rather trust the
first hand observations of friends with extensive field experience in
Ecuador and Peru who claim that the plant Michael rejects as not
occurring in those countries, <b>is in fact growing there</b>." <br />
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Another factor working against "PC" being from Bolivia or that it is a Trichocereus bridgesii or hybrid there of, is the fact that it does not grow four ribbed columns, which is very common in the species of Bolivia such as Trichocereus bridgesii and Trichocereus scopulicola and their hybrids. Also the plants Sacred Succulents consider to be Trichocereus "riomizquensis" do indeed also grow four ribbed columns. "PC" never does, even though there is so much of it growing all over Australia and America, and has been for decades upon decades.<br />
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Not to mention that Trichocereus bridgesii is widely regarded as being the most consistently potent Trichocereus there is. Has "PC" ever been accused of that? Or anything close? Think about it...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">4 ribbed Trichocereus bridgesii next to "PC"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">4 and 5 ribbed Trichocereus scopulicola</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">4 ribbed Trichocereus "riomizquensis" from Sacred Succulents</td></tr>
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Now, just so everyone knows, no real expert or properly trained botanist considers Ritter's Trichocereus "riomizquensis" to be a separate species, none at all. They all consider it a Trichocereus pachanoi, at most it is simply a regional variant. Here's Ritter's original picture below in which you can see it is plainly just another Trichocereus pachanoi.<br />
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The fact of the matter is that Trichocereus pachanoi "PC" has always
been considered a Trichocereus pachanoi, it wasn't until amateur
enthusiasts on the internet who cannot even pronounce the name correctly began to muddy the waters that this has been
in dispute. As you can see above, literally every supposed
distinguishing trait that supposedly separates Trichocereus pachanoi
"PC" from the supposed "real pachanoi" is complete and utter bullshit.
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It is obvious to me that certain dishonest people who have read too much nonsense on the internet and have not actually grown the plant in question at all, suffering confirmation bias and cognitive dissonance have
tried to make the evidence fit their theories and deliberately omitted anything that did not, instead of using all the available
evidence to draw a logical conclusion as one should. <br />
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Interestingly after the time of writing and this post being spread around, Patrick decided to address it. He now claims that it is not his theory, and not his name attached to his theory, despite attaching his name to it and publishing it as his own work on his website.. If it is not his theory, then who's is it? Why is no one being credited for their work? Just makes you either a thief or liar, or both.<br />
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As you can see below. He also admits that it has a poorly documented background, despite sounding extremely sure of himself on his website that it came from Ritter, stating it as a matter of fact. To quote Patrick again "This plant was originally collected by Friedrich Ritter and described as Trichocereus riomizquensis." But, he offers no proof of this in anyway what so ever. <br />
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Also of note is he has changed his original version of his theory after this post was spread around, to include that there are in fact plants in habitat in Peru that look extremely similar, somewhat pulling back from his original assertions that only "Bolivian" plants look anything like "PC," which is a start.. <br />
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It is obvious he has no actual confidence in his own theory, will not stand by his own words and really, doesn't have a clue about Trichocereus pachanoi "PC" at all, which he does not even grow and cannot even pronounce correctly... If you want to have faith in the "riomizquensis" theory, when the author of it obviously doesn't and refuses to stand by his own words, that's up to you... Certainly does not inspire confidence in me. <br />
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<br />For a start, Patrick has never been published anywhere. He's full of shit. I challenge anyone to find this mysterious publication from 20 years ago lol. Good luck. You can find everything I've ever had published at a google search. He has self published some terrible coffee table books that read like they were written by a slightly retarded child, but they have nice pictures, of other people's plants, again gaining the benefit of others work. The guy is not an expert, he is a parasite. <br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Of course the old get out of jail free card, being DNA is thrown about,
but are we really going to need it when ALL of the internet age theories
have so easily been proven to be so completely wrong? When literally everyone who has been growing this plant for decades considers it a Trichocereus pachanoi? <br />
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Are we really going to DNA
test every single Trichocereus pachanoi in existence to certify that
they are really Trichocereus pachanoi? Or every other Trichocereus for
that matter? Do we really have to DNA test every single plant to be sure
what it is? If that is the case, then no one can positively identify anything! That seems ridiculous to me.. <br />
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If you have to DNA test the most common Trichocereus cultivar there is, that all of our elders (who we should respect) consider to be a Trichocereus pachanoi,
to correctly identify it, you really can't identify Trichocereus plants very well at all and should immediately stop pretending to be an expert.. But this is what happens when you grow a tiny collection, stunt the poor things in little pots, have never even seen a real mature Trichocereus in real life, look at pics on the internet and somehow think that makes you the world's greatest Trichocereus expert lol.. <br />
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With all this being said, we can all rest assured that without a shadow of a doubt, all the theories that Trichocereus pachanoi "PC" is not a "real" Trichocereus pachanoi, are quite simply just wrong. "PC" is a Trichocereus pachanoi. There is literally nothing at all to separate it. Not one thing. People can lie, make up stories and pretend whatever they like, it does not change the truth.<br />
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If you do not want to be caught out lying, making things up, deliberately omitting all the evidence that contradicts your theory and talking about a plant you have only seen pictures of, don't lie, make things up, omit evidence and pretend to know about a plant you do not even grow... Stop being a blatant fraud.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">One thing you will notice with every single one of the people pretending to be experts on Trichocereus pachanoi "PC," Trichocereus and San Pedro in general on youtube is, they are selling you products. It's marketing. They are using the "PC" name, and interest in the subject to drive traffic to their shops to flog their wares. For them, it's all about the money. Always has been, always will be. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Especially the disgusting people who refer to sacred medicine as being like "trading cards" for "collectors." You know who you are you slimy little money hungry worms, it's people like you who ruin it for everyone and epitomize everything that's wrong with our society. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Ever wonder why Trichocereus are so expensive now when they never used to be? You can thank your sacred trading card medicine "experts." To me, they're just parasites.<br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">And please, for heavens sake people, at the very least, brush your teeth and learn how to pronounce Trichocereus pachanoi properly before you make a bunch of videos pretending to be an expert online. Seriously, it's just embarrassing. <br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Here's a clue, Trichocereus pachanoi was named after Abelardo <b>Pachano </b>Lalama, now botanical names ending in a "<b>i</b>" such as pachano-<b>i</b>, the "<b>i</b>" is pronounced "eye." So, say it with me now, nice and slowly children, pachano -<b>i</b>. See, that wasn't so hard was it... <br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
Now go out and actually grow these plants yourself, then you can talk about them, if your eyes see past the dollar signs that is. <br />
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*Just for good measure, here are some more pictures of Trichocereus <b>pachanoi</b> "PC."<br />
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*Please feel free to comment about your experiences with Trichocereus pachanoi "PC." Especially in regards to potency, but please be specific about your conditions, if, how and for how long you have stressed the plant, age of the material used, condition of the material used and anything else that you can think of that would effect how potent it is or the potency of the experience. Thank you.<br />
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This article first appeared in Sacred Hoop magazine issue 104, 2019. <span class="ILfuVd"><span class="e24Kjd">© Brett Lothian</span></span></div>
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Indigenous Science: With the Mazatec, Huichol and Maya of Mexico. Interview with Mario Gómez Mayorga.</h3>
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Mario Gómez Mayorga along with Rocio Lopez Ruiz, is the
co-founder and co-operator of Con Ciencia Indegina, which means ‘with
indigenous science’. Con Ciencia Indegina facilitate numerous spiritual
workshops, transcendental experiences and sacred pilgrimages in Mexico, based
upon the ancient Toltec way. For over 30 years now, Con Ciencia Indegina has
helped people from all over the world to better themselves, grow and learn from
the ancient Toltec’s descendants, the Huichol, Mazatec and Mayan peoples, who maintain
their traditional ways of life and connection to the natural world. Con Ciencia
Indegina offers a unique experience and insight into the traditional
consciousness of the Huichol, Mazatec and Mayan peoples, by participating in
their sacred ceremonies, fiestas, rituals, pilgrimages to sacred power places
and way of seeing the world. In our increasingly dysfunctional, insane and
heartless world, perhaps we all could learn something from our traditional
elders. </div>
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<b>For more than thirty years you have been in a close
relationship with the most preserved indigenous cultures of Mexico and their
healing ceremonies with sacred plant medicines. What led you to this path?</b>
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More than three decades ago I was working with a NGO to help
support problems indigenous nations have with city urban white people, very
especially with government legal issues. Because of this relationship we were
regularly invited to assist in celebrations, fiestas, ceremonies and rituals,
though the years this relationship deepened very profoundly, affecting the core
foundations of my person and catapulting me into a completely different way of
relating to life. </div>
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I never suspected this was going to happen, neither I was
looking for it, like most people who read authors talking about indigenous
magical beings or shamanism. It was not really interesting to me. </div>
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One day I discovered I had become someone entirely
different, it happened slowly with our me really being aware of it, I found
myself living inside a universe who is alive, conscious, and with whom one can
be in a permanent back and forth dialogue though actions and consciences, where
you never stop growing, as I discovered this I was never able to go away from
them, no, I don't live among them, I just visit frequently, but inside I'm with
them all the time. I see them as my spiritual family, there I found souls who I
called my spiritual fathers, grandfathers, mothers and grandmothers, many
incredible sisters and brothers. People from the spirit with whom I have lived
the most extraordinary things I could not even dream in my wildest fantasies. </div>
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<b>You have worked for over three decades with the Mazatec,
Huichol and several Mayan indigenous groups. Can you tell us a little about
these experiences?</b></div>
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Only with this question I could write at least two books.
I'll try to synthesize this in one or two paragraphs.</div>
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I found with them a different way of seeing and relating to
existence I was just a young and a bit confused person as it's normal in the
youth, I was overwhelmed by the powerful straight forward serious and
responsible, but full of beauty and magic, ways to engage with life I had no
idea that existed, the poetic acts they do, the mysticism of their practices,
the incredible lucid relationship they have with nature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What totally changed me was entering into the
exploration of consciousness though the proposals, practices and uses and
customs they live based on, and many times just because of being exposed to
what they were doing in their works.</div>
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I also saw that there is a lot of New Age fantasies that are
not found the indigenous world as most people believe, initially triggered in
the 70's by the novel of Carlos Castaneda, and from there nothing stopped this
nonexistent unreal Indigenous knowledge that sells some many weird books, and
triggers so many self proclaimed "shamans" and nonsense trickery.</div>
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Yes the indigenous world is full of beautiful conscious
aspects, somehow magical in the sense they open awareness and possibilities to
become a better person and live a better life. But also they are humans, and
not all of them are into knowledge and responsibility, they have all full array
of human problems in their communities, the complete ego pack taking action in
all they do. They also have severe problems like alcoholism, violence, and the
abandonment of their communities and knowledge in the quest for making a better
life earning dollars immigrating as illegal's in the U.S. Once they do that
many may never return, and the ones who come back have their mind polluted by
ideas that don't allow them to engrain again with their people and ways of
living.</div>
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Some become famous, because city people makes them famous,
promoting them as super shamans, or because they are indeed extraordinary
artists. But with the fame and not prepared for such they simply go mad. Money
destroys them because they have no idea how to use it once they have too much.
I have seen them die because of fame, and the damage that too much money makes
to them.</div>
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People must be very careful in how to really help and not
kill them with good intentions. I came to the conclusion that the best is not
to get too close to them, and not engage them in our world.</div>
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The Wirrarika (Huichols) Call us white people
"Tewari."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sounds sweet no? One
day after some ten years hearing how they call us, I dared to ask what, does it
mean?</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They told me: -
"Do you know what a moth is? Have you seen they lay eggs? Have you seen
what comes out of those eggs?</div>
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I said: - yes of course, these little worms. </div>
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They said: - And those little worms are "Tewaris"
they make powder out of everything they touch.</div>
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I remember my knees had a hard time keeping me standing up.
I felt terribly ashamed and sad. It was a blast of uncomfortable awareness that
hit hard and deep. It is true. That’s what we do.</div>
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So no, just like any human and culture, they are not all
shiny and beauty. They are light and shadow like we all are. They just happen
to be still connected to nature in a very respectful way, and still knowing
ways to communicate back and forth with it, and that is where they have an
advantage over the civilized man who has lost it. </div>
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In many ways I see them as people of the future. Why? Well,
don't we all want to be conscious and connected to Nature? We are beginning to
try to walk in that direction, for us that place is the far future, especially
now that the only thing we know is to make powder out of everything we touch.</div>
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<b>You facilitate retreats with Con Ciencia Indígena to Oaxaca
in the Mazatec Sierra, to experience the Mazatec sacred plant medicine healing
ceremonies. What is involved with these retreats?</b></div>
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The Mazatec’s are the second most preserved indigenous
nation in Mexico and direct descendants of the antique Toltec’s, they still
keep many traditions and knowledge alive, among this is their use of sacred
plants for healing, awakening consciousness, and divination.</div>
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These retreats are organized with a series of preparations
we give to people in order to be able to participate with this ceremonies in
the best way possible. You cannot just arrive there and go straight to a
magical happening that might as well change the course of your life forever. So
we have a series of practices and exercises we share and do with people to
prepare them beforehand, we go to some power places that are sacred for the
Mazatec where they say one must present itself before engaging with their
mountains, water, people, sacred plants, ceremonies and consciousness. As in
every indigenous nation things have a special order to follow and a special
respect to enter.</div>
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People who come seeking for this experiences have many
reasons to do it. Some are looking for different healings, others are wanting
to awaken into consciousness and a lucid life, others might be seeking ways to
solve their relationships, cure their family structure, recover harmony at
home, awaken creativity, others are not sure what they want but want to know
what is it that they want, some go to finish digesting a grief, or to forgive,
or let go, There can be as many reasons to seek for this experience as people
are.</div>
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The main point in this experiences is the betterment of the
person and therefore the life they live. </div>
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<b>How are the Mazatec sacred plant medicine healing ceremonies
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The Mazatec Sacred plants ceremonies are interesting and
profound. The procedure is to stop eating meat, having sexual relationships,
and not engaging is stressful or emotionally low experiences at least one week
before and after the ceremony. Then visit special power places to express your
will and the reason to do the ceremony, places that will hear you and talk to
nature on your behalf, also to clean and prepare your energy. Between 10 to 24
hours of fasting before the ceremony. For the ceremony they prefer to dress in
white as a symbol, meaning one has done by all means the best to enter as clean
as possible. They have a special ceremony room where this happens. At the
entrance one is cleaned with copal resin smoke (An antique indigenous incense)
and whipped softly all over the body with some herbs.</div>
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Once in the ceremony room the medicine woman or he shaman
depending on what they see in the person, they will determine how many
"Niñitos" (little children) as they call the mushrooms the person
will take. They also know how to mix specific amounts of different types of
mushrooms to help the person in the best way possible, as each kind produces
slightly different effects.</div>
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In the ceremony room generally there is an altar where
candles are lit, but sometimes its just an empty room. To begin the ceremony,
people ingest the Niñitos, lay down comfortably and then the candles are turned
off. The ceremony takes place in total darkens to allow the person not to get distracted
by the surroundings. During the ceremony chants, prayers, and things are said
as the healer monitors the experience of each person. Eventually near the end
of the ceremony that can vary between 6 to 10 hours, each person is cleaned
again with a special herb called "San Pedro" applied in specific
parts of the body such as the stomach, the forehead, the inner parts of the
arms.</div>
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Then the healer will stay in total silence to allow the last
part of the experience in such way when its beginning to land. People get
realizations, understandings, forgiving, comprehension, visions, revelations,
healings.... When it's over a cup of hot chocolate is given to the people to
help them finish landing. Next day is a tranquil day to allow the experience to
finish landing and digesting until the experience is fully understood. (still
realizations will keep on appearing in the future weeks, months and even tears
after that)</div>
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<b>The Mazatec people are famous for their healing ceremonies
using the sacred medicines Salvia divinorum and Psilocybe mushrooms. Can you
explain how these sacred medicines work in healing, are they used to diagnose
illness and treatment, or do they heal themselves, or is it both perhaps?</b></div>
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This is another topic that would make a full book. The
Psilocybe mushroom of the Mazatec, the Psylocibe mazatecorum is famous because
it is very different from the others, it is an endemic species, (this means it
only grows in that part of the world and nowhere else) and the effect of this
mushroom is very profound lucid and somehow friendly and lovely to humans. The
healing basically happens in a specific heightened state of consciousness. And
it happens only if the person understands what is needed to solve the
challenge.<br />
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The Mazatec say that only the person who has the power to get ill,
has the power to heal, and that no one else can make it happen for them. This
is true shamanism. You will not find people who tell you they will do your
homework for you. So no there is no diagnosis or treatment but something much higher,
to be responsible for yourself and solve your issues as a conscious being
though the awareness you brought up for yourself. You figure out the problem,
you solve it.<br />
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The mushroom or the Salvia assist you to arrive to the state of
awareness needed for such magic to happen. If at any moment the medicine woman
or healer interferes is very lightly, and generally just to help you clean a
blockage. To help you work in your responsibility. Only if you can't handle the
experience the healer will strongly interfere to land you out of there and put
you in a safe place, basically in your bed to sleep and rest. I have seen this
only twice in thirty five years</div>
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<b>No doubt the experience of the sacred medicines Salvia
divinorum and Psilocybe mushrooms have some similarities, being used in the
same ways, but are also very different experiences. And having also worked with
the Huichol people who are famous for their use of the sacred plant medicine
Peyote in their healing ceremonies, can you describe the similarities and
differences between the experiences of these three sacred medicines?</b></div>
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This would again be theme for another book. To begin with I
can tell you there are no similarities but differences. These three sacred
plants are dramatically different one from another. Also the indigenous nations
using them despite of being related to the antique Toltec are very different
groups.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can tell you these
plants and the ways they are used have nothing in common but probably only the
need of people reaching them for reasons that escapes their ordinary way of
dealing with reality. </div>
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To enter in the details about this three plants and their
ways is probably something that will just not fit in an interview, I have
thought for a while how to synthesize this but found no way to do it. This
requires of a lot of explanations and then one must enter into really abstract
fields to even try to talk about it.</div>
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See how different they are: </div>
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The mushrooms grow at night, in the very dense forest in the
sierra among dense vegetation, they appear all of a sudden in something called
"spontaneous generation", (this means that when a lightning strikes,
the release of electricity in the air makes the spores to appear as tiny
mushrooms from one moment to the other. They just appear in an instant. Then
they grow in the dark under the rain and can be collected within a week,
sunlight kills them. The Mazatec use them in the night in the dark, and many times
in silence. They will guide you in joyful child playful way, but very strong
also and serious at the same time.</div>
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Salvia is a very tough little pant to take, the flavor is
really difficult, and you must chew a lot of leaves and then spit them out to
continue chewing a lot more you need around one kilo of leaves to have an
experience. Some Mazatec’s also squash the leaves in water than then filter it
with a cloth to be able to drink the liquid. Also very difficult to drink. For
this plant you need total silence and to remain completely still. Then
something very subtle begins to grow around you until it becomes very powerful,
but a single tiny noise like a mosquito passing by, or if you move let’s say
just as finger it all disappears and you are completely normal again. To go in
again you need to be again totally quiet and still, then it grows again around
you. That presence is incredibly feminine, some relate her with a goddess or
the virgin. In the state it produces you can know things, like where lost things,
animals or people are, or even see the future.</div>
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On the other hand Peyote grows in the very dry desert, his
strength comes from the sunlight. Needs almost no water, which it takes from
the dawn dew, one peyote takes around 14 years before it can be collected.
Wirrarika people (Huichols) use them around a fire, generally dancing, and
singing, many times walking a pilgrimage under the sun. The experience with
Hikuri (Peyote) takes many hours, at least 12 to 14 hours, but the Wirrarika
keep on eating while already in the experience, so they are many times from
five days to a full week in very high states of consciousness. It takes many
days to fully land and feel normal on this planet again.</div>
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Very different plants, with very different behaviors, each
one used in a very different context, by very different people, producing very
different effects and used for very different reasons. </div>
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The only similarity is that they are a mind altering Sacred
Plant pushing to strong states of consciousness and lucid awareness.</div>
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<b>You point out on your Con Ciencia Indígena website that the
Mazatec, Huichol and Mayan peoples all descend from the ancient Toltec people
of Mexico. Are their sacred plant medicine ceremonies all conducted in the same
ways, or are there differences?</b></div>
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Even when they are rooted to the antique Toltec's, and many
of their Cosmo-vision, and ways of behaving, as well as elements in the ways
they use attention, focus, impeccability, and their relationship with nature,
the sacred plant ceremonies they say was shown to them directly by the plants
themselves.<br />
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There are no similarities in the ways they use their Sacred Plants,
except, probably that they always prefer to work with them in the magic of the
night. They are very different even in simple things, like for example: the
Mazatec’s work in total darkness, and not moving from the laying position, on
the other hand, the Huichols will be around a fire dancing for long periods,
and other times stilling staring to the fire, or hearing the Marakame (shaman)
narrate their legends, stories and myths, and when the effect of Hikuri
(Peyote) is too strong then you will see them just laying on the ground without
moving at all for many hours. </div>
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<b>How does the ceremonial use of sacred plant medicines such
as Salvia divinorum, Psilocybe mushrooms and Peyote help people spiritually?</b></div>
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That question is very difficult to answer because it is not
so much about the plant but about the person. If the person is a spiritual
person they the experience will be spiritual. There is this New Age belief that
Sacred Plants enlighten people. This is far from being true. Sacred plants are
somehow super amplifiers, the will take the person as far away as possible
inside what the person already is. </div>
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Sacred plants are tools, and not only because you can eat
them it means they will help you. This plants are to be taken carefully and
only if you are a person who is healthy and normally working in itself, if you
have a path that you are already walking, and on your path you find
difficulties to continue or get stuck and only after you have made all the
efforts to continue walking and you don't find the way, is when it is allowed
to get close to a sacred plant and ask for help, explaining where you got
stuck, what you have tried and your desire to continue your path with no
obstacles. Then a sacred plant helps and then it is Sacred and even
spiritual.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What happens there is that
you get a strong push in the direction you are already walking. If it's a lucid
path then that is what you will get. But that also explains why confused people
have bad trips and end up worse than before the trip.</div>
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Spirituality is the relationship you have with life. You can
see it your everyday life, what is your way of relating to your existence, with
life, with nature, and animals, with people, the relationship with your job,
with the order in your home, and the world in general?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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So can a Sacred plant be spiritual? Only the one who takes
the plant can figure this out.</div>
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I know this will not be politically correct and some might
not like it, but I want to share this as it explains a lot.</div>
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One day they asked a Wirrarika elder a Marakame (shaman) if
a Sacred Plants could make people intelligent, and if shamans got enlightened
eating Sacred Plants? </div>
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And he answered: - "Some people are born stupid, you
cannot get rid of that with anything, not even eating sacred plants."</div>
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<b>For what other purposes do the Toltec descendants use sacred
plant medicines traditionally?</b></div>
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Sacred plants are used, to heal, awaken into consciousness,
divination, opening and closing cycles, as rites of passage from one epoch of
life into another, as when entering the adulthood or family life,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to forgive, to detach, to digest grief,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for walking pilgrimages, to hunt, to ritual
dance, sometimes even to die well. </div>
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And as mentioned before not everyone is all New Age shiny
novel like, there are people who use them to do wrong things as well. These
always pay the bill sooner than later. </div>
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<b>You also facilitate a Toltec Vision Quest with Con Ciencia
Indígena,which you describe as a profound life changing experience. What is
involved in the Toltec Vision Quest and how is it profoundly life changing?</b></div>
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The Vision Quest Pilgrimage journey is a route where we pass
by several doors, or gates that are found in nature; "portals" where
we do special works, places that are on the world, but as well and more
important, they are inside of ourselves. </div>
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The pilgrimage is a double journey; on the visible side it
happens on the world, but in parallel it´s an inner pilgrimage that takes the
individual beyond the limits which contain the person and it´s daily routines,
it's a trip of transcendence that aims toward self consciousness and lucidity.</div>
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In every place and its particular energy we will work with
different indigenous exercises, techniques, and procedures, connecting with
nature though her many faces; rivers, cascades, jungle, mountains, forests, a
volcano, caves, and underground rivers.</div>
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Finally we will arrive to the desert as ending point, where
thanks to the previous preparation each participant will be ready to work in
The Vision Quest as the culminant event of this pilgrimage to mystery.</div>
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This journeys' objective is to be prepared to be able to
intent a Vision Quest, thanks to this possible revelation the participant will
be able to see which are the next steps to follow in life; and for some, even
something as important as the direction that has been searched for so long, the
real sense and mission for being alive on this marvelous world.</div>
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It's a life changing experience if the participant wants 'it
to be. Here we deliver the most powerful techniques from the Toltec world, and
vanguard human development tools. The totality of experiences lived though this
journey may be a catapult point to transcend the participants’ way of living,
being able to leave behind all the habits and routines that unchain a poor and
painful life, and begin The Path Of The Heart seeking for Consciousness and the
Spirit.</div>
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<b>Can you tell us about The Warrior Burial shamanic initiation
and powerful rite of passage that you provide with Con Ciencia Indígena? </b></div>
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The burial of the warrior, The Earth's hug it's an
incredibly profound and beautiful experience, like a live poem where you can
talk with the being of the planet, the mother of all living beings' on earth.<br />
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There may be many reasons to get buried: To heal wounds from
the past, solve mental, emotional, or energetic patterns, to recapitulate
personal history, arrange the past, forgive, or detach, to trust and open to
love, to prepare for a difficult challenge, or<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>big change, to close and open cycles, to recover balance and harmony,
dissolve traumas, or digest grief, for profound self-observation, to connect and
re-charge strength from the love of Earth, to ask for advice, and recover the
sober consciousness of being mortal. No doubt this procedure is the best
therapist you can find.</div>
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It's possible to open a conscious dialogue with the being of
the planet, and receive from her, and the Universe, loud and clear answers.
Everything that exists on the earth came out of her; the body of every
inhabitant of the planet is nothing else but soil and water organized with a
supreme intelligence, the incredible diversity that lives on the planet, the
texture of her skin, is nothing else but her body manifesting an infinity of
variations, though all her children.</div>
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It's the Earth where the potential and ways to manifest any
life form we know about are contained. For all who exist on the world Earth is
life itself, without her there would be nothing.</div>
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Therefore it´s not difficult to understand that the Earth is
not only our creator and Mother, but also a Goddess that manifests life in ways
that outgrows our most dare full dreams. That´s why to connect with her being and
consciousness opens all the possibilities our heart wishes.</div>
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<b>Unlike most retreat providers, at Con Ciencia Indígena you
conduct workshops for children and teenagers, which I think is great. What is
involved with these workshops and how is it beneficial for them?</b></div>
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This workshops are fun and difficult (for us coordinators)
As therapists we are well aware that most of the damage adults have come from
their childhood, that is where almost every human has the foundation of adult
problems, relationship problems, violence, addictions, depressions, and a huge
etcetera, is all rooted in the early stages of a person.</div>
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Therefore that is what made us create workshops for children
and teens, because if you solve these root issues when they are still malleable
this can help them to grow as free, healthy, creative, joyful, adults, instead
of having to invest their adult life healing the initial stages of
existence,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to finish solving them
entering the old age, or soon to die.</div>
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We work with them though activities that seem games, and
somehow they are, but games that will teach them how to be brave, how to use
other senses, and different ways to relate to others and themselves, to
discover that they can connect with nature and find there an incredible source
of knowledge and peace, to discover how many amazing virtues they have to make
a fantastic life. This all is very important for them to grow healthy, loving
and respecting nature, and life in general , hopefully this could help have in
the near future adults that will really care and protect nature and animals,
and educate their children in that way when they have them. We urgently need
people with this consciousness for our very damaged world.</div>
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We always ask for the presence of their parents or tutors.
Safety is the rule number one we have in every workshop or trip we make, so
here parents are part of the safety law. But also their presence is needed
because they have to know what is going on there, as after this kind of
workshop children tend not to allow to be abused, manipulated, or programmed
with things they dislike. Somehow the lucid rebel is awakened. For us as
coordinators the parents or tutors presence is vital so they also learn
different way to relate to the little ones, in many activities parents are also
part of the dynamic of the games. When many little children are in the workshop
we also need every parent to keep an eye on their kids as you cannot really
control a group of kids because normally they doing whatever comes to their
mind.</div>
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<b>You also provide an introduction to Toltec knowledge and its
practical applications in everyday life with Con Ciencia Indígena. Can you tell
us about this and how Toltec knowledge can help people in their everyday lives?</b></div>
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This is a beautiful workshop to enter into a path in life,
here we provide all the basics to begin building a responsible aware life.
Things like the magic of paying attention sharply, and self observation, to use
attention as a tool to be present and act purposefully to manifest the wished
of the heart. Ways to find limitations or blockages and the ways to overcome
them and transcend into a freer person, to face fears and disassemble them, to
be brave and apply it in a practical ways. Learning the strategic ways to
achieve goals. To learn the attitude of a warrior that takes every problem in
life as a challenge and an opportunity to grow and become a better person. Yes
to find the flaws, but also the virtues that lay behind every flaw, therefore
flaws become beautiful gifts once correctly faced.</div>
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The techniques learned during the workshop are shamanic
practices that aim to free and awaken the participant's consciousness. It is
also a proposal for spiritual growth inviting to recover lost consciousness,
and to awaken parts that are still asleep. To rescue the true magical nature of
oneself, and deepen our relationship with the being that unconditionally gives
us food, home and love; The Earth.</div>
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Self exploration through procedures, tools, and ways rooted
among indigenous nations survivals from the antique Toltec’s. This knowledge,
is a conglomerate of techniques, practices, and procedures. Actions that bring
growth and understanding; -know how- to create a balanced, positive and healthy
way of living.</div>
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The workshop offers a series of methods that allow the
opportunity to modify your habits, to be able to change routines, and this way
to re-invent yourself based on your own consciousness.<br />
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A possibility to stop living permanently locked in the
mechanical routine of the ego. Create the person your heart really wishes to
be, by knowing how to apply strategic acts on purpose to change the course of
life.</div>
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It is also the opportunity to rescue forgotten parts of the
unlimited human potential, like: inner balance, attention, focus, lucidity,
recover creativity, re-arrange personal power to optimal conditions, among
other things that can be done. In synthesis it is an intense experience that
leads to the comprehension of areas of oneself though direct experience,
knowing and applying different ways to work in the mind, feelings, and consciousness.</div>
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<b>With modern culture literally destroying the planet we all
depend upon for survival, do you think that ancient traditional ways and
knowledge systems that are informed by the use of sacred medicines like that of
the Toltec, can change the world for the better?</b></div>
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I do see the urgency of the epoch we are facing, as the
planet is already in the tipping point to be broken with no turning back. It is
incredible we can't still understand we need of the planets health to be
healthy. We need the water to drink, the air to breathe, yet we don't seem to
get such obvious facts. So that's why we consider the tools and techniques to
awaken lucidity and awareness to be a direct and effective way to address such
urgent problematic. Awakened people become servants of life's mission instead
of parasites going against it.</div>
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As I mentioned before the intake of Sacred Medicines does
not make any magic just because, but are tools and powerful helpers for those
who are walking a path. For the serious seekers I do think those amazing gifts
from nature bring beauty and freedom beyond imagination. Almost a miracle that
we have access to.</div>
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Sacred plants do not change the world at all, they have been
here probably before people. It is people the ones who can make any difference.
Healthy, free awakened people is what we need.</div>
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<b>What advice do you have for someone that is new to sacred
plant medicines, but is interested in this type of path?</b></div>
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This is a question I frequently get. For me a bit difficult
to answer as<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do not advice anything.<br />
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Sacred plants are so powerful, they can modify your person
and vision of the world in such profound ways, they are such giant portals to
freedom... But not for everyone. Some people who are not mentally healthy, or
who are weak,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>too afraid, can have a
devastating experience because of not being able to face and understand them.
