The Psychedelic Quaker Strikes Again.

25 minutes and 17,000 stitches latter.  (Taken with instagram)

25 minutes and 17,000 stitches latter. (Taken with instagram)

Embroidery proof sheet.  (Taken with instagram)

Embroidery proof sheet. (Taken with instagram)

Taken with instagram

Taken with instagram

Too clumsy to exist: It’s a good 3 hours before viewing services for one of the...

shanoops:

It’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…

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Taken with instagram

Taken with instagram

Taken with instagram

Taken with instagram

Dan Quintana’s Work in Progress for:
“Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me ” 20th anniversary group art exhibition Where: Copro Gallery - Bergamot Station 2525 Michigan Ave , Unit T5, Santa Monica , CA 90404 Ph: 310/829-2156 Opening Reception, Saturday, April 21, 8:00 – 11:30 p.m. Exhibit runs; April 21 – May 12, 2012 http://www.copronason.com/twinpeaks_pr.html

Dan Quintana’s Work in Progress for:

“Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me ” 20th anniversary group art exhibition 

Where: Copro Gallery - Bergamot Station 
2525 Michigan Ave , Unit T5, Santa Monica , CA 90404 
Ph: 310/829-2156 

Opening Reception, Saturday, April 21, 8:00 – 11:30 p.m. 
Exhibit runs; April 21 – May 12, 2012 

http://www.copronason.com/twinpeaks_pr.html

Scanning the Psychedelic Brain

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…

venu: Psychoactive Sacramentals: Essays on Entheogens and Religion (The Csp Entheogen Project Series, 3)

venu732:

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…

artruby:

HAITI: Not all masquerades require masks, or occur in Africa. In the Haitian port city of Jacmel three boys become Pa Wowo—painted, coconut-leaf-skirted peasants who personify poverty—for the spring carnival. 
From Phyllis Galembo: Maske

artruby:

HAITI: Not all masquerades require masks, or occur in Africa. In the Haitian port city of Jacmel three boys become Pa Wowo—painted, coconut-leaf-skirted peasants who personify poverty—for the spring carnival. 

From Phyllis Galembo: Maske

Source: artruby