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Oh man! That totally happened to me. I was whirling like a Dervish (literally ;)) to the Talking Heads and I met God. Well, a vast infinite realm of love and cleansing wisdom, if anyone's called that God before. Anyway, as thoughts were returning to my head slowly, the first voice that came...

"What everybody knows is, when a body decomposes, it's basic elements are given back to the ocean..." - Harry Nilsson I don't know what happens when you die, but if life is anything to go by, it's probably just another day nowhere...

Ok, heroin is physically addictive because it mirrors our own "home-made" opiates, like endorphins. If we take it for extended periods of time, our endorphins don't need to pump anymore, and the opiates take over. If you come off it the next day, there is usually no withdrawal. If you've...

Mmmm... Medicine... [drool...] That's a really beautiful text, just from a mystic point of view. Yeah, that's right. Alchemical texts can be found from most ancient cultures, Egypt, India, China, and are the root of a lot of scientific and medical advances in these cultures. The recipe for...

I'm going to risk a couple of whacks of the stick here :) Nobody made this stuff up. Nobody sat down and thought "I know a good idea for a religion". This is the stuff of experience. Abraham talked with God, Moses met him in the desert, the heavens were opened and Jesus remembered who he was...

Yeah, in a history way, Islam and Christianity and Judaism are really connected, but in a beliefs way, they're incompatible. Was it Ishmael or Isaac? Jesus or someone not yet arrived? Of course, they're all talking about having had direction from a monotheistic deity (is that bad grammar?)...

Ooooooh :) I heard a similar thing about Buddha recently. There's a passage where Buddha says there is no permanence and self, and another where he implies the buddha mind is pemanence and the true self, and still another passage where he clears up the misunderstanding (he was talking to...

yeah, angel, you could be considered to have potential shamanic tendencies, but not every schizophrenic gets the training or advice necessary to accept and use their condition to their benefit. Most are too busy trying to be "normal"... Oh yeah, by the way, your headaches could be a symptom of...

I already have one religion that I started with a few friends and don't tend to properly, so another one would just be way too much responsibility ;)

Our nervous system goes round our whole body. Ok, the brain does most of the thinking work, but it is possible that the entire system works like one big brain anyway, forming connections where it needs it, and making decisions without us knowing. Like pumping the heart faster, or surging those...

Yay! Mueck! He was one of the few artists you had to book to see and the queues were down the street. He used to make animatronics for Jim henson, but now he does brutally realistic sculptures that have been described as "psychic bombardment". I actually think pornography is a subset of art...

In some cultures, epilepsy is a sign of a shaman. Then again, signs of potential shamanic abilities from across the world include manic-depression, bisexuality, insomnia, schizophrenia... Think about it like this: A medicine man in a tribe has the knowledge of healing plants. If somebody...

It's ok. I don't expect you've heard of Baudelaire, Coleridge and Edgar Allen Poe... And having volunteered in drug information and advice, I've personally met about 30 LSD addicts. The point I'm making is that ALL these chemicals have benefits and risks and using what we have at our...

I'm not addicted to heroin. You got that completely wrong. I actually have a love and respect for the milk of the poppy, have enjoyed it on many occasions for medicinal and spiritual reasons. "Matrixism is a newly emergent religion based on the motion picture trilogy The Matrix" I have been...

That list sounds like a repeating formula for soap opera scripts. Maybe we like (not me personally, though) soap operas for the same reasons?

no, you don't believe everything on faith. Skepticism (the fundaments of the scientific method) means NOT taking ANYTHING on faith, but looking with your own eyes, making notes and forming ideas around the evidence by joining the dots. Sure there's gaps, but that's only because science is...

why does fatalism have to be slashed with despair? Couldn't somebody be happy and perfectly content to leave the universe in it's own hands to unfold as it will? We know a movie is a written script, and a book is already planned out and the ending will never change, but you can still be...

Just on drugs, by the way (;)). When I was younger I didn't understand what chi meant. I tried yoga breathing and tantra and didn't feel anything. Then one day at work (making coffees) I made myself a triple-shot espresso. I yawned. Suddenly, I felt a shiver up my spine and I could feel all...

It is said that Buddha ate only hemp seeds while attaining enlightenment. In India. Indian hemp is cannabis sativa is it not? The seeds grow inside the sticky resinous psychoactive flower-tops, do they not? Cannabis causes an introspective psyche-manifesting experience where you are likely...

No, I don't usually dis other people's religions. But this is not a religion. At best its a piece of art. And art is game for criticism. In fact, questioning reality itself calls for criticism of religious beliefs. When I saw The Matrix for the first time, I was quite impressed. As a...