Yes I have seen many awaken. it is one of the most beautiful gifts to witness
such. I have also seen people fry their brains and stay damaged for good. That
is the saddest thing ever.... neither an easy thing to go though.</div>
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Sacred Plants are not toys, they are not recreational, and
not drugs like many think, drugs are made in a laboratory by humans, and they
are always out of balance. Those can really destroy you really bad, you can see
every day the consequences of all the Big Pharma products. </div>
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Sacred Plants grow from the soil, Nature creations, they are
in perfect balance.</div>
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As far as I dare to say is, if you feel the call, if the
call is really strong, and you have the firm intuition that there is a door for
you there, go for it. To engage with a power plant is something that you have
to decide and never look for anyone's advice to decide if you are going to do
it. It is a moment of deep secret privacy with yourself. It is your
responsibility no matter what the outcome might be. In this sense it is that
these plants are sacred and it is only about you, with yourself. If you decide
you will do it, Yes do it with someone you fully trust, someone who knows well
what it is all about. Someone with experience, to guide you and take care of
you in any eventuality that might happen once immersed in realms you have no
idea about. Someone who knows those paths well enough to be able to bring you
back safely and healthy.</div>
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<b>Is there anything else you would like to talk about and get
across to people?</b></div>
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I would only like to invite people to become interested in
exploring and awakening who they really are. We are born here for a reason, our
life is very brief, but we can certainly make an impact on everything we touch.
Let's leave a healthy imprint of our presence on this planet, lets become
inspiration for others to follow the invitation to become a lucid free,
powerful, being, manifesting marvel in every step given. </div>
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One of the most beautiful and powerful aspects of the Toltec
knowledge is the consciousness of being mortals. "The consciousness of
death" Not to die, but to be powerfully alive! The only certain thing we
have in life is death. Everything else may change. But we will die for sure,
this is the ultimate unchangeable truth. Live fully, be present, do what you
came to do here. Death comes any moment. Be sure every one of your actions is
as powerful and lucid as your personal power allows you to, as if it was your
very last act on earth. Any of the things we do, any normal day, will be the
last. Build all your life in this fashion, with this power, so when you die you
cannot be more satisfied of the efforts and joy of having been here briefly
giving the example to live as beautifully as possible.</div>
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<b>If you would like to learn more, please click on the following link ~ <a href="https://www.concienciaindigena.org/" target="_blank">Con Ciencia Indegina</a></b> </div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">This article first appeared in <a href="https://indieshaman.co.uk/magazine-shop/print-magazine-back-issues/" target="_blank">Indie Shaman Magazine issue 41 July 2019</a>. </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="e24Kjd">© </span></span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="e24Kjd">Brett Lothian</span></span></span></div>
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Interview with Dr. Rubén Orellana</b></div>
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Dr. Rubén Orellana is a Peruvian born and trained shaman who
has made significant anthropological and archaeological contributions to the
study and understanding of the Andean way of living.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr. Orellana is Director of the Institute of
Inka Research (Inika) that is dedicated to researching and valuing Andean
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Born in Cusco, Ruben has been following the shamanic path
since the age of nine. His career as an archaeologist culminated with being
named Head of Archaeology at Machu Picchu, where he discovered forty-four new
sites surrounding the Crystal City, including the North Inca Trail. For these
discoveries, he was on the cover of Time Magazine in South America. He has done
extensive research into the mystical aspects of many significant sites and
uncovered the true use of many temples in the empire.</div>
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Rubén has been interviewed in Ross Heaven’s books The
Hummingbird’s Journey to God and Cactus of Mystery in which he is described as
the ‘maestro’ of Wachuma (San Pedro), and has also been featured on Medicine
Woman among other documentaries for the Discovery Channel. He feels that his
role as a scientist and a Shaman is to bridge between the indigenous
Ayahuasqueros and Curanderos (Shamans) and the modern world. Ruben has been
holding ceremonial tours of Peru since 1976.</div>
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Rubén continues to combine his experience with his
excitement for the work and his deep love for all people into a vision of
subtlety and divine power.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">As a world renowned
archaeologist and curandero, you are uniquely qualified to talk about the
history of Wachuma use, can you tell us how far back this tradition goes and
which cultures made use of this sacred medicine?</b></div>
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I would say that I am interested in spreading the traditions
of my ancestors and we can say that archaeological evidences appear of the use
of these entheogenic plants more than 5,000 years ago, as we also have records
of ceremonial places where this cactus appears, such as the Chavín, Moche,
Lambayeque, Chimu, Nazca, Wari, Lupacas and many more, before the Empire of
Tawantinsuyo (Incas) appears.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Wachuma is widely
known today as a sacred medicine for healing, for what other purposes has
Wachuma been used for in ancient cultures and is it still used for these purposes
today?</b></div>
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I think it is important to define "SACRED" because
for the Andean world everything that exists has a divine origin, therefore we
develop in a single sacred space, for the Western world everything develops in
between two spaces "THE SACRED AND THE PROFANE," this makes a big
difference. It is used and traditionally used to achieve well-being and health,
it is a plant that in ceremony helps "Curar (Heal) and Sanar" (Treat)
since the human being is the physical body and also spiritual (psychological).
Today tradition is not spread, but on the contrary, new ways and techniques of
working with these plants have been created, but some native communities still
resist globalization and follow tradition.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Curar y Sanar has two
different connotations in Spanish as well as native languages, it is not only
healing.</div>
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archaeological site is intrinsically linked with the Wachuma cactus, in your
expert opinion, do you believe that the temples of Chavín de Huántar, were a
type of spiritual technology for enhancing the Wachuma experience?</b></div>
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I will begin by saying that Chavin de Huantar is a
ceremonial site and Mother Earth (Pacahamana) is the temple, our ancestors
looked for<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>places to develop their
ceremonies, in modern language they looked for vortexes, this type of energy
contributed to a better connection with oneself and the help from the plant was
much better.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Has your
archaeological training and experience with ancient sites and cultures enabled
you to rediscover and revive certain ancient practices and traditions involving
curandismo and Wachuma?</b></div>
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Archeology is a science that allows you to decipher and
understand the past, each piece of ceramics, weaving, sculpture, ceremonial
place, etc. It is an open book that will allow us to rediscover the past, but
the most important thing is that mental and cultural filters pretend to
understand the past and the other excellent source are the traditions that
still survive of many of the peoples of Peru that have not been invaded by
technology and globalization. I keep learning from both science and tradition.</div>
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curanderos today incorporate Christian belief and iconography in their Wachuma
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man that tried to conserve the use of these plants and knowledge has had to
play with Catholic syncretism and this has allowed the Holy Inquisition of the
16th, 17th and 18th century not to be in charge, so that all these traditions
disappear, a beautiful example is the name in Spanish of the cactus is San
Pedro (San Peter) that in the Catholic tradition he has the keys of heaven. I
would say that we still have places where the tradition is preserved but in an
esoteric way, obviously there are places where it has been modernized and the
essence of these ceremonies has been lost and in many cases it has entered a
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Since I was very young, I had contact with people who had
knowledge about different Andean traditions, I never thought about being a curandero,
I believe that the life experiences that took me to extremes gave me the
guidelines to understand that I am a healer and I am still in the way of
learning, of course I also help with a lot the practical teachings of my
teachers such as learning to use plants, knowing the cycles of light from the
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and reasoning (Homo Sapiens), there are people who initially learned directly
from plants, of course some left the path, because they did not understand or were
blocked, but if there are Masters who have the knowledge, why waste time? I
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Wachuma is used for “curación and sanación”, that is to
restore the harmony in the being, this goes from the psychosomatic to the
physical, from the beginning the Ph level of the body goes to alkaline when
taking the medicine and this is something that is very important and is
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what is commonly known today as shamanism or neo-shamanism is the process of
‘ego death,’ with some people (particularly westerners) claiming to have
permanently removed their ego, can you clear up the confusion regarding this
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suffer soul loss, where does the soul go and how can a curandero retrieve a person’s
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The loss of the soul or the division of the soul can happen
by a serious accident, a fright, a serious illness, in general when the
organism is exposed to a high dose of adrenaline, this energy moves out of the
body, but the body to the “It” is like the umbilical cord and there are many
techniques to recover or call the soul, such as working on the top of the head
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sorcerer often comes with a negative connotation as opposed to the title of
curandero or healer, can you explain what the differences are between the two
and if brujos are necessarily bad and evil, can they also be good? Is it a
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There is day and night, good and bad, this duality fosters
personal growth, there is Paccò (White Magic) and laicca (Black Magic) in our
Quechua language and I believe that without both, we could not evolve and
transcend. Everything is a matter of intention, because it moves energy and the
universe exists because it is an exchange of energies.</div>
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relaxation and the songs in ceremony would be like the cradle songs that
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The healer and the MESA are the bridges so that the person
who is participating in the ceremony reaches his curacion and sanación. I
understand that it is a table because around this piece of furniture the family
feels, to feed, talk and share and that is the end of a ceremony and there are
many traditions to organize the MESA that have been recorded since the
colonialism (judgments of the Inquisition) and in the 19th and 20th century by
research of different scientists who have given their contribution to preserve
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It is very difficult to explain how a ceremony takes place,
basically permission is requested both to the medicine and to the place so that
the ceremony for curacion and / or sanancion is propitious and I will repeat
what a Master told me, the rule is that there are no rules because we are
talking about human beings and each one is unique, there are not two equal
human beings, we do not work with a linear time, at the end of the process the
ceremony is closed and we appreciate what is received. Basically in each
ceremony I use the rattle, "whose" (special stones) and aromas and
the dynamics of the use of space and time, dictates the plant.</div>
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Dr. Rubén Orellana conducts a number of retreats and
ceremonies both in Peru and around the world. If you would like more
information, please visit https:<a href="https://www.shamanicspace.com/" target="_blank">//shamanicspace.com/</a></div>
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About the author: Brett Lothian is an Australian
writer/researcher and ethnobotanist. He is a regular contributor to New Dawn
magazine and has also been published in Sacred Hoop magazine and Dragibus
magazine as well as numerous websites such as Waking Times and Truth Serum
News. He is the creator and author of the Tricho Serious Ethnobotany blog and
can be contacted at bretloth@gmail.com.</div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">This book review first appeared in <a href="https://www.newdawnmagazine.com/product/new-dawn-172" target="_blank">New Dawn Magazine number 172</a>, January - February 2019. </span><br />
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Shadow Of The Machine: The Prehistory of the Computer and the Evolution of
Consciousness. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">In The
Shadow Of The Machine is an accessible, in-depth study of the relationship
between human consciousness, technology and the computer. The vast changes and
ideas that paved the way for its creation and the dramatic effect that machines
have had upon the human psyche in the modern era, in this timely and thoroughly
well researched book. The author’s comprehensive writing style, coupled with
his skillful recapping artfully intertwines the subject matter into the greater
scope of the overall narrative, making what are quite complex topics both
easily understood and interesting to read. In this outstanding book by Jeremy
Naydler, we are taken along the fascinating journey of the human mind from the
dark ages at the very dawn of time into today, the age of the computer and in
doing so, we are forced to question the very nature of our reality, our current
way of life and our relationship to the ungodly creation we have fashioned in
our <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">own</i> image, the thinking machine,
AI.</span></div>
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is not so much a history of the computer, machines and the differences they
have made to our modern life, but more a history of western human consciousness
and the radical changes that have taken place in our minds since the very
foundations of our culture unto today, the changes that have not only allowed
for the creation of automatons, machines and the computer, but made them
inevitable due to our ever increasingly soulless modern mindscapes and worldview.
The author highlights how in the bedrock of the ancient Egyptians animistic religion,
holding everything to be sacred kept in check their desires for technological
innovation as for them, first and forefront in their minds was a devotion to
the gods in their every act of daily living and being. For them, the gods were
not abstract concepts “somewhere else,” but the spirits of the natural world,
all around them, in everything, all of the time. Picture for yourself how
living with this worldview must have been, with everything being alive, interconnecting
and corresponding, amongst the magnificent monuments of ancient Egypt… A truly
magical earthly experience, something we have long since lost.</span></div>
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shown how the threat of war and invasion drove the technological innovation of
the day almost reluctantly, how the rise of the clever man, the cunning
trickster like Odysseus was championed and how the move towards otherness, a separateness
from the divine led to the great philosophers of ancient Greece, more “logical”
thought. Naydler explains that whilst the gods of course lived on in the minds
of the ancient Greek, the philosophers such as Pythagoras, Plato and Aristotle began
to dissect the natural world with reason, stripping it of its divine qualities
and replacing them with mere quantities and mathematics in a quest for pure
truth. With the creation of the ancient academies, a radical shift in the way
people thought began, away from inhabiting a literally divine world, to living
in a world of abstract concepts and logical thought, longing for an ‘ideal’
world as if the greatest minds of ancient Greece somehow sensed that something
had already gone terribly wrong. This change to a more technical, more cold and
logical way of thinking, would have profound implications for the western world
going forward. </span></div>
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middle ages we follow along the train of thought that would eventually lead to
the industrial revolution, forever altering the fundamental ways in which we
live and work. Science gained ever more ground in the minds of the times
thinkers, with religion beginning to be openly challenged for the first time,
logic, reason and the scientific method now held the promise of answering the
great questions and mysteries of life, such as electricity. Now under the
watchful eye of the mechanical clock, the human mind became even more detached
from the rhythms of the natural world and began living in the influence and
shadow of the machine. More than ever before, the world’s great minds focused
their attention on practically applying knowledge, not for its own sake or for
some higher metaphysical purpose, but for commercial success. Technology, long being
removed from the sphere of the priests and philosophers was now unchained from
any spiritual purpose or consideration, being turned towards the pursuit of
pure profit, what it did to us as people however was given little if any
thought.</span></div>
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of electricity, despite us still not knowing what it actually is, illuminates
the modern mindset, with our technical understanding far outstripping our
wisdom and maturity.</span><span lang="EN-AU"> </span><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Jeremy Naydler expertly explains how, In The
Shadow OF The Machine , through the long process of the changing of our own minds,
of changing the very way we think and picture the world, we have created a
completely new world that we are not yet adapted to, that is both redefining us
and our place in the universe around us. In an era of an ever increasing
reliance upon technology and computers for almost everything, the creation of
artificial intelligence and interconnected “smart” technology that we barely
understand, we now live firmly In The Shadow Of The Machine, if not right in
the palm of its cold, digital hand. </span></div>
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the philosophical and spiritual implications of the hemispheric shift in the
way we think and interact with the world, this fantastic exploration of the
human psyche and its projection onto the physical world, is right on time for
those who are questioning their reality, how and why it all came to be and
where we are going in the future. This important and deeply thought provoking
book should be read by absolutely everyone that has that itch in the back of
their mind, that something is very wrong with the world today. </span></div>
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Trichocereus taxonomy has undergone numerous changes and revisions over time, some better than others but on the whole it has largely been a complete mess. Some time ago the Trichocereus genus was absorbed into the Echinopsis genus, much to the chagrin of many and this has been widely disputed. This revision was based largely upon morphology and many Trichocereus collectors largely ignored it and continued calling their Trichocereus, well, Trichocereus. For more information on this please read the following link from Keeper Trout who explains what happened in great detail~<br />
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<a href="https://www.entheogenesis.org/sites/default/files/content_images/keepertroutnov11.pdf" target="_blank">The Trichocereus Species: Taxonomic Delineations.</a><br />
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Finally, someone did the smart thing and decided to use DNA testing, as well as morphology to reclassify cacti genera and species, creating the most reliable taxonomy so far proposed. This was done by the French naturalist <span lang="FR" style="color: windowtext;">Joël
Lodé who released his findings in the publication, Taxonomy of the Cactaceae volumes 1 &2, which is the most comprehensive work on cacti ever attempted. Thankfully, he has restored the Trichocereus genus to its rightful place as being distinct from Echinopsis. His new classifications for the Trichocereus genus, including the previously accepted names is as follows~</span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="color: windowtext;"><br /></span>
<span lang="FR" style="color: windowtext;">*Note that there are numerous other names being applied to certain Trichocereus plants, but none of them outside of this list have actually ever been accepted. Not that that ever stopped anyone.</span><br />
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<li class="ouvert"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title=" ">TRICHOCEREUS</a><span style="color: #969696;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (Berger) Riccobono 1909</span></span>
<ul style="display: block;">
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus andalgalensis</b> <span style="color: #969696;">(F.A.C.Weber) Hosseus 1939</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Helianthocereus andalgalensis</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Helianthocereus huascha var. rubriflorus</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Helianthocereus pecheretianus</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Lobivia andalgalensis</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus angelesiae</b> <span style="color: #969696;">R.Kiesling 1978</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis angelesii</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Soehrensia angelesiae</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus arboricola</b> <span style="color: #969696;">Kimnach 1990</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis arboricola</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Soehrensia arboricola</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus atacamensis</b> <span style="color: #969696;">(Philippi) W.T.Marshall & Bock 1941</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis atacamensis</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis formosissima</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis rivierei</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Helianthocereus atacamensis</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Leucostele atacamensis</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus rivierei</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus atacamensis subsp. pasacana</b> <span style="color: #969696;">(F.A.C.Weber ex Rümpler) Ritter 1980</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis atacamensis subsp. pasacana</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis pasacana</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Helianthocereus pasacana</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Leucostele rivierei</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus eremophilus</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus pasacana</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus bertramianus</b> <span style="color: #969696;">Backeb. 1935</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis bertramiana</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Helianthocereus bertramianus</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Helianthocereus conaconensis</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus conaconensis</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus totorensis</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus bolligerianus</b> <span style="color: #969696;">(Mächler & Helmut Walter) S. Albesiano 2012</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Leucostele bolligeriana</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus bridgesii</b> <span style="color: #969696;">(Salm-Dyck) Britton & Rose 1920</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis lageniformis</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis scopulicola ?</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus cabrerae</b> <span style="color: #969696;">R.Kiesling 1976</span>
</li>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus camarguensis</b> <span style="color: #969696;">Cárdenas 1953</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis camarguensis</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Soehrensia camarguensis</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus candicans</b> <span style="color: #969696;">(Gillies ex Salm-Dyck) Britton & Rose 1920</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis candicans</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis courantii</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Soehrensia candicans</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus candicans var. gladiatus</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus candicans var. tenuispinus</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus courantii</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus gladiatus</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus neolamprochlorus</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus candicans subsp. pseudocandicans</b> <span style="color: #969696;">(Backeb.) J.Lodé 2013</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus pseudocandicans</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus catamarcensis</b> <span style="color: #969696;">F.Ritter 1980</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis crassicaulis</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Helianthocereus crassicaulis</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Lobivia crassicaulis</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Soehrensia crassicaulis</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus crassicaulis</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus caulescens</b> <span style="color: #969696;">Ritter 1966</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Soehrensia caulescens</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus chalaensis</b> <span style="color: #969696;">Rauh & Backeb. 1956</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis chalaensis</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus chiloensis</b> <span style="color: #969696;">(Colla) Britton & Rose 1920</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis chiloensis</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Leucostele chiloensis</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus chilensis</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus chiloensis subsp. australis</b> <span style="color: #969696;">(F.Ritter) Albesiano 2012</span>
</li>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus chiloensis subsp. eburneus</b> <span style="color: #969696;">(Phil. ex K.Schum.) Albesiano 2012</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Eulychnia eburnea</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus chilensis var. eburneus</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus chiloensis subsp. litoralis</b> <span style="color: #969696;">(Johow) Faúndez 2007</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis litoralis</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus litoralis</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus chiloensis subsp. panhoplites</b> <span style="color: #969696;">(K.Schum.) Albesiano 2012</span>
</li>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus cuzcoensis</b> <span style="color: #969696;">Britton & Rose 1920</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis cuzcoensis</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis tarmaensis</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus tarmaensis</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus deserticola</b> <span style="color: #969696;">(Werderm.) Looser 1929</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis deserticola</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis deserticola var. fulvilanata</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis fulvilana</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Leucostele deserticola</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus fulvilanus</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus faundezii</b> <span style="color: #969696;">Albesiano 2012</span>
</li>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus hahnianus</b> <span style="color: #969696;">(Backeberg) Guiggi 2013</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis hahniana</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Harrisia hahniana</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Mediocactus hahnianus</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Soehrensia hahniana</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus huascha</b> <span style="color: #969696;">(F.A.C.Weber) Britton & Rose 1920</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis huascha</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis hyalacantha</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis lobivioides</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Helianthocereus huascha</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Helianthocereus huascha var. auricolor</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Helianthocereus hyalacanthus</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Lobivia huascha</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Lobivia hyalacantha</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Pseudolobivia lobivioides</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Soehrensia huascha</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus lobivioides</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus purpureominiata ?</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus huascha subsp. robusta</b> <span style="color: #969696;">(Rausch) J.Lodé 2013</span>
</li>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus lamprochlorus</b> <span style="color: #969696;">(Lem.) Britton & Rose 1920</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis lamprochlora</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus macrogonus</b> <span style="color: #969696;">(Salm-Dyck) Riccob. 1909</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis macrogona</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis puquiensis</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis santaensis</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus macrogonus subsp. pachanoi</b> <span style="color: #969696;">(Britton & Rose) S.Albesiano & R.Kiesling 2012</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis pachanoi</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus pachanoi</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus santaensis</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus scopulicola</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus macrogonus subsp. peruvianus</b> <span style="color: #969696;">(Britton & Rose) J.Lodé 2013</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis peruviana</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus peruvianus</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus puquiensis</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus tacnaensis</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus torataensis</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus nigripilis</b> <span style="color: #969696;">(Phil.) Backeb. 1935</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Leucostele coquimbana</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus coquimbanus</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus coquimbanus</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus coquimbanus var. nigripilis</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus pectiniferus</b> <span style="color: #969696;">Albesiano 2012</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus coquimbanus</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus serenanus</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus purpureopilosus</b> <span style="color: #969696;">Weingart 1930</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis purpureopilosa</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus quadratiumbonata</b> <span style="color: #969696;">Ritter 1980</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis quadratiumbonata</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Soehrensia quadratiumbonata</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus rowleyi</b> <span style="color: #969696;">Friedrich 1974</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Chamaecereus grandiflorus</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis rowleyi</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Lobivia grandiflora</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Lobivia grandiflora</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Soehrensia grandiflora</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus grandiflorus</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus schickendantzii</b> <span style="color: #969696;">(F.A.C.Weber) Britton & Rose 1920</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis fabrisii</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis friedrichii</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis manguinii</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis narvaecensis</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis schickendantzii</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Helianthocereus narvaecensis</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Soehrensia fabrisii</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Soehrensia schickendantzii</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus fabrisii</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus manguinii</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus narvaecensis</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus shaferi</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus tenuispinus</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus volcanensis</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus schoenii</b> <span style="color: #969696;">Rauh & Backeb. 1958</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis schoenii</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus serpentinus</b> <span style="color: #969696;">(M.Lowry & M.Mendoza) J.Lodé 2013</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis serpentina</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus skottsbergii</b> <span style="color: #969696;">Backeb. 1950</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis skottsbergii</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus skottsbergii var. breviatus</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus smrzianus</b> <span style="color: #969696;">(Backeb.) Backeb. 1966</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis smrziana</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Soehrensia smrziana</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus spachianus</b> <span style="color: #969696;">(Lem.) Riccob. 1909</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis spachiana</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Soehrensia spachiana</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus santiaguensis ?</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus spinibarbis</b> <span style="color: #969696;">(Otto) F.Ritter 1965</span>
</li>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus strigosus</b> <span style="color: #969696;">(Salm-Dyck) Britton & Rose 1920</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis strigosa</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis strigosus</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Soehrensia strigosa</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus tacaquirensis</b> <span style="color: #969696;">Cárdenas 1953</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis tacaquirensis</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus taquimbalensis</b> <span style="color: #969696;">Cárdenas 1953</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis tacaquirensis subsp. taquimbalensis</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis taquimbalensis</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus taquimbalensis var. wilkeae</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus tarijensis</b> <span style="color: #969696;">(Vaupel) Werderm. 1940</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis antezanae</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis conaconensis</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis herzogiana</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis poco</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis tarijensis</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis tarijensis subsp. herzogiana</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis tarijensis subsp. totorensis</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Helianthocereus antezanae</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Helianthocereus herzogianus</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Helianthocereus herzogianus var. totorensis</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Helianthocereus orurensis</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Helianthocereus orurensis var. albiflorus</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Helianthocereus tarijensis</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Soehrensia tarijensis</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus antezanae</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus formosa subsp. tarijensis</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus herzogianus</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus herzogianus var. totorensis</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus poco</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus poco var. albiflorus</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus poco var. fricianus</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus terscheckii</b> <span style="color: #969696;">(Parm.) Britton & Rose 1920</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis terscheckii</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis valida</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis valida var. densa</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Leucostele terscheckii</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus terscheckii var. montanus</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus thelegonoides</b> <span style="color: #969696;">(Speg.) Britton & Rose 1920</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis rubinghiana</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis thelegonoides</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Soehrensia thelegonoides</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus thelegonus</b> <span style="color: #969696;">(Weber) Britton & Rose 1920</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis thelegona</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Soehrensia thelegona</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus rubinghianus</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus tulhuayacensis</b> <span style="color: #969696;">Ochoa 1957</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis tulhuayacensis</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus tunariensis</b> <span style="color: #969696;">Cárdenas 1959</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis taratensis</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis tunariensis</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Leucostele tunariensis</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus taratensis</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus undulosus</b> <span style="color: #969696;">Albesiano 2012</span>
</li>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus uyupampensis</b> <span style="color: #969696;">Backeberg 1936</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis uyupampensis</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus glaucus</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus glaucus</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus vasquezii</b> <span style="color: #969696;">Rausch 1974</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis vasquezii</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Soehrensia vasquezii</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus vatteri</b> <span style="color: #969696;">R.Kiesling 1976</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis vatteri</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus vollianus</b> <span style="color: #969696;">Backeb. 1935</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis volliana</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Soehrensia volliana</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus vollianus var. rubrispinus</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus walteri</b> <span style="color: #969696;">(Kiesling) J.G.Lambert 1998</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis walteri</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Lobivia walteri</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Soehrensia walteri</li>
</ul>
<li class="a">
<b>Trichocereus werdermannianus</b> <span style="color: #969696;">Backeb. 1935</span>
</li>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis escayachensis</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Echinopsis werdermanniana</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Helianthocereus escayachensis</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Leucostele werdermanniana</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li class="b">Trichocereus escayachensis<span lang="FR" style="color: windowtext;"> <br /><br /></span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
</span></li>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1965359057530273942.post-67738092839724748482019-01-29T16:35:00.000+11:002019-01-29T16:39:49.126+11:00Inside the Psychedelic Mind: The New Frontier for Consciousness Studies, Innovative Therapies, Micro-dosing & Creativity<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This article first appeared in <a href="https://www.newdawnmagazine.com/product/new-dawn-special-issue-vol-12-no-6">New Dawn Special Issue Volume 12, Number 6</a>, 2018. <span class="ILfuVd">© Brett Lothian</span><br />
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“LSD is a psychedelic drug that occasionally causes
psychotic behaviour in people who have NOT taken it.” ~ Timothy Leary, Ph.D.</div>
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Psychedelic plants and drugs have been a controversial
subject ever since the late 1960’s and the hippy flower power movement, despite
having a history of human use going back thousands upon thousands of years all
over the world. In recent times, attitudes have begun to change in the way in
which we see psychedelics and their potential applications for humanity, with
new scientific research moving ahead in leaps and bounds after the long halt in
official research caused by the American led ‘war on drugs.’ Today, we understand
far more about how psychedelics actually work in the brain and how they affect
our consciousness, often in very profound ways and are as such we are now on
the verge of once again having psychedelic plants and drugs legalized and used
in modern medicine. Interestingly, the ways in which psychedelics are being
used and the reasons for doing so are also changing and evolving, opening up
whole new vistas in the psychedelic field, modern medicine and even the very
way in which we think about and solve the many and varied problems that are
affecting our world today.<br />
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Firstly, if we want to truly understand the psychedelic
experience and how it affects our minds and consciousness, we have to understand
exactly what is happening in the brain when we take these substances. Research
has shown that the classic psychedelic compounds primarily act upon the brain's
neural cortex, where they activate specific receptors called 5-HT2A receptors
that are usually activated by serotonin. "In order to function, (the
cortex is) integrating different signals, for example glutamate signals and
serotonin signals," said neuroscientist Stuart Sealfon of Mount Sinai
School of Medicine in New York, "and what hallucinogens must be doing is
they are disrupting this process so that sensory perception is altered by
them." However, not all compounds that activate these receptors lead to
psychedelic experiences. In the past, scientists perceived neurotransmitter
receptors such as the 5-HT2A receptor as being like "locks and keys,"
in which certain compounds would fit into a specific receptor as a key fits
into a lock. The receptor would then turn on and signal to the other molecules
in the cell. But this has been found to not be the case for psychedelics.
Research by Sealfon and his colleagues published in the journal Neuron revealed
that the 5-HT2A receptor has in fact more than one "on" position. "When
a non-hallucinogen activates the receptor, it causes one pattern of signaling
of the cells in the brain that is not hallucinogenic," Sealfon told
LiveScience. "When a hallucinogen turns on this receptor, the receptor we
infer must go into a different position and that leads to a different pattern
in responses in the cell and is what makes the hallucinogen have its unique
effect."</div>
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In 1954, the author and philosopher Aldous Huxley in his
seminal work The Doors of Perception proposed that the brain in its ordinary
state, acts as a kind of ‘reducing valve,’ restricting conscious awareness. “The
function of the brain and nervous system is in the main eliminative”, he
observed, “leaving only that very small and special selection which is likely
to be practically useful”. He theorized whilst under the influence of the
psychedelic compound Mescaline (that is found in San Pedro and Peyote cacti)
that the compound allowed him to see that what we normally call “reality” is in
fact the product of a massive filtering out of reality, a systematic closing of
the doors, leaving only the programs of measurement and utility, reality as it
would necessarily appear “to an animal obsessed with survival.” Tom Wolfe in
his classic book, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, explained it as follows, “Aldous
Huxley compared the brain to a ‘reducing valve.’ In ordinary perception, the
senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the brain
then filters down to a trickle it can manage for the purpose of survival in a
highly competitive world. Man has become so rational, so utilitarian, that the
trickle becomes most pale and thin. It is efficient, for mere survival, but it
screens out the most wondrous part of man's potential experience without his
even knowing it. We're shut off from our own world.”<br />
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Huxley proposed that when we are under the influence of a
psychedelic substance, this ‘reducing valve’ is opened up and that we are able
to consciously perceive a much richer, more meaningful and wondrous existence.
Modern research is showing us now that Huxley was in fact right all along. A
2016 study headed by lead researcher David Nutt, the UK government’s former
drugs advisor and professor of neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College
London, showed the profound changes that LSD has upon the brain and
consciousness, changes that dramatically altered the activity and connectivity
across the human brain. Brain scans revealed in those studied that they
experienced images through information drawn from many parts of their brains,
not just the visual cortex that normally processes visual information. Using
three different brain imaging techniques, named arterial spin labelling,
resting state MRI and magnetoencephalography, the scientists measured blood
flow, functional connections within and between brain networks, and brainwaves
in the volunteers both on and off of the psychedelic compound. Under the
influence of LSD, entire regions of the brain that are normally cut off from
each other, instead worked together to produce the altered state of perception
and consciousness. “The drug can be seen as reversing the more restricted
thinking we develop from infancy to adulthood,” said Nutt, whose study was
published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<br />
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Further images also showed that the brain regions that
usually form a network in ordinary consciousness, became more separated as
those studied experienced “feelings of oneness with the world and a loss of
personal identity” that is often called ego dissolution or as it known in
traditional shamanism, as ego death. “You don’t recognize yourself as a
separate being from the universe. It feels, in a way, like transferring the
consciousness from within your own body to the outside world; the focus is in
the objects that surround you rather than outside.” Scans revealed a loss of
connections between parts of the brain called the parahippocampus and another
region known as the retrosplenial cortex. “This experience is sometimes framed
in a religious or spiritual way, and seems to be associated with improvements
in wellbeing after the drug’s effects have subsided,” Carhart-Harris said. Importantly,
researchers noted in this study that the regions in the brain involved with
introspection (thinking about one’s self) and the way one perceives the outside
world, communicated with each other much more intensely under the influence of
LSD. “When we measured the brains of subjects who were really blown away by
LSD, who had a really strong feeling of ego dissolution, they were also the
ones who had the strongest increase in communication between the network
regions in charge of introspection and the network regions in charge of
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Another researcher involved in the study, Robin
Carhart-Harris, said that whilst under the influence of LSD, the brain scans
suggested that the volunteers were “seeing with their eyes shut, we saw many
more areas of the brain than normal were contributing to visual processing
under LSD, even though volunteers’ eyes were closed.” The more pronounced the
effect in the brain, the more intense people rated their psychedelic visions.
