I find it harder each day to live in a world so much more different than the one I want to paint for myself. For so long we have all been conditioned to think and feel a certain way about things. While trying to diminish these thoughts of others it's like a battle within myself.

I have been listening to the FRONTLINE report (Oct 26) about how the recession is
affecting upper income folks. While at first glance.. it may not seem a
sympathetic story.. actually.. it is.

There was one person who I related to. Her and her husband owned a busines
yet after the recession they have had to go to her 65 year old mother

Perceptual Revolution
by Sharon Gannon in SEMIOTEXT[E] USA
All forms of expression have become displays. Actual experience in the moment is hardly allowed in the capitalist state. Dis-play means NO-play, and it implies the stoppage of movement. Nouns once again dominate. How are our consciousnesses formed?

The birth of a new independence
for a land finally unbound
The chance to build their nation
strong with pride on sovereign ground
Free of the yoke after centuries
of rule by a foreign hand
A time of excitement and celebration,
unaware of horror’s planned
From the west the darkness came
silencing the truth in Balibo
An illegal occupation
and we were fully in the know

I just want to say that i've been through a horrible year, jail for 6 months with a month of rehab, but this community really helped me get through it all. so thank you all for giving me support and love. its true that love is all you need

Peyote was used in the territory of modern Mexico in pre-Columbian times to commune with the spirit world and also as a medicine. From the mid-15th century, the use of peyote spread to the Great Plains area of the United States primarily through the efforts of the Apache people. Peyotism is now practiced in more than 50 Indian tribes and has probably around 250,000 adherents.

Last night, I was clicking around on the photos of people who follow our blog and happened to click on two that didn't have blogs of their own. So I clicked on the blogs they followed and one of them led to a site I'd never heard of called Red Ice Creations.

Excerpts of this wonderful interview of Ganesh Baba by Terry Clifford were published in High Times:

http://blog.theflowerraj.com/?p=556

The Flower Raj is packed with excellent, re-digitized material from the hippie era in India:

http://theflowerraj.com/

This is a full length video presentation by a published physicist on his quest to understand the structure of the vacuum, and thus all of creation.

Campbell has mentioned in his workshops that the term “out of body” is misleading. The term should really be “out of mind.” By “mind” what is being referred to is the limitations of psychology and preconditioned mental networks—the assumed, the previously experienced, the programmed, the conditioned state of operational conscious awareness.

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==Thursday, November 5==

Ayahuasca Monologues

Are there any Evolvers in Indiana? I am brand new to the site and I would like to see if any one is from around Indy or Terre Haute.

"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
--From "How to Build A Universe That Won't Fall Apart in Two Days" by Philip K. Dick

I like taking the train. Being able to let the mind wander. And watching the different landscapes floating by. It's been a while since I been on a train last, so enjoyed it even more yesterday - travelling from flat Germany into mountaineous Austria ;).

I was doodling the other day.. and I am not typically a very creative doodler. But
I found myself creating a sigil.

I wasn't really into a trance.. just on my lunchbreak.

I wonder where it is supposed to be used.