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Por Juarez Duarte Bomfim Mestre Raimundo Irineu Serra adotou o lema do Círculo Esotérico da Comunhão do Pensamento que hoje adorna as portas de entrada de muitas casas e centros daimistas - e os unifica: Hei de Vencer. Significa a continuidade da tradição esotérica, já há mais de um século. O Círculo Esotérico da Comunhão…

Un colega terapeuta me explicaba a modo de anécdota la "justificación" de una de sus clientes ante la situación que vivía en sus relaciones. Llevaba varios años sin hablarse con su familia

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Weirdness, Slenderman, and Jackass occultism.

I majored in physics at Princeton. I’m a lawyer who graduated from Georgetown Law. I clerked for a Federal Judge. I held an important job lobbying for big business. And, of course, I had a positive, life-changing trip on LSD.

You can’t expect to get equal rights unless you push for them, and you can’t push for them without first standing up and being “out.” 

Part 3 of a 9 part in-depth conversation series on Coming Out of the Psychedelic Closet.

The decades-long “War on Drugs” has created a situation in which the use of psychedelics is a social justice issue.

Part 1 of a 9 part in-depth conversation series on Coming Out of the Psychedelic Closet.

Entre más de 100.000 posibles fármacos, sólo uno, la harmina, hizo que las células beta humanas productoras de insulina se multiplicaran según un estudio publicado en 'Nature Medicine'. Noticias, última hora, vídeos y fotos de Salud - Enfermedades en lainformacion.com

Terence McKenna's True Hallucinations is an experimental documentary about the chaos at La Chorrera, the imagination, time, the Logos, belief, hope

Psychological insight, spiritual healing, life-changing revelations. Such are the promises that lure the curious to a medicinal mix of plants called Ayahuasca.

With Dr David Luke from Greenwich University

Mediumship, the art of apparently communicating with discarnate entities is an ancient culturally universal activity that probably has its roots in ancestral shamanic practices.
Shamanism the art of going into altered states of consciousness to access otherwise hidden information, communicate with spirits and perform healing for the members of one's community.
It appears similar to mediumship in many ways but often includes features otherwise unseen in mediumship.

THIS TALK AIMS TO INDICATE HOW MEDIUMSHIP AND SHAMANISM TYPICALLY DIFFER.

Bulgarians were turning on, tuning in, and dropping out long before hippies.

Recently, one of the most prestigious scientific journals, Nature, highlighted research conducted by a team of Brazilian from the University of São Paulo on the antidepressant effects of a single dose of ayahuasca on a group of six individuals suffering from major depression. In that study, researchers demonstrated that ayahuasca was able to alleviate symptoms of depression within hours of intake and that the antidepressant effects persisted for weeks afterward.

No offense to Nancy or the U$ government cocaine-smuggling rings that thrived under the regime of her anti-communist ideologue of a husband, but drugs are endemic to life. 

The demonization of psychedelic culture is not a social justice issue, and using the language of social justice is damaging to those causes. 

Part 2 of a 9 part in-depth conversation series on Coming Out of the Psychedelic Closet.

The Ayahuasca Defense Fund (ADF) unites expertise and community resources to turn the tide of increasing ayahuasca prosecution into a platform of opportunity for legal precedent and sensible policy.
 
The ADF aims to 1) work with people facing prosecution worldwide to assure the best legal strategy and defense; 2) advocate for sensible and tolerant legislation and public policy; and 3) educate and protect the global community by providing a hub of resources and information.

IQUITOS, PERU—Saying he was trying not to think about how awful the next few days would be, master ayahuasca shaman Piero Salazar expressed his sense of dread Tuesday as he confirmed his week would once again be spent guiding American tech CEOs to spiritual oneness.

Psychedelics and psychoactive plants and fungi have been used for millennia by people and cultures across the globe for healing, insight, reconnecting, expanding consciousness, and spirituality. Today, these long-known benefits are also being validated through the lens of scientific research.

Despite this, in the United States and most countries, unless you’re in a protected religious group, psychedelics are banned and listed under Schedule I (“no currently accepted medical use”) or the equivalent, making them completely illegal, punishable by lengthy imprisonment, or worse.

It’s time to speak out using the tools we have at our fingertips: social media. Add your voice to the campaign to bring depth, diversity, and vision to the conversation around #PsychedelicsBecause these substances hold tremendous promise when used responsibly.

This campaign aims to actively:

Share stories humanizing the diversity of psychedelic users

Increase awareness around the benefits of psychedelics

Shift public attitudes and Reverse decades of negative stigma surrounding psychedelic and psychoactive drugs

Educate people about current scientific research

Promote psychedelic harm reduction by understanding the true risks and how to manage them

Help end arrests, incarceration, and criminalization associated with global drug prohibition

Unite psychedelic, drug policy reform, and harm reduction movements

The prevailing neuroscientific paradigm considers information process-ing within the central nervous system as occurring through hierarchically organized and interconnected neural networks. The hierarchy of neural networks doesn’t end at the neuroaxonal level; it incorporates subcellular mechanisms as well. When the size of the hierarchical components reaches the nanometer range and the number of elements exceeds that of the neuroaxonal system, an interface emerges for a possible transition between neurochemical and quantum physical events. ‘Signal nonlocality,’ accessed by means of quantum entanglement is an essential feature of the quantum physical domain. The presented interface may imply that some manifestations of altered states of consciousness, unconscious/ conscious shifts have quantum origin with significant psychosomatic implications. Healing methods based on altered states of consciousness and common in spiritual or shamanic traditions escape neuroscientific explanations based on classical cognition denoted here as ‘perceptual-cognitive-symbolic’ (characteristic of ordinary states of consciousness).  Another channel of information processing, called ‘direct-intuitive-nonlocal’ (characteristic of non-ordinary states of consciousness) is required to be introduced for interpretation. The first one is capable of modeling via symbolism and is more culturally bound due to its psycho-linguistic features