Under the influence of LSD, brain networks that deal with vision, attention,
movement and hearing became far more connected, leading to what looked like a
“more unified brain”, he said. David Nutt, went on to say that neuroscientists
had waited 50 years for this moment. “This is to neuroscience what the Higgs
boson was to particle physics,” he said. “We didn’t know how these profound
effects were produced. It was too difficult to do. Scientists were either
scared or couldn’t be bothered to overcome the enormous hurdles to get this
done.” Amanda Feilding, director of the Beckley Foundation, said in response to
this study that “we are finally unveiling the brain mechanisms underlying the
potential of LSD, not only to heal, but also to deepen our understanding of
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Furthering this important work, the researchers at Imperial
College London as well as researchers from the University of Sussex, measured
the activity of neurons in people’s brains under the influence of the
psychedelics LSD, ketamine and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic
mushrooms). The brain scans revealed the first scientific evidence for what
appears to be a heightened state of consciousness. The volunteers studied were
found to have more random brain activity than normal while under the influence
of these psychedelics. The shift in brain activity came with a plethora of
peculiar sensations that the participants described as ranging from floating
and finding inner peace, to distortions in time and a conviction that the self
was disintegrating. “What we find is that under each of these psychedelic
compounds, this specific measure of global conscious level goes up, so it moves
in the other direction. The neural activity becomes more unpredictable,” said
Anil Seth, a professor of neuroscience at the University of Sussex. “Until now,
we’ve only ever seen decreases compared to the baseline of the normal waking
state.” The scans found the most notable effects in parts of the brain that are
known to be important for perceptions, rather than other roles such as language
and movement. “I think people would have the intuitive idea that their
experience on psychedelic compounds is a bit more random, a bit less
constrained, that there’s a mixing of the senses, and all kinds of connections
that are experienced between things that are previously unconnected,” Seth
said.<br />
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“We see an increase in the diversity of signals from the
brain,” said Seth. “The brain is more complex in its activity.” Previous
studies have demonstrated that people in a state of wakefulness or ordinary
consciousness, have more diverse patterns of brain activity than people who are
asleep. The researchers have found that people who have taken psychedelics show
an even greater amount of diversity, in fact the highest level of diversity ever
measured. Robin Carhart-Harris, who also took part in this study, said the sudden
increase in randomness and diversity in brain activity appears to show a deeper
and richer state of consciousness. “People tend to associate phrases like ‘a
higher state of consciousness’ with hippy speak and mystical nonsense. This is
potentially the beginning of the demystification, showing its physiological and
biological underpinnings,” he said. “Maybe this is a neural signature of the
mind opening.” Beyond confirming what shaman all over the world have known for
millennia and what the hippies learned back in the 60’s, the research could
help scientists to finally understand exactly what types of neural activity
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It is also hoped that by understanding how different people
respond to taking psychedelics, that doctors can more accurately predict which
patients might benefit from taking psychedelics to treat mental disorders, such
as depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress. “The evidence is becoming
clear that there is a clinical efficacy with these drugs,” said Seth. “I think
there’s an awful lot of potential here, if you suddenly see things in a
different way, it could give your outlook a jolt that existing antidepressants
can’t because they work on the routine, wakeful state.” In fact, more and more
research is confirming this to be exactly the case. In another study produced
by David Nutt, Robin Carhart-Harris and others, the psychedelic compound
psilocybin has been shown to be effective in alleviating symptoms in otherwise
treatment resistant depression. There had been numerous studies suggesting
psychedelics could play a role in treating depression by acting as a sort of
"lubricant for the mind," allowing people to break destructive cycles
of depressive symptoms, but the precise effect on brain activity was not yet known.
The team at Imperial College London performed fMRI brain scans before treatment
with psilocybin and then the day after, once the psychedelic effects had worn
off. The study showed psilocybin affected two important areas of the human
brain, the amygdala, which is largely involved in how we process emotions such
as fear and anxiety, became less active. The greater the reduction, the greater
the improvement in the reported symptoms. Also effected was the default-mode
network, a collaboration of different brain regions which became more stable
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Dr Carhart-Harris, said that the depressed brain was being
"clammed up" and that the psychedelic experience had "reset"
it. He told the BBC News website: "Patients were very ready to use this
analogy. Without any priming they would say, 'I've been reset, reborn,
rebooted', and one patient said his brain had been defragged and cleaned up,"
with the effects lasting for weeks and even months. Prof Mitul Mehta, from the
Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London, said: "What is
impressive about these preliminary findings is that brain changes occurred in
the networks we know are involved in depression, after just a single dose of
psilocybin. This provides a clear rationale to now look at the longer-term
mechanisms in controlled studies." Carhart-Harris believes that the use of
psychedelics effectively "heats up" the mind from its rigidity,
enabling people to overcome ingrained, self-destructive patterns of thinking.
With support from a qualified therapist, those who have undergone the treatment
can then "recalibrate in a healthier way, so you're revising your beliefs
and assumptions and addictions", Carhart-Harris says. Furthermore and
importantly, Dr Carhart-Harris acknowledges that psychedelics are never going
to be for everyone. "Some people won't want to go to the depths of their
soul or face demons or traumas they've experienced, or dark aspects of the
human condition that are there in all of us," he said.<br />
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Another interesting psychedelic compound that is showing
remarkable effectiveness in alleviating the symptoms of treatment resistant
depression is Ketamine (commonly known as ‘Special K’), that has in recent
times come to be thought of as one of the biggest breakthroughs in the psychiatric
treatments for severe depression. In as little time as half an hour, it has
been shown to banish severe depression symptoms and even suicidal thoughts in the
patients tested, often after all other psychiatric options have been exhausted
and the effects can last for weeks. A recent study published in the journal
Nature, has been able to elucidate just how ketamine acts in the brain to
achieve its impressive results. A team of doctors and neuroscientists from
Zhejiang University in China have shown that ketamine switches off an erratic
burst of electrical impulses firing in neurons in the brain region known as the
lateral habenula. “The lateral habenula is like the ‘anti-reward center’ in the
brain,” the study’s lead author Professor Hailan Hu told The Independent. When
the lateral habenula is firing erratic bursts of electrical impulses, it acts
against the areas where key mood-boosting neurotransmitters, dopamine and
serotonin are produced by the brain. “The lateral habenula inhibits both of
those reward centers,” she added. “So when it goes into the bursting mode, the
suppression becomes much stronger, it’s like a machine gun compared to a single
shot.” Whilst in the last decade or so, the lateral habenula has become thought
of as a major driver for the negative moods involved in depression, the reasons
for this have been difficult to exhibit.<br />
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Professor Hu’s team had been examining this region of the
brain, using rats to study the differences in depressed and normal brains and
had identified certain patterns of irregular electrical activity that they
thought could be playing a role. “In previous experiments we had delivered
ketamine generally into the body, so you wouldn’t know which brain region was
being affected,” Professor Hu said. “But in this study we injected it directly
into the lateral habenula and we were surprised to find that just affecting
this very localized area was sufficient to have this very rapid antidepressant
effect.” The findings in rats were akin to the extremely rapid relief of
symptoms that can be seen in humans and suggests that ketamine’s remarkable
effects could be largely derived from this one area, as no other parts of the
brain were being treated. With further experimentation, the researchers were
able to show that a group of receptors (NMDARs) are causing these signals and
are effectively blocked by ketamine. Also published in the journal Nature, an
analysis of the findings by Dr Paul Kenny, professor of neuroscience at the
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, said that “ketamine is
currently in clinical trials for the treatment of major depressive disorder
with imminent risk of suicide, but the mechanisms by which ketamine acts have
been a puzzle to scientists. These findings suggest that the therapeutic
actions of ketamine might relate, at least in part, to its ability to block
burst firing in the lateral habenula, this knowledge might facilitate the
development of next-generation ketamine-related antidepressants that specifically
target lateral habenula activity.”<br />
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A study released in June of this year has shed even more
light on the impressive effects of ketamine in the brain and how it helps to
treat mental illness. Importantly, the researchers tested a number of psychedelic
compounds for comparison and the results were truly astounding. "These are
some of the most powerful compounds known to affect brain function, it's very
obvious to me that we should understand how they work," said senior author
David E. Olson, assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and the
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine at the University of
California, Davis. “One of the hallmarks of depression is that the neurites in
the prefrontal cortex – a key brain region that regulates emotion, mood, and
anxiety – those neurites tend to shrivel up,” said Olson. It had previously
been believed that depression stems from imbalanced brain chemistry, but recent
studies have shown that depression manifests as structural changes in brain
circuitry or as an atrophy in parts of the brain. This does not mean that the
neurons die off in those suffering mental illness, but that the neurites
retract. Neurites are the sections of a neuron that bridge the gap between two
neurons at the synapse to enable communication. These brain changes are also
apparent in the cases of people suffering anxiety, addiction, and
post-traumatic stress disorder. In the study, Olson and colleagues tested
psychedelics from the amphetamine, tryptamine, tropane and ergoline drug
classes. In both test tube and animal experiments, the psychedelics displayed
functional and structural changes that were similar to those produced by
ketamine in cortical neurons. Psychedelics increased both the density of
dendritic spines and the density of synapses. Some psychedelics tested,
including LSD, proved to be even more potent and effective than ketamine in
promoting neurite growth.<br />
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What this basically means is that psychedelic compounds
literally have the power to rewire damaged brains, confirming the intuitive
findings of the people who say that psychedelics have “reset, rebooted or
defragged” their minds. The researchers conducted their experiments in both
vertebrates and invertebrates, showing that psychedelics produced similar
effects across species. This demonstrates that the biological mechanisms
involved with psychedelic effects have remained the same across millions of
years of evolution and that psychedelics will most likely have the same brain
growth or neural plasticity effects in humans. Olson and his team also set out
to test exactly how these psychedelics produced neural plasticity. The
researchers explored which biological pathways psychedelics activate to promote
neural growth. Ketamine's neural plasticity effect was previously discovered to
be largely dependent upon a protein named brain-derived neurotrophic factor
(BDNF). When BDNF signaling was blocked, interestingly the psychedelics lost
their capability to promote neurite growth. BDNF binds to a receptor, named TrkB
that is part of a signaling pathway which includes mTOR that is known to play a
major part in producing the proteins necessary for the creation of new synapses.
When mTOR was also blocked, it also completely inhibited the psychedelics'
ability to promote neurite growth. Intriguingly the one psychedelic tested that
did not promote neural plasticity was ibogaine (the active ingredient in iboga)
but that a metabolite of ibogaine, namely noribogaine did, which explains
iboga’s effectiveness.<br />
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Unfortunately space in this article does not permit me to examine
all of the interesting work that is being done in regards to psychedelics with
depression, anxiety, PTSD and addiction as there has been literally a flood of
recent studies that are all saying the same things, that they work and are far
more effective and longer lasting (even at a single dose) than anything that is
currently being prescribed in the treatments of these debilitating mental
illnesses. A number of psychedelic compounds are presently being fast tracked
through the clinical trial phases of human testing and will soon be available
to doctors to help treat these diseases. I encourage our intrepid New Dawn
readers to please do research the studies cited in the references for this
article and the veritable compendium of scientific literature and anecdotal
evidence that is freely available on the internet, as well my previous article for
New Dawn on psychedelic research, <a href="https://trichoseriousethnobotany.blogspot.com/2016/10/scientific-shamanism-shamanic-plant.html">Sacred Plant Healing: Shamanic Plant Medicine and the New Science</a>, which appeared in the special issue volume 10, number 5
and is now freely available on my Tricho Serious Ethnobotany blog, for more in
depth information. As our societies mental health issues, addictions and
suicide rates continue to grow at an alarming rate, this extremely important
information needs to be disseminated as widely as possible and brought to the
attention of the wider public, and of course our policy and law makers. <br />
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Other debilitating mental scourges that are ever increasing
in our modern society such as Dementia, Alzheimer’s and Down syndrome may also
benefit from the use of psychedelic substances. In a study released by the D'Or
Institute for Research and Education, it was discovered that harmine which is
present in the popular psychedelic drink ayahuasca and which has been used by
psychonauts to potentiate other psychedelics, inhibits what is known as DYRKIA
which is located on chromosome 21 and is overly activated in patients suffering
from Down syndrome and Alzheimer’s disease. Also it was ascertained that the
beta-carboline harmine also led to an increase of 70% in the proliferation of
human neural progenitor cells. "It has been shown in rodents that antidepressant
medication acts by inducing neurogenesis. So we decided to test if harmine, an
alkaloid with the highest concentration in the psychotropic plant decoction
ayahuasca, would trigger neurogenesis in human neural cells," said Vanja
Dakic, PhD student and one of the authors in the study. "Our results
demonstrate that harmine is able to generate new human neural cells, similarly
to the effects of classical antidepressant drugs, which frequently are followed
by diverse side effects. Moreover, the observation that harmine inhibits DYRK1A
in neural cells allows us to speculate about future studies to test its
potential therapeutic role over cognitive deficits observed in Down syndrome
and neurodegenerative diseases," suggests Stevens Rehen, researcher from
IDOR and ICB-UFRJ. As we already know that psychedelics can promote new neuron
growth and networks and that harmine promotes the growth of new brain cells,
whilst also inhibiting the over active DYRKIA associated with Down syndrome and
Alzheimer’s, ayahuasca could be just what the doctor ordered to help people
with neurodegenerative diseases literally regrow and rewire their damaged
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A new trend that is emerging and growing in popularity with
psychedelics, particularly among the genius Silicon Valley crowd, is micro-dosing
which was first promoted by Dr. James Fadiman in his excellent book, The
Psychedelic Explorers Guide that I reviewed for New Dawn issue 164. Micro-dosing
is exactly as it sounds, taking small (non-psychedelic) amounts of these substances,
to boost creativity, cognitive function and elevate mood. Whilst numerous
studies have demonstrated a link between psychedelic use and increased
creativity, artistic expression, problem solving and overall cognitive function,
whether these substances could have the same effects in sub-perceptual or
non-psychedelic dosages had never been tested, until now. Researchers from
Leiden University in the Netherlands have released the first official study
into micro-dosing in October of this year and their findings support the
mounting anecdotal evidence that even in tiny amounts, psychedelics can have
profound impacts upon the ways in which we think. “Our results suggest that
consuming a micro-dose of truffles (magic mushrooms) allowed participants to
create more out-of-the-box alternative solutions for a problem, thus providing
preliminary support for the assumption that micro-dosing improves divergent
thinking," lead author Luisa Prochazkova explained. "Moreover, we
also observed an improvement in convergent thinking, that is, increased
performance on a task that requires the convergence on one single correct or
best solution." The authors of the study called this “changes in fluid
intelligence” and noted that the participants created solutions that were more
original and flexible than they had before micro-dosing. More studies are
currently underway into the effects of micro-dosing with other psychedelic
compounds, which will in all likelihood produce similar results.</div>
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Whilst the use of psychedelics has long been advocated for
improving intelligence and creativity by such mental luminaries as Dr. Francis
Crick who discovered the double helix nature of DNA, Apple computers founder
Steve Jobs and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, whether psychedelics actually changed
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">what</i> we think was largely
speculation. A new study released earlier this year has given us an intriguing
insight into the potential changes in just what we think through the use of
psychedelic plants and compounds. “Our findings tentatively raise the possibility
that given in this way, psilocybin may produce sustained changes in outlook and
political perspective, here in the direction of increased nature relatedness
and decreased authoritarianism,” researchers Taylor Lyons and Robin
Carhart-Harris wrote in the study. “Before I enjoyed nature, now I feel part of
it. Before I was looking at it as a thing, like TV or a painting… [But now I
see] there’s no separation or distinction, you are it,” one participant said in
the follow-up exam. “This pilot study suggests that psilocybin with
psychological support might produce lasting changes in attitudes and beliefs.
Although it would be premature to infer causality from this small study, the
possibility of drug-induced changes in belief systems seems sufficiently
intriguing and timely to deserve further investigation,” the study concluded. Could
these feelings of increased nature relatedness and anti-authoritarianism
explain the peace and love hippy counter culture revolution of the late 1960’s
and why these plants and substances were subsequently banned by the ever
increasingly authoritarian, nanny state governments of the world? I will leave
that for the reader to decide.<br />
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Perhaps the most important of all the changes in what we
think, our beliefs and our attitudes that psychedelics produce is in removing
the fear of death and the experience of the mystical. In a recent study by the Johns
Hopkins Medical School, 51 terminally ill patients were given magic mushrooms
and a remarkable 80% of them said that it had helped them to feel more
optimistic and less scared of death. Matthew W. Johnson who was involved in the
study offered that the experience produced by the mushrooms "appear
indistinct, oftentimes from religious experiences." Research conducted by
Griffiths et al. showed that the mystical experiences participants had under the
influence of psilocybin were “among the most personally meaningful and
spiritually significant of their lives” and that they were very long lasting. Charles
Grob, UCLA professor of psychiatry and pediatrics who also conducted a study
that gave psilocybin to late-stage cancer patients has said that "the
reports I got back from the subjects, from their partners, from their families
were very positive, that the experience was of great value, and it helped them
regain a sense of purpose, a sense of meaning to their life. The quality of
their lives notably improved." </div>
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As the famed mystic and inspiration for Aldous Huxley’s
greatest work, The Doors of Perception, William Blake once wrote, “If the doors
of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.”
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How Do Hallucinogens Work?</div>
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How Do Psychedelics Work? A Look Inside the Hallucinating
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The Doors of Perception. By Aldous Huxley</div>
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. By Tom Wolfe</div>
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LSD's impact on the brain revealed in groundbreaking images</div>
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Psychedelic drugs induce 'heightened state of
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Psychedelic drugs push the brain to a state never seen
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Magic mushrooms can 'reset' depressed brain</div>
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Could psychedelics transform mental health?</div>
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Psychedelic drug ayahuasca improves hard-to-treat depression</div>
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Psychedelic ayahuasca works against severe depression, study
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Psychedelic Drugs: LSD Changes Brain, Could Be Used for
Depression, Addiction Treatment</div>
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Ketamine nasal spray rapidly relieves depression and
suicidal thoughts, finds trial</div>
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Remarkable secrets of ketamine's antidepressant effect
unlocked by scientists</div>
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Psychedelics Promote Structural and Functional Neural
Plasticity</div>
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Psychedelic drugs promote neural plasticity in rats and
flies</div>
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LSD and magic mushrooms could heal damaged brain cells in
people suffering from depression, study shows</div>
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Classical hallucinogens as antidepressants? A review of
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Sacred Plant Healing: Shamanic Plant Medicine and the New
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A brief history of psychedelic psychiatry</div>
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Substance present in ayahuasca brew stimulates generation of
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The Psychedelic Explorers Guide. By James Fadiman, Ph.D.</div>
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Microdosing Magic Mushrooms Could Spark Creativity And Boost
Cognitive Skills, Claims New Study</div>
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Study Says Psychedelic Mushrooms Make People More Resistant
To Authority</div>
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Dying humans are taking mushrooms to study our fear of the
unknown</div>
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'My fear of dying was gone': Former cancer patient says
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What Is So Important About The Mystical Experience?</div>
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The most convincing argument for legalizing LSD, shrooms,
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This article first appeared in New Dawn issue 169, July - August, 2018 under the title, The Rise of Homo Technicus. <span class="ILfuVd yZ8quc">© Brett Lothian</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">In a few
years it will all be over, and the human race will have divided in twain. There
is no way back, and no future for the world you know. All the hopes and dreams
of your race are ended now. You have given birth to your successors, and it is
your tragedy that you will never understand them…</span></div>
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the precipice of the flowering of an entirely new human species, mental illness
has been the driving force behind our social, technological and genetic
evolution, namely an all-consuming post-traumatic stress and anxiety over the
end of the world. For hundreds of thousands if not millions of years, humanity
lived a largely egalitarian, hunter gatherer lifestyle in harmony and balance
with nature, until a life-shatteringly cataclysmic event forever altered the
way we think about the world and our place in it, creating the birth of our
profoundly sick modern society, which has since taken over the vast majority of
the world. Now, once more we stand just before the dawn of a new era, one where
we have the choice to either continue down the path of madness, or to finally
heal our collective post-traumatic stress and return to harmony and balance
with nature.
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The story of our modern society begins after the last
glacial maximum of 27,000 to 24,000 years BPE, the ice age was retreating with
warmer temperatures opening up far more habitable land for humanity to thrive
in, until around 13,000 years BPE when the Earth was once more plunged almost
overnight into another ice age that would last for over a thousand years.
Approximately 10,950 BCE, a comet fragmented in the inner solar system and
strafed the Earth with devastating bolides, the apocalyptic impact so terrible
that it caused more destruction than the asteroid that killed off the
dinosaurs, setting fire to as much as 10% of the entire world’s landmass.
Volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods and massive storms raged across the
globe along with the fires and brimstone, almost overnight the Earth was
plunged into the darkness of a nuclear winter. For those alive at the time it
was truly the dark night of the soul, a cataclysm and existential crisis on a
scale that we can barely imagine today, it was literally the end of the world
as they knew it.</div>
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After the new ice age had abated, a group of human survivors
in the near east went on to begin an undertaking that would shape our human
society ever since, they domesticated grains, the storable and staple foods of
modern society, starting the agricultural revolution, borne out of the now
desperate need for security and control over the whims of nature. This led to
the birth of inequality and the building of the very first temple observatory
at Göbekli Tepe which memorialized the end of the world and watched the stars
for another destroyer and in doing so, created the first organized religion and
social classes. Where before the cosmic forces were the realm of the shaman of
the nomadic tribe, appealing to the ancestors and spirits of nature for good
fortune, now they were the realm of the priest of the state and the gods,
demanding sacrifice and observance to rules of behaviour, lest the sky fall
once again. We had been expelled from the Eden of natural abundance, into the
toil of the fields and the fear that we could no longer rely upon Mother
Nature. Our innocence was lost, the priests blamed our “sins” for our doom and
we have been forever more chained by the guilt and fear instilled by the
religions of the end of the world. It is this way of thinking, this anxiety,
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Where the religions of the end of the world promised us the
paradise we supposedly fell from through sin, after death (the previous hunter
gatherer lifestyle of the endless abundance of Mother Nature) if we followed
their rules to appease the gods or later, god, the new dominant religion of our
times, economics, promises endless abundance right now, if only we have enough
money. The rules of behaviour went out the window, all that matters now is what
you can get away with and having more than enough, no matter how it is
achieved, greed itself is deemed to be good. Whilst the majority of society is
happy enough to go along, as long they are comfortable, for the most insecure
there is no comfort, they can simply never have enough. As such they with the
most insecurity, have the most ambition and thusly rise to the top of our
social pyramid scheme, if they are not lucky enough to have been born into it.
Even this can never be enough for the economic elite, they still can’t feel
secure, still facing the anxiety that something could take it all away.</div>
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Millions of years of evolution and natural selection has
adapted us to suit the natural environment, making us the most adaptable
species on the planet, being able survive in all regions of the world. Ever
since apocalyptic events of 13,000 years BPE, what has become the dominant
society has turned this on its head, creating environments that we are not
adapted to, and this has consequences. John Hawks, an anthropologist and
geneticist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, says we've created a
lifestyle that is at odds with the one natural selection provided us with.
Consider, for example, what we ate when we were hunter gatherers, long before
we started farming. "We adapted to a diet that was much more balanced in
terms of lean meat, in terms of high fiber vegetables.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And by de-accentuating those aspects of our
former diet, we've created a new environment that humans aren't real suited
to," Hawks says. But instead of doing the sensible thing and returning to
an environment we are actually adapted to, the real world, our society is only
heading down the artificial path even further.
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Today we
have the most unequal society in human history. Increasingly we have a society
based on social classes of haves and have nots, and no longer just
economically, in education and health care, but also now with new gene editing
technology such as CRISPR (which stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced
Short Palindromic Repeats), we are on the verge of having genomic inequality as
well. Leading scientific research is bringing us ever closer to the end of the
homo sapien species, through genetic engineering and the desire to become the
eugenicists and transhumanists long dreamed of next step in human evolution,
Homo superior. Designer babies and genetic “vaccines” that permanently alter
our genetic makeup are possible right now, today. A new species in the Homo
genus is emerging and it will soon be far superior to us in every way. It is
becoming more and more apparent that our technological ability, has far
outstripped our psychological maturity as a species, in our profoundly sick
society.</span><br />
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technology is a simple yet powerful tool for editing and altering genomes. It
allows scientists to quickly and easily edit and alter DNA sequences to modify
gene function and expression. Its proponent’s site many potential applications
including correcting genetic defects, treating and preventing the spread of
diseases and improving crops. CRISPRs are specialized stretches of DNA that act
like a pair of molecular scissors, cutting out strands of DNA and inserting in
newly designed or selected sections. This technology was derived from the
natural defence mechanisms of bacteria and archaea single-celled microorganisms.
These organisms use their defence mechanism to counter attacks by viruses and other
foreign bodies. They do this by chopping up and destroying the DNA of the
foreign invader. When these components are transferred into other, more
complex, organisms like ourselves, it allows for the manipulation of genes, or gene
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Last year,
Josiah Zayner, a biochemist who once worked for NASA, became the first person
known to have edited his own genes using CRISPR technology. During a lecture
about human genetic engineering that was streamed live on the internet, Zayner
produced a vial and a syringe and then proceeded to inject himself with CRISPR
technology, designed to boost his strength by removing the gene for myostatin,
which regulates muscle growth. An experiment conducted in 2015 proved that this
is possible in dogs, whose genes were edited at the embryonic stage. Following
his lead, others who have become known as biohackers are getting ready to
replicate this on themselves and tinker with their own genetic makeup. Outside
the strict controls of approved science, this self-experimentation is extremely
reckless and dangerous, not just for these biohackers, but for all us. The
biohackers argue that if people are allowed to modify their own body through
cosmetic surgery, tattoos and other augmentations, they should be able to
modify their own genome. Robin Lovell-Badge, a leading CRISPR researcher at the
Francis Crick Institute in London, says Zayner's experiment was
"foolish" and could have unintended consequences, including tissue
damage, cell death, or an immune response that attacks his own muscles. "He's
got a very large ego and he wants to make his muscles the same size as his ego,
maybe," says Lovell-Badge.</span></div>
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given recently by Juan Enriquez, venture capitalist, futurist and genomics
expert at the World Government Summit funded by the world’s economic elite, the
World Bank, International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization and the
United Nations amongst others of the New World Order, dubbed The Evolution of
Humans in the Next Century, Enriquez describes the genetics revolution which
reduces life to being thought of as merely code. He says that as we understand
that code, we can rewrite the sentences of life. Vaccines will be produced
faster, organs for transplant will be grown on demand and we will be able to
edit ourselves genetically. This will lead, said Enriquez, to a system in which
people will be able to even edit, alter, insert and delete memories because we
are “beginning to decode the brain,” and this has already been achieved in
snails. The pinnacle of our use of genetic technology could, suggested
Enriquez, be in designing an interplanetary species he has dubbed Homo <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">evolutus</i>, reasoning that the Earth faces
threats from, for example, asteroid impacts, so humans should settle other
planets. But as we suffer a myriad of health problems in space, we must
redesign the human being to make this possible. If we believe in human rights,
Enriquez said, we should pursue these efforts to ensure the human race's
long-term survival. The problem with that being, we will no longer actually be
human, Homo sapiens and will be continuing the mental illness that has created
the destruction of our environment, spread out across the universe. </span></div>
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Enriquez and the world’s elite like to package this supposed “genomics
revolution” as being altruistic, the reality is that the vast majority of us
will be left behind, if not outright exterminated as described in my previous
article for New Dawn issue 163, Poisoned Planet and The Depopulation Agenda. At
very best we can hope for a dystopian future as described in the brilliant cult
movie Gattaca, the film presents a vision of a future society driven by
eugenics where potential children are conceived through genetic manipulation.
The film centres on Vincent Freeman, who was conceived naturally outside the
eugenics program, who struggles to overcome genetic discrimination to realize
his dream of traveling into space. In the film, only the genetic elite are
allowed positions of importance, with the rest of humanity reduced to being a
mere servant class of janitors and the like. Importantly the film focuses on
the one thing genetic manipulation cannot change, the power of the human spirit
to overcome adversity. It is that spirit we need now more than ever, if we are
to avoid the dystopian future the elite have set out for us.</span></div>
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genetic manipulation is nothing new, in fact it happens all the time in nature
through random mutation and adaption to changing environments, and through
human intervention which has been going on ever since we began to selectively
breed animals and plants through the process of domestication. What has changed
recently with technologies such as CRISPR, is the ease and speed with which we
can make such changes. Also it allows us to do what nature and selective
breeding cannot, introduce genes from vastly unrelated species and even
entirely new genes that we have invented ourselves. Where as in nature where
this process can take millions of years and in selective breeding where genetic
trait selection takes generations to evolve a new species, with natural and
human selection weeding out the inferior genetics, now it can be done in a
laboratory, today. Like all technologies, it does have the potential to be used
for good, in removing genetic defects and inherited diseases, but it also has
the potential to be used for ill, such as creating new biological weapons and
unintended genetic disorders. </span></div>
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sometimes an advantageous genetic adaption can also create a disadvantageous genetic
disorder, such as in the case of sickle-cell anaemia, a mutation in a gene that
makes red blood cells. It spread through Africa once malaria became a problem
there as a natural defence against the disease. The mutation if inherited from
only one parent protects against malaria, but if it is inherited from both
parents, it causes sickle-cell anaemia, a condition in which there aren't
enough healthy red blood cells to carry adequate oxygen throughout the body. In
nature, bad mutations tend to disappear because the people who have them
frequently did not live long enough to pass them on to the next generation,
which is what natural selection is all about. Generally in selective breeding,
bad mutations are not selected to be bred from, eliminating them from the gene
pool, although as evidenced by the selective breeding of dogs for example, bad
genes are often carried on or extrapolated by inbreeding, leading to all kinds
of genetic problems. In this new era of rapid genetic manipulation, we simply
do not know what unintended problems we will inevitable cause ourselves by
playing god. There is a very real likelihood that we will create more problems
than we solve.</span></div>
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example of this is the genetic manipulation of food. The use of Genetically
Modified Organisms (GMO’s) as I wrote in my article for New Dawn issue 161, Poisoned
Fields: What Glyphosate is doing to us and the environment, almost every major
health epidemic at the moment can be directly linked back to Glyphosate and
their associated Genetically Engineered Crops. According to a study published
in the Journal of Organic Systems in 2014, Genetically Engineered Crops,
Glyphosate and the Deterioration of Health in the United States of America by
Nancy L. Swanson, Andre Leu, Jon Abrahamson and Bradley Wallet, within the last
20 years there has been an alarming increase in serious illnesses in the United
States, along with a marked decrease in life expectancy. The US leads the world
in the increase in deaths due to neurological diseases, there have been similar
findings for obesity, asthma, behaviour and learning problems, and chronic
disease in children and young adults. The rate of chronic disease in the entire
US population has been dramatically increasing with an estimated 25% of the US
population suffering from multiple chronic diseases. </span></div>
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states, “Prevalence and incidence data show correlations between diseases of
the organs and the increase in Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) in the
food supply, along with the increase in Glyphosate based herbicide
applications. More and more studies have revealed carcinogenic and endocrine
disrupting effects of Glyphosate at lower doses than those authorized for
residues found in Genetically Modified Organisms. The endocrine disrupting
properties of Glyphosate can lead to reproductive problems: infertility,
miscarriage, birth defects, and sexual development. Foetuses, infants and children
are especially susceptible because they are continually experiencing growth and
hormonal changes. For optimal growth and development, it is crucial that their
hormonal system is functioning properly. The endocrine disrupting properties
also lead to neurological disorders, learning disabilities, Attention Deficit
Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD), Autism, Dementia, Alzheimer’s, Schizophrenia and Bipolar
disorder. Those most susceptible are children and the elderly.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Scarily the
US military agency DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is
investing $100m in genetic extinction technologies that could wipe out entire
species, supposedly being aimed at species like malarial mosquitoes and
invasive rodents, emails released under freedom of information rules show. The
documents suggest that DARPA has become the world’s largest funder of “gene
drive” research. Some UN experts worry about unintended consequences. One told
the Guardian: “You may be able to remove viruses or the entire mosquito
population, but that may also have downstream ecological effects on species
that depend on them. My main worry, is that we do something irreversible to the
environment, despite our good intentions, before we fully appreciate the way
that this technology will work.” Jim Thomas, a co-director of the ETC group
which obtained the emails, said the US military influence they revealed would
strengthen the case for a ban. “The dual use nature of altering and eradicating
entire populations is as much a threat to peace and food security as it is a
threat to ecosystems,” he said. “Militarisation of gene drive funding may even
contravene the Enmod convention against hostile uses of environmental
modification technologies.” No doubt the US military will use this technology
against its enemies and not for the greater good of humanity.</span></div>
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Kuiken, who has worked with the GBIRd programme, which receives $6.4m from
DARPA, said that the US military’s centrality to gene tech funding meant that
“researchers who depend on grants for their research may reorient their
projects to fit the narrow aims of these military agencies.” Between 2008 and
2014, the US government spent about $820m on synthetic biology. Since 2012,
most of this has come from DARPA and other military agencies, Kuiken says. “This
convergence of low cost and high availability means that applications for gene
editing, both positive and negative, could arise from people or states
operating outside of the traditional scientific community and international
norms.”</span><span lang="EN-AU"> </span><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">In a recent press release, DARPA explained how it has begun a new
program called PREPARE, with the goal of changing human genetics to defend
against specific threats. DARPA explains that "PREPARE aims to develop new
class of generalizable medical countermeasures that safely and temporarily tune
activity of protective genes." The "Pre-emptive Expression of
Protective Alleles and Response Elements" program is designed to protect the
human body against biological, chemical, and radiological threats by
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this year the World Health Organisation (WHO) put scientists and health workers
around the world on alert for a new and potentially deadly pathogen dubbed, Disease
X. At present the so called Disease X does not actually exist, but with the
help of new gene editing technology such as CRISPR, it may very well soon be
real. Whether it comes about purely by accident, or by an act of terror and
biological warfare, it is a very real possibility, even a likelihood in our
current world climate. “Synthetic biology allows for the creation of deadly new
viruses. It is also the case that where you have a new disease there is no
resistance in the population and that means it can spread fast,” says John-Arne
Rottingen, chief executive of the Research Council of Norway and a scientific
adviser to the WHO committee. With the creation in 2017 by Canadian researchers
of a formerly extinct Horsepox virus from genetic pieces ordered through the
mail, the researchers concluded that by using the same technology, it would
only take a small scientific team with little specialized knowledge about half
a year, at the small cost of about $100,000 to bring back the deadly Smallpox
virus which was eradicated in 1980. "No question. If it’s possible with
Horsepox, it’s possible with Smallpox,” says virologist Gerd Sutter of Ludwig
Maximilians University in Munich, Germany. Even more disturbing, with gene
editing, a virus such as Smallpox could be made to be even more deadly and
contagious.</span></div>
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world currently on the brink of World War 3, with another Cold War, Trade War
and Arms Race already underway, a major conflict now seems inevitable. Only
this time with unimaginable consequences. Not only do we have to worry about a
potential nuclear war and the world wide devastation it would cause, now we
also have to worry about the renewed use of biological weapons, such as used
recently on a former spy in Britain. With the low cost and ease with which
deadly pandemic viruses can now be created using gene editing technology, we
have to assume that the more radically minded countries and terrorist groups
around the world are doing just that, let alone the major powers. To make
matters worse, as only humans can, just last year at the World Festival of
Youth in Sochi, Vladimir Putin warned of the consequences playing god with our
genetic code. Paraphrasing what he said, “All kinds of practical consequences
may follow. He can be a genius mathematician, a brilliant musician or a
soldier, a man who can fight without fear, compassion, regret or pain. What I
have just described might be worse than a nuclear bomb.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">The Russian
leader called upon leaders worldwide to agree on regulations to control the
creation of mass-killing super soldiers, which has so far fallen on deaf ears.
