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nagchampa2 Registered User (2/3/04 12:05 pm) Reply	Soma and Other Drugs RgVeda translated by Ralph T H. Griffith Hymn II 1. Beautiful, Vayu, come, for thee these Soma drops have been prepared; Drink of them, hearken to our call. 2. Knowing the days, with Soma juice poured forth, the singers glorify Thee, Vayu, with their hymns of praise... Soma drops: libations of the juice of the Soma, or Moon-plant was gathered by the moonlight on certain mountains, stripped of its leaves, and then carrried to the place of sacrifice; the stalks having been there crushed by the priests where sprinkled with water and placed on a sieve or strainer, whence, after further pressure, the acid juice trickled into a vessel called Drona; after which it was mixed with flour etc., made to ferment, and then offered in libations to the Gods or drunk by the Brahmans, by both of whom its exhilarating qualities were supposed to be highly prized. This famous plant has remained unidentified till recently (see Max Muller, Biographies of Words, Appendx III.) 'Dr. Aitchison has lately stated that Soma must be the Ephedra pachyclade, which in the Harirud valley is said to bear the name hum, huma, and yahma. This supposition is confirmed by Dr. Joseph Bornmuller, a botanist long resident in Kerman, who identifies the Soma plant with some kind of Ephedra, probably Ephedra distachya, but who remarks that different varieties of Ephedra are to be found from Siberia to the Iberian peninsula." By the way yogi's sit by the Ganges smoking hash all day and uaually with a sack cloth over their heads as not to waste any. (From Soma, Moving into the Stillness board) Ezboard debate on whether soma is real or not. pub92.ezboard.com/fmoving...=1&stop=20 Interesting new board: pub92.ezboard.com/bmovingintostillness
YellowBeard420 Slow Down (2/4/04 6:26 am) Reply	Re: Soma and Other Drugs This might be appropriate to post here. It's about a cannabis seed seller in the UK called Soma: -------- Soma is a 53 year old Rastafarian who is spiritually dedicated to the Sacred cannabis plant. He has been working with the plant for 35 years. Soma wears pants and shirts made out of it, smokes it constantly, he has a prescription for 10 grams a day, and studies every aspect of the marijuana phenomenon. He feels that it is one of the tools that can save humanity from it's direction of self destruction. He knows that it helps healing take place whenever and wherever it is used. Unlike aspirin, alcohol, tobacco, caffeine and nuclear radiation, cannabis has never killed anyone. It is one of the safest therapeutic substances known to man. Humankind has been using it since time immemorial. It is one of the best paper sources in the whole wide world, it can be recycled 7 times, takes one fifth of the pollution to manufacture than tree paper, and could be a totally renewable source of Bio-fuel. Hempseed is one of the best sources of vegetable protein available on planet earth and 55% of a mature cannabis plant is seeds. The only problem is the art of cannabis has been recently lost to mankind, it has been lied about, it has been suppressed, it has come close to genocide and the fear factor for this safest of substances has been blown totally out of proportion ... ----------- An important factual claim here is that in all of recorded history, there has been no reported claims of anyone dying from the direct effects of cannabis on the body. And trust me, in this drug war era, many would love to make such claims. Yet people are dropping like flies daily from alcohol and tobacco, and these substances are considered "safer" simply because they are legal. What makes something illegal is generally not the safety of the substance, but other factors. The most dangerous hallucinogens are perfectly legal; those belonging to the Nightshade Family (Solanaceae), among them deadly nightshade (Atropa belladona), mandrake (Mandragora officinarum), black henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), jimsonweed (Datura stramonium), and over twenty other species of henbane and datura. Datura is probably the most commonly used today. Type in "Datura" in your favorite search engine and enjoy reading a near infinite stream of reports of people ending up in the emergency room from this extremely toxic deliriant. But it's widely available and perfectly legal. Then we have Peyote (Lophophora williamsii) which Native Americans have been using for centuries with no problems. (In some tribes pregnant women use it to commune with the child, and no harmful effects have been noticed from this practice, which says a lot about its safety.) But this legitimate sacrament of these people has been made largely illegal even though no one has been harmed or has died from it. Datura kills left and right. Cannabis, peyote, and psilocybin mushrooms -- all of which extremely safe on the body and even healthful in some cases -- are illegal. You need to be locked in a cell to protect you from yourself. Is that really why you're being locked in a cell? No. What generally makes something illegal is clearly other reasons. One could say here, perhaps it's because the way these things alter consciousness that it's felt that these things are not safe to use. I would respond with the fact that Datura is a powerful deliriant -- it alters conscious way more than any of these other substances. People in many cases go into violent rages and usually have to be strapped down. And alcohol brings out the dark side in a lot of people -- many (perhaps most) violent crimes are committed under the influence of alcohol. How many people under the effects of psilocybin mushrooms or peyote commit violent crimes? I would be surprised to hear if there has been any. The reasons as to why something becomes illegal are generally political. So it's important to make up your own mind on what you decide to put in your body. Research the substance thoroughly -- there's tons of information on the Net that you can read from both sides of the argument, so that you can make wise decisions in these areas. Don't let politicians decide what's right or wrong for you, because as I've shown here, you'd be putting your health in very questionable hands.
