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An entheogen ("generating the divine within") is a psychoactive substance used in a religious, shamanic, or spiritual context. Entheogens can supplement many diverse practices for transcendence, and revelation, including meditation, psychonautics, psychedelic and visionary art, psychedelic therapy, and magic.

An entheogen ("generating the divine within") is a psychoactive substance used in a religious, shamanic, or spiritual context. Entheogens can supplement many diverse practices for transcendence, and revelation, including meditation, psychonautics, psychedelic and visionary art, psychedelic therapy, and magic.

Entheogens have been used in a ritualized context for thousands of years; their religious significance is well established in anthropological and modern evidences. Examples of traditional entheogens include: peyote, psilocybin mushrooms, uncured tobacco, cannabis, ayahuasca, Salvia divinorum, Tabernanthe iboga, Ipomoea tricolor, and Amanita muscaria. With the advent of organic chemistry, there now exist many synthetic substances with similar psychoactive properties, many derived from these plants. Many pure active compounds with psychoactive properties have been isolated from these organisms and chemically synthesized, including mescaline, psilocybin, DMT, salvinorin A, ibogaine, ergotamine, and muscimol, respectively. Semi-synthetic (e.g. LSD derived usually derived from ergotamine) and synthetic substances (e.g. DPT used by the Temple of the True Inner Light and 2C-B used by the Sangoma) have also been developed. Entheogens may be compounded through the work of a shaman or apothecary in a tea, admixture, or potion like ayahuasca or bhang.

More broadly, the term entheogen is used to refer to any psychoactive substances when used for their religious or spiritual effects, whether or not in a formal religious or traditional structure. This terminology is often chosen to contrast with recreational use of the same substances. Studies such as the Marsh Chapel Experiment have documented reports of spiritual experiences from participants who were administered psychoactive substances in controlled trials. Ongoing research is limited due to widespread drug prohibition, however some countries have legislation that allows for traditional entheogen use.


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/r/entheogens

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Any BPD people here with stories to tell, plz include set setting and dosage administered.

Did u find BPD made it easier for you to have a bad experience? Has anyone ever had BPD symptoms improve or become a new person altogether from a psychedelic experience?

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2020/04/20
14:33 UTC

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#50: Salvia Divinorum, Surviving a Pandemic & Finding a New Normal ft Kenny DeNight | HFTO Podcastst

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2020/04/19
04:20 UTC

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Heavengly prodocts are complete scam

Sent money paid cc he says he only does PayPal after he processes you're order and keeps you're money has done it to several he has complaints on scamadvisor and BBB for same thing

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2020/04/14
09:15 UTC

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Boofing LSA seeds guide

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2020/04/12
21:04 UTC

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Non-hallucinogenic entheogens

I find the world of entheogens very fascinating, however psychedelics can destabilize me quite quickly (cannabis even more so), so I am interested in substances that open the mind without causing too much overload or confusion, hallucinations, etc... Microdosing has some potential for me but tends to be on the line between too much and too little.

Kanna can give an mdma like feeling of connectedness and euphoria, but comes with pretty heavy side effects and is very unreliable. Dissociatives are a bit less taxing than psychedelics but get you pretty "fucked up", not quite what I want from an entheogen. Not the healthiest to body and mind I feel.

I heard some people describe Kava as spiritual, anyone experiences with it?

I guess what an entheogen is pretty subjective, as said in the side bar even tobacco can be one, so feel free to subjective about it.

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2020/04/12
19:21 UTC

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Where do we go after this life? Psychedelic messages from the other side explained it

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2020/04/11
19:55 UTC

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Subatomic Worlds

I found an excerpt from Zhuan Falun that talks about the countless subatomic worlds within ones self. A fascinating read:

"Daoists have always regarded the human body as a microcosm, and hold that this inner universe is as large as the outer one and faithfully reflects it. The idea might seem a bit of a stretch and hard to fathom; there doesn’t seem to be grounds for likening the human body to the universe, given the latter’s size. But there is a logic to it that can be explained. Contemporary physics is engaged in research on the composition of matter, and it has progressed from molecules to atoms, electrons, protons, and quarks, reaching all the way to neutrinos.