He said, “When we do something, whatever we do, I want to reiterate it again,
we must never forget about the ethical foundations of our work.” Putin has also
spoken of how he is afraid that humanity in the future will be hunted and eaten
alive by flesh-munching robots whilst discussing Artificial Intelligence at a
Moscow event. He said that AI was “the future, not only for Russia, but for all
humankind. Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of
the world.” Which brings us back to the World Government Summit held in Dubai
earlier this year, futurist Ian Pearson said, “The fact is that AI can go
further than humans, it could be billions of times smarter than humans at this
point, so we really do need to make sure that we have some means of keeping up.
The way to protect against that is to link that AI to your brain so you have
the same IQ as the computer. I don’t actually think it’s safe, just like Elon
Musk, to develop these superhuman computers until we have a direct link to the
human brain.”</span></div>
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the same World Government Summit the year before, Elon Musk also claimed that
humans and Artificial Intelligence needed to merge. “Over time, I think we will
probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence.
It’s mostly about the bandwidth, the speed of the connection between your brain
and the digital version of yourself, particularly output.” Since, Musk has
founded a company named Neuralink, which is attempting to make this a reality. As
I wrote in my article for New Dawn issue 163, Will Humanity Be Obsolete in
Elite's Future World of Cyborgs and AI?, Stanford University has already
successfully created a brain-computer interface (BCI), BrainGate, and early BCI
tech allows people with paralysis to type messages on a computer by picking out
letters on a screen. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is
investing $60 million over four years to develop implantable neural interface technology.
“The program, Neural Engineering System Design (NESD), stands to dramatically
enhance research capabilities in neurotechnology,” DARPA’s website reads.
“Today’s best brain-computer interface systems are like two supercomputers
trying to talk to each other using an old 300-baud modem,” said Phillip
Alvelda, the NESD program manager. “Imagine what will become possible when we
upgrade our tools to really open the channel between the human brain and modern
electronics.” The technology isn’t that far away from becoming a reality, in
comments published by Vanity Fair, Musk said “for a meaningful partial-brain
interface, I think we’re roughly four or five years away.” </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">The big
problem with that no one is talking about, with us merging with Artificial
Intelligence, that could already be “billions of times” more intelligent than
us, is, who will really be in control, us or the machine? Surely it will be the
superior intelligence, and we likely wouldn’t even realise it, we would
effectively be reduced to a skin suit for the machine to wear. With gene
editing promising the ability to hack our brains and implant and remove
memories, there is no way we could ever know the difference. With quantum
computers expected in the very near future, perhaps as soon as the next few
years, Artificial Intelligence will leap ahead even further, such computers
making use of quantum-mechanical properties will be able to solve problems much
faster than our current computers. They will have the ability to do in hours,
what our current super computers take decades to achieve. Imagine it,
genetically modified super beings, run by Artificial Intelligence so far beyond
our own, that are incapable of feeling emotion, empathy, compassion and love. It
is truly the stuff of nightmares…</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">The limits
of this technology are completely unknown, combining Artificial Intelligence
with gene editing, could very well create beings that are even immortal. The electric
wet dream of the Transhumanist is fast becoming a reality. These new super beings
could regrow organs, even limbs and entire bodies as well as being endlessly
cloned. Able to upload their consciousness to the internet, back it up in
various storage devices and download them into any newly created super vessel
at any time, they would be effectively invincible. They would be simply
unstoppable by the rest of us mere mortals. The Earth will belong to them and
there will be nothing we can do about it. Many geneticists around the world are
attempting to provide a framework for the accepted use of these technologies,
but as yet there are none. Where we are today, if you have the money, you can
do anything you want in this field and no doubt many of the super-rich elite
are putting their vast fortunes towards these goals, towards becoming homo <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">superior</i>, towards becoming immortal
super humans. When they manage to actually achieve this, and left unabated they
soon will, what will become of the rest of us? </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">For decades
now the elite have considered the Earth to be vastly overpopulated and are
actively seeking to lower the population to a mere half a million, reasoning
that we are destroying the environment, when in fact it is the super-rich elite
that are the most responsible for destroying the environment with their greed.
These parasites that enjoy the life of luxury at the top 1% still currently
need the rest of us to support their ivory towers, but not for much longer.
Ever more the advances in robotics and Artificial Intelligence are fast
replacing the need for human labour, we are effectively becoming surplus to the
elites requirements. As of 2017, the world’s super-rich elite officially owned
over 50% of all human wealth, with a recent Oxfam study concluding that in the
last year the elite 1% made a staggering 82% of the world’s wealth created,
with the gap only growing each year. More and more being considered a drain
upon the available resources of the Earth, resources the elite obviously do not
want to share, it will not be long until we are simply done away with. The
average person, the homo sapien, will soon be a thing of the past. </span></div>
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they simply murder us all you might ask? All too easily I’m afraid. A study
co-funded by the Gates Foundation, showed that the super-rich are actually lost
souls burdened by the fears, worries and family distortions of having too much
money. According to an article in The Atlantic, “the respondents turn out to be
a generally dissatisfied lot, whose money has contributed to deep anxieties.
Indeed, they are frequently dissatisfied even with their sizable fortunes. Most
of them still do not consider themselves financially secure; for that, they
say, they would require on average one quarter more wealth than they currently
possess!” That my friends, is pure insanity. We are literally dealing with the
most dangerous, mentally unstable, anxiety driven people on the planet, who
just so happen to have the reins of power. The lunatics are truly running the
asylum, one with nuclear weapons and the ability to create pandemic diseases. It
is these fear driven greedy maniacs that are right now actively preparing
themselves for the end of the world, which they are most likely engineering, to
do away with the rest of us in one foul swoop.</span></div>
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super-rich elite as well as governments around the world are currently spending
billions upon billions of dollars building apocalypse safe bunkers, this is a
documented fact that has even been reported in the mainstream media. Now, the
elite aren’t going to be spending that kind of money on something they don’t
think they are going to need now are they? The smart money is, they are
engineering the destruction of the world as we know it, plan to survive the
coming man made apocalypse and create a New World Order from the ashes. Their
very motto is Order out of Chaos after all. A number of companies around the
world are meeting a growing demand for structures that protect from any risk,
whether it's a global pandemic, an asteroid, or World War 3, while also
delivering luxurious amenities of course.</span><span lang="EN-AU"> </span><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Many of the world's elite, including
hedge fund managers and tech executives (Bill Gates is rumoured to have bunkers
at all his properties) have chosen to design their own secret shelters to
secure their families from what they know is coming. Gary Lynch, general
manager of Texas based Rising S Company, says 2016 sales for their custom
high-end underground bunkers grew 700% compared to 2015, and the rate is only
rising. Now, do you honestly think there is going to be room in any of these
bunkers for the rest of us? </span></div>
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to truly understand where we are going as a species, we have to understand
where we have come from and what has led us down this destructive path of
mental illness that we are currently on. We have to get to the root of our
collective mental illness as a society, primarily localized in the elite and
treat it accordingly. We have to face our inner demons, our anxieties, honestly
and with compassion, before we can consciously choose another, better way that
will not destroy the Earth that we all depend upon. We have to heal our
collective psyche and the environment we are destroying. If we do not remember
the mistakes of the past, we are doomed to continually repeat them, or even
worse, go completely extinct. Creating a supposedly “better” human, Homo superior
and wiping out the rest will not save the Earth, it will only buy time and
destroy our humanity. Heading down this path will only create a plague species
in the end, one that nothing can stop, which will not only consume our Earth,
but continue on the destruction across the entire universe forever. Is this
truly what we want? Are we really going to allow the super-rich elite 1% to
decide all of our futures, even the future of our species? </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Numerous
studies over the years have shown that traditional hunter-gatherer societies,
which never fell into the anxiety driven trap of attempting to dominate the
environment, do not suffer mental illness or many of the other diseases that
our modern way of life creates. Our mentally ill, modern agricultural and now
industrial, artificial society is not only destroying ourselves, but is the
most psychologically and environmentally destructive activity we have ever
engaged in. It is our very way of life that is at the heart of all of our
problems and that is what we need to change. Genetic studies are showing us
that gene expression, and its resultant behaviours and mental illnesses are
largely driven by our psychological environment, by our parenting and society
at large and that is what we really need to change if we want to evolve as a
species. Our society’s priorities, wisdom and maturity need to evolve, and we
as a species will with it. We have to return to simpler, less stressful ways
that are in harmony and balance with our environment, like the few traditional
cultures that modern society has not yet extinguished. We have to embrace our
true human nature and give up the insanity of trying to become super humans. We
have to stop trying to dominate the world and everything in it and instead
relearn how to live with it, with each other in peace and accept our mortality,
as a natural part of life.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1965359057530273942.post-33986636223322154372018-07-04T11:43:00.000+10:002018-07-04T11:43:37.373+10:00Curt Backeberg's Die Cactaceae and Cacti Lexicon<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>Curt Backeberg</b> (2 August 1894 in Lüneburg, Germany – 14 January 1966) was a German horticulturist especially known for the collection and classification of cacti.<br />
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He
travelled extensively through Central and South America, and published a
number of books on cacti, including the six-volume, 4,000-page <i>Die Cactaceae</i>, 1958-1962, and the <i>Kakteen lexikon</i>, first appearing in 1966 and updated posthumously.<br />
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Although he collected and described many new species and defined a
number of new genera, much of his work was based on faulty assumptions
about the evolution of cacti and was too focused on geographic
distribution; many of his genera have since been reorganized or
abandoned. The botanist David Hunt is quoted as saying that he "left a trail of nomenclatural chaos that will probably vex cactus taxonomists for centuries."<br />
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Nevertheless, his observations regarding the subtle variations among
cacti have proven useful for hobbyists, who continue to use many cactus
names proposed or upheld in his works.<br />
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In 1954, the Mexican botanist Helia Bravo Hollis described a new genus and named it <i>Backebergia</i> in honor of Curt Backeberg.<br />
Curt Backeberg was struck by a heart attack and died on 14 January 1966.<br />
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The standard author abbreviation <b><span class="vcard"><span class="fn n"><span class="nickname">Backeb.</span></span></span></b> is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. ~ Source <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curt_Backeberg">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curt_Backeberg</a></div>
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Curt Backeberg's Die Cactaceae, note this book is written in German but you can copy and paste the sections of interest into google translate ~ <a href="https://www.cactuspro.com/biblio_fichiers/pdf/Backeberg/Backeberg_DieCact2.pdf">https://www.cactuspro.com/biblio_fichiers/pdf/Backeberg/Backeberg_DieCact2.pdf</a></div>
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Curt Backeberg's Cacti Lexicon in English~ <a href="https://www.cactuspro.com/biblio_fichiers/pdf/Backeberg/CactusLexicon1977_O.pdf">https://www.cactuspro.com/biblio_fichiers/pdf/Backeberg/CactusLexicon1977_O.pdf</a></div>
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This article first appeared in New Dawn issue 167, March - April, 2018. <span class="ILfuVd yZ8quc">© Brett Lothian</span></div>
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Global Blackout: What Happens When The Power Goes Out.</div>
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Imagine, if you will, being awoken by a thunderous crack,
being violently thrown from your bed, the very earth shaking and heaving
beneath you. You look out the window to see the night skies illuminated by
strange green, red and purple streams of glowing light in amongst the
threatening dark of storming clouds all around. Lightning crashes into the
giant old tree beside your home, sparks fly all over as a massive branch begins
to creak. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As if in slow motion it
careens into your tiled roof, smashing through with howling winds and pounding
hail, landing on the very bed you were lying in just moments before. You feel a
sharp pain in your lower leg, looking down you realize that you have a deep
gash in your calf that is bleeding out fast, you grab a towel and wrap it
around your leg in an effort to stop the bleeding. You hear screams in the
distance as the pouring rain pelts in with the hail, your home now resembling a
bomb site as you desperately search for your mobile phone to call for help, you
pick it up from amongst the debris, only to realize that it is dead, you try
your laptop, nothing, you try the landline and the same, nothing, you try to
turn on your television, but there is no power, there’s no water, no gas, nothing…</div>
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You decide to wait for help, being scared out of your mind
and unprepared to brave the prevailing storm. The ground stops shaking and you
look outside, seeing people in the street panicking, many just looking up in
bewilderment. Remembering a documentary that you had watched a few months
earlier, you realize that the lights in the sky are the aurora, but you have
never seen it before with your own eyes. You see the faint orange glow of a
bushfire on the horizon, despite the pouring rain and you can’t help but think,
are we under attack? You hope that soon enough the emergency services will be
on the scene to render assistance, but with so much chaos going on all around
you have to wonder how long that will be. After just three days you have run
out of food and water, your leg has become badly infected and help is nowhere
in sight. The rain that was keeping the fires in check has now stopped and
smoke fills the air. You decide that you have to try and limp out into the
world and look for help and supplies, you open your front door to see a large
angry looking man holding a shot gun pointed directly at your eyes, when you
hear, “give me everything you’ve got!” Now, what do you do? </div>
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You may think that that is a fanciful situation that could
never actually happen, perhaps I’ve been watching too many dystopias or too
much Walking Dead. Maybe I’m just being paranoid, but then again, maybe I’m
not. This is the type of scenario that will face millions, if not billions of
people, if and when another massive solar flare and/or coronal mass ejection slams
directly into the earth. Everything that relies upon electricity will fail,
satellites, the internet, banks, ATM’s, vehicles, petrol stations, water
treatment plants, telecommunications, GPS, heating and cooling, refrigeration,
artificial intelligence and the list goes on. Today, only 4% of all monetary
transactions rely upon paper money, everything else relies upon electricity,
especially the new cryptocurrencies. The entire economic system will be
obliterated in one foul swoop. The thing is, an event that would cause exactly
this type of situation has happened before numerous times in the past and will
happen again, it is only a matter of time. Scientists from all over the world
are warning of exactly this type of situation occurring and yet, our society is
doing nothing to safeguard against it, outside of building secret deep
underground bases for the elite. So, when will it happen again you might ask?
Put simply, we have no way in which to predict such an event at all, all we
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At 11:18 am on the first of September 1859, the English
astronomer Richard Carrington stood in his private observatory recording
sunspots on an image of the sun projected through his telescope onto a small
screen. “Two patches of intensely bright and white light broke out,” he wrote
in his report, “Description of a Singular Appearance seen in the Sun,” for the
journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. “My first impression
was that by some chance a ray of light had penetrated a hole in the screen
attached to the object-glass, by which the general image is thrown into shade,
for the brilliancy was fully equal to that of direct sunlight.” What he was
witnessing was the largest solar storm to hit the earth in recorded history, the
storm that would go on to be known as the Carrington Event. The Carrington
Event solar storm of 1859 was so powerful that brilliant auroras lit up the
night sky all over the world, reaching as far north as Queensland in the
southern hemisphere and as far south as Cuba in the northern hemisphere. The
telegraph lines of the time surged with electrons causing them to fail, spark
fires and electrically shock their operators. Other than that, at the time it
was seen as a mere curiosity, a novel event that did not actually do a lot of
damage, but what if it happened again, today? Would our technologically
dependent world be able to recover or would we be plunged straight back into
another stone age, one that may take us thousands of years to recover from, if
ever?</div>
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Dr Joseph Pelton, former dean of the International Space
University, made a stark warning about the threat of solar storms, the
scientist warned that if satellites go down across the plane in a huge space
weather event it could render guidance systems on planes "inoperable"
with potentially devastating consequences. Dr Pelton added a big enough hit
could affect "billions" of people and warned "it is just a
matter of time" before there is a big enough eruption. The scientist said:
"The current biggest threat to our planet in probability is probably the
solar storm. There was the Carrington Event of 1859, which if that happened
today it could probably take out all the world's power grids and impact our
telecommunications networks, knock out the internet on the ground, and take
down GPS systems." Dr Pelton continued "These storms, with ions
travelling at millions of miles an hour, when they hit the Earth's atmosphere
basically it slams way out and all these systems go down. Power systems go
down, pipelines go down, for me this is the biggest threat in the next 50
years, and on top of that the Earth's magnetic field is shifting and that
affects the Van Allen Belts which protect us from these solar storms. There are
some projections which say in the next 50 years these will be down to just 15%
of what they are today. So in terms of real threats from the cosmos, that for
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A study in 2015 suggested that even bigger solar flares have
reached Earth in the past. The scientists behind this study found evidence of
two massive solar storms in tree rings dating back 1,000 years-at least five times
more powerful than any other solar storm on record. The new study measured the
magnetic field of super-flare stars out in space. They calculated that the
Sun’s magnetic field is indeed capable of producing ‘small’ super-flares--100
times the size of a Carrington Storm. We have never observed a super-flare here
on Earth in recorded history, so scientists do not know exactly what to expect,
should one occur. One major consequence could be damage to the ozone layer,
says Christoffer Karoff, from the Department of Geoscience at Aarhus
University, Denmark. "The ozone layer protects us from ultraviolet
radiation from the sun, and we would receive dramatically more radiation and
see more cases of skin cancer if it is reduced. But it’s actually a huge
unanswered question--what will an increase in radiation mean, here on
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If that wasn’t bad enough, scientific researchers are now
linking massive solar storms with major earthquakes and volcanic eruptions,
including the recent earthquake in Mexico and the volcano threatening Bali at
the time of writing this article. In the last few decades research papers
started to appear in the scientific press that clearly show a correlation
between cosmic-solar radiations and destructive geological events like earthquakes
and volcanic eruptions. These research papers are supported by statistical
evidence that go back hundreds of years. Started in 1967 a study published
with the Earth and Planetary Science Letters found solar activity plays a
significant role in the triggering of earthquakes. In 1998 a scientist from the
Beijing Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Science, found a
correlation between low solar activity and earthquakes. Another recent
research, carried out by The Space and Science Research Center in Florida, US,
showed strong correlation between solar activity and the largest earthquakes
and volcanic eruptions within the continental United States and other regions
around the world. The study looked at the data of volcanic activity between 1650-2009
CE and seismic (earthquakes) activity between 1700-2009 CE, and then the
recorded data was compared with the sunspots record (solar activity). The
results of this study showed very strong correlation between solar activity and
the largest seismic and volcanic events, within the continental US and
globally. The correlation for volcanic activity was bigger than 80% and for the
largest earthquakes it was 100% of the top 7 most powerful, versus solar
activity lows. Additionally, the research concluded the existence of a strong
correlation between global volcanic activity among the largest of classes of
eruptions and solar activity lows. With the 80.6% occurrence of large scale
global volcanic eruptions taking place during solar activity lows and with
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We are currently in the midst of the fastest decline in
solar activity in 9,300 years, which could signal a descent into Maunder
Minimum-like conditions, in other words, a mini ice age. “The recent prolonged
solar minimum and subsequent weak solar cycle 24 have led to suggestions that
the grand solar maximum may be at an end,” says a recent study on nature.com.
The study, published in 2015, looked at past variations of solar activity. In
2010, the study found, scientists estimated a mere 8% chance of a return to
Maunder Minimum-like conditions within the next 40 years. However, “the decline
in solar activity has continued, (to the time of writing) and is faster than any
other such decline in 9,300 years.” “If this recent rate of decline is added to
the analysis, the 8% probability estimate is now raised to between 15% and
20%,” the paper continues. Many think the chances are far higher than that.
“Numerous studies have identified links between past climate and solar
variability,” the paper points out. “During the Maunder Minimum of 1645-1715,
very few sunspots were seen despite regular observations. The Maunder Minimum
coincided with more severe winters in the UK and continental Europe,” the
researchers agree. “On longer timescales, a grand minimum of solar activity,
the Homeric Minimum (<span style="font-family: "cambria math" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math";">∼</span>2,750<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">–</span>2,550 years
before present), affected climate conditions through Western Europe.” The
authors foresee a gradual descent to Maunder Minimum-like conditions, which
will last from a few decades to more than 100 years.</div>
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With our current technology it is estimated that (at most)
we will have only 20 hours warning of another Carrington level event on the
way, leaving precious little time for a society to prepare, if they are even
informed at all. In our current world ruled by a sociopathic elite, who
unashamedly make it known that their ideal human population is under one
billion and perhaps as low as half of that, I am willing to bet that instead of
warning the general populace, the elite would simply abandon us all and retreat
to their deep underground bases that have been built all over the world, for
just such an event. The elite have long been prepared for events like these and
their plans do not include the rest of us. Informing the general public would
create mass hysteria and panic, making the logistics of the elite’s escape all
the more difficult, if not impossible. I highly doubt that the elite will
sacrifice themselves to help any of us, especially when they are blatantly
trying to cull our population as it is. For the advocates of the Depopulation
Agenda, a Carrington level event would be nothing short of a boon. We will
truly be on our own.</div>
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The thin veneer of our “civil” societies are held together
by a belief in the “system,” whatever system that may be. There are conventions
and institutions in place to reinforce all these beliefs, but social order
primarily exists entirely as a psychological function. This psychological
system can easily collapse under the right conditions, like another Carrington
Event. Under the typical conditions of a natural disaster, humanity almost
always brings out its best. We rally together to help each other out, whether
by directly volunteering on the ground or by sending donations and aid. But
that is entirely dependent upon a greater society being intact and capable of
sending that help. When a Carrington type event happens again, it will be the
entire industrialized world suffering the natural disaster/s. There will be no
one capable of sending large scale organized help, it will simply be
impossible. It will not take long for the world to descend into chaos. The
cages in our minds that are our societies “laws” will have no one to enforce
them and our baser instincts will once more rise to the fore. After all, a
man’s got to eat, and when you’re hungry or thirsty enough, you will do almost
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Nothing could be as sudden or dramatic as the failure of the
worldwide power grids. When the electricity stops, everything stops and its
effects will be felt almost everywhere. Almost everyone will notice it at the
same instant. Usually an outage is just a temporary situation and people will
treat it as such. They’ll sit tight and wait for the power to come back on.
Most likely thinking a tree fell on some power lines, or perhaps a transformer
blew up somewhere in the neighborhood. But the power isn’t coming back on, and
without power everything will shut down within hours. A worldwide power outage
would cascade across the entire infrastructure faster than any other problem
and create total havoc. Most people take electricity for granted and are
completely unaware of our dependency upon it. Many people will take the rare
opportunity to loot valuable goods and merchandise. This is exactly what
happened during the famous New York power outage a few decades ago. The social
order will become weaker and weaker as the power stays off. Without power the
entire industrialized world will be brought to a halt. Nothing will work, the
microwave, the heating, the fridge, the oven, your phone and pretty much
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The water treatment and delivery facilities as well as the
sewage systems will fail, the results being very grim. People can live without
food for prolonged periods of time but water is required on an almost daily
basis. You can only go for about 2-3 days without it. Most cities are built
near water due to its necessity but will you be able to purify, carry and transport
several litres of it daily, potentially over miles of chaotic streets? If you
have a water tank you will at least have a limited supply of water but for most
people in the cities their access to water will be gone. Compounding the
problem will be the lack of sanitation as people will have nothing to remove
their waste as the toilets no longer flush. People will be forced to use
buckets or whatever receptacles they can find to relieve themselves, but then
the problem remains, what then do you do with it? Many will throw their waste
into the nearest river or creek, polluting the now scarce water supplies. Or
simply throw it out into the streets, making the densely populated areas a hot
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Communication with the airlines and shipping companies will
be impossible, with aircraft and shipping also no longer being able to rely on
GPS to guide them, major accidents would be inevitable. The electronic pumps at
the fuel stations will no longer work, almost immediately the road/rail network
of distribution would cease to function, with the city roads quickly becoming
clogged with accidents as the traffic lights aren’t working, the highways would
become littered with abandoned cars and trucks that have run out fuel. And that
is before the panic fleeing of the major population centers has set in, which
will only exacerbate the problem. The rail networks of today in most countries
are entirely electronic and will have ground to a halt. Remember, the cities
depend entirely on food shipped in from the farms and food processing companies.
The entire food supply system will have completely broken down within hours.
Life as we know it would completely stop, and be replaced with a Darwinist
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In 1906, Alfred Henry Lewis stated, “There are only nine
meals between mankind and anarchy.” Since then, his observation has been echoed
by people as disparate as Robert Heinlein and Leon Trotsky. The key here is
that, unlike all other commodities, food and water are the two essentials that
cannot be postponed. If there were a shortage of, say, shoes, we could make do
for months or even years. A shortage of gasoline would be worse, but we could
survive it, through mass transport, or even walking, if necessary. But food and
water are different. If there were an interruption in the supply of food and
water, fear would set in immediately. And, if the resumption of the food and
water supply were uncertain, the fear would become pronounced. After only nine
missed meals, it’s not unlikely that we’d panic and be prepared to commit a
crime to acquire what we need. If we were to see our neighbor with a loaf of
bread, and we owned a gun, we might well say, “I’m sorry, you’re a good neighbor
and we’ve been friends for years, but my children haven’t eaten in days – I
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Water and food are so essential that people will do almost
anything to get them as the crisis continues to escalate, people will start to
get anxious and begin looting the nearest stores in search of supplies, very
soon there will be nothing at all left on the shelves anywhere. Some shop
owners may try to defend their stores, but it will be a futile effort under the
weight of so many people. Some resourceful people will hunt pigeons and rats,
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is by far the greatest risk of being in a city. As food and water becomes
scarce, looting of the neighborhood and from others will be next, this is when the
violence escalates (when people start competing for resources). It usually
takes about two weeks for violence to become rampant as the resources become
more and more scarce. Armed gangs like the outlaw motorcycle clubs and
organized crime syndicates will rule the streets, their members will group
together in order to compete for resources and survival, with the rest of us being
forced to either fight or flee for our lives.</div>
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You’re going to see people in a mass-exodus away from the
cities as the armed gangs begin to take over, using violence to get what they
need to survive. Take a look at the events of New Orleans after hurricane
Katrina, the city was flooded with water but it wasn’t drinkable, people were
actually fighting and killing each other over clean water! Perhaps the greatest
example of social breakdown happened during the L.A. riots following the Rodney
King trial verdict (which caused a breakdown in the belief of justice and
equality). The citizens of L.A. set fire to their own neighborhoods and pulled people
from vehicles and beat them to death. There were even reports of people firing
guns at the firemen attempting to save their own buildings! During the well
documented example of social breakdown in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in
New Orleans, even the police were looting! The only thing that got L.A. and New
Orleans back in order was the intense and overwhelming presence of the National
Guard. But this time the army isn’t coming to bring order, and the rampant
violence will only increase. Would you be able to protect your family from
gangs of armed, hungry looters?</div>
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After all local supplies are depleted and there is no hope
of food coming over the horizon, they’ll too leave the city and start pillaging
the nearby towns and villages using violence, bringing with them the now rife
diseases of the cesspool cities. Small communities will try to band together to
protect their dwindling resources from the bands of invading raiders, the
spirit of charity being replaced by the fear of not having enough and the fear
of disease. Some small remote communities may be able band together and remain
relatively unharmed, but the fight for survival will still be on in earnest. For
even amongst the farming communities, we have become overly specialized in our
skill sets, largely due to mono-culture agriculture. But in saying that, in
general it will be the country people who fare better than the city folk, with
there not being such a high density demand upon available resources and at
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The sad fact of the matter is that today, so very few are
actually capable of even identifying the difference between poisonous and edible
plants, let alone successfully growing them or hunting and gathering. The few
that are skilled in the ways of survival like the doomsday prepper community
will still have to worry about everyone else trying to take what they have. And
then there is the problems of rampant disease and our medical needs. The amount
of people with the sufficient knowledge of medicinal plants and how to use them
correctly is even less than those who can identify food. With massive
earthquakes, volcanos, increased radiation exposure and potentially a new mini
ice age to contend with on top of all this, it will not be long before there
are very few of us remaining. In a matter of weeks, billions will be dead and
those who remain will be so caught up in the daily struggle to survive, that
the rebuilding of our former society will be last thing on anyone’s mind. In
fact, we will cannibalize all that remains of it. The dead will go unburied and
litter the streets, compounding the problems with disease. For whoever remains,
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Many who remain will be enraptured with extreme religious
fervor and zeal, believing it to be the end times, the apocalypse or god
punishing us for our sins. Australia is home to far more religious cults than
most would expect, with many living on private compounds relatively
self-sufficiently. These groups are well organized and ever opportunistic (and
skillful) in recruiting the traumatized. Their ability to brainwash their
victims will give them a distinct advantage over the criminal organizations who
will have to successfully manage power struggles and a lack of social decency
amongst their members. For the religious groups and cults, they will be able
control their membership far more easily, being able to achieve large scale community
projects such as erecting defenses in a quick and orderly fashion. Some of
these groups are well armed and potentially extremist militants, thanks to the
divide and conquer tactics of the elite that has social unrest and mistrust at
an all-time high around the world. In a matter of months they may very well be
the dominant forces to contend with as we have seen how quickly ISIS took hold
in the power vacuum of Iraq and Syria. </div>
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The only people who will not be directly affected are those
who are still living without the modern conveniences that we have become so
accustomed to and reliant upon, like the Amish in America and the traditional
hunter gatherer societies that have been pushed to edges of our modern world.