entheogenesis Registered User (2/6/04 11:16 am) Reply	Psychedelic Yoga Psychedelic Yoga The Application of Yoga Meditation Techniques to the Use of Psychedelic Sacraments By Sri Brahmarishi Narad The fact that psychedelic drugs induce a greater sensitivity to subtle spiritual and psychic energies, and speed up the influx of impressions from deeper levels of consciousness, raises the immediate question of how these energies can be properly understood and handled. Obviously, if these energies are not guided, they can do more harm than good. The application of traditional Yoga meditation techniques while under psychedelic experiences, can provide a constructive solution to this problem. According to Yoga philosophy, the most spiritual and powerful aspect of man�s nature is the faculty of attention or consciousness. The most fundamental aspect of man�s free will is the choice as to what he allows his attention to dwell upon. The attention always has to be on something, but we can choose what we allow it to dwell upon. The goal of all Yoga practices is to discover and directly experience what the attention or faculty of consciousness in man is. The yogi seeks to know that principle by which all else is known. Observing the observer or placing the attention on the attention itself achieves this goal. This may at first seem very abstract and hard to grasp in terms of practical application; but there are workable, time-proven methods for achieving this state of pure consciousness, which when consistently applied and practiced are bound to yield results. It should be constantly remembered during a psychedelic session that whatever perceptions, thoughts and even hallucinations occur -- they are all the creations of one�s own mind and consciousness, and are filtered through one�s own instrument of perception. These perceptions are patterns of our own psychic energy. We give energy to whatever thoughts and feelings we allow the attention to dwell upon. Wherever the power of attention is focused, it generates mental and emotional energy in the form of its own lower overtones, thus feeding and energizing the thoughts and emotions that the attention dwells upon. It becomes clear that the key to remaining in control of a psychedelic experience is in controlling the flow of attention. Distracting experiences can be avoided in the first place, and the flow of attention can be properly directed by the use of Raja Yoga techniques of meditation. The following is a description of several such techniques that can all be applied while under the influence of LSD, marijuana, mescaline, DMT, hashish, psilocybin or other consciousness-expanding drugs. At this point, let us consider a basic rule to apply in case of paranoia or other unpleasant or frightening experiences while under the influence of a psychedelic drug. Realize that whatever you may be thinking, feeling or experiencing is being experienced by the consciousness within you. Then place your undivided attention on that consciousness which is experiencing whatever is happening to you. This process returns your consciousness to its own pure nature and disengages mental and astral thought forms. These destructive thought forms then dissipate and are dissolved back into the homogeneous, vibrational energy of the plane of energy substance from which they were originally molded. The strong light released by consciousness observing itself, helps to quickly dissolve and dissipate destructive thought forms. This happens because the strong lower overtones of pure consciousness that are generated, cancel out the discordant, out of phase vibrations of destructive thought forms. If the attention wanders while practicing any of these meditation techniques, immediately bring the attention back to the process of meditation, and do this as many times as is necessary until the attention remains centered on the particular form of meditation that you are practicing. Inexperienced meditators have a tendency to fight distractions, which in itself, becomes a distraction. The attention can only dwell on one thing at a time. Simply bring it back to the thing you are meditating on. Another way of stopping distractions is to temporarily suspend the breathing process by simply not breathing in or out. Since breathing is intimately tied to every biological process in the body, the instinct to survive (developed over millions of years of evolution) will interrupt the flow of attention into distractions and bring it to center on the awareness of the cessation of breathing. It is then an easy matter to resume normal breathing and to center the attention on the particular form of meditation being practiced. [Note: I'm just going to include the main meditation technique described in the article since there's a lot mentioned and the readers here are already familiar with the practice of meditation. (entheogenesis)] Meditation on the "I Am" Principle In the practice of this form of meditation, consciousness is made to dwell upon itself. When properly and successfully practiced, this is the most powerful and highest form of meditation. While focusing in the Heart Chakra or in the Sahasraram Chakra at the crown of the head, place the attention on the attention itself. If any distractions come in the form of thoughts and perceptions of a specific nature, then immediately concentrate your attention upon that consciousness in you that is the experiencer of those thoughts and perceptions. Even the manifestation of spiritual light and sound current should be regarded in this way. The sound current and the light are merely the lower overtone manifestations of the pure consciousness that you are meditating upon. The more you hold your attention steady in concentration upon itself, the more the light, sound current, electrical sensations in the body, feelings of magnetic force, sensations of weightlessness, etc. will manifest automatically. If, however, you allow your attention to become distracted by any of these manifestations, then you will be subject to the limitations of the thing by which you have been distracted. And the focusing of pure consciousness will be interrupted, so that all of the things that are the lower overtones and by-products of the focusing of pure consciousness (possibly including the psychic manifestation that distracted your attention) will also stop. Seek ye first the kingdom of pure consciousness and all of these other psychic manifestations will be added unto you. Placing the attention on the attention itself can be done in any location in space since pure consciousness, which is the same as God, is an omnipresent principle. In the beginning, it will be found easiest to do this in one of the chakras, preferably the Heart Chakra or the Sahasraram or Head