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From an awesome online web comic called Subnormality.

Link: Subnormality

I nicely compiled list of the “top” 50 depictions of drug use in films. Youtube clips of the scenes are included for your viewing pleasue.

Link: The top 50 trips in movies..

A nicely done Ayahuasca info site.

Check out the very cool introduction before you get to the raft of information !

Link: Your Awakening

When Moses received the Ten Commandments from God, he was summoned right to the top of Mount Sinai.

But the man who led the Children of Israel to safety may have been even higher at the time, if an Israeli academic is to be believed.

Psychology professor Benny Shanon says it was likely Moses was hallucinating under the influence of a mind-altering drug at the time of his biblical achievements.

Link: Moses was high on hallucinogenic drug when he received Ten Commandments, claims top academic

Does this count as mainstream press coverage ?

I will never forget what it was like. The overwhelming misery. The certainty of never-ending suffering. No one to help you, no way to escape. Everywhere I looked: darkness so thick that the idea of light seemed inconceivable.

Suddenly, I swirled down a tunnel of fire, wailing figures calling out to me in agony, begging me to save them. Others tried to terrorize me. “You will never leave here,” they said. “Never. Never.”

I found myself laughing at them. “Im not scared of you,” I said. But the darkness became even thicker; the emotional charge of suffering nearly unbearable. I felt as if I would burst from heartbreak—everywhere, I felt the agony of humankind, its tragedies, its hatreds, its sorrows. I reached the bottom of the tunnel and saw three thrones in a black chamber. Three shadowy figures sat in the chairs; in the middle was what I took to be the devil himself.

“The darkness will never end,” he said. “It will never end. You can never escape this place.”

“I can,” I replied.

All at once, I willed myself to rise. I sailed up through the tunnel of fire, higher and higher until I broke through to a white light. All darkness immediately vanished. My body felt light, at peace. I floated among a beautiful spread of colors and patterns. Slowly my ayahuasca vision faded. I returned to my body, to where I lay in the hut, insects calling from the jungle.

“Welcome back,” the shaman said.

Link: Ayahuasca article in National Geographic Magazine

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Researcher and author Graham Hancock presented his thesis that “supernatural” entities such as aliens and fairies are actually transdimensional beings that humans encounter during altered states of consciousness. The ability to shape-shift has been ascribed to both modern aliens as well as elves and other entities reported centuries ago, he detailed.

Around 35,000 to 40,000 years ago humans underwent a sudden change, and the emergence of cave and rock paintings are evidence of this, said Hancock, who noted that some of their depictions were of part human/part animal beings. He believes these represent the supernatural entities, and through altered states (probably due to ingesting psilocybin mushrooms) humans learned advanced skills from their encounters with these beings.

Nowadays, shamans commonly have such altered state communications. They feel humanity is at a crossroads– the West has lost contact with the spirit world, and many of the world’s woes are due to this, Hancock reported. As part of his experiential research, he traveled to South America and took the psychedelic plant mixture ayahuasca. During one such episode, he described a confrontation with an alien being, but rather than being an extraterrestrial, he suggested it inhabits another dimension that can only be accessed during an altered state.

Link: Shamanism, Aliens & Ayahuasca : Graham Hancock

Brother Rich breaks down the co-relation between hip hop and your DNA

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Link: Hip Hop & DNA – Twisted Twisted

Link: Shamans of the Amazon Clip

If anyone has not yet seen this documentary i highly reccomend you hunt it down (it is also available to purchase through the site). Very informative account of a man travelling to the amazon to experiance an ayahuasca ritual. Also features input from Terrence McKenna.

Shamans of the Amazon is a personal account of Film-maker Dean Jefferys returning to the Amazon with his partner and one year old daughter. They journey deep into the heart of the Ecuadorian rainforest to meet two Amazon Shamans, to learn about and experience the ancient ayahuasca ritual. The film will also show how this hallucinogenic ritual is being adapted and used in western cultures.

Link: Shamans of the Amazon

Wahid Azal (born 1971 in Tehran, Iran) is originally Nima Hazini who is an Australian-Iranian controversial writer, gnostic/esotericist and self-proclaimed Babi prophet of the age. In 2004 he legally changed his name using the opportunity to declare himself the return of the Bayani holy figure Subh-i-Azal. As a child Azal lived in West Germany and Iran. With his family he left his native land for the United States at the beginning of the Iranian Revolution in 1979. The family subsequently moved to Australia in 1982. In 1989 after completing his high school Azal returned to the United States. He studied at the University of New Mexico and briefly in California. Until mid-1999 he was also the American representative of the Safialishahi branch of the Iranian Ni’matullahi Sufi order. In May 1999 Azal returned to the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia from the east coast of the United States where he has remained ever since. From that time onwards Azal has become notorious as the foremost public antagonist against the main Haifan branch of the Baha’i Faith/Baha’i on the internet.

In early 2006 Azal self-published his first among several projected opuses which he entitled Liber Decatriarchia Mystica: Sketchings of the Thirteen Encompassing Spheres of the Tree of Reality and assorted material. In this book he introduces a thirteen sphere cabalistic model of the universe and rewrites the Book of Creation/Sefer Yetzirah attributed to Abraham. The remainder of the book contains historical material related to the Bayani religion to which Azal adheres.

In recent years Wahid Azal has become an advocate for the use of the Amazonian psychoactive tea known as Ayahuasca. He presently co-heads an Ayahuasca Sufi Order known as the Fatimiya. He also heads the Ecclesia Gnostica Bayani Universalis and is a founding member of the N.U.R. Group.

Link: Wahid Azal