For them, they would get to enjoy the lightshow at night, perhaps asking their
elders or shaman what it all means and life would continue the next day just as
it had before. Essentially nothing would change for them, unless they were in
close proximity to a volcano or modern society, which would in no time be
looking to take what little they have, likely missing that the greatest
resource these traditional societies have in the knowledge of how to survive in
our environment. In our modern arrogance many of these societies have been
deemed to be uncivilized, savages and even as being sub-human, but it is they
who will have the last laugh. Nature will soon take back what is left of the
cities and towns, with most of them crumbling to dust in merely a few hundred
years. The earth will return to its natural state without the wholescale
terraforming of the industrialized world, at least until the elite return from
their deep underground bunkers…</div>
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If you are a student of history you will know that all
modern forms of civilization rise and fall, it is simply a matter of when and
how. It has been said from ancient times that the world ages end either by fire
or ice, for us in our technologically dependent world, it may very well be by
both. The false security our societies supply from the forces of nature is an
illusion, we are not the masters of this planet that we think we are. In
today’s age we have been made into specialists, only knowing one tiny area of
expertise, effectively making us completely reliant upon the greater society
for our needs. We have created a society where each individual is reduced to a
mere cog in the greater machine (that only truly benefits the elite) and that
machine runs on electricity. It is the very life blood of our modern system,
that is why it is called power. Most are largely unaware that we are in fact completely
dependent upon the very system that enslaves us, that we were born into
invisible chains. Even fewer seem to realize that, the system that we depend
upon for our basic needs, quite simply cannot last. Our electronic modern world
is in no way prepared for what our environment can dish out, because despite
what we may think, our environment extends far beyond the earth. The fact of
the matter is, we live in a house of cards, just waiting for the right solar wind,
to scatter our society, like so many autumn leaves… </div>
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So what can we do to prepare ourselves for just such a
‘worst case scenario’ event? Whilst many in the doomsday prepping community
will advise storing as much food and water as is possible, in my opinion that
is merely kicking the can down the road, at some point in time your stores will
run out even if you’re able to properly secure them, so what do you do then?
The one commodity that people really need to stock up on is knowledge, because our
environment provides everything that we may need, if you have the knowledge and
skills to take advantage of it. Learning how to find, clean and purify water,
even in the most arid conditions is an essential to life. Learning how to
identify, forage and grow edible plants is a basic must and the same goes for
medicinal plants. Learning how to hunt, fish and trap animals will also be
essential. Being able to make fire and build shelter will also be necessary. A
basic understanding of human psychology, body language and defense tactics will
also be important, because you will have to deal with other people, quite often
armed desperate people. Perhaps the most essential thing that we must learn is
about ourselves, we need to test ourselves and consistently push the limits of
our abilities, we need to know that we have what it takes to survive and to in
fact thrive without the safety net of our industrialized slavery. Our
indigenous brothers and sisters managed to survive here in Australia for over
60,000 years without our mod cons, and we can too, if we relearn how to live in
the real world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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157 years ago, a massive solar storm rocked our planet and
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https://www.businessinsider.com.au/massive-1859-solar-storm-telegraph-scientists-2016-9?r=US&IR=T</div>
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What If the Biggest Solar Storm on Record Happened Today?</div>
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Repeat of 1859 Carrington Event would devastate modern
world, experts say. By Richard A. Lovett</div>
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/03/110302-solar-flares-sun-storms-earth-danger-carrington-event-science/</div>
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'Planes will fall from the sky' Huge solar storm could
plunge Britain into darkness: A MASSIVE solar storm could cause plane crashes,
plunge cities into darkness, knock satellites out of the sky and trigger total
chaos. By Henry Holloway</div>
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http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/555604/Solar-Storms-Flares-Space-Weather-Plane-Crash-Black-Out-Satellites-Downed-GPS-Internet-Out</div>
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Cosmic-solar radiation as the cause of earthquakes and
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Theorists. By John Thomas Didymus</div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Thank you
for this wonderful opportunity Brett. I speak often of "we" in this
interview. The other space holder here is my life partner Samay. She's a great
healer and supports me and the guests here in a wonderful way. She holds the
feminine balance of the container/space well. We plan to get married in Oct. of
this year. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">San Pedro flowering</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Steve wants
to be clear that he is not a shaman. He is a Counselor and a specialist that
works with San Pedro.</span>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Steve was
born in Oklahoma in April of 1958. He had a great childhood and was raised on a
farm. He was adopted at birth by two very loving parents. His spiritual and
shamanic path began at age 10 when his Mother died. He withdrew from the
comfort of others and connected (instinctively) with the Cherokee
understandings of nature. He would later learn at the age of 35 that his Father
was half Cherokee and his Mother was a quarter Creek (Muscogee). His spiritual
and shamanic path has never stopped since.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">In 2001,
after obtaining a Certified Addictions Counselor CAC III certification, he
founded the NORA Clinic in Colorado and started treating dis-ease, dis-order
and addiction with intravenous amino acids, vitamins, minerals, and spiritual
counseling. Since that time he has employed many doctors, nurses,
acupuncturists, massage therapists, Reiki masters, and many other healers. His
70% success rate at healing addiction is still unrivaled in the U.S.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">After
drinking San Pedro in 2010 he realized this medicine was a necessary addition
to any medical or addiction treatment. A year later he turned the clinic over
to his vice-president, sold everything he owned, and moved to Cusco, Peru. He
has since finished a two year San Pedro apprenticeship in Cusco. He completed his
apprenticeship in May 2013 having drank San Pedro over 200 times during his
apprenticeship. He has continued to drink weekly and as of May 2015 has
drank over 400 times. Since 2013 he has owned and operated San Pedro Workshops.
It is now located in Vilcabamba Ecuador.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">San Pedro</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">He believes
San Pedro is the ultimate healer of addiction, dis-ease and dis-order. He has
now begun doing guided meditation, counseling, and intensive workshops with the
San Pedro Cactus. The results have been miraculous. Steve states: “It’s not me
doing it. San Pedro is the one doing the work. It works in people’s own hearts,
showing them what’s real. He says “It guides my every word and action”. San
Pedro Workshops includes all the healing modalities he has provided to others
over the years, as well as additional healing methods.</span>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Samay was
born and raised in Long Beach California. Born in in Nov 1964. She was always
very creative and curious about the healing arts. She finished college with a
BA in communication from UCSB. She later opened The Seventh Sense art gallery
in Rodondo Beach CA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The gallery
provided an outlet for her own works as well as many other artists. The gallery
also hosted many periodic wellness workshops. During the same time she studied
and trained in holistic healing and in Oct of 2017 she took her next step and
moved into the healing arts for good. She left Rodondo Beach and moved to
Ecuador. She is very comfortable with her healing gifts and shares them all
here. She offers massage, reiki, crystal therapy, creativity workshops, and
many other healing modalities. It is a pleasure and an honor to have her on
staff here.</span></div>
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the Andes and working with the sacred plant medicine San Pedro? </span></b></div>
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for 3-4 years in a row and Ayahuasca told me every time: I would soon be living
in Peru. It never told me how or doing what, so it left me with more questions
than answers. I spent a lot of time wondering about that. Somehow knowing it
was true. Then in July of 2010 I met San Pedro at an Ayahuasca retreat. My
future teacher showed up to visit her friend the owner and offered us all a day
in San Pedro. The next day I drank and before it touched my lips I knew it was
my medicine. Before the day was over the lady facilitating the medicine ask me
to come and help/apprentice with the medicine. I left after the retreat and
went to Cusco and drank with her again asking the medicine what to do. I was
afraid to walk away from my clinic. I owned a Medical clinic in Durango Co. We
treated dis-ease, dis-order, and addiction with all natural intravenous amino
acids vitamins, and minerals. Pedro was very clear It was time to move away
from that and come to the real medicine. San Pedro would be my life’s work. My
teacher gave me a year to return. I made it in 10 months after giving my
business away and selling everything I own.</span></div>
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a two year San Pedro apprenticeship in Cuzco, Peru, can you describe what was
involved in this training?</span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a commitment to the medicine to drink
2 days a week for 2 years. A separate agreement was made with my teacher to be
in every ceremony and be in service to the medicine. Drinking twice a week was
the hardest thing to do. It tested my commitment for sure. But I was always
able to do it. It changed me in a lot of ways, often without my
"conscious" knowledge. I found myself knowing things that I didn't
remember learning. I trusted my intuition and spirit more and more. Many other
things that I felt were true were confirmed on many levels and ways. It also
taught me to pay attention to my words. Words have power and they create our
reality. I don't use the words "try" or "can't". If I say I
can't do _____, I never will be able to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I'm not trying to do ______. I am doing. To try is to give away your
power. Another great teaching was seeing how my brain worked and stop
overthinking things. I couldn't think my way through it. I had to feel my way
through it. Many other things came as well. But that’s a book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">You do not call
yourself a ‘shaman’ which I find refreshing, can you tell us why this is?</span></b></div>
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controversial word. Everybody seems to have their own idea of what that is. I
can't live up to that. I can't even live up to my own definition of it which
is: knowing every plant within 100 miles or more and treating/helping people
with ALL of them. I'm a plant specialist. Specializing in one, and a counselor
that helps people with one very special cactus.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">How does San Pedro
work in healing, is it a diagnostic tool, a healer itself or both?</span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Good question. I'm still studying that one. So
as I see it many (not all) dis-eases have underlying emotional attachments that
haven't been addressed or feelings that have not been expressed and felt. Most
of us are taught not to feel i.e. "big boys don't cry" "ladies
don't get mad" so feelings get pushed down or stored. Making us not at
ease and not in order. When we finally express these old feelings in a safe way
and in a safe container (my specialty) people become at ease. So naturally
"dis-ease" disappears. Things are put in order so no more dis-order.
I believe many dis-orders are just overthinking and not letting go of the past
or feeling we should do "this" when everybody else says you should do
"that" or "you're crazy". There's always a Doctor to
diagnose and prescribe the drug of the month to help you "feel
right". San Pedro can also guide people on how to heal themselves with
diet, nutrition, and ways to stay connected to mother earth (Pachamama). Pedro
has many healing modalities.</span></div>
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seek out sacred plant medicines such as San Pedro, have problems with
addiction, is San Pedro potentially addictive and how can it help people with
addiction issues?</span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>San Pedro is not addictive. I have drank over
600 times in seven years now, sometimes going a month or more without even
thinking of it let alone having any withdrawal, cravings, or need to drink.
I've never heard of anyone being addicted to this medicine either.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A word here about intention. It's very
important to have one. The medicine serves it well. If somebody shows up with
intention to heal "this" it will be healed. They believe the medicine
could help them heal or completely heal. I have seen people show up saying
"well my __________ said this might help heal my _________. I don't
know... I'll give it a try". These people usually have a great day in the
medicine but rarely walk away with a healing.</span></div>
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addictions by showing them what uncomfortable feeling or trauma they're trying
to medicate or escape. It shows them why they are addicted. After that has been
felt, understood and/or forgiven addiction ceases to exist. But again they have
to have that intention.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I've seen people
with intention to heal their gambling addiction and their diabetes and get it,
but yet they walked away still smoking cigarettes with a bad back. They never
had the intention to heal those things. Specific intention is important. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Can you tell us
about soul retrieval, what is it and how does it work?</span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can tell you how I see it and do it. I
believe a person might experience a loss of part of their soul by unknowingly
giving it to someone they care very deeply for. They might say something like
"I've never felt the same since my Grandmother died". Or they could
have a part of it actually stolen with intention by people that traumatized,
molested, or abused them in some way, even verbally. Those people might say
they felt their light go out, got my spirit squashed, etc. I can do a journey
to retrieve that piece/pieces of their soul. A shamanic journey. I just set the
intention to collect it lay down and go to another dimension or realm and watch
a movie. My intention guides it. It usually takes place (I feel) in the
underworld in a cave. My guides gather the culprits in one place and I go and
get it. Some people like grandmother are very sweet and give it back easily
with a really loving message. Others may put up a fight. But I'm a bad ass over
there and always manage to get it back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sometimes I get some huge confirmations like Grandmother being in a room
full of old hats, share that with the subject and find out granny was a hat
collector. Or have to fight a man in a German officer’s uniform only to find
out he was in the German military. Sometimes even I am surprised by the results
but people feel the difference and it helps them. </span>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Are there any
dangers of working with San Pedro and if so, how can one avoid any potential
dangers?</span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Not really.
It's usually kind and gentle medicine. But it's always best to do it in the
presence of an experienced guide. It's sacred medicine, it demands respect, and
it should always be treated as sacred. If not done in a sacred way it could be
easy to misinterpret messages or visions in the medicine to be bad or negative
in some way. An experienced guide could unravel the metaphor, decode the
message, or explain the vision in a way that's completely different that’s
positive and re-assuring. Get a guide that understands this medicine and speaks
your language fluently. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">What are the
differences between the experience of San Pedro and the more well-known sacred
plant medicine Ayahuasca?</span></b></div>
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both plants. The difference is night and day. Completely different medicines.
One of the biggest challenges in getting people to this medicine is them
thinking San Pedro and Ayahuasca are alike somehow and always comparing the
two. They are different in every way. It's like comparing an antibiotic to a
pain killer... They're different. Ayahuasca (a vine) grows in the jungle under
the canopy in the dark. San Pedro (a cactus) grows in the light, in a drier
climate. Ayahuasca is traditionally done at night in the dark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>San Pedro is traditionally done in the day in
the light. Ayahuasca visions are usually dark and under-worldly. San Pedro
visions are usually full of light and upper-worldly. Both are great teachers
but way different.</span><br />
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your San Pedro ceremonies, what is involved in the process? </span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">First I
spend time alone clearing my thoughts and asking the medicine to guide me, my
words, and my actions and creating space. Then in circle I start by spending a
few minutes getting to know the guests over tea or water. I answer any
questions at that time and lay out the two rules, 1. No electronics. 2. No
talking, respect each other’s journey time and don't interrupt their journey.
Then we smudge in a traditional Native American style with White Sage,
cleansing and dropping into sacred journey space. We then "check in"
sharing how we are feeling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then I call
to spirit, ancestors, archetypes, spirit guides, animal totems, San Pedro, and
others to come and keep us safe and show us what we need to see etc. Then we go
around circle and drink one at a time. We go around circle again and state our
intention. We all share our intention so that it becomes more powerful... a
group intention. Then as the medicine comes on guests go and find their own
special space in nature and lay down. Letting the medicine take them. I go
around and check in with people as the day goes on, explaining things if needed
or helping them do their work if needed. Most people don't need help. They're
too busy dancing on rainbows with angels. Then later in the afternoon as the
medicine goes away we come together again as a group and hang out sharing
whatever comes to heart. Then we serve vegetarian soup around dark and soon
after share angel card readings and how the day went for each of us. Soon after
I close ceremony. That's usually around 9-10pm. Then people hang out and enjoy each
other’s company for a while. Most are ready to sleep by midnight. Everyone
spends the night. We have plenty of beds, mattresses, pillows, and blankets. We
circle up again the next morning over breakfast and discuss dreams or things
that came to them in the night. Everyone that is leaving is usually gone before
10am.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Sacred plant
medicines and psychedelics in general often have a bad reputation because of
people suffering so called “bad trips,” how do you reassure and guide someone
that is struggling with the experience and going through a “bad trip” during a
San Pedro ceremony?</span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Not many
people have a "bad experience" on this medicine. I don't like to call
it a trip. I feel that’s acid or LSD. I have facilitated San Pedro for around
6,000 people now and maybe 6-7 have needed help with a negative experience.
It's usually just fear caused by their being afraid to let go of their
conscious mind (ego). When the ego doesn't know what’s happening it can cause
problems. I help by doing guided meditation, energy work or just by being with
them. In a guided meditation I'm talking to the mind saying it's like taking a
nap. You'll be back online later just like waking up from a nap. Letting go in
order to sleep is much the same thing. If someone feels unable to get back I
journey to where ever they may be and bring them back. Part of the reasoning
behind drinking twice a week in the apprenticeship is becoming familiar with
the area people journey in. After all people are hiring me as a guide. That
implies I HAVE BEEN THERE. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">You offer a number
of workshops, working with San Pedro and other methods, can you tell us about
these?</span></b></div>
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the same really. It's just the length of time that's different. All workshops
include drinking medicine three days a week. The longer workshops allow us to
offer more body work, more in depth counseling, and more time to absorb and
integrate the lessons and reminders from the medicine. </span></div>
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raising money for a new healing space, can you tell us about that, how it will
be set up and how people can help?</span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Kind of a
long story. How we are guided to it and all. I've been feeling we need a bigger
space for a while now. Then one day Samay and I formed our intention together
to ask if we should move and then drank our medicine soon after the medicine
came on a large corner of the roof caved in and the boards underneath the eaves
of the roof crashed down. Then we noticed there was no wood to nail them back
to. Termites had eaten it all. A clear sign from Pedro it's time to go. Our
landlord is going to fix it but we don't care to be here while they remove the
roof. So later that night after our journey I looked at a place online that
lists houses for rent and for sale. No suitable rent houses were to be found.
Under houses for sale I found the perfect country home for our work and living
space. It's just down the road a few miles in Lentag. I knew immediately it was
for us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I felt moved to look at it and
talk to the owner explaining our situation. He agreed to take $10,000 down
payment letting us split that in two payments of $5,000. The first 5,000 due
when we move in before June 15th. The other 5,000 due in 3 months. The he will
let us live there for a year at which time he expects us to buy it or he will
finance the balance. A sweet deal. I think the medicine moved him as well. The
house is spacious and sits on 2.5 acres (1 hectare), Lots of space to wonder
around on. It has 4 bedrooms and can sleep a total of twelve people. A guest
can house two more. It also has a pool and a large covered outdoor space around
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perfect for lounging in the evening,
yoga classes, groups, etc. I plan to build a Moloca or a Yurt (a covered small
round house enclosed with screen) to hold ceremony in<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">. If you donate and come later to a workshop your donation will be
discounted off the price of the workshop. </b>If you the reader would like to
help the best way to donate is at our GoFundMe site. You can see pics and read
a better description of the property there also. Please feel into this. Ask
spirit if you should donate and how much. Then follow your heart. We appreciate
your love and support. Here is a link to our GoFundMe page:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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the use of sacred plant medicines like San Pedro, can help change the world for
the better?</span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Yes for sure. It is already.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As more people come to the medicine more
leave with more love in their heart and mind. That's the healer, Love. Our
world needs more of it right now.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Seeing as though
stress and stress related illness has become an epidemic in the modern world,
do you think that the recreational use of San Pedro, to just have fun can be
beneficial and even healing?</span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I do agree
that stress is at an epidemic level but I don't think San Pedro should be taken
recreationally. It is serious medicine that should always be treated with
respect. To party on it seems dis-respectful. Besides it hasn't ever felt like
a party drug to me. I've known people who took some and went out to have fun
only to be traumatized by the "fun". The energy of other people and
places doesn't always feel good. LOL. It's not something to party with. </span></div>
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have for someone that is new to working with San Pedro, and sacred plant
medicines in general?</span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">First, stop
thinking and start feeling. Choose to take your medicine with an experienced
guide at a safe place that has a good reputation. Choose a facilitator that
speaks your language fluently. Take some time to get to know the medicine. I
have seen many people come drink one day, leaving the next for a busy tourist
trip when they really wanted to stay a while and drink another time or two. </span></div>
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else you would like to talk about or get across to people?</span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">This is an
interesting time we live in. The old macho capitalist masculine age is dying
out. Think of the human population as one big tribe. Every time one of its
members gets better or heals the whole tribe gets better. It's a good time to
remember love. Be love, speak love, and act from love. Take time to connect
with mother, get your shoes off, walk or lay in the grass, just get
outside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That's the sacred feminine and
it will save the planet. Let's spread that and not worry about the masses. They
will all be helped but just one person at a time, with love.</span></div>
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reviews here: </span><a href="https://ayaadvisors.org/listings/san-pedro-workshops/"><span style="color: blue; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">https://ayaadvisors.org/listings/san-pedro-workshops/</span></a><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
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here: </span><a href="https://www.gofundme.com/3-months-to-raise-10000"><span style="color: blue; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">https://www.gofundme.com/3-months-to-raise-10000</span></a></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">If you would like to be interviewed or have Tricho Serious Ethnobotany write a story about you San Pedro, Trichocereus or ethnobotany related business, feel free to contact me at bretloth@gmail.com</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">This article is the copyright of Brett Lothian </span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span class="ILfuVd yZ8quc">© 2018. All Pictures used are the copyright of Steve Eagle Sewell </span></span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span class="ILfuVd yZ8quc"><span class="ILfuVd yZ8quc">© 2018.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"></span></span><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"> </span></span></b>Herbalistics is Australia's premier online nursery and supplier of rare and exotic plants! I have been dealing with Darren Williams, the owner and operator of Herbalistics for over ten years now and he is always great to deal with, very friendly and happy to answer any questions I have had about growing his high quality stock, which cannot be said about many of the other suppliers I have dealt with over the years. A lot of my plants originated with Herbalistics and are some of the best and most highly prized in my collection.<br />
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Herbalistics supplies a huge and varied stock list of the sacred plant medicines and entheogens from all around the world, Australian native food and medicine plants, herbs, seeds and much, much more! When ever I am asked to recommend a supplier of the plants I write about here at Tricho Serious Ethnobotany, I always recommend Herbalistics. Delivery is always fast, well packaged and of the highest quality. You just can't go wrong with Herbalistics!<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUoOhehAuasy7ajIgisc38W6J5TO_IbNhLXIflOyUa4bzMg6O8PKQsm-swuIJa4nxVgBmkx30SrJQvuohtMmPPsysF0Fzod2cgOuA4pJiT8fHOw_gOvt9lCj0uo43s8_KtSLboy1St5v0/s1600/Iboga+flower.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1445" data-original-width="1445" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUoOhehAuasy7ajIgisc38W6J5TO_IbNhLXIflOyUa4bzMg6O8PKQsm-swuIJa4nxVgBmkx30SrJQvuohtMmPPsysF0Fzod2cgOuA4pJiT8fHOw_gOvt9lCj0uo43s8_KtSLboy1St5v0/s320/Iboga+flower.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tabernanthe iboga flower</td></tr>
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Herbalistics was established in 2003 and is located on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia specializing in sourcing and growing rare, unusual and hard to propagate plants, both native and exotic. As well as plant propagation, research
and breeding. Importantly, all of Herbalistics plants are grown to organic standards with absolutely no GMO's. The nursery is online only and ships live plants to all states in Australia except Tasmania and Western Australia, due to their quarantine laws. Seeds are shipped to all states (including Tas & WA) and overseas as well.<br />
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The Herbalistics website is a veritable compendium of useful information, with lot's of growing advice, handy tips and also make sure you check out the Herbalistics blog which is full of really great information. I want to thank Darren Williams at Herbalistics for taking the time to speak with me for this interview, passing along some of his knowledge and expertise, which I'm sure will be of interest and help to a lot of people. You can find Herbalistics at the following link ~ <a href="https://herbalistics.com.au/">https://herbalistics.com.au/</a><br />
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Herbalistics offers a wide range of medicinal
and edible plants for sale, what are your favourite plants to grow and why?</span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">I’ve had a
lot of favourites over the years, I tend to get stuck on one species and focus
on that one for a while until I’ve figured out if and how I can grow it. Then
if I end up with a heaps of those I’ll chuck a few in the garden and they
become part of the collection and the rest I put up for sale. If I end up with
none, I tend to forget about it until I can learn in the future what its needs
are in cultivation and how to meet those needs. Aussie natives for sure.
Anything with edible or medicinal plant parts. The Ipomoea and related
Convolvulaceae have always been a favourite. I’m currently growing some I.
polpha ssp. weirana (Weir Vine) in a hope that I can find a few individuals
more suited to coastal climates than arid inland areas. Weir Vine has 3
currently recognised subspecies in the NT and QLD and they develop very large
underground tubers that can be eaten raw or cooked, though they say they are
better raw. A great water source and food for Indigenous Australians and early
settlers, but the leaves are eaten by cattle and this can lead to cattle
causalities, so farmers tend to spray and kill the vines to protect their
cattle. Another recent report I heard was of smoking the flowers as an
intoxicant. The edible Ipomoea are important worldwide as staple foods and in
northern and central Australia they were crucial for Indigenous Australians as
a food source and to undoubtedly settle in harsh environments. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">At the
moment I keep coming back to Psychotria viridis and to developing new hybrids
of them, it’s a bit of an obsession now. There’s some pretty positive
experiences being reported with the new hybrids being used in Ayahuasca, each
plant has its own personality. </span>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Edible
plants that do well here in the subtropics include bananas and sweet potato.
I’ve got about 6 varieties of bananas and am currently crossing some different
sweet potatoes. Fruit flies can be pretty bad here in the warmer months so I
have to focus on stuff that wont get stung. The best time of year to grow
traditional vegetables up here is winter, there’s just milder temperatures and
less pest pressure, but still warm enough to grow anything.</span></div>
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growing cacti for over 20 years so they’re always in the background.</span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">It seems that a lot of people consider
“Ethnobotany” to only involve plants that get you high, can you explain to
people what the study of Ethnobotany really is? </span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">If you
google it, ethnobotany is ‘the scientific study of the traditional knowledge
and customs of a people concerning plants and their medical, religious and
other uses’. Made particularly famous after enthobotanists like Richard Spruce
and Richard Evans Schultes who travelled in South America and recorded many
plants and practises of Indigenous peoples, including ayahuasca, virola and
yopo. The word was hijacked I guess you could say, or appropriated, by vendors
worldwide in the 1990s-2000s in relation to selling plant products, seeds
and/or plants that had come to fame through ethnobotanical books, particularly
the brilliant <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Plants of the Gods</i>, by
RE Schultes and Albert Hofmann (discoverer of LSD). These products generally
relate to more mind-expanding or self-revelatory substances (yopo, ayahuasca,
mushooms, etc) than say the many ethnobotanical uses of Ipomoea batatas (sweet
potato). True ethnobotanical recordings define how a particular race or culture
utilises a particular plant part, be it leaf, stem or root, how it is prepared,
how much is given and for which ailments.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">A lot of
people in the scene simply refer to these ‘ethnobotanical’ plants as ‘ethnos’,
which would literally just mean ‘race’ or ‘culture’. But it doesn’t really
matter, we know what they mean.</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "wingdings"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"></span></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">I used to
select seed vendors to buy from on whether or not they advertised their wares
as ethnobotanicals or had the word shaman in their business name. It was pretty
popular especially in the US. Often, because of this association to
ethnobotanicals and shamans, there’d be a good mark up on prices and a
reduction in quality as often they’re not growers or propagators, just seed,
plant and product traders. There’s an oversupply both here and overseas of
companies or individuals that are just on-sellers. There is still limited
research going on with these plants (outside of use by big companies for
proprietary use and profits or universities for almost the same purposes) by
the average punter and by nurseries. There is minimal breeding and selection
being undertaken by nurseries, which is where I like to think myself and
Herbalistics are in many ways leading the way forward by breeding and releasing
numerous new plants and varieties each year.</span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Australian native food plants are largely
ignored in Australian food production, can you tell us about some of the Australian native
food plants you offer and what their benefits are?</span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Their
benefit is that they are uniquely adapted to the ever-changing Australian
environment. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many are adapted to dry
conditions and poor soils but are also tolerant of flooding conditions, because
that is generally what we get, extreme weather.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Native
Citrus are becoming popular. We’ve got several rainforest species and also the
only desert species of Citrus in the world, Citrus glauca (Desert Lime). I
actually prefer Citrus australis (Dooja or Gympie Lime) to Citrus australasica
(Finger Lime). Their taste is more akin to a regular lime but still has the
vesciles of juice that finger limes have. It’s also very drought resistant.</span></div>
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Parsnip (Trachymene incisa) is an awesome bushfood. It’s a tuber forming short
lived perennial that you can pick and eat raw or cooked. It actually tastes
better raw. Just rub the skin off and eat. Its got a little bit of sweetness
and a good flavour.</span>
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capers are also popular. Capparis spp. same genus as the commercial caper. Capparis
spinosa v. numullaria from Northern Australia is one of the best natives ones
in horticulture.</span></div>
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and using entheogens make to a person’s life? And does actually growing them
yourself and having personal connection to these plants make a difference to
the experience?</span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">I believe
they offer a connection to the earth and through that connection we can become
happier and healthier people. Not just from the act of consuming these plants
but by nurturing them, understanding their requirements for growth and helping
them thrive. This in turn can reduce anxiety levels, encourage healthy daily
rhythms, eating patterns and gardening keeps you fit. When you grow these
plants and then use them for your own means, you understand the effort it takes
in producing this material, like understanding that growing your own food like
a farmer is actually a long and arduous process; it gives it a greater value.
Using the entheogens (at your own legal risk of course) becomes a much more
personal experience as you know how long it has taken to grow the plant you are
about to use. A small garden, of even potted plants, can adequately provide you
with herbs for culinary and recreational use throughout the year and this leads
to greater health for you and your family, as well as less problems of dealing
with dodgy people and harmful situations. There’s still people out there
exploiting rare or endangered plants in the wild (like Acacia courtii here in
Australia) and using that material to make ‘drugs’ that are on sold to people
not necessarily aware of where its come from. That’s the same issue with any
product I guess, even palm oil until consumers were made aware of what is being
done to produce palm oil. Ignorance in where your product is made is fuelling
these exploitative industries.</span></div>
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and why should people grow them?</span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">I’m growing
some Uncaria tomentosa and Uncaria guianensis (Cat’s Claw) which will be
available within the next few years. Galbulimima baccata is a native species
also in PNG full of interesting compounds; a little tricky to propagate though
so I only get a few each year maybe. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Why should
they grow them? Because diversity in the environment is as important a
diversity in your backyard. There’s a lot of ways to tell a story and each
species is a page or chapter in the story of our evolution and the planets.
