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News Briefs 23-01-2008

Change is coming.

Thanks Greg and Kat.

Quote of the Day:

The drug user drowns in the same pool mystics swim in.

Joseph Campbell

  1. Nonprofit study finds the Bush Administration issued hundreds of
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    Considering the story was based on research from two “organizations” funded by george soros – The Center for Public Integrity, which worked with the Fund for Independence in Journalism – and is being pushed as “News” by AP. What a crock …

    Celtic Coyote

  2. Joseph Campbell’s Quote
    The drug user drowns in the same pool mystics swim in.

    -Joseph Campbell

    This statement may be true, overall. I would not argue its being false. Many ”aspiring shamans” (drug users has negative connotations) fail.
    This ‘pool’ of being Joseph describes is the true experience of the universe.
    Most people are incapable of gnowing these things, because they exist within cultural limitations, restrictions, and guidelines. Not aware of true reality, they operate in humanities self-generated reality, culture.

    When cultures grow rapidly, as in the Northwestern tribes of BC (kwakuitl, Tshimtshian) and become unsustainable, quite a few individuals are driven from the river by the sea city of the tribal culture, and into the dense jungles of the west coast. Those individuals, should they survive, act now as shamans for the culture. They being forced into the pool of true reality, nature being such as it is. Plus their diets in such dense forests vary so much that psychedelic intake is almost inevitable.

    In North American culture, which is a rather devoid culture, whose primary value is darwinian predation over others. Basic instinctual urges, and excessive unbalanced sustainability, and poor education. It is NO WONDER that the introduction of psychedelics to such an excessive, un-educated population would result in considerable losses. For many are unprepared to survive in the true nature of reality. They would be consumed, by something.

    This is an excellent function for sustainability. Give everyone the test of true reality. They may go crazy and kill themselves, but all in the name of sustainability.

    Internal psychological problems are easy to imagine as driving some drug users mad. But what about external factors, ie. the culture one is raised within. Certainly they are to blame for failure to adopt safe psychedelic practice.
    Also the plants are external forces affecting the human who has ingested them, in fact, this is the primary external influence right!
    Take for instance Cannabis, whose role in influencing humans generally is disarming. Making ignorant users into lazy (unambitious), peaceful people, relaxed man. This is very disarming, they consume less, are happy where they are, or, interact less with the destructive forces of naked ambition. Many cannabis users are also enviromentally oriented.
    So Cannabis is following nature’s wishes here. Disarming a population of people previously consuming and destroying, and transforming them into conservationists.
    Tobacco is killing people at an alarming rate. Is therefore stronger and smarter than most of its users. Helping the planet dispatch of the human burden. Also, I argue, providing retribution for the aboriginals murdered by ”colonialism”. Also ,punishing those aborigines who may have acted improperly in the face of colonialism. In other words Tobacco may be aiding the process of Karmic retribution. It is more in touch with the natural universe.

    Mystics may swim in the pool. They found the pool somehow, by a number of shamanic methodes. One of which is psychedelic experience. Another is fasting. Another dancing. Praying, etc.
    Not everyone is a mystic, obviously, less so in our society today.

    Joseph’s statement is correct but put biasedly I must say.

    thesleeperawakens@msn.com

    1. Yeah, sure…
      [quote]In North American culture, which is a rather devoid culture, whose primary value is darwinian predation over others. Basic instinctual urges, and excessive unbalanced sustainability, and poor education. It is NO WONDER that the introduction of psychedelics to such an excessive, un-educated population would result in considerable losses.[/quote]

      I quickly lost interest in anything you had to say after this bit of enlightened genuis. Your attempt to convey some sort of profound insight was completely undermined by your gleeful ignorance and misplaced arrogance.

      [quote]In other words Tobacco may be aiding the process of Karmic retribution. It is more in touch with the natural universe.[/quote]

      Me thinks someone is swimming in his own pool of….something.

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