Center. The Agna Chakra or �Third Eye Center� located on the brow, can also be used with good results, but it is better to use the Sahasraram Chakra if you can activate it. With practice of this form of meditation, your pure consciousness will experience itself as a blazing sea of white light extending infinitely in every direction. The pure consciousness itself is actually crystalline and colorless, but it generates the white light, which is the simultaneous presence of all of the colors (which are the specific lower overtone rates of vibration that the pure consciousness generates). The placing of the attention on the attention itself in a specific chakra, brings about a condition in that chakra, in which its vibration structure is harmonically and geometrically aligned in all of its planes of manifestation or rates of vibration. This creates common node points in the inner plane structure of the chakra. Vibrations of different frequencies and different wavelengths all begin and end together at these common node points. This is made possible by the fact that the wavelengths of the various vibrations and their frequencies, all bear exact mathematical rates to each other, like the notes in a musical scale. Any vibrations, which are out of phase in terms of their spatial distribution or vibratory rates, are automatically canceled out by interfering with other waves at the common node points. Where several wavelengths (both short and long) begin and end their cycles together, it is possible to slip through the dimensions and to experience the higher spiritual rates of vibration and approach the Atman, which moves with infinite speed. At these common node points, the exchange of energy from one octave or plane to another also becomes possible, allowing a flow of energy from the higher dimensions into the lower dimensions. Thus, a transmutation of those vibration patterns that exist on the lower dimensions into the higher ones becomes possible. The soul is then able to control the personality structure, making it a fit instrument of spiritual expression in the affairs of men. This form of meditation develops one-pointed concentration. Since the use of psychedelic drugs stimulates the flow of a great amount of energy from higher planes into the lower planes, any thought and emotion patterns created during a psychedelic session are strongly imprinted and have a great deal of energy incorporated into their vibration structure. These thought and emotional patterns then act as powerful unconscious conditioning factors in our daily lives. It is therefore of the utmost importance that constructive imprints are made during a psychedelic session. Remaining in control of the attention can ensure this. In this regard, I would like to give a few final points of advice. Try not to focus the attention from one thing to another too quickly. Stay with a thought or meditation process until it is complete. Don�t panic if frightening visions or hallucinations occur. Fear will make you concentrate on them all the more and thus feed them with the power of your attention. Remain detached and place your attention on that consciousness within you that is experiencing the hallucinations. Remember at all times that God exists in you in the form of your own power of attention, and that power when properly directed, will control all lesser forces. It is believed by some researchers that psychedelic drugs stimulate the secretion process of the pineal and pituitary glands, which are known by yogis and occultists to be related to the Sahasraram and Agna chakras (which are also called the �Thousand-Petalled Lotus� and the �Third Eye Center�). This stimulation increases the flow of energy between the etheric body and the physical body. It may be that psychedelic drugs place the cells of the physical body under stress, so that they must speed up their activity to overcome the stress. When the cells increase their activity, their vibratory rates increase, thus putting them harmonically in resonance with the higher rates of vibration on the subtle superphysical planes of energy. This process makes possible the expression of a higher level of consciousness through the glandular system, brain and nervous system. The increased physical cellular activity requires more work and activity in the etheric body to sustain the stepped-up activity of the physical body. The vibratory rate of the etheric body is thus accelerated, requiring an increased activity in the astral body to sustain and remain harmonically in tune with the etheric body. The increased vibratory rate of the astral body requires a stepped-up activity and increased vibratory rate in the mental body. This in turn more fully tunes the mental body in to the power, love and wisdom of the soul. Thus an alignment of the whole being on all planes is facilitated, and a more rapid exchange of pattern imprints and energy between the various octaves or planes of energy takes place. It may also be that psychedelic drugs have a chemical structure such that they are perfectly in resonance with the lower overtones of certain key frequencies in the higher planes and can therefore act as a point of entry for the reflection of these vibrations in the physical body. They would therefore help to create common node points in the vibration structure of several different dimensions. Not only is the love, wisdom and power of the soul brought to bare in the life of the personality, but the fine organization of the physical body, the etheric, astral and mental bodies (which have been produced by the evolutionary process) are harmonically reflected and preserved in the soul. While the physical body is the least permanent, the densest and composed of the substance of the lowest plane, it is in terms of evolution, the newest and most highly organized in terms of structure. Therefore, a complete replica of it made out of the energy substance of the subtle planes, is an evolutionary gain for the soul and subtle bodies. When the physical body is sufficiently vivified by the influx of energy from the higher dimensions, it begins to create higher overtone reflections of itself in the akasha or energy substance of the higher planes, and thus its pattern is preserved and made immortal. Therefore, when properly used, psychedelic drugs help to speed up the evolutionary process. When man has evolved to superman, he will, under the direction of the superconscious mind in accordance with God�s will as it manifests in evolution, take an active part in the molding and directing of the evolution of the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Even today, his vibrations intimately affect for good or bad, those kingdoms in nature.

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