Grow different stuff in your backyard because some will be plagued by disease
and others will thrive. </span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Being based in the Sub-Tropics of Queensland,
what advice do you have for cacti growers in this climate and the more
difficult tropical areas?</span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Select
clones for your garden that are more tolerant of higher humidity and
temperatures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s probably two-three
times a year here on the Sunshine Coast where I have decided to spray my stock
with a copper based spray. I use one called Liquid Copper. There’s a few types,
one which can be used in organic farming systems that are based on copper
hydroxide, or the more effective but nastier copper oxychloride which can’t be
used for certified organic systems. The liquid copper sits in between those two
and is quite effective.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Get used to
your cacti looking relatively ugly compared to when you grow them down south </span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "wingdings"; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"> once that humidity hits you can get
a lot of bacterial and fungal spotting, one in particular that starts at the
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">I find the Trichocereus
bridgesii species and hybrids to be generally less tolerant of humidity than
other species. If you look where they occur in Bolivia, around 3000m ASL, you
can see that they dislike the humidity we get here at mostly sea level in
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">If I start
growing a clone that is badly affected by diseases I will just chuck it. Its
better to start with some seeds and pick out a few seedlings that have no
problems in your garden. One particular cactus I grew from seed and named the
Bli Bli Behmoth (BBB) is showing nary a blemish in my collection in the ground,
sitting next to Psycho0 and others that suffer from epidermal diseases. It’s
also a fat monster and a great looking cactus.</span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">You offer a large variety of different Banisteriopsis
caapi vines for sale, can you tell us a little bit about each variety and the
differences between them?</span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">We grow the
following B. caapi varieties/cultivars; TUCUNACA, CIELO, OURINHOS, CAUPURI,
NUEVO OLA and ENANO. TUCUNACA is a Brazilian variety, more suited to cooler
regions than CAPURI, which is also a Brazilian variety that has knotty stems
(actually enlarged nodes along the stem) and was shown to be slightly higher in
harmala alkaloids. It is however more suited to warmer climates. CIELO is a
variety that was one of, if not the, original vine grown in Australia. In
Portuguese it means heaven but in Italian in translates as sky. Also called
Yellow Caapi. OURINHOS could be translated as ‘Little Gold’ but is also the
name of a Brazilian town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Often thought
of as a less domesticated or wild type of B. caapi. NUEVO OLA is one of our
named varieties, grown from seed from the Peruvian Amazon. The leaf margins are
wavy/undulating, which is an unusual feature we hadn’t seen before in Ayahuasca
vine, so we called it Nuevo Ola or new wave. ENANO is a dwarf caapi I selected
from a batch of TUCUNACA seedlings. ENANO was quite obviously a dwarf seedling
as it had a compact growth habit and shows no sign of the normal stretching
vine behaviour. One of my favourite plants, ENANO means dwarf in Spanish.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">We also
grow Banisteriopsis muricata which is known as Red Ayahuasca and is supposed to
produce a red tinged brew. Its got silvery hairs on the undersides of the
leaves and is a pretty looking vine. Something relatively new is Alicia
anisopetala that has been known as Black Ayahuasca. It hasn’t been reported to
contain harmala alkaloids but it has nonetheless been used in brews. I noticed
when we first got the vine from a friend in Darwin that when cut, the leaves
and stems tend to oxidise a black colour and thought that this is probably why
it is known as Black Ayahuasca. It could also be that it is a more variable
vine and perhaps one for more experienced users.</span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">You have created some exciting new varieties of
plants such as Psychotria cv. ‘Nexus’ and others, can you tell us about these
varieties and if you have any new varieties on the way?</span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">I read a
paper over a decade ago, or maybe it was a book, that mentioned in one line
that Psychotria viridis could be hybridised by Psychotria carthagenensis. It
got me wanting to experiment and so I did. I had trouble emasculating (removing
anthers, the male flower part which sheds pollen) P. viridis ‘Shipibo’ flowers,
so I settled on using P. carthagenensis as the pistillate (mother) parent. It
has larger flowers that are more easily emasculated. This is necessary as both
species will self pollinate and you wont know if you have succeeded if you
don’t emasculate them. Anyway I made a few crosses and this eventuated into a
couple of fruit (1 fruit contains 2 seeds) and from those I had one seedling
emerge after 3 or so months. This was to be named Nexus (not to do with any
online forum) after the meaning of the word which is a connection linking two
or more things and which I thought would describe it well as a link in the
evolution of these two species. Nexus was observed to be self-infertile, which
is helpful in breeding. It can and does get open pollinated (OP) in the garden
by native and honeybees in my experience and I am currently germinating OP
Nexus seeds and have a number of seedlings.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Following
on from Nexus, I also made another P.c x P.v ‘Shipibo’ cross and this resulted
in DW02. It is a unique looking cultivar and also fast growing. The flower
panicles are more like P. viridis (as is Nexus) and it also appears to be self
infertile. Some pollination trials this season both on my plants and a friends
have resulted in a couple of fruit.</span>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Some recent
backcrosses of Nexus to P. viridis ‘Shipibo’ have resulted in cultivars I have
now propagated. These are DW03, DW07, DW08 and DW09. DW07 is probably the most
interesting, being somewhat variegated but is troublesome to propagate from
leaf cuttings, which is the general method I use. It’s a golden chacruna,
having a golden/yellow look but is slightly less vigorous than other cultivars,
as is generally the case with variegated plants.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Psychotria DW07</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Crosses of
Nexus to P. viridis ‘UDV have resulted in the cultivars DW05, DW06 and DW10.
These have great narrow leaves like UDV and one in particular, DW06, has that
strong chacruna smell in dead leaves. All are great looking plants for the
garden.</span>
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a couple of crosses, so you won’t see DW04 and DW11 as they didn’t make it past
seedling stage and into propagation.</span></div>
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yet? </span><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">:)</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Psychotria 'DW08'</td></tr>
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<b><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">O</span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">n your Herbalistics blog you talk about an
experiment you are conducting involving the flowering of Trichocereus cacti,
can you explain what you’re doing, what you hope to achieve and the results of
this experiment so far?</span></span></b>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">I was chatting with <a href="https://trichoseriousethnobotany.blogspot.com.au/2016/09/chavin-herbalist-trichocereus-supplier.html" target="_blank">Chavin Herbalists</a> about how to get Trichocereus to
flower in warmer climates. He’s in Brazil but we’re both in subtropical
climates. Anyway I started doing some research looking for papers on flowering
in cacti, particularly columnar cacti like Trichocereus/Echinopsis. I came across
one which was probably the most relevant to the San Pedro type cacti but
involved a hybrid Echinopsis cactus ‘Rose Quartz’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this study they investigated the effect of
photoperiod, irradiance and termperature on flowering. The authors found the
optimal cooling for this particular hybrid Rose Quartz to initiate flowering
was 8 weeks at 5 degrees C. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Trichocereus 'Chavin de Huantar'</td></tr>
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</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">So I thought I’d try a similar cooling experiment but with Trichocereus
cuttings in a regular fridge for 9 weeks at 5 degrees C. They survived fine and
are growing normally but no flowering initiated at all. In the meantime of
conducting the experiment we had a really dry 3 months in winter/spring. This
seems to have resulted in the flowering of 3 cacti in the ground, all over 2m
in height. My hypothesis now is that a dry overwintering (we don’t get that
cold here so temperature may or may not have an influence on the San Pedro
types) of a mature Trichocereus of a particular height should result in
flowering. A bit of a gift for us more northern growers who have been
struggling with a lack of flowers for breeding and seed production. </span>
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">On the subject of Trichocereus cacti, what
are some of the plants you offer and can you tell us about them?</span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Many ;)
I’ve been growing them for over 20 years and have collected and discarded quite
a few over that time. These days I’m becoming less tolerant of clones that
don’t do well in the subtropics, the ones that getting damaged easily from
bacteria and fungi are slowly being tossed out and replaced with new seed grown
species and hybrids. I’m also becoming more interested in wild collected
species as opposed to new hybrids.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Some of the
Trichocereus peruvianus ‘ICARO’ are beautiful cacti (from Matucana, Peru). I
have one that is segmented (Matucana Sausage Cactus) and very slow growing,
grown by a friend who discovered it amongst his seed grown ICARO. I’ve been
building up stock for 2-3 years and am almost ready to release some cuttings. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">One we’ve
been offering in the last few seasons is a T. pachanoi from the Matucana
region. Collected by the same guys who offer the ICARO seeds, they are
relatively uniform looking seedlings and should be highly prized entheogenic
cacti. One recent investigation into potency of Trichocereus cacti found T.
pachanoi from Matucana to be the most potent. We have also gotten rid of the so
called ‘PC’ T. pachanoi and replaced it in our stock list with many seed grown
individuals of this Matucana type.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">BBB or Bli
Bli Behemoth is a T. scopulicola x T. bridgesii ‘Psycho0’ I grew from seed. It
has very fat stems and is moderately fast growing and has a brilliant disease
resistence in my climate.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">HB01 is a
cactus I picked up from an old guys garden in Gatton QLD over a decade ago. It
was a scabby old cut that had been laying around but he let me take it and once
it put on some new growth I could see that it was a keeper. Obivously a T.
peruvianus type. </span></div>
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beautiful blue looking short spined cactus I selected out from T. scopulicola x
T. bridgesii. It’s always proven to be a popular clone, just alone from its
looks.</span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">I see you have been conducting experiments with
the Takeaway Tek, can you explain what it is and how it works? And what plants
it is most useful for?</span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">An old
friend was pushing the takeaway tek years ago, it was in fact a modified
technique the cactus guy MS Smith located in the USA was using. It basically
involved sterilising (in a microwave) some seed raising mix in a takeaway
container, then sowing cactus seeds and letting them develop for 6-12 months in
a controlled terrarium like environment. They would then be acclimatised to the
outside world and then potted up when ready.</span></div>
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<a href="http://herbalistics.com.au/takeaway-tek-how-to-germinate-cacti-seeds/"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">http://herbalistics.com.au/takeaway-tek-how-to-germinate-cacti-seeds/</span></a></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">It can be
used for any type of cacti seeds. I’ve also used it for many other species,
both for seed germination and for cuttings. Calea zacatechichi, Bursera sp.
Psychotria leaf cuttings it works a treat for; it’s just set and forget and it also
reduces the time to shoot formation.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Various Trichocereus grown using the Takeaway Tek</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"></span><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Tabernanthe iboga is a plant of major interest
to a lot of people, can you give any advice to people trying to grow this
medicine outside its natural climate, such as in the colder areas of the south
of Australia?</span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">I’ve grown
hundreds from seed and sent them all around the country. If you’re a bit
marginal in terms of climate, either start seed early in spring/summer or get
an established plant from us in the same time. Grow it through the warmer
months and get some good size on it before giving it some protection over the
colder months. They can be kept successfully in pots for many years. You can
also repot them each season and trim the roots off. They tend to produce a lot
of roots so this doesn’t harm them as long as you’re not taking the main roots.
Once it cools off each year, slow the watering down, like you do with cacti or
other xerophytes and give them a relatively dry overwintering. They will also
drop their leaves in dry conditions and go into a sort of dormancy. This also
happens in some cold conditions so don’t be alarmed if they do it; as long as
that stem is nice and healthy.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tabernanthe iboga seeds</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"></span><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">You offer numerous Acacia varieties for sale,
can you tell us which are the most useful to grow for the different areas of
Australia?</span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">For the
entheogenic varieties, probably pick the one that is growing naturally to where
you live. So if you’re in WA, go with the A. acuminata and varieties. If you’re
in VIC, get A. maidenii or A. phlebophylla. If you in NSW get A. courtii, A.
maidenii or A. obtusifolia. In QLD A. maidenii or any you’re interested in. A.
burkittii appears to be doing well for us here. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Acacia courtii</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">A. phlebophylla is a bit trickier
being a sub-alpine species but can still be kept alive up here and along the
east coast with some care. Pick a nice elevated section of you property and
make sure it dries off quickly. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Western Australian Acacia are from that Mediterranean climate, so hot dry
summers and rain during the colder months. So on the east coast that gets a bit
tricky to emulate. Start the seeds off in autumn if you’re in the subtropics as
its still warm enough but we’re coming into our drier time of year. That
humidity and heat we get on the Sunshine Coast can kill a lot of plants that
aren’t adapted to it.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Acacia phlebophylla</td></tr>
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Your plants are always of the highest quality,
unlike the other major vendor of ethnobotanicals in Australia, how do you
ensure such high quality plants?</span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">You have to
start with the right potting mix for your climate, we’ve switched from pine
bark based mixes to coconut fibre based mixes. Pine bark has no place in
horticulture (except as mulch) as far as I’m concerned. We use non-chlorinated
water for our irrigation, both rainwater and dam water; that consistently
produces better plants I find. Just general TLC I guess. I care about the
plants I produce, and I’m the main propagator and caregiver for all my plants. I
rarely buy in plants, so in general, what I sell I grow from seed or cuttings
myself.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finger lime flower</td></tr>
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">What advice do you give for people just
starting out in growing and using entheogen plants? In your opinion, which
plants are the best to begin with and why?</span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Pick a few
that you are interested in and give it a go! Don’t be put off by the inevitable
failures or let yourself get too big a head from a few successes (ie. growing
Trichocereus is not hard). Most of these plants are not domesticated and as
such, may not thrive unless with some proper attention and care given to
position, soils and microclimate. Being undomesticated they also have erratic
germination (vegetable seeds have been bred to have virtually no dormancy so
they all pop up when sown pretty reliably) and some will have simple dormancies
like the hard seed coats in Acacia species (which can be overcome with a
boiling water treatment). Others can be a combination of different dormancies
like a physical (hard seed coat) and a physiological (an immature embryo that
needs extra time to develop).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">I’d suggest
starting with some Acacia, Trichocereus and/or Psychotria and see how you get
along.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Trichocereus 'BBB'</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Book
Review: The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred
Journeys. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">By James
Fadiman, Ph.D. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">The
Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide is a fantastic book for the novice and experienced
psychedelic traveler alike, covering the wide range of aspects and
applications of psychedelic journeying, it is a must have for the modern
psychedelic explorer. With the current renaissance of psychedelic study and exploration,
(that is ever growing in popularity) James Fadiman provides a much needed guide
for those looking to safely explore the many and varied benefits of psychedelic
use, as well as for those looking to be a guide for others in their psychedelic
experiences. Being called “America’s wisest and most respected authority on
psychedelics and their use,” the author having been involved in psychedelic
research since the 1960’s, could not be more qualified to cut through the many myths
and misconceptions surrounding the use of psychedelics, as well as extolling
their many benefits and potentials. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">In part one
of this much needed and timely guide, the author expertly takes the reader
through meeting the divine within and the entheogenic voyage, providing
guidelines for the voyager and guide alike to achieve safe, effective
experiences in psychedelia. Following on from this the widely respected writer
and philosopher Alan Watts outlines the four dominant characteristics of
transcendent experience, which is most apt in describing the effects of
psychedelics. Rounding out part one, the psychedelic pioneers including such
luminaries in the field as Albert Hofmann, Aldous Huxley, Stanislav Grof,
Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert (Ram Dass), Alexander Shulgin, Ralph Metzner <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and more, describe their early experiences in
their own words, which is essential reading for understanding how and why the
modern psychedelic movement began in the first place. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Part two explores
the personal growth and self-exploration aspects of psychedelic use including
the many therapeutic uses of psychedelics in psychotherapy and healing, which
of course the ancient shaman from all over the world have understood for
millennia, but modern western researchers and doctors have only begun to
scratch the surface of, largely due to the ridiculous illegality of these
medicinal substances. Neal Goldsmith explains the things that can go wrong with
experimenting in psychedelia, which is integral to having a complete
understanding of the experience and how to mitigate any possible dangers, which
are very real for the unprepared and/or careless voyager. David Presti and
Jerome Beck discuss the myths and misconceptions surrounding the field of
psychedelic exploration, which are rife due the fear mongering propaganda of
the ‘War on Drugs.’ Finally, the author explores the therapeutic effectiveness
of single guided sessions which is touched upon again in part five.</span>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Part three
delves into the creative and problem solving abilities that psychedelic use can
augment, together with Willis Harman, the author explores the breakthrough
research of the selective enhancement of creative capacities and the
facilitation of enhanced problem solving capabilities through the use of
psychedelic substances. Including case studies and group problem solving
sessions, this section helps to explain how ancient and traditional cultures
that utilize psychedelics may have achieved their seemingly impossible feats of
knowledge. George Leonard takes the reader through the fascinating <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Look</i> magazine experiments in group
problem solving using LSD, which makes me wonder what could be achieved if our
world leaders all got together under the influence of a powerful psychedelic
and managed to put their egos aside for the benefit of all. Lastly, the author
explains how psychedelic research was tragically halted for over 30 years in
what is nothing short of a crime against humanity. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Part four
introduces some of the new horizons in the field of psychedelic research and
discovery including the effects of sub-perceptual doses of psychedelics, also
known as micro dosing. Whilst still in its infancy, micro dosing is gaining in
popularity around the world as a way to improve normal functioning without
having a fully blown psychedelic experience. Also covered are surveys of
current users and the author’s personal account of becoming an inadvertent
pioneer in the field, which are absolutely fascinating. Ending part four is the
positive possibilities for psychedelics, of which there are almost endless
potentials, which we are only just beginning to understand. Where the future of
psychedelic research takes us is anyone’s guess, but the future certainly looks
to be brightening with the modern renaissance of psychedelic study.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Concluding
with part five, the author provides a checklist for voyagers and guides in
entheogenic journeys and takes us beyond LSD into the realm of the sacred
medicine Ayahuasca, as well as a very interesting report from a darkness
retreat where Lindsey Vona explains her psychedelic like experience in complete
darkness, without using a traditional psychedelic. Also discussed are the
lasting results of high dose single sessions with psychedelics, creating
lasting change and improvement in people’s lives and a questionnaire study of
psychedelic experiences with Willis Harman, concluding with the authors
profound last words on his hope for the future. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">With this
truly remarkable guide for the psychedelic explorer, which I highly recommend,
James Fadiman has achieved something that will stand the test of time and no
doubt become a classic reference guide for those intrepid explorers of the
psychedelic state for decades to come. It is quite simply the best, most
thorough book of its type and is sorely needed for today’s psychedelic
explorer. With the help of this book you too can explore the psychedelic realm
safely and successfully, for whatever your purpose may be. Safe journeys. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">This article first appeared in <a href="https://www.newdawnmagazine.com/regular-issues/new-dawn-166-january-february-2018" target="_blank">New Dawn Magazine Issue 166</a> January - February 2018. </span><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span class="_Tgc _s8w">© Brett Lothian. All Pictures used are free use.</span></span></div>
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and Pharmaceutical Drugs, Is There a Connection?</span></h3>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">With the
recent mass shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas,
in early November, that resulted in the deaths of 26 people, with a further 20
being injured, once more in America and across the world, the gun control
debate has come to the forefront of people’s minds. Unfortunately there is one
aspect of the debate that has thus far been vastly under reported, the link
between these tragedies and pharmaceutical psychotropic drugs. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">A classmate
of Devin Kelley, the Texas shooter told Fox News that Kelley had a history of
mental illness, and had been on psychiatric medication for a period of time. “His
parents had him on high doses of ‘psych’ meds from 6th to 9th grade, the time I
knew him,” said the student, who only wished to be identified as Reid. In 2012
Kelley had briefly escaped from a mental health facility in Santa Teresa, New
Mexico, according to a Texas police report. Police found Kelley in El Paso and
turned him over to New Mexico police to return him to the facility, according
to the police report and whilst it has not yet been confirmed, we can safely assume
that he was likely “medicated” during this period of time.</span></div>
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every mass shooting incident in the last twenty years, and multiple other
instances of suicide and isolated shootings all share one thing in common, and
it’s not the weapons used. The overwhelming evidence points to the signal
largest common factor in all of these incidents is the fact that all of the
perpetrators were either actively taking powerful pharmaceutical psychotropic drugs
or had been at some point in the immediate past before they committed their
crimes.</span>
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been an enduring controversy over whether psychiatric medications can trigger
violent actions toward others. A review of the FDA's Adverse Event Reporting
System by Thomas Moore, Joseph Glenmullen and Curt Furberg, which was published
by PLoS One, found that such "adverse events" are indeed associated
with antidepressants and several other types of pharmaceutical psychotropic
medications.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">To do their
study, Moore and his collaborators extracted all serious events reports from
the FDA's database from 2004 through September 2009, and then identified 484
drugs that had triggered at least 200 case reports of serious adverse events
(of any type) during that 69-month period. They then investigated to see if any
of these 484 drugs had a "disproportionate" association with
violence. They identified 31 such drugs, out of the 484, that met this
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">The 31
"suspect" drugs accounted for 1527 of the 1937 case reports of
violence toward others in the FDA database for that 69-month period.
Antidepressants were responsible for 572 case reports of violence toward
others; ADHD drugs for 108; and the hypnotic/sedatives for 97. Of the 1937
total case reports of violence toward others, there were 387 cases of homicide,
404 physical assaults, 27 cases of physical abuse, 896 reports of homicidal
ideation, and 223 cases of "violence related symptoms." The adverse
events reported to the FDA during this period are known to represent but a tiny
fraction of all such adverse events. </span>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">In response
to the latest mass shooting President Trump has been reported as saying that this
“isn’t a gun situation” but rather a “mental health problem.” And he is partly
correct, unfortunately the real truth isn’t that this is just a mental health
problem, but a pharmaceutical drug problem. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">It has been
suggested by numerous researchers that these pharmaceutical psychotropic drugs
may play a role in creating “Manchurian Candidate” type assassins just waiting
to be “triggered” into perpetrating mass shooting events, designed to shape
public opinion in aiding the destruction of America’s second amendment, which protects their right to bare arms. Whether
this is true or not I cannot say, but with America’s history of mind control
programs and false flag attacks, it cannot be ruled out. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Texas
church shooting: Gunman Devin Kelley escaped mental hospital in 2012.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-08/texas-shooting-gunman-devin-kelley-escaped-mental-hospital-2012/9128674</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Here's What
We Know About Texas Church Shooter Devin Kelley. By Tyler Durden</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-06/heres-what-we-know-about-texas-church-shooter-devin-kelley</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Every Mass
Shooting Shares One Thing In Common & It’s NOT Weapons. By Dan Roberts</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">https://www.ammoland.com/2013/04/every-mass-shooting-in-the-last-20-years-shares-psychotropic-drugs/</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Psychiatric
Drugs and Violence: A Review of FDA Data Finds a Link. By Robert Whitaker</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mad-in-america/201101/psychiatric-drugs-and-violence-review-fda-data-finds-link</span></span></div>
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advent of artificial intelligence, cybernetics and the ever growing problem of
humans being replaced by machines, we must ask the question, are the lower
ranks of the human caste system being made obsolete? Are we creating a world
where the average Joe is no longer needed? I think the answer is a resounding
yes. The fact is that machines are constantly being created to take over the
work of the working class, from factories to the local supermarket checkout, we
are slowly but surely being replaced by machines, so the super-rich elite can
make even more money. Unfortunately we are even taking an active role in this,
by using technology for the sake of ease and convenience. Worse still, is the
advancement of cybernetics or transhumanism, for the elite. Elon Musk of SpaceX
and Tesla fame has been working on a Neuralink, a human-computer brain
interface company. Neuralink’s ultimate aim may actually be the most ambitious
of all three of his companies, surprisingly, the foundational ideas behind
Neuralink goes deep within what Musk hopes to achieve by creating better,
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Musk’s vision would enable direct “uncompressed” communication of concepts
between people and machines, Neuralink’s tech aims will also be able to help humans
keep pace with the rapid advances in A.I., and would achieve this by basically
integrating A.I. with human consciousness. Neuralink’s tech would enable human
use of A.I. as just an additional faculty, like our sense of selves or other
higher in-brain thought faculties or perhaps vice versa. Making it possible to
connect with such a high bandwidth directly into the brain would allow us to
integrate cloud-based A.I. computing within ourselves in a way that’s
indistinguishable from our core selves. Getting worried yet? Musk says that
it’s probably going to be at least “eight to 10 years” before technology the
company produces can be used by someone without a disability. Neuralink is
aiming to create therapeutic applications of its tech first, which will likely
help as it seeks the necessary regulatory approvals for human trials. In other
words, the disabled will be the altruistic guise and Guinea pigs for the
inception of these technologies, which later on only the elite will be able to
afford.</span></div>
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previously criticized humans at a conference in Dubai. He expressed that
artificial intelligence would surpass human beings and that we would be
irrelevant if we didn’t merge with machines. “Over time I think we will
probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital
intelligence,” Musk said. “Your output level is so low, particularly on a
phone, your two thumbs just tapping away,” he added. “This is ridiculously
slow. Our input is much better because we have a high bandwidth visual
interface into the brain. Our eyes take in a lot of data. It’s not the first
time that Musk warned about the dangers of A.I., previously describing it as
potentially the greatest threat to the existence of human life and comparing
intelligent machines to summoning a demon. “You know those stories where
there’s the guy with the pentagram, and the holy water, and he’s like Yeah,
he’s sure he can control the demon? Doesn’t work out,” Musk said at a symposium
in October 2014. But us merging with this “demon” as he calls it is somehow the
answer? Strange logic indeed. But he is not alone.</span>
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may seem a bit science-fiction, but Stanford University has already
successfully created a brain-computer interface (BCI), BrainGate, and early BCI
tech allows people with paralysis to type messages on a computer by picking out
letters on a screen. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is
investing $60 million over four years to develop implantable neural interface
technology. “The program, Neural Engineering System Design (NESD), stands to
dramatically enhance research capabilities in neurotechnology,” DARPA’s website
reads. “Today’s best brain-computer interface systems are like two
supercomputers trying to talk to each other using an old 300-baud modem,” said
Phillip Alvelda, the NESD program manager. “Imagine what will become possible
when we upgrade our tools to really open the channel between the human brain
and modern electronics.” To me, the Borg from Star Trek comes to mind. To the
great detriment of the majority of us, who actually like being human, the
technology isn’t that far away from becoming a reality, in comments published
by Vanity Fair, Musk said “for a meaningful partial-brain interface, I think
we’re roughly four or five years away.” When the assimilation starts thereafter
is anyone’s guess.</span></div>
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in New Dawn Issue 151, within the next 200 years, humans will become so merged
with technology that we would evolve into “God-like cyborgs”, says Yuval Noah
Harari, a historian and author from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Harari
researches the history of the human species, and after writing a new book on
our past, he now believes that we’re just a few centuries away from being able
to use technology to avoid death altogether – if we can afford it, that is. “I
think it is likely in the next 200 years or so Homo sapiens will upgrade
themselves into some idea of a divine being, either through biological
manipulation or genetic engineering by the creation of cyborgs: part organic, part
non-organic,” however, as Harari said only the wealthiest would benefit from
‘cyborg’ technology, making the gap between rich and poor in society even wider,
perhaps to the point of becoming entirely different species. He said that in
the future the super-rich elite may be immortal while the poor would die out.
In regards to the poor, perhaps he should more correctly say, killed off for
being “useless eaters” as Prince Phillip likes to call us who are not in the
elite.</span></div>
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truth seems to be that the dystopian future (for the majority) that Harari
envisions may come about far quicker than he imagined. Technology is racing
ahead at such a breakneck pace that society is struggling to come to terms with
it. Already we utilize far too much technology than we really need. We are
outsourcing our abilities to technology and it is only getting worse as time
goes on. Today, young people are struggling more than ever with simple tasks
like spelling and arithmetic, because we now have machines that do it all for
us. As a species we are devolving at an alarming rate, losing our intellectual
and physical abilities, our muscle mass, brain size and bone density are on the
rampant downslide. Whilst some may see technology and interfacing with it as
the answer, literally becoming immortal Gods over the less fortunate mere
mortals, but in reality all we are doing is rushing headlong into our own doom,
for all of us. Once we have merged with a superior artificial intelligence,
what is to stop the A.I. from taking control of us? How will we even be able to
distinguish the A.I. programming, from our own thoughts? Will it be us (well,
the elite anyway) running the technology, or the technology running us? Scary
thoughts indeed. </span>
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continue on this path that has been set out for us by the elite, we will all
too soon end up with a world where the super-rich elite get to live in their
transhumanist utopia mega-cities, striving for immortality and Godhood, run by
machines, with the rest of us being surplus to requirements. According to the super-rich
elite there is already a vast surplus of human resources (otherwise known as
people) and that will only continue to grow with the ever increasing use of
machines and A.I., even as the population shrinks due to the elite depopulation
agenda. Perhaps some indigenous tribes will be kept as a curiosity, considered
mere fauna in parks to be either gawked at or hunted for sport, perhaps not. Perhaps
some of us will be kept around in a dumbed down state or completely over ridden
by A.I., to press the buttons of the machines or more likely to be used as
organ farms and subjects for experimentation. Whatever the future holds, if we continue
down the path we are currently on, life will not be worth living for the vast
majority of us. If we are even still cognizant of being alive or worse yet,
even allowed to live at all. </span></div>
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Neuralink wants to turn cloud-based AI into an extension of our brains. By
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I was shocked and deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Ross Heaven, father, author, shaman and inspiration to many, including myself. I write this with a heavy heart and with great appreciation for the time he took to share his insights and experience with me over the years. Only two days before his passing he thanked me for the book review that I had written about his fantastic work, San Pedro; The Gateway to Wisdom and the third last post he ever made on facebook was my interview with him for New Dawn Magazine. I will never be able to thank him enough for the difference he and his work has made to my life. My deepest condolences go out to his family and friends.<br />
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He was a true legend in the field of shamanism and spirituality, and will be truly missed. I had been a fan of Ross's work for a long time and greatly appreciated his no nonsense approach and forthrightness. His honesty, humor, compassion and integrity always shone through in everything he wrote. If you're reading this, I ask that you please say a prayer for Ross and his family. He is survived by his children, his friends and in the memories of all those many people that he has helped over his long career on the medicine path. He leaves behind an amazing legacy of over twenty outstanding books that I encourage you all to buy and read, not only will you enjoy them and learn a lot, but you will also help to support those he has left behind.<br />
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You can read my interview with Ross, How Shamanic Plant Medicine Works, here at the following link ~ <a href="https://trichoseriousethnobotany.blogspot.com.au/2016/12/how-shamanic-plant-medicine-works.html">https://trichoseriousethnobotany.blogspot.com.au/2016/12/how-shamanic-plant-medicine-works.html</a><br />
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You can read my review of his excellent book San Pedro; The Gateway to Wisdom, here at the following link ~ <a href="https://trichoseriousethnobotany.blogspot.com.au/2018/01/book-review-san-pedro-gateway-to-wisdom.html">https://trichoseriousethnobotany.blogspot.com.au/2018/01/book-review-san-pedro-gateway-to-wisdom.html</a><br />
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Ross's truly exceptional books can be purchased at the following link ~ <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ross-Heaven/e/B001JP4URE">https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ross-Heaven/e/B001JP4URE</a><br />
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Ross Heaven's website The Four Gates Foundation can be found at the following link ~ <a href="http://www.thefourgates.org/ross-heaven/">http://www.thefourgates.org/ross-heaven/</a><br />
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Thank you Ross. Good-bye my friend, I'll miss you. See you on the other side ~*<br />
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Cactus Country is in Strathmerton in northern Victoria, Australia. It is a truly
spectacular garden, quite simply an amazing place to visit. The largest cacti collection I've seen for
sure, and still growing. The gardens are set out in countries of origin
which is great, and there are some beautiful massive old specimens from
all over. I was lucky enough to receive some really nice cuttings from a
few different plants out there at very reasonable prices and will have
to get back out there again soon. Really glad to hear the owners son
John who was very nice and helpful, is excited about continuing the
garden and expanding it so it will be around for a long time to come and
will only get bigger and better. Here's a link to their website where
you can find out all the details to visit. <a href="http://cactuscountry.com.au/about_us">http://cactuscountry.com.au/about_us</a>. I highly recommend checking it out if you are able, you definitely won't regret it! </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1965359057530273942.post-27428021174091331942018-01-09T13:20:00.000+11:002018-02-11T15:21:02.900+11:00Book Review: Ayahuasca Medicine; The Shamanic World of Amazonian Sacred Plant Healing by Alan Shoemaker<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This book review first appeared in <a href="https://www.newdawnmagazine.com/regular-issues/new-dawn-164-september-october-2017" target="_blank">New Dawn Magazine issue 164</a>, September/October 2017. <span class="_Tgc _s8w">© Brett Lothian.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Ayahuasca
Medicine: The Shamanic World of Amazonian Sacred Plant Healing.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">By Alan
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Ayahuasca
Medicine is one of the most grounded, honest and real ayahuasca books you will
ever come across. Being part biographical, part instruction manual for the
spiritual seeker, the author Alan Shoemaker takes us on a personal journey
through his experiences with various shaman in the Andean San Pedro and Amazonian
ayahuasca traditions, long before it was fashionable. Being one of the first “gringos”
to popularize the use of entheogens and curanderismo as a legitimate and
miraculous healing method, the current resurgence of traditional healing
methodologies and sacred power plant use owes a great deal to Alan Shoemaker, a
true legend in the field. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">The authors
writing style is straight forward, easy to follow and thankfully without the
fluffy nonsense that so often pervades all too many books on this type of
subject matter. With his self-deprecating and humble look into his experiences
and life on the medicine path, the reader is given a true taste of what it
takes to be a real shaman or curandero. Showing us all sides of what has become
a tourist industry in South America, the author does not shy away from the very
real dangers for those seeking the shamanic path, holistic healing and the
great importance of finding the right teachers. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Mr
Shoemaker lays bare his personal insights, doubts and revelations along his
over twenty year journey of working with various healers, ayahuasqueros, and curanderos
in the Andes and Amazon regions of South America. Sharing truly miraculous
tales of healing as well as bravely sharing his failures and tribulations, the
author hides nothing behind the modern façade of the shaman. Refreshingly
explaining the reality that even shaman are fallible, human and not necessarily
the perfect holy men (or women) they are often portrayed to be. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Importantly
the author explains the difference of working with the whole sacred power
plants as opposed to merely the extracted active ingredients, describing how
using the whole plant maintains the transcendent spirit and balance of these
plants in the experience, instead of turning them into just another drug. His
reverence and obvious respect for the traditional knowledge and sacred power
plants, without being sanctimonious, comes shining through as an example more
people in the entheogen community should take note of. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Describing
the various ways, intricacies and aspects of South American sacred power plant
healing, as well as the things to avoid, Mr Shoemaker has laid out a path for
all those interested in this subject to follow, that will no doubt help many of
us avoid the pitfalls and dangers that lurk in the now all too commercialized
industry, the mystical realm of the shaman and their dark counterpart the
brujo. The appendixes and glossary to Ayahuasca Medicine are particularly
helpful for those who are unfamiliar with the medicine and the terminology used
within.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">As someone
who has researched and worked with these sacred power plants for a long period
of time I found this book to be by far one the best, most honest and helpful
books ever published on ayahuasca and the South American healing tradition. Mr
Shoemaker deserves credit not only for his work in bringing ayahuasca healing
to the greater world, but for his courage in doing so in a down to earth
fashion that is accessible to all. Mr Shoemakers story is a must read for anyone
looking to follow the medicine path, receive healing from the curanderos, sacred
power plants and experience the divine within us all. I highly recommend this
book, it is truly a much needed breath of fresh air in the modern world of
ayahuasca.</span></div>
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*P.S.~ Since writing this review of the outstanding Ayahuasca Medicine for <a href="http://www.newdawnmagazine.com.au/" target="_blank">New Dawn Magazine</a>, I have been in contact with Mr Shoemaker who has been very friendly, open and generous with his time, for which I am very grateful. In the coming months <a href="http://www.newdawnmagazine.com.au/" target="_blank">New Dawn Magazine</a> will be featuring an extensive interview that I have done with Mr Shoemaker and his close friends Mark Thornberry and Terry Miller, covering various aspects of Ayahuasca Medicine, San Pedro, Shamanism and a whole lot more. Once the interview is out of print I will be posting it here to this blog, so stay tuned! </div>
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Mr Shoemaker is the founder and manager of the Ayahuasca Medicine House in Iquitos, Peru, where you can personally experience the miraculous healing medicines of the Amazon and Andes, such as Ayahuasca, San Pedro and Sapo (to name a few) yourself, all under the guidance of true, experienced curanderos in a safe and welcoming environment. Due to Ayahuasca now becoming a tourist industry in South America and self proclaimed "sham-an" offering ceremonies all around the world, finding true healers/curanderos has become a very difficult task for those who are interested in these sacred medicines, with Mr Shoemaker and the Ayahuasca Medicine House, you're guaranteed the real thing. I highly recommend them.<br />
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Mr Shoemaker is also the founder and host of the annual International Amazonian Shamanism Conference which is also held in Iquitos, Peru. For more information on the Ayahuasca Medicine House, the annual International Amazonian Shamanism Conference, and where you can purchase the Ayahuasca Medicine book, please follow the links provided below.<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/ayahuascahouse/?ref=profile_intro_card" target="_blank">The Ayahuasca Medicine House</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.vineofthesoul.org/" target="_blank">The International Amazonian Shamanism Conference</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ayahuasca-Medicine-Shamanic-Amazonian-Healing/dp/1620551934" target="_blank">Ayahuasca Medicine: The Shamanic World of Amazonian Sacred Plant Healing</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/alan.shoemaker1" target="_blank">Mr Alan Shoemaker on facebook</a><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1965359057530273942.post-73741416059880874122018-01-04T12:44:00.000+11:002018-01-04T13:06:49.280+11:00Book Review: San Pedro; The Gateway to Wisdom by Ross Heaven<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-AU">This book review first appeared in <a href="https://www.newdawnmagazine.com/regular-issues/new-dawn-165-november-december-2017" target="_blank">New Dawn issue 165</a> November / December, 2017. </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-AU"><span class="_Tgc">© Brett Lothian.</span></span></span></span><br />
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avid San Pedro enthusiast for over two decades now and a big fan of Ross
Heaven’s straight shooting approach to his writing, I was very excited to hear
about this book during my interview with Ross for New Dawn Special Issue,
Volume 10, Number 5, in October 2016. I can honestly say that now having read
the book, that I was not at all disappointed, once again, Ross Heaven has
created a true gem for those who are interested in San Pedro, shamanism and
shamanic plant medicine with this truly excellent entry in his new shamanic
plant medicine series, San Pedro: The Gateway to Wisdom. </span></span></span></div>
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shamanic plant medicine series is written to provide the reader with a succinct
and practical introduction to specific teacher or power plants, their history,
shamanic uses, healing applications and benefits, as well as the things to be
aware of when working with these plants, including ceremonial procedures and
safety precautions. These plants are
known to the western world as entheogens, substances that ‘reveal the god
within’ and in shamanic cultures as allies, helpful spirits that confer power
and pass on insights and information. This series reveals the truth about these
plants and provides an insight into their uses as well as the precautions to
take so that the reader is properly informed of their choices and not reliant
upon the disinformation and propaganda of the western world’s insane war on
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back in time to the dawn of San Pedro use with the Chavin de Huantar culture of
ancient Peru, the author takes us through the trials and tribulations of the
Andean shaman in their quest to maintain the use of these miraculous plants in
the face of the brutal and blood thirsty Catholic Inquisition. Having evolved
in their practice to placate their Spanish invaders, the Andean shaman quite
brilliantly and aptly began to associate Saint Peter (as the holder of the keys
to heaven) with the various Trichocereus species that are collectively known today
as San Pedro (Saint Peter) or Huachuma in the traditional Quechua language of
Peru. Merging their traditional practice within a Christian setting, thankfully
the Andean shaman managed to continue the use of San Pedro cacti for shamanic
purposes right up until today, where it is undergoing a revival in popularity,
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the author explains for the reader just how these beautiful, serene giants
conduct healing and open the heart, in our increasingly sick and cold world.