At these levels microscopy doesn’t have the power to see what exists or know what sizes of particles lie yet further below; researchers don’t know what exists at even more micro of planes. Physics today is still nowhere near reaching the tiniest particles of the universe. Nevertheless, the invisible, miniature realms of those particles might be perceptible to someone who has gone beyond normal physical form, for he would see, with magnified vision, subatomic worlds that are still greater, in keeping with his level of spiritual attainment.

The Buddha described the vastness of the universe after having witnessed it at his level of attainment. His teaching implied that there are other beings in the Milky Way galaxy with physical bodies similar to ours, and that even in just a single grain of sand a great many worlds can be found. This is consistent with modern physics, as the orbiting of electrons around a nucleus is really no different from that of the Earth around the Sun. And so the Buddha taught that in smaller, invisible realms a great many worlds can be seen even in just a grain of sand; meaning, a grain of sand is similar to a universe where lives and a multitude of things exist.

Then assuming that’s valid, within the worlds inside a single grain of sand, there would again be sand, presumably. And within that sand we would expect to find yet more worlds. And then in those worlds inside the sand we would expect to again find still more sand. It could go on endlessly. And so even the Buddha, with his level of spiritual awakening, concluded that the universe was both “infinitely large and infinitely small.” This suggests that it is so large he couldn’t see its perimeter, and so small that he couldn’t determine what the tiniest elemental substance is at the origin of matter.

There are masters who have said that a city can be seen in a single pore of the skin, complete with moving cars and trains. While that might sound far-fetched at first, it proves reasonable if it’s considered in a scientific spirit and with a genuine intent to understand. While I was talking about the opening of the inner eye, I mentioned that many who have experienced it have had visions where they are moving along a seemingly endless tunnel in their forehead region. And each day as they exercise or meditate they see themselves moving forward, with mountains and rivers to the sides; and they pass through cities and see a number of people.

They are apt to think it’s a figment of their imaginations. I can dispel any doubts and tell you that those things were not imagined; what they saw was very clear. Things like those shouldn’t be written off as imaginary, if the world within the body is as vast as masters have seen with their inner eyes. Remember that Daoist thought has long maintained that the human body is a universe unto itself. It’s only to be expected, then, that the distance from your forehead to the pineal gland, [where the inner eye is located,] is going to be enormous in that inner universe—making it feel like a really long way."

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That excerpt was from Zhuan Falun (Turning The Law Wheel).

The full book can be downloaded here:

https://www.falundafa.org/eng/eng/pdf/Zhuan-Falun-2018-v1.8.pdf

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2020/04/11
12:57 UTC

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Heavingly products are the legit still i ordered recent

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2020/04/11
03:22 UTC

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The River

Look upstream. The river is silent. A torrent erupts. The worst thoughts tumble towards you. You're not the thoughts. Let them go through you. The river is a place. Water molecules pass through locations in arrangement. Molecules are mostly empty space. The river still brings life to the banks and the fields. How can a single molecule of water be bad? A river is a collection of molecules flowing near each other. You are a collection of molecules. Be like water. Let the river flow through the place that is you. To love and be rejected causes pain. We evolved to seek belonging and acceptance. For survival. What to do with pain? It's a rock in the river. Where water does not flow. Two options: Be the rock. Feel solidity. What's wrong with a rock? Maybe you need stillness. The water will flow. It doesn't matter; you're the space between the stone. Move the rock out of the way. Either option is just moving molecules around. That flexibility can move mountains, even the mind. What if the river dries up? That water went somewhere. It is still wet. Until there are no molecules together. What if there was no water? There would be no wetness. There would be stone. There would be gas. There would be space. At the end is space. Even when there's no space, there is energy that can never be created nor destroyed. What was before energy? There was no before because there was no time. Only timeless energy. What would be without energy? There would be no world. There would be no awareness of it. There would be no thing and nothing. Even nothing would not be bad. There would be no bad and no one to mark it so. But there is something. Let if flow through you. These are all just words. Words can change how we feel. How we see. We are children playing games with energy. Don't forget to laugh. Childhood is full of joy and wonder. Childhood has fear and sadness. Children grow up. So do you. One day you will not be. The river keeps flowing. Feel wet. Or feel dry. Dry or wet, the river flows. The universe doesn't care. The universe is something you are made of. You are the river and the stone and the person in the river and the mind playing games with energy. You are all of the things: happy, at peace, angry, in pain. You are dry, and you are wet, and you are the space between the molecules. You are nothing and you are timeless energy.

