25 minutes and 17,000 stitches latter. (Taken with instagram)
Source: shanoopsIt’s a good 3 hours before viewing services for one of the firefighters who died on Monday, and there are already news helicopters hovering relentlessly over my neighborhood. People have been asking me all week if the men who were killed were “my people”. I’m never really sure what people mean…
Dan Quintana’s Work in Progress for:
Brain scans reveal the surprising secret of magic mushrooms’ hallucinogenic effect.
The geometric visuals and vivid imaginings experienced by those tripping on mushrooms are not, as scientists had suspected, the result of increased brain activity, according to a report out today (23 January) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Instead, under the influence of psilocybin—the psychedelic component of magic mushrooms—brain activity and connectivity decrease. The reduced connectivity might be what frees people’s minds from normal constraints, the researchers propose…
Psychoactive Sacramentals: Essays on Entheogens and Religion (The Csp Entheogen Project Series, 3)
Said to help occasion direct spiritual experience, entheogens include such psychoactives as ayahausca, the peyote used by the Native American Church, and psilocybin mushrooms. What place might…