Exploring the key themes and lessons that arise from shamanic work with San
Pedro, including new case studies of those who have been healed by them, Ross
Heaven literally unlocks the gates to this mysterious world of the Andean
shaman, for all of us to look inside and understand. Taking this further into
the realms of creativity and active magic, San Pedro: The gateway to wisdom is
a fantastic introduction to this mysterious world that is just beyond the veil
of normal reality. Also providing valuable information on working safely and
responsibly with San Pedro, the author provides the reader with everything they
need to know to get the most out of their work with these ancient healing
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other shamanic plant medicines such as Ayahuasca, it is perhaps an even better
shamanic plant medicine for most people to begin their journey in shamanism and
shamanic healing. It’s gentle, loving energy and miraculous healing powers are
so very needed today, in our increasingly uncaring modern world. With this new
guide to San Pedro by Ross Heaven, you too can experience the magic, healing
and love of this truly special ally. Quite simply a must have for anyone that
is interested in San Pedro, Trichocereus cacti and true shamanic healing. I
highly recommend this wonderful medicine and remarkable guide to San Pedro: The
gateway to wisdom.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="line-height: 107%;">P.S. If you are a fan of Ross Heavens work, you may be interested in my exclusive interview with him for New Dawn magazine, where he discusses various aspects of shamanism, just how shamanic plant medicine works and much more! You can find the interview at the following link ~ <a href="http://trichoseriousethnobotany.blogspot.com/2016/12/how-shamanic-plant-medicine-works.html" target="_blank">How Shamanic Plant Medicine Works: Interview with Ross Heaven.</a></span></span></span><br />
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This article first appeared in <a href="https://www.newdawnmagazine.com/special-issues/new-dawn-special-issue-vol-11-no-5" target="_blank">New Dawn Special Issue Volume 11, Number 5, September 2017.</a> <span class="_Tgc">© Brett Lothian.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Poisoned
Generation: Living in a Toxic Age.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Let food by thy medicine and medicine be thy
food.”</i> ~ Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine c. 370 – c. 460 B.C.E.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">In an age
where new diseases are appearing at an alarming rate and many other diseases
are sky rocketing to numbers that we have never been seen before, despite the
advances of modern medicine, hygiene and sanitation, where obesity, even amongst
the poor is now at pandemic levels, we have to ask ourselves, just what the
hell is going on? What has changed in the past few decades that is making us
all sick? And perhaps most importantly, how and why is it being allowed to
happen at all? </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Where-as
once upon a time we had clean air, water and simply food, now we have pollution,
fluoride and a myriad of different food types which are often misleading in
their labelling. With a subject that is so large, it is hard to know where to
start, but let us begin with the modern food type that is definitely the worst
for you, processed food. The word processed often causes some confusion, so let
me clarify what I mean. Obviously, most foods we eat are processed in some way.
Apples are cut from trees, ground beef has been ground in a machine and butter
is cream that has been separated from the milk and churned. But there is a
difference between mechanical processing and chemical processing. If it's a
single ingredient food with no added chemicals, then it doesn't matter if it's
been ground or put into a jar. It's still real food. However, foods that have
been chemically processed and made with refined ingredients and artificial
substances, are what is generally known as processed food.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">So why is
processed food so bad for us? Processed foods are usually loaded with added
sugar, and/or its evil twin, High Fructose Corn Syrup. It is well known that
sugar, when consumed in excess, is seriously harmful. As is well known, sugar
is "empty" calories, meaning it has no essential nutrients, but a
large amount of energy. Many studies show that sugar can have devastating
effects on metabolism that go way beyond its calorie content. It can lead to
insulin resistance, high triglycerides, increased levels of the harmful
cholesterol and increased fat accumulation in the liver and abdominal cavity. Not
surprisingly, sugar consumption is strongly associated with some of the world's
leading killers, including heart disease, diabetes, obesity and cancer. Processed
foods and beverages are by far the biggest sources of added sugar (and HFCS) in
the modern diet. In Australia we have</span> lost fewer people to terrorism
since September 11, than we lose every<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">
single day</span> to the ravages of obesity related conditions.</div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">In recent
history, </span>instead of the 2 kilograms a year of sugar that humans are
equipped to eat without damage, the average Australian is consuming 20 to
30 times that amount,<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"> <span lang="EN-AU">and when you eat sugar in those doses, it becomes a toxin. The
average 600 ml soft drink contains a massive 15 teaspoons of sugar. As part of
the chemical process used to make high fructose corn syrup, the glucose and
fructose, which are naturally bound together, become separated. This allows the
fructose to mainline directly into your liver, which turns on a factory of fat
production in your liver called lipogenesis. This leads to fatty liver, the
most common disease in America today, affecting 90 million Americans. This, in
turn, leads to diabesity, pre-diabetes and Type 2 diabetes. So, high fructose
corn syrup is one of the main drivers of the current epidemic of heart attacks,
strokes, cancer, dementia, and of course, Type 2 diabetes. </span></span>An
excessive refined carbohydrate consumption (sugars) has also been directly
associated with a high incidence of both criminal and antisocial behaviour. An
excessive refined carbohydrate consumption can also lead in susceptible
individuals to a disordered carbohydrate metabolism, especially to reactive
hypoglycemia, which in turn has been found to be particularly prevalent among
violent offenders. Reactive hypoglycemia has also been associated with diverse
personality and psychiatric disorders, such as neuroses, panic attacks,
agoraphobia and schizophrenic episodes.<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Beside the
ginormous load of pure fructose and sugar found in HFCS, as an added bonus, it
contains other chemical toxins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chemical
contaminants used during manufacturing end up in the HFCS and in our food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What we know, for example, is that chloralkali
is used in making high fructose corn syrup. Chloralkai contains mercury. And
there are trace amounts of mercury found in high fructose corn syrup-containing
beverages. Now, it may not be a problem if we consume this occasionally, but the
average person consumes more than 20 teaspoons a day of high fructose corn
syrup and the average teenager has 34 teaspoons a day. Over time, these heavy
metals can accumulate in the body, causing health problems. Additionally, when
we look at the chemical components of high fructose corn syrup on a
spectrograph, we can see that it contains many strange new chemicals that we
know nothing about. But sadly, this is just the beginning… Processed foods are
also loaded with extra added chemicals, including other artificial sweeteners, preservatives,
colourings, flavourings, flavour enhancers, emulsifiers, antioxidants,
texturants and the list goes on. Whilst space does not permit me to cover all
of these dangerous additives, and their risks to human health, the following
are just a few examples of the poisons being added to our foods. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Nitrites
and nitrates are chemicals commonly used as colouring agents, preservatives and
for flavouring. Nitrites, which can form from nitrates and react with naturally
occurring components of protein called amines. This reaction can form nitrosamines,
which are known cancer causing compounds. Nitrosamines can form in nitrite or
nitrate treated meat or in the digestive tract. Studies have linked nitrites to
stomach cancer. Some data also suggest an association with cancer of the
oesophagus, one study showed an increased risk in people who eat cured meats
more often. There is also evidence that nitrites may be associated with brain and
thyroid cancers. In 2010, scientists at the World Health Organization’s
International Agency for Research on Cancer declared that ingested nitrites and
nitrates are probable human carcinogens. </span></div>
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Tartrazine (E102), which is primarily used by the soft drink
industry, is one of the colours most frequently implicated in food intolerance
studies. Adverse reactions to tartrazine include asthma, urticaria, rhinitis, childhood
hyperactivity and vascular permeability, causing edema and inflammation, which
is directly associated with various airway constriction disorders, including
asthma. A carefully conducted double-blind placebo- controlled trial on 76
children diagnosed as hyperactive, showed that tartrazine and benzoates
provoked abnormal behaviour patterns in 79% of them. Although tartrazine seems
to be most frequently associated with adverse reactions, there are also other
colouring agents which are known to cause mental and/or physical ill-effects.</div>
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Sunset Yellow (E110), used in biscuits, has been found to
damage kidneys and adrenals when fed to laboratory rats. It has also been found
to be carcinogenic when fed to animals. Carmoisine (E122), used mainly in jams
and preserves, was found by the US Certified Color manufacturers Association to
be unavoidably contaminated with low levels of beta-napthylamine, which is a
well known carcinogen; it has also been found to be mutagenic in animal
studies. Amaranth (E123) has been found, when fed to laboratory rats, to cause
cancer, birth defects, still births, sterility and early foetal deaths.
Subsequent work has also found that amaranth can cause female rodents to
reabsorb some of their own foetuses. Ponceau (E124), used mainly in dessert
mixes, has been found to exhibit a weak carcinogenic action. Erythrosine (E127),
used children’s sweets, has been found to act as a potent neurocompetitive
dopamine inhibitor when exposed in vitro on a rat brain. There is now some
evidence that a reduced dopamine turnover may lead to childhood hyperactivity. Similar
findings have been linked with a reduction of noradrenaline. Erythrosine also
has been found to have a possible carcinogenic action when tested on animals.</div>
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Caramels (E150), of which over 100 different formulations
are currently in use, are widely used by the cola drinks industry, as well as
the beer and alcohol industry. It is also used as a colouring agent in crisps,
bread, sauces, gravy etc. The main recurring problem about the safety of
caramels concerns the presence of an impurity called 4-Methylimidazole,
produced by processes using ammonia, which leads to convulsions when fed to
rats, mice and chicks. It has been also found that ammoniated caramels can
affect adversely the levels of white blood cells and lymphocites in laboratory
animals. Furthermore, a study on rabbits provided evidence that even small
doses of ammoniated caramels seem to inhibit the absorption of vitamin B. </div>
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Benzoates (E210-E219), used mainly in marinated fish, fruit-
based fillings, jam, salad cream, soft drinks and beer, have been found to
provoke urticaria, angioedema and asthma. Furthermore, they have also been
directly linked with childhood hyperactivity. Sulphites (E220-E227), used
mainly in dried fruits, fruit juices and syrups, fruit-based dairy deserts,
biscuit doughs, cider, beer and wine, have been linked with pruritus,
urticaria, angioedema and asthma. When fed to animals, sulphites have also been
found to have a mutagenic action. Butylated hydroxyanisole BHA (E320), used in
soup mixes and cheese spread, has been found to be tumour-producing when fed to
rats. In human studies it has been linked with urticaria, angioedema and
asthma.</div>
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Trans-fat is used to enhance and extend the shelf life of
food products and is among the most dangerous substances that you can consume.
Found in deep-fried fast foods and certain processed foods made with margarine
or partially hydrogenated vegetable oils, trans-fats are formed by a process
called hydrogenation. Numerous studies show that trans-fat increase LDL
cholesterol levels while decreasing HDL (“good”) cholesterol, increases the
risk of heart attacks, heart disease, and strokes, and contributes to increased
inflammation, diabetes, and other health problems. </div>
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That is not to mention the problems associated with various
types of food packaging, which leach dangerous chemicals into our foods and the
fact that almost always, processed foods are made with genetically modified
food products, let alone the radiation from Fukushima, continued nuclear
testing etc etc. You might be asking yourself, how is this allowed to be
happening? If the average person knowingly poisoned someone, even just making
them sick, let alone killing them, they would go to jail for a very long time.
So why is big business allowed to get away with this, whilst making enormous
profits in doing so? I think the only logical conclusion is that the powers
that be want this to be happening or have been paid off, otherwise they quite
simply would not allow it. </div>
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In June this year the Australian government announced it
would be conducting a review of its Health Star Rating System on food products,
which is meant to be the official guide as to just how healthy a product is, by
virtue of the number of stars it displays on the package. If it gets five out
of five stars, it is supposedly as healthy as it gets. If it gets only half a
star, not so much. The problem is Big Food and Big Sugar have wrapped their
tentacles and exerted their influence around what should be an entirely
independent process. Under the current system, straight milk gets four stars,
while Up & Go with at least four sources of added sugars, gets four and a
half stars! Low-fat strawberry flavoured milk also gets four and a half stars.
Some packets of chips even get four stars. But packaged smoked salmon, gets three
and a half stars, while plain natural Greek yoghurt falls away to one and half
stars! The Coles brand beer-battered frozen steak house chips get four stars.
Milo, which is just under half sugar, gets four and half stars. Nutri-Grain,
which is about a third sugar, gets four stars. Commercial fruit juice,
depending on the brand, gets between four and five stars and yet the World
Health Organisation classifies fruit juice as containing "free"
sugars that need to be restricted. So while as reputable an organisation as WHO
says, that it is bad for you, in Australia the government says it is about the
healthiest thing you can drink. Notice a trend here? While the science is in,
and there is no doubt that the healthiest option is to choose simple,
unprocessed food over processed food with endless sugars and chemicals added,
the current Health Star system steers the masses from the edge of the
supermarket where you can get the fresh chemical free organic products of
Australian farmers to the long aisles where you get the products of Big Food
and Big Sugar.</div>
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How did the system get so corrupted? Let's start with the
fact that the food industry sits on the advisory panel! The food industry is
driven by the desire for profit, so why would they be given input to
determining a scale which should be driven by health only? The system is
predicated on the notion that these stars are not handed out in a measure of
overall health, but only how they measure up against other products in their
food group. This, is some explanation for the absurd results, but no excuse, and
if your product doesn't measure up, you don't have to use it at all because the
Health Star Rating System is not mandatory. The system is based on nutrients,
not whole foods. This is where it gets complicated, to come up with their
stars, they use an algorithm based on a handful of nutrient based criteria, and
among other flaws that algorithm does not pinpoint added sugar as the being the
prime health indicator. In the words of Dr Kieron Rooney, senior lecturer in
the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney: "The HSR is not much
more than a marketing tool for industry. Check out the blurb on the side of an
Up and Go, which proudly coerces one to consume on the basis of its 4.5 stars.
Look at the long list of ingredients. This is an ultra-processed industrialised
product and not as the HSR and marketers would have you believe, a healthy
alternative to eating a simple, unprocessed breakfast." Therein lies
another problem, the algorithm takes no account of the amount of processing a
food has gone through before it gets into that package, before it gets to you.
In the Brazilian system however, that is the prime indicator of a food's
health.</div>
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When it comes to the politics of food, we need a government
that insists the public health infrastructure be freed from the influence of
Big Sugar and be devoted to one thing and one thing only, public health. But it
is not even remotely like that, and the star rating system is far from
alone in suffering that influence. Take, for example, the Dietitians
Association of Australia. Often you see DAA spokespeople, instead of sounding
the sirens on the dangers of sugar as you'd expect, actively playing
down the dangers. This is the same organisation that, as documented by
David Gillespie, the author of <i>Sweet Poison</i>, that put out a press
release titled, "Sweet truths: Eating sugar may not make you
fat". Doesn’t that seem odd to you? What is even more disturbing, in
April of this year the DAA held a seminar for its dietitians on "The
Future of Foods" within the offices of Coca-Cola in North Sydney. Wouldn't
that be like the Lung Foundation having a meeting of its medical professionals
in the offices of British American Tobacco? These instances are not one-offs,
they are part of a consistent pattern. How can this be? The answer lies in the
fact the association's "corporate partners" – as they prefer to call
them, instead of "sponsors" – include Nestle chocolate, Arnott's
biscuits and, until recently, Unilever, the maker of Street's Ice
Cream. Over the years, such partners, and other food companies, have lent
a helpful hand with the association's activities, with the likes of Kellogg's –
purveyors of staggeringly sugary breakfast cereals – sponsoring the
association's promotion of Breakfast Week, while a sponsored
breakfast seminar at the 2014 DAA national conference promoted "The
Healthier Australia Commitment", which sounds great until you understand
it is an alliance of Nestle, Coca-Cola South Pacific, Campbell Arnotts, Sugar
Australia, General Mills, Lion, Unilever and PepsiCo. Breakfast seminars at the
association's national conferences are regularly sponsored by companies such as
Nestle and Campbell Arnott's. </div>
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Many dietitians are completely appalled by this of
course, but they have to be very careful about being too loud about it, because
the DAA is the body that accredits dietitians. Yes readers, the
controlling body anointed by the government, which gets to decide who is and
isn't a fit and proper professional to be dispensing dietary advice, and so
having their clients be able to claim their Medicare rebate – is
"partnered" by Big Food and Big Sugar. Of course the big food and
beverage companies deny having any influence over the DAA whatsoever. But if
the likes of Coca-Cola, Kellogg's and Nestle don't have any influence on the
DAA, what else could they be getting for their money? It is all too obvious
what really is going on… The DAA needs to be financially independent, and funded
with taxpayer money. That way, instead of singing for its supper in tune with
all those cereal and soft-drink jingles, it can just give uncorrupted dietary
advice and support its professionals without trying to steer the advice it
gives towards any of its corporate partners/sponsors, which would restore
public faith in the DAA. As it stands, it is nothing more than a government
approved shill organisation for the Big Food and Big Sugar industries.</div>
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But the collusion does not stop there, it is just the
beginning. As I covered in my previous articles in this series for New Dawn
Magazine, Poisoned Fields: What Glyphosate is doing to us and our environment in
issue 161, March-April 2017 and Poisoned Planet: And the Depopulation Agenda in
issue 163, July-August 2017, our regulatory bodies here in Australia, America
and across the world have been complicit for decades in allowing poisons into
our environment and our foods as part of a larger Depopulation Agenda. As we
here in Australia largely follow Americas lead on pretty much everything, you
can be guaranteed that what is happening over there, is happening here also. </div>
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By the end of World War II, chemical manufacturers like
DuPont, Shell and Monsanto shifted their military production to the domestic
“war on pests.” Today the U.S. chemical manufacturing industry is an $800
billion business that has registered over 80,000 chemicals for use in the
United States, with 2,000 new ones introduced each year. You and I are
repositories for these chemicals. Toss your cigarettes in the trash bin, but
you’re still breathing benzene from vehicle exhaust and industrial emissions.
The Centers for Disease Control’s Fourth National Report on Human Exposure to
Environmental Chemicals, issued in 2009 with updated data in 2017, looked for
308 synthetic chemicals in the blood or urine of Americans. Most were widely
detected. Some, like perchlorate, which can cause endocrine system and
reproductive problems and is considered by the EPA to be a “likely human
carcinogen,” was found in the urine of everyone tested. With unavoidable
exposures to toxicants at every stage of life, stopping the systemic poisoning
of our food, water, air, and soil is fundamental to giving individuals a decent
chance to optimize their own health.</div>
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In 2017, more than 1.6 million people will be diagnosed with
cancer in the United States, it is estimated that 134,174 new cases of cancer
will be diagnosed in Australia (72,169 males and 62,005 females). The incidence
rate of all cancers combined will generally increase with age for both males
and females. In 2017, it is estimated that the risk of an individual in
Australia being diagnosed with cancer by their 85th birthday will be 1 in 2. A
small percentage of these cancers can be attributed to genetic troubles,
whereas the remaining 90-to-95 percent of cancers are from influences outside
the body that change what happens inside—some of which you can control and some
you cannot. Those that we are told we can control, such as cigarette smoking,
diet, alcohol, sun exposure, stress, obesity, and physical inactivity, are
labeled "lifestyle factors," or lifestyle for short. </div>
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An individual through their actions can help
manage cancer’s progress or lower the risk of getting cancer in the
first place; assuming one has the time, money, education and job
options that allow one to make choices and know what choices to
make. Yet an emphasis on lifestyle always seems to come at the expense of
meaningful public policy discussions. It diverts public attention from the
collective problem solving and societal decision-making processes about how
chemicals can, and under what conditions, cause harm, and what to do about it. A
2015 California study that consisted of a 54-year follow-up of 20,754
pregnancies showed that women exposed in the womb to high levels of the
pesticide DDT have a nearly fourfold increased risk of developing breast
cancer. At its peak use in 1962, over 85,000 tons of the pesticide were used. A
child in her mother's womb exposed to the chemical had no choice in the matter.
It is the responsibility of society, not the individual, to control cancer-causing
chemicals.</div>
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Rory O'Neill, a professor of occupational and environmental
health policy at the University of Stirling, Scotland, who is an editor of <i>Hazards
Magazine </i>and the Work Cancer Hazards blog, tells us not to be fooled by the
limelight on lifestyle for cancer risk. In the following post, slightly edited,
he writes: There are several problems with the emphasis on lifestyle, for a
slew of chronic disorders, from cancer, to diabetes, to cardiovascular disease,
to neurological disease, to…. Heck, all of them, and you can add in mental
illness and suicide on top. This is not because the lifestyle effects are not
real, but because: Where research shows genuine concerns about occupational and
environmental risks, the findings are questioned regardless of the strength of
the evidence, and there is a cookie cutter response that says lifestyle is the
real problem. This is driven by a berserkly well-resourced cancer industry
selling this line, a process described well by Devra Davis, Janette Sherman,
Joe LaDou and a noble succession of others.</div>
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When changing lifestyle is invoked as the key to prevention,
the tone is generally one of blame—you have the wrong diet, you drink too much
alcohol, you smoke, you don’t exercise. But these are consequences, not causes.
Low wages, bad jobs, under-employment, unemployment, insecurity, and being born
into and trapped in the lower socioeconomic strata are the problems that need
addressing. These circumstances drive bad habits by removing positive choices.
For example, you may have to “choose” processed, sugar-laden foods if your
budget and your long hours in multiple minimum wage or less jobs may the
alternative practically impossible. Overloaded, stressed workers smoke and are
more likely to demonstrate all the other bad habits. Put them on the night
shift with no access to decent food and no prospect of decent sleep patterns
and you soup up the effect. Add in prejudice based on gender or race, and you
amplify these effects. Without looking at the socioeconomic drivers of peoples’
“choices,” blaming lifestyle just adds insult to injury, it is tantamount to
victim blaming in a rape case.</div>
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Publicly funded independent occupational and environmental
health science—by either academics or statutory agencies—is becoming rare.
Research is increasingly (and frequently covertly) funded by industries
motivated by concerns about the legal implications of medical research and not
concerns about public health. Witness the 40-year wait for the new U.S.
beryllium standard, which was introduced in March 2016; the respirable silica
standard; the “science-fraud” and ongoing defense of chrysotile asbestos use
(only just banned in Canada, and thanks to industry lobbying still legal in the
United States); denial of low level benzene exposures causing cancers (thanks
ACS—American Cancer Society); the links between Parkinsons and manganese; lack
of regulation of endocrine disrupting chemicals; and the list goes on. The
tobacco industry’s playbook gets bounced from one industry to the next, with
the highly remunerative process of seeding doubt enough to perpetuate another
generation of exposures and another decade or two of profits. The issue is not
whether or not we own up to the real role that lifestyle factors play in
causing cancer. It is that we understand how the lifestyle excuse is used to
diminish or deny the role played by industry, by social prejudice and by
economic disadvantage in perpetuating the circumstances that lead to many
cancers and that influence cancer survival rates. Yet when we raise these
issues we are shouted down and we are financially out-gunned by the same
corporate interests that benefit from the cancer status quo.</div>
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But luckily for us, there are people like Carol Van Strum
who for decades, has collected some of the dirtiest, darkest secrets of the
chemical industry, with more than 100,000 pages of documents obtained through
legal discovery in lawsuits against Dow, Monsanto, the Environmental Protection
Agency, the U.S. Forest Service, the Air Force, and pulp and paper companies,
among others. As of today, those documents and others that have been collected
by environmental activists will be publicly available through a project called
the Poison Papers. Together, the library contains more than 200,000 pages of
information and “lays out a 40-year history of deceit and collusion involving
the chemical industry and the regulatory agencies that were supposed to be
protecting human health and the environment,” said Peter von Stackelberg, a
journalist who along with the Center for Media and Democracy and the Bioscience
Resource Project helped put the collection online.</div>
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Along the way, she amassed disturbing evidence about the
dangers of industrial chemicals — and the practices of the companies that make
them. Two documents, for instance, detailed experiments that Dow contracted a
University of Pennsylvania dermatologist to conduct on prisoners in the 1960s
to show the effects of TCDD, a particularly toxic contaminant found in 2,4,5-T.
Another document, from 1985, showed that Monsanto had sold a chemical that was
tainted with TCDD to the makers of Lysol, who, apparently unaware of its
toxicity, used it as an ingredient in their disinfectant spray for 23 years.
Yet another, from 1990, detailed the EPA policy of allowing the use of
hazardous waste as inert ingredients in pesticides and other products under certain
circumstances.</div>
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There were limits to what Van Strum could prove through her
persistent data collection. The EPA had undertaken a study of the relationship
between herbicide exposure and miscarriages and had taken tissue samples from
water, animals, a miscarried fetus, and a baby born without a brain in the
area. The EPA never released the full results of the “Alsea study,” as it was
called, and insisted it had lost many of them. But a lab chemist provided Van
Strum with what he said was the analysis of the test results he had been hired
to do for the EPA, which showed the samples from water, various animals, and
“products of conception” were significantly contaminated with TCDD. When
confronted, the EPA claimed there had been a mix-up and that the samples were
from another area. Somehow, I don’t believe them… </div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">The sad
fact of the matter is that we are being misled, lied to and slowly poisoned for
profit. Once more, the almighty dollar has been put before people. In today’s
world this is so pervasive, that there is not just one thing that is
responsible, but many and the list is ever growing. More and more, our air,
water and food are being poisoned, to the point where it is hard to find
anything at all that is truly healthy for us. Thankfully people are starting to
wake up to this fact and are ever more seeking healthier alternatives, although
what is being provided for us as being healthy, is quite often far from the
case. Advice from the supposed experts consistently changes, leaving many of us
confused and our regulatory bodies are not only doing nothing to protect us,
but are in fact colluding with big business to poison us all. Whether this is
purely for profit, or part of a larger Depopulation Agenda or both, it doesn’t
matter, the facts remain the same, we are being made sick and slowly killed off
by the poisons in our food, air and water. </span>But we can try to minimize
the damage, by eating organic whole foods and preferably growing our own where
possible. We can filter our water and live in cleaner environments where
pollution is not so much of an issue, if you are lucky enough to be able to
afford to. But sadly this will not stop our governments, regulatory bodies and
big business from colluding to poison us all. We have to stop them, before it’s
too late.</div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">References:
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Nine ways
that processed foods are harming people. By Kris Gunnars, BSc<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/318630.php<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">EWG’s Dirty
Dozen Guide to Food Additives: Food Additives Linked to Health Concerns.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">http://www.ewg.org/research/ewg-s-dirty-dozen-guide-food-additives/food-additives-linked-health-risks</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">The Adverse
Effects of Food Additives on Health: A Review of the Literature with Special Emphasis
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">This article first appeared in <a href="https://www.newdawnmagazine.com/regular-issues/new-dawn-163-july-august-2017" target="_blank">New Dawn Magazine issue 163</a>, July-August 2017. </span><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span class="_Tgc">© Brett Lothian.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Pharmaceutical Drugs: The Silent Epidemic</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">The use of
illicit drugs has been demonized for decades now, to the point now that when
the average person imagines a drug overdose, they immediately think of a young
person at a rave or worse, a junkie in some back alley lying stone cold with a
needle in their arm. But is this the reality? To an extent, yes, but it is far
from the whole picture. In Australia, accidental deaths from pharmaceutical
medications have doubled in the last decade, according to new statistics from
the Alcohol and Drug Foundation (ADF). Today, there are far more Australians
dying each year from pharmaceutical overdoses than from illicit drugs, in fact,
69% of all accidental drug related deaths, are caused by prescription
medication. As of the last few years, accidental overdoses accounted for more
deaths per year than the national road toll, with the number climbing to over
800 people a year. But why are there no major campaigns to reduce the
prescription drug toll? </span>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Whilst the
national road toll is the excuse used to justify “road safety” cameras, which
are nothing but revenue raisers in reality, the national prescription drug toll
however offers no way for the government to make money from us. Some efforts
have been made to prevent people from what is known as ‘doctor shopping,’ which
is, people getting numerous prescriptions from different doctors, but that will
only effect a very small number of prescription drug users, namely those who
use prescription drugs illicitly or use illicit drugs also. Those people will
just satisfy their cravings through the black market, so very little will
change with that effort and the government knows it. Despite what the average
person may think, the vast majority of long term illicit drug users are quite
educated in their drug use, often knowing their drugs of choice and their
dangers far better than the supposed experts. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">However,
the average prescription drug user, who are the vast majority of those dying
from all drug overdoses, are not educated at all about drugs, beyond the quick
30 seconds of advice given by the pharmacist when picking up their
prescription. Too many people assume that because a doctor prescribed them
their drug, that they must be safe, but this is all too far from the truth.
