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[ernie]

[quote="endo"][quote="ernie"]for some strange reason, i suddenly became interested in mountain climbing... who wants to climb mount bukhansan with me?[/quote]

Just make sure you know what you're doing. The red and white ones are okay, but you need to dry them or they will make you very ill. Even dried, you will get a little sick.

There's other ones that are somewhat similar. But they will kill you. Be careful.[/quote]

the only way to be sure is to join me!

[endo]

[Rteacher]

Here's a delayed response to an earlier question: I think it's more likely that rampant hedonism would lead to a more hellish state - and perhaps an animal (or mushroom) body.

There are many animals better equipped for (and less inhibited about) sex. Whatever our mind is absorbed in at the time of death determines our next birth.

A druggie might have to be born to a drug-addicted mother.

Then again, there are superior types of intoxication on heavenly planets, but after enjoying great sensual pleasures for up to 10,000 years, one usually falls back down to earth.

Getting intoxicated here is not the prescribed way to get to a heavenly planet, though - austerity, charity, and sense control are more helpful...

Anyway, Merry Christmas ...

[endo]

[Faunaki]

Very interesting indeed. What I want to know is how the tradition came down from the north to the rest of society? When did it happen and how?

[blurgalurgalurga]

[endo]

[browneyedgirl]

[endo]

Yes, but does the World Book Encyclopedia go into detail about the meaning of these Chrsitmas symbols?

How many literature courses would go into the drug symbolism behind books like Alice in Wonderland?


This is still a new field......you know what I mean?

[Chicoloco]

Hats off to Endo, a very well written piece.

[Rteacher]

Well, he gives a very distorted representation of Hinduism by focusing on the most ignorant and corrupt elements of a very broad grouping of diverse belief systems.

In the higher Vedic conception religious faith can be analyzed according to the three modes of material nature: goodness, passion, and ignorance.

Religious followers in the mode of goodness worship the Supreme Lord, and they follow regulative principles that lead to material detachment.

Religionists in the mode of passion worship demigods (or powerful humans) for material gain, and there is more intoxication and sex - but less spritual progress.

In the mode of ignorance people perform impure animal sacrifices and sometimes worship ghosts, spirits and ghastly forms of demigods (like Goddess Kali...)

Real brahninical culture - before it was corrupted by caste brahmans - was based on these four pillars of good religion: austerity, mercy, cleanliness. and truthfulness.

Austerity is destroyed by intoxication, mercy is destroyed by unnecessary animal slaughter, cleanliness (especially of the mind) is destroyed by illicit sex, and truthfulness is destroyed by gambling.

Whatever "spiritual" visions, altered states of consciousness, or phantasmagoria gotten through pyschedelic drugs are temporary phenomena at best.

The exhilarating or ecstatic feelings are very fleeting and often result in greater anxiety and depression upon re-entry to "normal" consciousness.

Speaking from firsthand experience, I vaguely recall thinking what I thought were the heaviest, most profound thoughts in the world (while tripping on acid) and I excitedly jotted them down.

When I eventually crash-landed to "normalcy" and saw what I'd scribbled down in my state of "heightened awareness" I was baffled at how such stupid jibberish had seemed so brilliant to me when I wrote it...

I was later more satisfied with the steady, permanent progress toward "the reservoir of all pleasure" I made while a full-time Krishna devotee (from 1974 - '86)

Even when old friends and (in the mid '70s) many stoned strangers offered me assorted drugs when I distributed Krishna books at concerts, I had no trouble renouncing them in favor of mantra meditation.

[igotthisguitar]

James dies a couple years back. From what precisely, i have no idea.

Anyways, here's his home page.

http://jamesarthur.yage.net/mushroom.html

John M. allegro wrote a book called "The Sacred Mushroom & The Cross". It was based largely on his work in translating the DEAD SEA SCROLLS. From this he apparently concluded that Jesus ... was ... a mushroom (endo's muscaria)

The Pharmacratic Inquisition is another interesting related project & popular website.

http://www.ask.com/web?qsrc=167&o=0&l=dir&q=pharmacratic+inquisition&search=

[rumdiary]

[rollo]

Korean shamans and soothsayers used mushrooms. In the late 80"s they used to be sold in a market in Korea, a very large herbal market. i bought them for almost nothing. There used to be quite a few of the shamans and magicians running around Korea. I have seen a few ceremonies. probably still some in small towns.

[Koveras]

From what I've read, drug use in initiatic traditions is degenerate. Think of it this way: if shrooms were the key to enlightenment, every inner city would be a font of transcendent wisdom.