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2020/04/05
11:30 UTC

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Human growing up and aging was explained to me by mushrooms

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2020/04/04
19:47 UTC

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PSYCHOACTIVE LICHEN! (x-post)

Xanthoparmelia Conspersa is a species of lichen (the shit that grows on rocks) which is used by the Pima tribes of New Mexico and Arizona with tobacco and is said:

"This lichen, which has a strong odor, is the color of gray ashes and grows on rocks and dead wood in certain spots on the hills. It has more religious meaning than any other plant, and is smoked, mixed with tobacco, at summer dances, when its distinctive odor is noticeable. Like marijuana, the smoking of [it] 'makes young men crazy."

Well.. I just smoked a bowl. It is eerily similar to weed. I mean I would say I'm at a [3.5] I've got a good body high, mood lift, color brightness increased, but an element of the weed high is missing and It might be the analysis enhancement isn't there. Although I'm not sure. I did WIM HOF breathing and it was much more intense than it usually is. When I did this I was laying down looking at the beautiful blue sky and things in the corner of my vision moved (like a shadow-person) but I had no anxiety or paranoia. As I held the WIM HOF breath my vision had a super faint geometric structure(?) rotating in the sky so faint and so brief one could account it to heightened HPPD. It's been about an hour since I've smoked and I can tell I'm coming down. I have no tolerance to cannabis or any other drug.

I will collect a shit ton more and make an extract and I will post it here as well!

This is GROUND BREAKING shit right here- psychoactive lichen. Fucking crazy, just wait until the DEA starts making sure that your landscaping rocks are free of lichen, lmao. This is great

I'm "stoned" <3 love y'all

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2020/04/04
14:46 UTC

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Psychedelic entities explained to me the dilemma of human nutrition and how we should eat

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2020/03/30
20:54 UTC

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I got some seeds.

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2020/03/27
02:24 UTC

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Unfortunately my beautiful Lophophora Williamsii Caespitosa had a severe case of root rot and I didn't realise how bad it was until I checked the roots just now. Managed to salvage a few buttons but all of the roots on them/the pups had horrible rot which was quite deep. Looking for advice

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2020/03/20
16:24 UTC

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Livestream: Psychedelic Neuroscience - Aaron Eisen

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2020/03/18
02:05 UTC

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Sacred Mushroom Rituals Part 4: Maria Sabina with Tom Lane | Mind Escape 116

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2020/03/17
02:19 UTC

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Help me find an entheogen?

I've been researching entheogens (and psychedelics as a whole) for a bit now, and was hoping for some guidance to find an entheogen that works for me.

I'm looking for something:

  1. Relatively inexpensive
  2. That I don't need to grow (live w/ parents)
  3. That can provide an increased consciousness to promote meditative states for insight and long-term spiritual growth.

I appreciate your contribution!

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2020/03/16
22:04 UTC

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Baby T. pachanoi

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2020/03/11
00:54 UTC

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How to prevent a bad trip

After 100+ trips on 10+ traditional psychs and also many trips on not so traditional psychs and spending many of those trips either watching friends going through a bad trip, going through my own challenging trip or contemplating why people bad trip, how not to bad trip, etc, I decided to make a series detailing how to pretty much guarantee a good trip.

Obviously this isn't 100% but honestly bad trips happen way more often than they need to because people just make so many easily fixable mistakes (and not even obvious ones like feeling good in a safe environment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSUihcDXmm8&list=PLV-F7n6Ji3yu-9U12jftP7foBLnwa-Yzu&index=2

I basically just made what I wished I had when I first started tripping that no one offered me. I'd really appreciate feedback! Love <3

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2020/03/10
10:45 UTC

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New Jourdaniana to add to the collection.

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2020/03/09
09:01 UTC

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Syrian Rue/Harmala

Is it worth to just take the brew made out of seeds? Without any other medicines to follow such as dmt or shrooms?

I've been reading about it and some say taking rue alone is worth it and some say it doesn't do anything apart from sedation and nausea.

How is it with cannabis? And how much should be the first dose? For tea not for the FB extraction. I can and i want to feel the full effects of tea

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2020/03/08
13:47 UTC

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Couple cacti came in this week.

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2020/03/08
06:17 UTC

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Can Toad Venom (bufo alvarius) be made into a tincture (0ral) or injectable?

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2020/03/07
21:11 UTC

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