Some of the most insidious and addictive drugs known to man, are the drugs
prescribed by doctors, such as the opiates oxycodone, fentanyl, codeine and
morphine. Other prescription drugs such as benzodiazepines like Xanax can also
be just as dangerous as the more famous opiates. By contrast, the currently
illegal drug Marijuana, has never had one single death from overdose, ever. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">But this is
not just an Australian problem, this is a western world problem. Drug overdose
is now the leading cause of accidental death in the United States, with 52,404
lethal drug overdoses in 2015. Prescription opiate addiction is driving this
epidemic, with 20,101 overdose deaths related to prescription pain relievers,
opposed to 12,990 overdose deaths being related to heroin. You would think that
with so many people needlessly dying each year around the world, that this
epidemic would be addressed with at least a massive public education campaign,
to warn us against the dangers of prescription drugs, but alas, nothing. Could
it be that our leaders really care so little about this issue, or is it somehow
part of a greater agenda? </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">It could
simply be that the big pharmaceutical companies and their lobbyists, pay enough
in political bribes, ahem* donations, each year to keep this issue quiet. Or it
could be part of something far more evil, it could very well be that this is
just another part of the elite depopulation agenda. After all, it is the elite
who own the big pharmaceutical companies pushing these dangerous drugs, under
the veil of medicine. Also it is the big pharmaceutical companies paying Australian
doctors and nurses more than $64 million from April 2015 to April 2016, to
attend “educational events,” otherwise known as lavish holidays. In reality,
they are paid to prescribe us the drugs that are killing all too many.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">800
Australians die per year from prescription drug overdoses, experts say. By
Sarah Whyte</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-13/800-australians-overdose-on-prescription-drugs-per-year-experts/8443578</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">It’s time
we talk about the addiction killing more Australians than heroin and ice
combined. By Caitlin Bishop</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">http://www.mamamia.com.au/prescription-drug-overdoses/</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Opioid
Addiction 2016 Facts & Figures. By The American Society of Addiction
Medicine</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">http://www.asam.org/docs/default-source/advocacy/opioid-addiction-disease-facts-figures.pdf</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Drug
companies paying doctors millions, Medicines Australia report reveals. By Daniel
Burdon and Julia Medew </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/drug-firms-paying-doctors-millions-medicines-australia-report-reveals-20160901-gr6n2w.html</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"> This article first appeared in <a href="http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/regular-issues/new-dawn-163-july-august-2017" target="_blank">New Dawn Magazine issue 163</a>, July-August, 2017. </span><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span class="_Tgc">© Brett Lothian.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Poisoned
Planet: And the Depopulation Agenda</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">For decades
it has been drummed into us by the world’s elite, their privately funded think
tanks and their elite owned mainstream media, that overpopulation is one of the
greatest challenges of our time, and if left unchecked, will lead to us
destroying the environment and therefore, ourselves, despite the entire world’s
population being able to fit into an area the size of New York. Humanity has
been declared the enemy of all life on Earth, a cancer upon our planet that
must be held in check at all costs. Andy Thomas put it succinctly in his
article "Understanding the Ruling Elite” in New Dawn 127 (Jul-Aug 2011):
"Those [of the elites] who have expressed support for eugenics and
depopulation strategies, for instance, often have deep-seated environmental
concerns or feel strongly that we have lost our balance with nature and must
put the planet’s future ahead of the requirements of the common people.” Popularizing
this idea was the book, The Population Bomb written by Stanford University
Professor Paul R. Ehrlich in 1968, it warned of the mass starvation of humans
in the 1970s and 1980s due to overpopulation, as well as other major societal upheavals,
and advocated immediate action to limit population growth. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">In 1974 the
United States National Security Council under the direction of Henry Kissinger,
a member of the elite think tank the Club of Rome (premier think tank to the
United Nations) compiled the National Security Study Memorandum 200:
Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas
Interests (NSSM200), which was adopted as official U.S. policy by President
Gerald Ford in November 1975. It was originally classified, but was later
declassified and obtained by researchers in the early 1990s.</span><span lang="EN-AU"> </span><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">The basic
thesis of the memorandum was that population growth in the least developed
countries is a concern to US national security. The policy gives
"paramount importance" to population control measures and the
promotion of contraception among populous countries to control rapid population
growth. It recommends for US leadership to "influence national
leaders" and that "improved world-wide support for population-related
efforts should be sought through increased emphasis on mass media and other
population education and motivation programs by the UN, USIA, and USAID."</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">In 1976 the
Club of Rome think tank released their “Goals for Mankind” saying that "… the
resultant ideal sustainable population is hence more than 500 million but less
than one billion.” Mikhail Gorbachev, the former head of the USSR and Club of
Rome member put it this way, “We must speak more clearly about sexuality,
contraception, about abortion, about values that control population, because
the ecological crisis, in short, is the population crisis. Cut the population
by 90% and there aren’t enough people left to do a great deal of ecological
damage.” Highlighting the mindset of the world’s elite, the ever tactless
Prince Phillip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II and Club of Rome member has said,
“In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus,
in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation.” </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">More
recently in 2009, another elite think tank self-dubbed “The Good Club”
including</span><span lang="EN-AU"> </span><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">billionaires Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, David Rockefeller, Eli Broad,
George Soros, Ted Turner, Oprah Winfrey, Michael Bloomberg and others concluded
during their meeting, according to an article in the Times of London, headlined
“Billionaire Club in Bid to Curb World Population,” that “Taking their cue from
Gates they agreed that overpopulation was a priority.” Ted Turner the founder
of CNN and TNT has himself previously been quoted as saying "A total
population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would
be ideal.” Microsoft founder, Monsanto investor and world’s richest man Bill Gates
openly admitted in a 2010 TED presentation that through the use of vaccines (which
he spends large amounts of his fortune promoting) populations can be dramatically
reduced, despite vaccines supposedly being given to prevent death and disease. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Numerous
other measures and events have been linked to the elite depopulation agenda,
such as wars, economic sanctions, engineered food shortages, chem-trails,
disease outbreaks, HAARP weather manipulation and the list goes on. But perhaps
the most pervasive and despicable is the widespread use of glyphosate and genetically
modified foods, as Club of Rome member Henry Kissinger has said “Control oil
and you control nations; control food and you control the people.” When think
tanks like the Club of Rome and the supposed Good Club, with their billionaire
backers and serious political clout want to depopulate the planet by as much as
90-95%, please believe that they will actually achieve it, if left unchecked,
and food is the major key in doing just that. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">This is
where glyphosate (the major ingredient in the Monsanto herbicide Roundup) comes
in, this poison is by far the most widely used herbicide worldwide in
agriculture and its use is only increasing. Another major concern is genetically
modified foods, which are predominantly modified in such a way as to be able to
withstand more glyphosate being sprayed upon them, increasing the amount of
glyphosate exposure to the consumer and the environment. Whilst 38 countries
around the world have now banned genetically modified crops, with only 28
countries (Including Australia) still growing them, only Malta, Sri Lanka,
Argentina and the Netherlands have actually banned glyphosate, which is the
real problem with most genetically modified foods, particularly the so called
“Roundup ready” varieties which are widely grown and sold in Australia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Glyphosate
was first approved for use in the 1970s, and as of 2010 was labelled for use in
130 countries. In September 2013, the legislative assembly of El Salvador
approved legislation to ban 53 agrochemicals, including glyphosate; the ban on
glyphosate began in 2015. In April 2014, the legislature of the Netherlands
passed legislation prohibiting sale of glyphosate to individuals for use at
home, although commercial sales were not affected. In May 2015, the president
of Sri Lanka banned the use and import of glyphosate, effective immediately. In
May 2015, Bermuda blocked importation on all new orders of glyphosate based
herbicides for a temporary suspension awaiting outcomes of research. In May
2015, Colombia announced that it would stop using glyphosate by October 2015 in
the destruction of illegal plantations of coca, the raw ingredient for cocaine.
In June 2015, the French Ecology Minister asked nurseries and garden centres to
halt over the counter sales of glyphosate in the form of Monsanto's Roundup.
This was a nonbinding request and all sales of glyphosate remain legal in
France until 2022, when the substance will be banned for home gardening. A vote
on the relicensing of glyphosate in the EU stalled in March 2016. Member states
France, Sweden, and the Netherlands objected to the renewal. A vote to
reauthorize on a temporary basis failed in June 2016 but at the last-minute the
license was extended due to industry pressure for another 18 months and will be
re-evaluated at the end of 2017. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Thanks to
the persistence of hundreds of plaintiffs in lawsuits alleging that they (or
their deceased family members) were diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma after
being exposed to Roundup, newly discovered internal emails and other documents
being made public, paint an increasingly troubling and sinister picture of
corruption. For decades, Monsanto has enjoyed a revolving door relationship
with government agencies like the American EPA and USDA, giving the chemical
company unprecedented power to influence and manipulate the regulatory process.
Meanwhile, the biotech behemoth has attacked scientist’s claims that its
flagship product, Roundup, causes harm to both humans and the environment, by
discrediting scientists who raise concerns, coercing others into producing
industry friendly research, and manipulating corporate media into spinning a favourable
narrative. Whilst on the one hand clinging steadfastly to its claim that
Roundup is “safe,” Monsanto strong-armed the junk food industry into joining
forces against consumers who demanded, if your Roundup sprayed GMO foods are
safe, you should have no problem labelling them.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">But just as
the truth about DDT and Agent Orange came too late for many of its victims, so
it appears to be the case for the millions of people all over the world who
have been affected by Monsanto’s Roundup. In the U.S., victims are fighting
back through a wave of new lawsuits, more than 700, filed in St. Louis, Mo.
(Monsanto headquarters) and Alameda, Calif. As reported in EcoWatch, Robert F.
Kennedy Jr., co-counsel in some of the lawsuits, told St. Louis Public Radio, "We're
bringing the lawsuit to address the injuries that have been caused by Roundup
and glyphosate to mainly farmers and farm workers, but we think that consumers
and home gardeners have also been affected." Monsanto is sticking to its
story, that “when used according to directions,” Roundup is safe. Farmers who
spray it, consumers who use it in their yards needn’t worry, the Biotech Giant
says. But as lawyers and reporters sift through and pore over thousands of
pages of court documents, Monsanto’s claims of safety ring more and more hollow.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">As reported
in Alternet, one of the documents unsealed by Judge Vince Chhabria was an email
written by William F. Heydens, a Monsanto executive, giving his colleagues the
green light to ghost-write glyphosate research and then hire academics to put their
names on the papers. He even cited an instance where the company had used this
method in the past. "We would be keeping the cost down by us doing the
writing and they would just edit & sign their names so to speak,"
wrote Heydens. On March 21, officials at the New York Medical College (NYMC) in
Valhalla, N.Y., told the American Association for the Advancement of Science
they will investigate one of their faculty members, who according to the court
documents, put his name on a paper partially ghost-written by Monsanto
employees. At least one institution is willing to uphold the integrity of
science.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">In the
coming weeks and months, reporters and lawyers will continue to sift through
and analyse the mountain of new documents that include emails between Monsanto
and EPA officials. What we’ve seen so far may be just the tip of the iceberg.
In 2015, 17 scientists with the World Health Organization's International
Agency for Research (IARC) on Cancer unanimously concluded (and since
reaffirmed) that Roundup is a "probable carcinogen" to humans and
that people exposed to Roundup are most likely to get non-Hodgkin lymphoma and
other hematopoietic cancers. Last month, a report by the Special Rapporteur on
the right to food, presented to the United Nations Human Rights Council, stated
unequivocally that the storyline perpetuated by companies like Monsanto—the one
that says we need pesticides like Roundup to feed the world—is a myth. And a
catastrophic one at that. Since the EPA was established on December 2, 1970, to
work for “a cleaner, healthier environment for the American people,” it has
failed repeatedly to put public health above corporate profits, as documented
in “Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA,” written by a
25-year veteran of the agency.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Recent U.S.
diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks reveal the former Bush administration
drew up ways to retaliate against Europe for refusing to use genetically
modified seeds. In 2007, then-US ambassador to France Craig Stapleton was
concerned about France’s decision to ban cultivation of genetically modified
corn produced by biotech giant Monsanto. He also warned that a new French
environmental review standard could spread anti-biotech policy across Europe. In
the leaked cable, Stapleton writes, "Europe is moving backwards not
forwards on this issue with France playing a leading role, along with Austria,
Italy and even the [European] Commission...Moving to retaliation will make
clear that the current path has real costs to EU interests and could help
strengthen European pro-biotech voice." <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ambassador Stapleton goes on to write,
"Country team Paris recommends that we calibrate a target retaliation list
that causes some pain across the EU since this is a collective responsibility,
but that also focuses in part on the worst culprits. The list should be
measured rather than vicious and must be sustainable over the long term, since
we should not expect an early victory," he wrote. No doubt a similar
policy is in play in regards to Russia, who in July 2016 signed a law to ban
the cultivation and breeding of genetically modified plants and animals.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">In a stark
demonstration of the power of the agrochemical industry to dictate the terms of
a nation’s food safety system, former president Barrack Obama ignored 250,000
petitioners and signed into law Senate Bill 764, known to many as the DARK
(Deny Americans the Right to Know) Act. The DARK Act was boiled up by
agrochemical industry lobbyists and their allies in Congress (both Republicans
and Democrats) to prevent Vermont from becoming the first state in the country
to implement a mandatory GMO labelling on food packaging. Employing the
Orwellian tactic of double speak, with which the corporate media promotes the
false narratives of corporate corrupted politicians, ABC News made no mention
of the Vermont law, instead reporting that the bill “creates a federal
labelling standard for foods containing genetically modified ingredients.”
White House spokeswoman Katie Hill told ABC News, “This measure will provide
new opportunities for consumers to have access to information about their
food.” Professor Laura Murphy, director of the Environmental & Natural
Resources Law Clinic at Vermont Law School, observed that the new law, in fact,
does the opposite of creating consumer transparency for GMO food. “If Congress
were really interested in providing consumers with information, it could have
adopted Vermont’s on-package label that companies are already using across the
country,” Murphy explained. “Instead, Congress created a mechanism for
companies to hide behind QR codes and trample on state efforts to provide their
citizens with actual information.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As if
this weren’t bad enough, the federal law has a confusing definition of ‘bioengineering’
that gives USDA the authority to determine how much of a product needs to be
bioengineered before a label is required, and prevents even the food companies
from certain types of disclosure.“ </span></div>
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things seem to be getting even worse under the current Trump administration,
who has signed a Presidential order to create a new task force that will
“recommend eliminating food and agriculture legislation, policies, and
regulations that might hinder the profit-making of “agribusiness.” Again
putting profits before people. If that wasn’t bad enough, recently Sherman
County in Oregon is alleging that the 2,000 acre Azure Farms is not doing
enough to control Canada thistle, a noxious weed. In this case, not doing
enough means not spraying weeds with herbicides. To remedy the alleged problem,
the county proposes seizing the farm and spraying everything with Roundup and
other herbicides. Azure Farms is certified organic. Of course, organic farms
cannot by definition use herbicides, so the farm would be forced out of business
by the county government. Adding insult to injury, the county would place a
lien on the property forcing it to pay for the herbicides. If this goes
through, it will create an extremely worrying precedent, potentially putting
all organic farming in the U.S in danger.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">As I
revealed in my previous article for New Dawn magazine, in issue 161 (March –
April 2017) Poison Fields: What glyphosate is doing to us and the environment,
glyphosate has been linked to almost every major disease epidemic and condition
of our modern world, from cancer to neurological disorders such as learning
disabilities, attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD), autism, dementia,
Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Linked disorders such as
coeliac disease, gluten intolerance, autism and ADHD did not even exist until
the advent of glyphosate and are now growing exponentially. As little as 50
years ago diseases like cancer and dementia were quite rare in the human
population, today with the ever growing use of glyphosate, they have become the
norm and are almost expected for all of us. But perhaps most importantly for
the depopulation agenda is the drastic lowering of fertility and birth rates
associated with the use of glyphosate. Many countries around the world are now
experiencing what is being termed as ‘Ageing Populations’, meaning that today
we are not replacing our current population levels at the same rates, which
will lead to us not being able to support aged pensions as there will not be
enough new tax payers to fund the support of our elders. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Recently
German conglomerate Bayer and Monsanto begun the process of a corporate merger,
and as leading researcher F. William Engdahl has revealed will be releasing a
new herbicide that will likely be even more toxic, although less well known.
Seemingly playing a shell game to get around the ever growing bad publicity
associated with the name Monsanto and its well-known poison Roundup
(glyphosate), Bayer will soon become the new more friendly face of Monsanto’s
poison business. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has become plainly
obvious that the highest seats of corporate and political power, regulatory
bodies and large sections of the scientific community are working in collusion
with Monsanto (soon to be Bayer), to cull the current human population through
truly horrible diseases and at the same time destroy our ability to procreate. Even
more sickeningly, the evil geniuses behind this depopulation agenda have
managed to make enormous profits in doing so. As Mahatma Ghandi put it, "The
world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's
greed."</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">On a
brighter note in the news recently, a California state court has dismissed a
legal challenge by Monsanto that seeks to bar the state from adding glyphosate,
to a list of cancer causing chemicals. On March 10, Fresno County Superior
Court Judge Kristi Culver Kapetan ruled against Monsanto's challenge to a
provision of Proposition 65, a California voter initiative passed in 1986 that
requires the state's governor to publicize a list of chemicals known to cause
cancer. Such a voter led initiative as Proposition 65 here in Australia would
be a great step in curbing the elite and their companies like Monsanto-Bayer
from being able to legally poison us and I encourage our wonderful New Dawn
readers to become more politically active in forcing our government to undertake
such measures. In the meantime the prevalence of glyphosate in our modern world
leaves us few options but to either eat organic food, which is often
prohibitively expensive or to grow our own food, which all too few today know
how to do. We simply must force our governments and regulatory bodies to follow
suit with an ever growing list of countries and ban GM crops and glyphosate,
before it’s too late. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">About the
author: Brett Lothian is an Australian author, professional arborist, market
gardener and ethnobotanist. He is the author of the Tricho Serious Ethnobotany
blog and creator of The Trichocereus Cacti Appreciation Group, The Peyote
Appreciation Group and The Ethnobotany Appreciation Group on facebook.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Population
Control: How corporate owners are killing us. By Jim Marrs</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">The entire
world fits in New York City. By Ana Swanson</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/04/02/the-entire-world-fits-in-new-york-city/?utm_term=.c9462f082758</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">A Complete
List of All Countries That Have Banned Glyphosate. By Matt Rozsa</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">https://backtotheroots.com/blogs/bttr/a-complete-list-of-all-countries-that-have-banned-glyphosate</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Sorry,
Monsanto: GMO Crops Now Banned In 38 Countries, Grown In Only 28. From: Healthy
Holistic Living</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">http://countercurrentnews.com/2017/01/sorry-monsanto-gmo-crops-now-banned-in-38-countries-grown-in-only-28/</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Glyphosate
Wikipedia</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphosate#Legal_status</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Bill Gates
and George Soros fund Monsanto and a world depopulation agenda. By S. D. Wells</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">http://www.naturalnews.com/054899_eugenics_GMO_Bill_Gates.html</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Genetics
are the New Eugenics: How GMO’s Reduce the Human Population. By F. William
Engdahl</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">http://katehon.com/article/genetics-are-new-eugenics-how-gmos-reduce-human-population
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Congress
Must Investigate Collusion Between Monsanto and the EPA, Now. By Katherine Paul</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">https://www.organicconsumers.org/essays/congress-must-investigate-collusion-between-monsanto-and-epa-now</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">WikiLeaks
Cables Reveal U.S. Sought to Retaliate Against Europe over Monsanto GM Crops.
By Democracy Now</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">https://www.democracynow.org/2010/12/23/wikileaks_cables_reveal_us_sought_to</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Obama
Expands Monsanto Doctrine By Signing DARK Act And Invalidating Vermont GMO
Labelling Law. By Jonathan Greenberg</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/obama-signs-dark-act-to-invalidate-vermonts-landmark_us_57a644c7e4b0ccb023727b2d</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Monsanto
attempt to block glyphosate from California cancer list tossed by judge.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">https://www.rt.com/usa/380590-monsanto-california-glyphosate-cancer-list/</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Billionaires
Try to Shrink World’s Population, Report Says. By Robert Frank</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2009/05/26/billionaires-try-to-shrink-worlds-population-report-says/</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">The
Population Bomb</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">National
Security Study Memorandum 200</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Study_Memorandum_200</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Moscow Bans
GMO: Russia, the World’s Largest GMO-free Territory, Platform for the
Development of Organic Agriculture. By Elena Sharoykina</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">http://www.globalresearch.ca/moscow-bans-gmo-russ</span><span lang="EN-AU"> </span><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">ia-the-worlds-largest-gmo-free-territory-platform-for-the-development-of-organic-agriculture/5548448</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">BREAKING
NEWS: President Trump Pushes GMOs in New Executive Order. By Nick Meyer</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">http://www.march-against-monsanto.com/breaking-news-president-trump-pushes-gmos-in-new-executive-order/</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Oregon
Officials Threaten To Seize 2,000 Acre Organic Farm, Spray It With Roundup. By
Tyler Durden</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-16/oregon-officials-threaten-seize-2000-acre-organic-farm-spray-it-roundup</span></div>
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<b><span class="_Tgc">While traveling around Phillip Island in southern Victoria, Australia with my beautiful amazing girl, we came across the lovely little sea side hamlet of Rhyll, where much to my delight we found a Trout and Bush Tucker Farm that I just had to check out. Not being the keenest of fishermen, I wasn't particularly interested in fishing for the introduced Trout species, what intrigued me of course was the promise of bush tucker, and hopefully some interesting plants that I could learn some more about, with an eye toward potentially growing at home for food crops. </span></b><span class="_Tgc"><br /></span>
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<b><span class="_Tgc">Thankfully with the ever growing 'foodie' culture here in Australia, bush tucker is making a bit of a resurgence in popularity. For far too long our wonderful native food plants have been neglected for the European and American varieties, which is a great shame when we have so many exciting native species right here to utilize. Bush tucker of course has for tens of thousands of years been an integral part of the traditional knowledge of our native Australians, but is generally not something most people of European descent know a lot about today. </span></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Warrigal Greens' Tetragonia tetragoniodes, a tasty leafy green native vegetable</td></tr>
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<b><span class="_Tgc">Unfortunately with our ever increasingly specialized society, basic life skills like which plants you can eat and which you can not, are no longer taught to people in our modern western society, much to our detriment. Despite having food growing all around us, all of the time, most people today can not recognize it and fail to make the most out of our natural resources, limiting our ability to survive if for whatever reason, the super markets ever run dry. Utilizing bush tucker is not only smart in a survival sense, but it also is a great way to save money. Having formerly worked as a chef and restaurant manager, this has been a focus of mine for some time, and I can never learn enough about our native food and medicine plants.</span></b><br />
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<b><span class="_Tgc">With 1.2 km of walking tracks through 7 acres of food crops, covering 27 different native food species, the Rhyll Trout and Bush Tucker Farm is a truly educational experience. With largely excellent signage, full of useful information, you will definitely come across something here you will recognize but never knew you could eat. Some of the plantings have at the time of writing this, not yet reached maturity, but largely you can view (and taste) the wide variety of plants in all their glory. </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="_Tgc">In the Farmhouse cafe onsite there are numerous
different meals and food products you can order and buy, utilizing the
native bush tucker grown on the farm as well as other locally sourced
products, and of course delicious trout, that you have either caught
yourself or that is supplied for you. Also onsite is a great little
nursery where you can buy the majority of the native bush tucker plants
grown on the farm, to grow yourself at home. So, if you are ever down this way, I
encourage you to stop in and visit this excellent little farm and get
into the amazing plants we have growing all around us. You will not be
disappointed. For more information click on the following link for the <a href="http://rhylltroutandbushtucker.com.au/" target="_blank">Rhyll Trout and Bush Tucker Farm website</a>.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="_Tgc"><b>Following on from this story I will be writing a series of Bush Tucker articles, taking an in depth look at all the different species grown here on the farm, as well as many others that I happen to come across, covering the traditional as well as modern uses for these beautiful tasty plants that we have growing here in Australia, as well how to grow and care for them at home, so stay tuned!</b><br /><br />By Brett Lothian</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1965359057530273942.post-6786414066838918832017-08-03T15:51:00.000+10:002017-08-03T16:54:29.270+10:00The 'Moonah' Trees: An Ancient Love Story<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This article and all pictures used are the copyright of Brett Lothian, 2017 <span class="_Tgc">©.</span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">An ancient stand of 'Moonah' trees</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="_Tgc"><br />The 'Moonah' Trees: An Ancient Love Story</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="_Tgc">Whilst visiting friends in Cowes, Phillip Island, Victoria, I came across a map of the island and surrounding areas with the various tourist attractions to visit, of course there was the expected penguin parade, seal and whale watching areas as well as something I was not expecting, a site I had never heard of before that promised 300+ year old 'Moonah' trees on the adjoining Churchill Island. Being an arborist, ethnobotanist and avid tree lover, naturally I was intrigued, so I decided to doing a little digging and learn just what these 'Moonah' trees were and what the story behind them was. </span></span></span>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sculpture representing the ancient Bunurong legend of the entwined lovers</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="_Tgc">The name 'Moonah' comes from the indigenous people of Australia and has been recorded by SJ Endacott in Aboriginal Words and Place Names, as meaning 'Gum Trees' which I found odd as the term 'Gum Tree' normally refers to Eucalyptus trees and with the 'Moonah' trees actually being a species of Maleleuca, namely Maleleuca lanceolata. </span>The regions indigenous history is tied to
the Bunurong people who call Churchill Island, 'Moonahmia'<i> </i>after the special trees that
grow here. Legend
has it that among the Bunurong people lived a boy and a girl who had fallen in
love. They spent every minute tightly embraced in each others arms. They were
so in love that they neglected their daily duties. The Bunurong elders told the
boy and the girl that they must not forget their places amongst the people and
must help with the work. This warning could not break the lovers bond. Eventually
the Bunurong were so tired of the Boy and the Girl disappearing to be alone
that they were banished from their people. The lovers left together to where
they could be alone in their tight embrace where they froze in place leaving
the twist of their entwined bodies to became the wrapping trunk and branches of
the Moonah tree. Eventually their love had spread across the island and covered
it with their children who still grow there today.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The ancient lovers entwined still today</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="_Tgc">Whilst some may consider this a quaint, if not antiquated animist tale, I personally find it to be a beautiful way of looking at these amazing old trees and an excellent way of conveying an important lesson to the young people of the tribe, and perhaps even to the young people of today. Looking at the above picture, it is not hard to see just what those ancient Bunurong people saw way back when this ancient legend was told around the campfire. Traditionally Melaleuca species where used for numerous purposes including using the bark for cooking, torches, coverings for huts and smoke ceremonies. Also the leaves and oil where used traditionally to treat colds and flu and as an antiseptic. </span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A beautiful example of the gnarled and knotted growth of the 'Moonah' trees</td></tr>
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Australia extending the west coast of Western Australia to central Victoria,
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Queensland. There are outliers on Dirk Hartog Island and in the Darling Downs
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One of the larger 'Moonah' trees, perhaps up to 500 years old</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The 'Moonah' tress of Churchill Island have been estimated
at being from anywhere from 300 to 500 years old, with their lifespan
potentially being even longer in the right circumstances. Considering the harsh
coastal climate of Churchill Island they potentially could grow for much longer
in more favourable environments. This species starts flowering during summer.
Mature seed capsules are maintained on plants throughout the year. There are
about 1320 viable seeds per gram; seeds start to germinate in about 7 days if
grown at 10-25°C with no pre-treatment required. Without application of fertiliser,
seedlings of this species will not grow.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Melaleuca lanceolata is a relatively fast growing species
that favours alkaline soils and tolerates moderate levels of salinity. The
dense canopy of this species provides excellent shade. Natural stands provide a
particularly useful shelter as a windbreak near coastal sites. The wood is
dense, dark brown, durable in the ground making it suitable for round fencing
and is a good fuel wood. It produces a useful source of pollen and honey for
apiculture.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A fallen 'Moonah' trunk</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Churchill Island is a 50.7-hectare (125.3-acre) island in Western Port, Victoria, Australia. It is connected by a bridge to Phillip Island.
It is the site of the first European garden in Victoria. It contains a
working farm, cottages dating from the 1860s and a homestead dating from
1872, all fully restored and open to the public. The island adjoins the 670-hectare (1,656-acre) Churchill Island Marine National Park. The island is maintained by Phillip Island Nature Parks. </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Map of the sites to see on Churchill Island</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In 1801, during the course of a survey of Western Port, Lieutenant James Grant
had some of his convict crew fell some trees and built a blockhouse on
Churchill Island. They cultivated a patch of soil and Grant planted
seeds of wheat, corn, potatoes, peas, coffee berries, apples, peaches
and nectarines given to him for the purpose of creating a garden "for
the future benefit of our fellow men be they Countrymen, Europeans or
Savages" by John Churchill of Dawlish in Devon, England. This was the
first European garden and crop of wheat grown in Victoria.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Cairn commemorating the 1st cultivation of wheat in Victoria </span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Samuel Amess, a former mayor of Melbourne, purchased the island in 1872 and built the substantial home that still stands today. The Bunurong people may have visited Churchill Island for
thousands of years before Europeans arrived. Remains of stone
foundations from two unknown buildings are also preserved on the island.
The Churchill Island Marine National Park adjoins the island's western
shore, and Western Port bay, in which the island is located, is listed
under the Ramsar Convention.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.856416944517102.1073741829.850917311733732&type=3" target="_blank">Click on the above photo for even more photos of Churchill Island and the ancient 'Moonah' trees</a></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="_Tgc">I highly recommend visiting Churchill Island if you get the chance, there is something very special about being able to touch and feel the ancient presence of these amazing trees that were here long before the white man ever landed on these shores. Churchill Island is an amazing place full of history and well worth the time to take a look around, the walking tracks are well maintained and you will not be disappointed by these ancient 'Moonah' trees.<br /><br />By Brett Lothian.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="_Tgc">References: </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="_Tgc"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="_Tgc">Aboriginal Words and Place Names by SJ Endacott<br />http://www.icg-lakemacquarie2014.com/downloads/Gwandalan.pdf</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="_Tgc"><br />Forbidden Love</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="_Tgc">http://www.southsidetravel.com/blog-articles/forbidden-love.aspx<br /><br />Melaleuca Lanceolata - Factsheet<br />http://www.florabank.org.au/lucid/key/species%20navigator/media/html/Melaleuca_lanceolata.htm<br /><br />Churchill Island Wikipedia</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="_Tgc">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churchill_Island</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Coastal guide to nature and history: Volume 2</span></span></span></span></span><span class="addmd"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> By Graham Patterson<br />https://books.google.com.au/books?id=foLVBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA97&lpg=PA97&dq=melaleuca+lanceolata+churchill+island&source=bl&ots=qQ3JSDGhJ1&sig=BRgx2EFWu6y_uYJ0ocp6pgtEAUE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJut6t47fVAhWMebwKHbenAzoQ6AEIRzAH#v=onepage&q=melaleuca%20lanceolata%20churchill%20island&f=false<br /><br />Plants and People in Mooro Country<br />http://www.joondalup.wa.gov.au/Files/Plants%20and%20People%20in%20Mooro%20Country.pdf</span></span></span></div>
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