Aw shucks, thanks sandy. I think everyone here comes for a space that's an alternative to the "alternative", Christine has modeled that for us with her balancing of the fun and joyful with the owning of her mistakes and bumps in the road on her journey...and importantly doing away with the...

I wasn't taking you to task for posting the video, I'm sure it's great...I just mentioned you might not get the attention you want posting it here What I "took you to task for" is characterizing Bill as some kind of "light bringer" on this forum...you didn't have to do that to po...

Bill Ryan is bringing light to a needed area of the alt-community online. There will be more on this in future Dark Journalist releases of this interview. I fully support what Bill is initializing, with the support of people like Richard Dolan and others. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB...

Just got back from Oregon, very special place to me. Haven't been to crater lake in a long time but is a nice day/camp trip from Bend, only a 2-3 hour drive I think Oregon has all the types of terrain there are except frozen tundra, and a lot of it is cheap...if you don't count gas money...it takes ...

I found myself worSHIPing...a concept I got from Frank Herbert's "Destination: Void" series. In it, the protagonists are faced with the problem of needing to build an artificial consciousness out of the ship they are trapped in. When they succeed, it grew...the ship became Ship, an omnipot...

"Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced". -Terrance McKenna This...and the other idea these plant medicine people share: an over abundance of oxygen necessitated a processor for the CO2 makes a lot of...

The medicine is so intelligent. All i could think about at some points is how elegant and perfect real medicine is. We've been twisted into believing that any band-aid that feels good or removes discomfort can be called medicine. Nothing brought to us by big pharma qualifies. I couldn't figure out w...

My favorite part of the ceremonies is the circles, sharing what we learned from our experience with the medicine. In the first one, before the second night...I mentioned how much my experiences have been about trust. The first ceremony was about building trust, it was learning what the situation act...

Heh, funny this thread resurrected while I was at the end of my second ceremony. There are no accidents. I am in absolute of awe my shamans, they are absolutely incredible humans. The medicine is so powerful, a connection to the loving spirit of the plants, of life itself...all humanity, the service...

What do you mean "blame femiminism on". C'mon...just like everything else, extremist bullshit is broadcast by media, triggering all the victim-minded people with different views

Who can afford to control the media? Probably another Rockefeller