... out of ... dominant in ... which ... and which ... and blah blah blah. Personally, I only read this group to find out what M. Hoffman is thinking. I would...
... Dass idea that hallucinogens can provide a very limited sort of assistance along the spiritual path, by providing a glimpse into another world. But that's...
The standard claim of the entheogen-diminishing meditation proponents amounts to the claim that there is a certain type of "altered state" that meditation ...
Golden Children's Bible: The Old Testament and the New Testament Joseph Miralles (Illustrator) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0307165205 Classic,...
Alexandrian Jews wanted and so created a Jewish-styled version of the Hellenistic godman mystery-religion, by gradually assembling and constructing the Jesus...
Michael, More thoughts: I note, FWIW, that your intentions and mine are only partly overlapping. You are in large part interested in overturning the dominant ...
Tripping De-Light Fantastic Are psychedelic drugs good for you? By John Horgan Posted Wednesday, May 7, 2003 http://slate.msn.com/id/2082647 A year ago, hoping...
My goal initially was to be radically non-neurotic. The harder I pursued this goal, the more frustrating it became. I sought to control my ways of thinking,...
... Where can one read these recent remarks of Richard Alpert? ... and diminishing the efficacy of entheogens, these westerners are now favorably reconsidering...
This is something I thought of after reading this thread...something I wrote quite a few years ago.....about myself, written in third person. The next...
Hi, very interesting. I guess you really saw a devilish figure? I many time read about people seeing things or people on lsd. I had varying experiences with...
... to ... taking ... time ... profound ... itself. ... sometimes ... again, ... this ... Prior to these two experiences I had used entheogens for at least two...
Corrections: I write: "......down the window and the ninth group, only had nine drops....as the radio was blasting, I'm gonna cry...ninety six tears!..... Make...
... I don't want to give the impression that I am recommending the above book - read my Amazon review. You might be happier with a few other books such as the...
Bodily violence as metaphor for mystic plants, trials, and experiences ... own son? How could a story about shedding blood to turn away the wrath of a god be...
... events (like Kersten) That reviewer means the theory of the recuperative escape from the cross, nicely detailed and advocated by Holger Kersten in _The...
Excellent and clear post. dc ... experiences ... kills his ... wrath of a ... mysticism have ... Who would ... religious myth? ... intense ... humorous aspect ...
Metaphysical enlightenment versus improving/elevating daily life; transcendent good versus mundane good The magazine What Is Enlightenment is only barely worth...
One thing this brings up for me is the inner motivation behind seeking entheogenic experience, or any motivation for scientific discovery. Ultimatley there is...
Many levels of this one: "If someone seeking the Buddha wisdom for a period of eight hundred thousand million nayutas of kalpas should practice the five...
... prattle on and pontificate far too long to hold my attention. It's not that you haven't devoted thought to what you say, it's that you lack conciseness in...
... pluggable module that is separate from any comprehensive lifestyle system of applied spirituality. I push away ethics and improvement of the world, and...
... yet, Joscelyn Godwin, in Arktos, raised the possibility of "Nazi Spirituality," as sort of over-development of the sterotypical Gnostic or Manichean world...
The Saddharma Pundarika Sutra was a radical departure in Buddhist Sutras. It was written sometime between the 1st and 2nd century AD, in Kashmir. The...
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... Goodwin and Goodrick-Clarke cite it as Adolph Hitler: El Ultimo Avatara; but there are also some webpages findable via Google. From The Fortean Times...
In a message dated 6/8/2003 11:48:45 AM Pacific Daylight Time, ... Until good and bad are seen as conditions, then nothing else is seen. Look back into...
... Extinction of the assumed-literal ego is pretty straightforwardly achievable with the right tools. This removes certain aspects of suffering from the ...
... life into enlightenment and non-enlightenment, mundane and mystic realm. Only the mind sees the separation. An individual mind is enlightened or...
